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Carpets and Bedding

Never buy a flimsy carpet at any price. Do without until good ones can be purchased. If you can buy a good Brussels, with the pile dense and close, it will last a generation with proper care. In bedding, start with new, clean, honest material. Never let any young person sleep on a feather bed; it will cause undue heat, weaken the action of the skin, and cause those who lie in it to become susceptible to cold, besides other, more serious, evils of over-heating. If the bed or bedding be narrow, the occupant will not rest well, because proper movement cannot be made.

Use the same careful discrimination in the selection of all furniture that you would in any other matter. Have less, if necessary, but have that good, rather than crowd the rooms with inferior material. It is easier to add to a small number of good articles than suffer the annoyance of mistakes in over-furnishing with cheap stuff.