The Ancient Feather-Bed by Nebraska Farmer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 42.

The Ancient Feather-Bed.

By Nebraska Farmer

WILL the day ever come when the ancient feather-beds of our grandmothers will be utterly banished from our homes; when it will be counted no prize for the little granddaughter to have handed down to her "grandma's best feather-bed," and all its belongings? I know a house that holds a baker's dozen of these valuable relics of the dark ages, and I am confident that some of the geese from whose breasts those feathers were plucked quacked at the close of the last century. It is a most remarkable house for funerals.

A thousand times healthier and sweeter is a good straw bed, which you can change often and wash clean every spring. A comfortable mattress over it is luxurious enough for a king.