Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typ...os. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. THE BEDROOM. "BLESSINGS," said Sancho, "on the man who invented sleep It wraps a man all about like a blanket " So Far as possible, all the rooms in this ideal house of ours front the sun, or are visited by the sun for an hour or two every day. I hold this almost essential to a bedroom,? that it should have, not merely light and air, but the direct rays of the sun, and that there should be no furniture nor hangings in the room that are likely to be injured by the sun. It is not always possible in New-York City to obtain this southern exposure. Owing to her position, and to the direction which as a consequence of that position has been given to her streets, it so happens that, with the exception of those which are built upon the avenues, all the houses have one side always in shade, and the other always in sun. And as the lots present their ends, not their breadth, to the street, the bedrooms have to be divided, so that one half have a northern, and the other half a southern exposure. The houses on the avenues facing east and west get thesun in the morning and afternoon, but none during the day; so that we are all about in the same box. But everybody who has had any experience of a New-York A Duchessc. No. 81. winter knows that the sunny rooms are the pleasantest, and I think we all have a feeling that they are the healthiest. Everybody who has lived in Paris, or anywhere in Europe, knows the prejudice that exists there against admitting the night air into bedrooms. The German horror of fresh air inside the house at any time, whether by night or day, is well known, and has been harped on by travelers? English and American?for many a long year; but, Dutch Bedstead. No. 82. in France and Italy, the prejudice is chiefly directed against fresh ai...Detailed info »« Brief info