Show sanitary folding bed the ordinary folding bed has proved itself so great an attraction to the bed bugs that it is with difficulty they can be kept of it largely because in this class of beds there are hid ng places which easily escape notice where the bugs can dwell in safety and from which they can sally forth at night in search of prey this has al ways been a good ment in favor of the ardi nary enamel ed and brass beds as sup planters t the old wood eu kind and it will apply equally as well to the metallic told ing bed allus grated in the cut the bed differs slight ly from the enameled and brass beds now in use the improvement being in the manner of connecting the side rails at the bead and toot and in the joints at the center of the sides which allow the bed to be closed into small corn pass when it Is desired to shut the bed up the center Is lifted at either side to a sufficient height to break the joints when the head and foot are grasped in the hands and drawn to gether as shown when the foot has been drawn up to the head the curtain Is drawn around on the overhead rod and the bed is hidden from view to open it again the toot section is pulled out a short distance after the curtain has been drawn and the weight of the sides and mattress will force tt into its normal position |