The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 187, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 11, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
MAN, IN LIFETIME,
SPENDS YEARS ABED
Sleeping Equipment, There-
fore, Becomes Important.
Chicago.—What’s the most important
piece of furniture in the American
home? The answer is practically
unanimous—the bed!
Why? The bed sees more use than
any other one piece of furniture. The
average person spends eight hours
each day in bed—56 hours a week,
240 hours a month, 2,912 hours a year
and, figuring a lifetime as 50 years, a
total of 145,600 hours during a life-
time. Quite a period!
These statistics probably show why
mankind, through the ages, has de-
voted so much attention to the task
of making beds more comfortable, with
each age witnessing a new improve-
ment in sleeping equipment.
The first beds, if they may be called
such, were nothing if not simple, it
is related in a survey of the subject
published at the American Furniture
Mart here. Your caveman simply
wrapped some covering about himself,
laid down “as is”—and there he was,
all ready for a night’s repose. But
the bed was one of civilization’s first
achievements.
Egyptians Had ’Em High.
The Egyptians, it is believed, were
the first people to get up in the world
as far as sleeping was concerned.
Their beds were so high a stool or a
whole series of steps were required
to climb into them. Falling out must
have been a serious business. The
beds were supported by long, curved
legs, ending in clawed feet,' graceful in
design.
With the Persians, a bed must have
been a complicated contraption. It is
recorded that when Artaxerxes, a Per-
sian, presented a bed as a gift to
Timagoras, an ambassador from
Athens, he sent along a whole corps
of attendants, “skilled in preparing it
for sleep.” Just what these bed-me-
chanics did has not been disclosed, but
their services were obviously consid-
ered essential and all part of the
night’s work.
The Romans, who divided all Gaul
into three parts, as Latin students
know, divided their beds into five
classes: 1. the ordinary sleeping
bed; 2. the reclining table couch; 3.
the smaller lounge for rest during the
day; 4. the high marriage bed; 5.
the funeral bed, carried during a
funeral procession. No explanation is
offered as to why the marriage bed
was higher than any of the others.
As time went on, beds varied great-
ly as to size and decoration, but their
comfort steadily increased, as springs
and mattresses were introduced and
improved. During the time of Charle-
magne beds were very simple and
often made of bronze tubing, some-
what similar to the brass bed once
popular iiy America. About the Thir-
teenth century, beds had increased in
size and luxury and the custom of
parking the marriage bed right out
in the middle of the main hall at a
wedding was introduced. Curtains, it
may be added, were placed entirely
around the bed.
Achieves Importance.
During the Fifteenth century, the
ted probably achieved the greatest im-
portance of its career. It became an
elaborate piece of furniture for dis-
play purposes and it was quite the
thing to receive guests in the bed-
room, even kings holding court recep-
tions while reclining on the royal
couch. At this time it was customary
to suspend draperies and canopies
from the ceiling, but later columns to
support these decorations were built
as part of the bed and from this be-
ginning evolved the four-poster bed
which still retains its popularity.
- Skipping through the centuries to
the present, small, single beds have
long been dominant in continental Eu-
rope, while the double bed was com-
monly used in this country, the popu-
larity of the twin bed being a com-
paratively recent phenomenon.
Through all its ups and downs, com-
fort has always been the major item
determining sales.
All Spooners Barred
From This Cemetery
. Port Jervis, N. Y. — Automobile
epooning couples who have been visit-
ing the Bloomington rural cemetery,
near Port Jervis, have been barred
by officials of the cemetery after 8
o’clock at night.
A constable patrols the cemetery
and seizes any couples who enter the
bnrial ground in automobiles or on
foot after the forbidden hour.
Spooners who do not mind spooky
places for petting parties have been
invading the cemetery in large num-
bers, and most of them are said to
come from Port Jervis, Middletown
and other near-by communities.
Monument to Honor
Amundsen Searchers
Havre, France.—A monument rep-
resenting a large iceberg and a sea-
plane with Its fuselage half out of
the water will mark the spot in the
Seine, along the Paris-Rouen-Havre
road, where the Latham-47 hopped off
for the hunt for Amundsen in which
;the plane and its crew of four were
'lost.
Lightning Is Kind
Teeumseh, Neb.—Strange noises on
the darkened porch of E.’ R. Carter’s
bouse annoyed him. He stepped out,
barefooted, to investigate. A bolt of
lightning revealed a rattlesnake, coiled
i* strike Carter killed the reptile.
HUGE MAP READY
IN FIFTY YEARS
Offers Relief Outline of U. S.
and Canada.
Wellesley, Mass.—The largest map
In the world, which will measure 63
feet from east to west and 45 feet
from north to south, is being con-
structed here. *
Conceived by Roger W. Babson,
noted statistician, the work, a relief
outline of the United States and Can-
ada, was begun about five years ago.
It is estimated that 50 more years
will be required for its completion,
and approximately $2,000,000 will be
expended on the project.
The map will be ten times larger
than that of the Pan-American union
which the government possesses. The
latter is flat, whereas that being
pieced together here will be of spher-
ical form in exact ratio to the earth’s
curve.
The horizontal scale will be one
inch for four miles. The vertical scale
will be one foot for four miles, insur-
ing that altitudes and depressions de-
picted will stand out prominently.
A gallery 15 feet high will encircle
the map. Viewed from this, any sec-
tion reproduced on the work will ap-
pear just about as it would if actually
seen from an airplane at a height of
12 miles.
Not only will the topography of the.
United States and Canada be imitated
with precision, but by elaborate color
schemes, even landscape effects will
be simulated as far as possible.
Every river, mountain, railroad line,
city, and smaller community of the
two countries will be traceable from
the gallery.
The painted desert of Arizona, the
everglades of Florida, California’s or-
ange groves, the pasture lands north
of the Rio Grande, and the ice-bound
regions of northern Canada will be
delineated.
The entire work will conform to
data being furnished by the United
States topographical survey.
Designer of U. S. Capitol
Urged in Hall of Fame
Washington.—Charles Bulfinch, “the
first American architect,” and design-
er of the United States Capitol, has
been nominated to the Hall of Fame
by the board of directors of the Amer-
ican Institute of Architects. Sum-
maries of the achievements of the
early American designer have been
sent to each elector of the Hall of
Fame by the board.
“Few architects of today can boast
of a list of such notable buildings as
those designed by Bulfinch,” says the
board in its plea. It was stated that
Bulfineh’s record as a statesman dur-
ing the formative period of Boston
should be sufficient to elect the ar-
chitect to the Hall of Fame as a
statesman, if not as an architect.
Bulfinch was born in Bowdoin
square, Boston, August 8, 1763. He
died April 15, 1844.
A graduate of Harvard, Bulfinch be-
came interested in designing work
while attending to improvements on
his father’s and friends’ houses. La-
ter he was able to make an extensive
tour of Europe, studying the types of
architecture used in the old cities.
While serving as a selectman in
Boston, Bulfinch inaugurated street
lighting, the system of coeducation,
establishment of a board of health,
and a financial committee that brought
about order and system in the method
of collecting taxes.
In 1817, after completing his second
term on the board of selectmen, Bui,
finch was appointed architect of the
United States Capitol in Washington.
Among the many buildings de-
signed by the architect are the Con-
necticut state house in Hartford in
1792, the first theater in Boston, five
institutional buildings, ten churches,
three hospitals, seven schools and
seven commercial and bank buildings.
Long Skirt Blamed for
Woman’s Death by Coroner
London.—H. R. Oswald, a London
coroner, presiding at the inquest on
the death of Mrs. Sarah Stedman, said
that the woman was killed because
she had trodden on the hem of her
long skirt and had fallen. He re-
corded a verdict against the ultra-
fashionable long skirt.
Memory Expert
Denver—Mrs, N. G. Peters would
make a good instructor in a memory
school. When a thief stole 21 phono-
graph records from her home she was
able to give the song title on each
disk, a total of 42.
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jjj Curfew Mistaken $
6 for Alarm of Fire <s
6 Ingersoll, Ont.—All the chil- X
2 dren who were supposed to run 9
6 home when the town fire bell 6
9 rang out the curfew came scur- 9
o rying to the fire engine house o
9 recently to find out where was 2
o the fire. $
2 The town council had neg- §
9 lected to announce the date 9
6 when a new curfew law was to 5
9 take effect. o
6 Volunteer firemen who knew 6
2 nothing about the unannounced 9
6 curfew shared the children’s dis- 6
2 appointment when they learned 2
o the bell signaled nothing more 6
5 exciting than a warning to all 2
9 children less than fourteen years 9
X old to go home. 2
WHERE WEATHER MAN
ACTS LIKE VILLAIN
It Was Real Hot in Kansas
This Summer.
Topeka, Kan.—It has been rather
hot all over the United States this
summer, but in Kansas the weather
man has been acting up like a demon.
For instance, Jule Trowbridge is a
farmhand in Gove county. He was
employed on the farm of Rev. Gerrit
Snyder near Gove City. One after-
noon he was directed to walk over to
some stacks of barley and bring in
some equipment. He walked through
the barley stubble and his feet kept
getting hotter and hotter. He looked
down and both feet were actually on
fire. The friction of the leather of
his shoes on the hot ground and the
hot straw of the stubble actually set
his shoes on fire. Trowbridge took off
his shoes and began fighting the fire
in the stubble field. Others came to
his aid and when the fire was out
Trowbridge was taken to Dr. R. L.
Ruttan at Grainfield and his burned
feet dressed.
Boiled Goldfish.
The records of the Kansas state fire
marshal contain authentic reports of
numerous fires in homes caused en-
tirely by sun rays. In one instance
the sun rays struck the beveled edge
of a mirror and then reflected to the
rug and set the rug on fire. In an-
other home a bubble in the glass of a
window made a magnifying glass of
the spot and set fire to a bed.
W. A. Smith of Snokomo walked
into the living room of his home late
one afternoon and noted that the gold-
fish were dead. He reached into the
bowl and his hand was blistered. A
sun ray had struck the bowl and had
literally boiled the fish to death. At
least that’s his story and he has the
bowl but no fish to show for it.
There have been innumerable fires
caused by steel getting too hot. Some
stacks of hay and wheat have been
burned and many fields swept by fire
as the result of pitchforks standing
in the hay or straw and catching the
hot rays of the sun. There are a few
instances of where pieces of wire left
in stubble fields have become so hot
as to set fire to stubble, and there are
a few reports of where high and dead
grass along fences have been set on
fire by the heat of the wires.
Cars Driven Backwards.
It is not an unusual sight to see
motor cars of a certain well-known
type being driven backwards across
the Kansas prairies. The burning sun
on the differential on the rear axle
had burned out the grease and
wrecked the gears so that the cars
would not run forward at all. Tour-
ists had to drive home or to the next
service station sitting on the dash-
boards and piloting the car backwards.
But the hot weather has been great
for the birds. They got cooked In-
sects. Motorists driving across the
prairies strike grasshoppers and but-
terflies and other insects in large
numbers. The heat of the radiators
and the boiling sun cooked the injects.
When the cars stopped anywhere the
birds swarmed down upon the,front of
the car and began to eat. Some mo-
torists were kind enough to spread a
blanket over the braces and lamps so
the birds could pick the Insects In
comfort and not get their feet burned.
Yep, it surely has been terrifically
hot in Kansas—as well as other places;
World Needs New Drmk,
French Diplomat Says
London, England.—The world needs
a hew drink.
That is the belief of Viscount d’Aber-
non, famed trade diplomat and war-
time chairman of the liquor traffic
control board, who recently declared
before the licensing commission that
not only is a substitute for alcholic
drinks wanted, but a “vast fortune”
awaits the inventor of one.
“In view of the fact that alcohol
does badly what it sets out to do,”
declared Viscount d’Abernon before
the commission, “also that it is not
a true stimulant and that the
euphoria (sense of feeling well) it
brings is not exempt from injurious
reaction, I continue , to believe in the
concoction of some preferable sub-
stitute.
“Not only would the discoverer there-
of earn the gratitude of humanity, but
a vast fortune would be his as well.”
Viscount d’Abernon then gave it as
his opinion that the new beverage
would have to be appealing to the
palate and would have to have ef-
fects that would appeal to the drinker
more than present-day liquor.
Thirsty Chauffeur Wins
Beer Money in Hungary
Budapest.—Ladislaw Almassy who,
while driving his employer’s car, met
with an accident resulting in the
death of his employer, has won the
law suit which he brought against the
heirs of his late boss. He claimed
that the accident afflicted him with
an unquenchable thirst and that un-
less he used costly preventive medi-
cines he would be obliged to drink
from 20 to 2S pints of beer a day.
The court decided “that must not
be” and awarded him a pension of
$44 a month.
Spring Uncovered
St. Louis.—Record low water on the
Mississippi river due to dry weather
in the Middle West, uncovered part
of the old levee here, and a spring of
bubbling, water, which came through
the stone paving. Levee hands have
used it for drinking purpose^
New Bridge Dynamited; Labor Troubles Blamed
The new $500,000 concrete and steel highway bridge over the Red river at Garland City, Ark., after it was
wrecked by four charges of dynamite. Explosives set under each corner of the span and expertly timed-hurled the
300-foot span into 35 feet of water. It is said that labor trouble was the cause of the dynamiting.
Launching of the U. S. Cruiser Louisville
An aerial view of the U. S. 8. Louisville slipping out of her drydock after the recent launching ceremonies at
Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton, Wash. This is the first cruiser constructed at the Bremerton yard, at a cost
of $8,000,000, or $2,500,000 less than the lowest private bid offered for its construction.
HEADS TURK POLICE
Dr. Gunnar Horn, who was the
leader of the expedition that found
the bodies of Saloman August Andree
atfd his companions, frozen in the ice
and snow of Franz Josef land. Horn
has just returned to Tromsoe with his
precious cargo. Andree and his party
disappeared over thirty years ago,
whet* seeking the magnetic North pole
by Bl.Hoon.
v This is Cherlf Bey, debonair chief
of the Turkish police, who recently
reorganized his force and engaged
French and German police officers to
teach his “finest” modern police
tactics.
FOUND ANDREE’S BODY
Forget-Me-Nots for Mrs. Hoover
Capt. Fred Kochli, D. S. C., representing the Disabled American Veterans*
called at the White House to present Mrs. Hoover with a pair of forget-me-
nots, to be worn by President and Mrs. Hoover on Armistice day in honor
of the dead and disabled of the World war.
Opium Seized on an Oriental Liner
United States customs officers seized opium valued at $34,500 during a
search of the Dollar liner President Jefferson after its arrival in San Frat-
cisco. The. dope, packed in 300 tins, was found after a search that covered
the entire vessel.
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