Word: bedding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...PARLOR BEDS. PAINE'S new folding bed has received the silver award. It is very convenient...
...average weight is one hundred and twenty-two and one-half pounds, and a pretty fair one it is. Average age, seventeen and one-half, and average gain in three months, whether owing to hard study, or to the much-despised but wise plan of "early to bed and early to rise," seven and one-half pounds. For the benefit of future husbands, who, like good old Dr. Primrose in the "Vicar of Wakefield," choose their wives not for their shining surface, but for good wearing qualities, we will add that seventeen are taking practice lessons in cookery, nine...
...which breakfast and luncheon are served by a private servant. Attached to this room is the little pantry, used for light working and storage. Two other rooms open out of the main apartment; they are about ten by fourteen, one employed as a study and the other as a bed chamber. A recent writer says of life at an English college, that it is intellectually far stronger than that of an American college. The men seem to accomplish more than we do, with less work. The dinner is regarded as the central feature of the daily life, for the whole...
...students find their own bed and furniture. Board in town has been from $2 to $3 a week...
...Edwin H. Hall, Instructor in Physics, has been confined to his bed during the vacation...