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House Furnishing and Decorating: Feather

Use of Feather Beds. - Formerly feather beds were much-valued luxuries, and the possession of a store of them was a matter of family pride.

Happily, however, they are rapidly being replaced by mattresses, which, on account of improved methods of manufacture and the use of new material, are much better and cheaper than they were formerly. Feather beds are open to many objections.

They are difficult to keep clean and they conform too closely to the shape of the body, hence they heat the body and do not admit of proper ventilation. Their use is always debilitating, and can only be justified by extreme cold weather, or for infants or very aged persons.