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Show ! "ARTISTIC" BED-MAKING. I : -.' ' ' "Pretty soon," observed n "woinen the other day, "wo shall talk about the lost art of bed-making, -' says the Philadelphia Bulletin, Do you know how lo make a bod? You may think you do, but look at a trained nurse make one, and then answer. an-swer. The most elaborate spreads and inon'ogramed sheets, even fine linen scented with lavender, is as nothing if the covers come out at the fool, or there is an annoying wrinkle in the bottom sheet. The chief I'rouble, which applies particularly par-ticularly ro maids, is a lack of thoroughness. thor-oughness. Beds should be aired and shaken and sunned. II is bad mnnngonjont if the bc-d-mnking must take place directly after breakfast, or, worse yet, if the maid is sent upstairs during breakfast break-fast . This leaves too little time Cov airing. Turn your mattress over each day to keep it in shape. Tuck your bottom sheet , in so so-curely so-curely that il will not wrinkle or come out. . Arrange the other coverings so that they turn over at. just the ri"ht place to' come well over the shoulder. The sheet should turn well over the blanket, so that no wooly Surface may come against the skin or face or neck. Most important of all, see that they are tucked in securely at the botlom. Nothing is more annoying in the middle of the night than for one's sheets to drag anchor, as it were. |