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Show THE DEADLY COLD BED. .If trustworthy statistics could be had of the number of persons who die every year or who become permanently diseased from sleeping sleep-ing in damp or cold beds, they would probably be astonishing and appalling. It in a peril that constantly con-stantly besets traveling men. and if they are wise they will invariably invariab-ly insist on having their beds aired and dried, even at the risk of causing much trouble to their landlords, land-lords, lint according to Good Housekeeping, it is a peril that resides re-sides also in the home, and the cold ''spare room" has slain its thousands of hapless guests, and will go on with its slaughter till people learn wisdom. Not only the guest, hut the family, often sufl'er the penalty of sleeping in cold rooms and chilling their bodies, at a time when they need all their bodily heat, by getting between cold sheets. Even in warm summer sum-mer weather a cold, damp bed will get in its deadly work. It is a heedless peril and the neglect to provide dry rooms and warm beds has in it the elements of murder and suicide. Scientific American. |