And So To Sleep

[Music] this is sleep sleep a familiar phenomenon that has never been fully explained no one knows why we sleep but all of us know it's quite impossible to go without it for very long it's much easier to go hungry or thirsty than to go without sleep take this fellow here all he can think about at the moment is [Music] sleep all he has to do is find a nice comfortable place to curl up as sleepy folks have always done the first written record of beds is in the Bible dating from about 5:21 BC in the book of Ester if our sleepy friend had lived those several hundred centuries ago he might have made his bed of pillows piled on the floor at night and used a seats during the day [Music] or had he lived in Roman times this bench-like structure with a thin pad for a mattress would have served him as his bed these were often ornate and costly and laid with rare Woods Ivory or bone marcoa describes a bed used in India which might well have been the for under the bunk bed fashioned of light cane and attached to ropes the beds were raised at night to escape insects and snakes though undoubtedly practical at the time this bed was hardly safe yet our word bed comes from an ancient induran word meaning a Dugout place for safe resting on the other hand the Hardy Spartan Vikings introduced the feather bed and slept The Long Winter nights in warmth when most most of the rest of the world was still sleeping either on the ground thin mats or [Music] [Music] pillows e e e e e besides a firm thick longwearing mattress we demand good workmanship the edges reinforced so they won't break down under continual use sturdy handles for turning the mattress and inside skillfully carefully tied temper steel springs for firmness and [Music] [Music] resiliency rail resiliency not just a bounce effect [Music] not very comfortable did you get a new box spring when you watch your mattress maybe that's the trouble it's a good idea you know for a simple reason the box spring is actually the foundation on which you sleep it supplies about 1/3 the total resilient support of your bedding when used with an inner spring mattress and about 2/3 when used with a solid core mattress if your spring sag they'll make your mattress sag too and no matter how good your mattress is your sleep will suffer when you think that you spend a third of your life in sleep the necessity for a good mattress and good box springs is apparent with a new box spring not only does the covering or ticking match the mattress but each spring in the mattress is matched by a corresponding coil in the box spring which accompanies it in every detail they are made for each other we rest our brains as well as our bodies when we sleep Comfort that's what we're after that's right when you're looking for a mattress don't just look try it out a good mattress is firm but resilient and you now have a whole range of sizes to choose from Twin double queen size king size and even round beds [Music] that's a good idea too check the label of a mattress you'll find it spells out for you what's beneath the ticking so you know what you're buying here you'll find a description of the filling material and assurance that the Unseen parts are clean made of good substances and according to the [Music] law of course the mattress shouldn't have a hard slab type surface that distorts rather than supports your body ideally your weight should be distributed evenly and supported evenly and it should support your weight without letting you sink too far into the surface [Music] [Applause] [Music] at last sleep as the English poets are Philip Sydney pointed out come sleep oh sleep the certain knot of Peace the baiting place of wit the bomb of Woe the poor man's wealth the prisoners release the indifferent judge between the high and low yes sleep may be a mystery but it's no mystery why for nine of 10 people sleep comes sooner better on a cool comfortable cotton cushioned inner spring mattress mattress made with sleepy people in [Music] mind this is sleep and so is this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause]