. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics. cious stones. Roman luxury out-vied that of the Greeks, as shown byspecimens found in Pompeii. Thehangings of the bed were less highlyprized than the frame, owing to themildness of the climate. The eleventh century saw the half-savage peoples of Northern Europebuilding beds into the walls of theirrooms, and fitting them up with doorsand sliding panels. The Norman Con-quest brought these cupboard-couchesinto England, to be speedily followedby a great oaken bed with a real were set up away from the chilly
. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics. cious stones. Roman luxury out-vied that of the Greeks, as shown byspecimens found in Pompeii. Thehangings of the bed were less highlyprized than the frame, owing to themildness of the climate. The eleventh century saw the half-savage peoples of Northern Europebuilding beds into the walls of theirrooms, and fitting them up with doorsand sliding panels. The Norman Con-quest brought these cupboard-couchesinto England, to be speedily followedby a great oaken bed with a real were set up away from the chillyouter wall, often quite in the middleof the chamber, and were thickly cur-tained, to shut out the bitter draftsfrom ill-hung doors and unglazed win-dows, which were protected only byloosely fitting shutters. Some of thesebeds were of prodigious size. TheGreat Bed of Ware, to which Shake-speare refers, is twelve feet square, andbuilt of solid oak, with the most elab-orate carving imaginable. This bedis known to have furnished sleeping 355 356 THE BOSTOX COOKING-SCHOOL MAGAZINE. Chippendale Design with Delicate Or-naments and Claw-and-Ball Feet accommodations to twelve persons atone time, as it has stood for nearlyfour centuries in an ancient inn, lo-cated in the town of Ware. This bedis a four-poster, and marks the intro-duction of what was doubtless themost popular as well as the most ex-pensive house furnishing of its day. These old four-posters consisted, asdo those that we see today, of fourposts, supporting a tester, and con-nected laterally by sidepieces, whichwere almost always undecorated, asthe bedspread was supposed to hangover the sides of the bed and coverthem. A headboard was consideredalmost indispensable, though it is ab-sent in some cases. It was usuallyrather low, and decorated with carv-ings more or less ornate. The foot-board was sometimes used, but wasquite often omitted in the older speci-mens. It seems to have been addedas a later detail. When the postswere
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