Sandals for Sunshine
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 17, 1938,
Beds To Boast About
By Elizabeth MacRae Boykin
How would you like to make draperies for four hundred beds (much less take care of them!) That is the number of beds that Louis XIV is reputed to have had, and most of those beds had six full curtains. Or a fine tapestry
at its head. Or a draped tester. Or at least a fancy canopy. Wool fabrics as well as silk, were used
SPICY SALAD
DRESSING.
1⁄2 cup sugar.
1
1⁄2
2
2
1
2
teaspoon salt.
Paprika.
cup vinegar.
tablespoons salad oil.
tablespoons diced celery. tablespoon minced onion. tablespoons diced sweet
green pepper.
Mix the dry ingredients and beat with the oil and vinegar un- til dissolved. Add the onion, ce- lery and pepper and serve with any vegetable salad.-Edith M. Barber.
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two plaited
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The bed with the drapery only at the head is called the style "a la duchesse."
and were sometimes made of solid ivory veneered with tortoise shell or silver. The ancient German bed was made of leaves piled on the floor and covered with skins. The for draperies, and fur linings contemporary German custom of weren't unknown.
sleeping between feather pads be- No wonder that rooms in which came common in the 18th century. such gorgeous beds presided were The closed bed with sliding or used as dining and sitting rooms¡ folding shutters was the type used till the late 17th century. It was traditionally in Scotland, Brittany nothing unusual for a lady to re- and, Holland, and you can see it ceive guests in her bedroom. And in use even to-day in those coun- it was a custom for the King of tries. In Holland also we've seen France to recline on a ceremonial beds built into the wall. like a bed when he presided in parlia- closet and closed off by a door to ment or heard petitions.
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keep out the night air. Iron beds turned up first in the 18th century The fully draped bed was re-and were popular because they placed in 17th century France to a were freer from insects. large extent by the style "a la duchesse" with hangings only at
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
the head. But the completely en- In the Near East it is the cus- closed bed with curtains all around tem to pile up rugs and sleep be- them without benefit of persisted in England till the mid-tween dle of the 19th century.
sheet or blanket. The Japanese But these comparatively modern sleep on the floor on padded quilts. beds are nothing to the beds of The Northern Chinese sleep on fires even earlier times. The Greek bed stone platform beds with
warmth. was made of wood with bands of built under them for hide in place of slats, then skins There are also very grand Chin- of animals spread over it.. Later ese beds made of carved wood with these beds became more elaborate roofs and sides like a small house.
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