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Improving Furniture

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
May
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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A writer Lu the Germantown lelegraph tkiiiks people would derive material benefit from adapting bedsteads to the following plan : The slats are arranged so as to produce a partially curvcd surface, suited to the form of 'the body. The depression is made by deepening the mortices for three or four of the slats, about equidistant between the head aud the foot of the bedstead, so that a regular curvo is formed, two feet iu length and three inches greatest depth, more or lesa. In bedsteads. having snfficient depth of rail or sidepiece, a further modiiication may be made by raising above the level a slat or two at the head, so as to require a smaller pillow. The device, while it groatly promotes the comfort of all persons, is especially ealeulated to contribute to the case and rest of invalida ; moreover, a comfortable bed may be luid with a thiu mattress. Common chaii-3 may be considerably improved by shortemng tlie Kind legs by ono and a half to two inckes. For average sized malo adulta the front of the öhalr had better be sixteeu to seventeen incdius high ; for grown, full-sized womeii, but l'ourtoen to flfteen inches, and loss in proportion for children ; but boys may sit higher in front than

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Old News
Michigan Argus