Show DOOM OF FEATHER BED BEU HITS RITS FLOWER STATE Great Banks of Down Are No Longer to Be Found in Missouri Homes Undo Uncle Sam has condemned the feather cather hell bed A recent report of the United States public health service denounces it as with great capacity for evil This will not meet with much favor In certain rural 1 district of ot Missouri Mis Mis- Missouri lIs Arl Arkansas and Tennessee sEE where it is yet et the custom when a CL girl marries mar mar- marries ries for Cor her mother to give ghe her a feather b bed d says The Kansas City Sin Star r There Then are arc communities within miles of oC Kansas City whore whore the best bed In the house In the the- spare bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room Is Ig built hull t of ot two twe t W ticks tho the one beneath stuffed with oat or wheat wheal straw and the one above above- filled with feathers If H you happen to be bc an overnight overnight over Over- night ht guest at one of or those homes you OU will be shown at bedtime Into the room rom where this leviathan lathan of or b beds ds stands in ina ina a f corner It Is almost as high as an elephants elephant's back and one needs to use a hair to climb into it But nut once mounts mounted mount mount- s ed rl upon unon it you sink Into Its two feet thickness of goose feathers and no matter what Uncle Sams Sam's health board ma may tia say gay there thero Is something in a n. good feather r led bed bed that Induces sound and restful sleep Bleep In Lt tho the old days in Mis Missouri II feather beds sour everyone c slept In except tho the vcr very poorest and thc they had mattresses of or straw or corn husks There were ere HB IUS many different grades grados R Ro o of feather beds at as thoro were classes of people At the top lop of of oC tho social ladder In the country districts were tho the real folks olk I the tho prosperous ones who rah wh owned broad farms arm and had hall many man slaves slave The Tho heads of or tho those e families were colonels and majors maJore The beds an n n those homes homeR wore were stuffed with the softest and fleeciest feathers cathers from geese ACeR and ducks Xo No o chicken feathers went Into on one of or those beds batie Next ext in order in the s social lal scale came tho the overseer stocks the families of or white men hired upon atton the largo u farms Their beds w were wre re rc of chicken feathers ath Next came the tho poor families fam ram Illos whoso whose unproductive farms arms rc along the rou rough h and antl stony river and amI creek bluffs blurts Fine Ine feathers brought too good a n price In the tho market for them to use usa t to tc sleep upon and their th were Irl stuffed w with th wing and antl tall feathers feathers feath feath- athers ers stripped strIP from the quail These made madea a hard lumpy bed betl with sharp protuberances protuberances to annoy the sleeper In tho those e edas eda's days das If a person slept pt halH badly It was common to say lay I 51 slept J t or on win wing feathers feathers feath eath- ers last night The lowest social caste was composed of swamp angels angel those who lived In Inthe Inthe inthe the bottom lands along the tho creeks and rivers Th Thy They y spent s so much money moncy for quinine quinine- and other chills and fw fever r me medicines that there thero was waR nothing left for feather beds 1005 and they slept upon mattresses In the tho cities clUes today feather be beds s are rare The They are arc so In Kansas Kansal CIt City that the chief distinction o of a rich woman of ot the tho south Routh is that she has laa rc feather beds heds In her hol home This is 18 tho the ago aJro of cotton colton mattress and anel steel springs and It will he be only onh a n afew afew ro few years IS until tho the feather bod bed that almost swallows s Its sleepers In Its s left oft grasp will Ill be a n thing of the thc past even evenIn evenin evenin in remote rural districts distracts |