Show i M THE FOLDING BED tt it Is U still an object of WN to vavy 3 hotel visitor im sorry sir said eaid tile the polite young foug up aown own bot hotel col clerk to the grem looking graese but I 1 another room in the tha house tonight if you could ose nse this till morning ill fix you UP op right for tomorrow but the inducement persuasively delivered failed to work werk and tho the grum gram looking saw went away when he had got over the bold aba saava clerk smiled a beoit eort of pensive emile amile and eaid you cant ao anything with these thesa fellows fellow a lt jt beats the world how a man will his drio hiie him bim oat font into the night to seek inferior and yet thi man inan looked looke d like e he hek knew latter too what was wa it dissatisfied him nothing Ko thing in tho the world except that in the he only room hed have there was a folding bed you see wo are crowded now and there are but few vacant apart ile he is a crank on the subject of folding beds because in modern times or thren human beings have been caught in them when they folded urs UP inopportunely and br hd d their lives crushed out I 1 pleaded with him that no such each disaster could happen here fop now nowadays folding beds are made with patent p 3 te 11 t catches that absolutely prevent them from manslaughter ahter no matter how bow sorely a bed such as we hay havo 0 should yearn yeara to close upon up on its slumbering victim aboe catches forbid I 1 told him all this but it had bail no effect are most people imbued with athis prein dim yes I 1 think a majority of tho the traveling public has thas tha feeling and I 1 do not believe the tima ticia will ever eter come when the folding bed will gain the full confidence ranch lesa the affection of the Aine american rican people washington post |