Chapter 12 cont. SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS The bed was very often made by fixing a post in the floor about six feet from one wall and four feet from the adjoining wall, and fastening a stick to this post about two feet above the floor on each of two sides, so that the other end of each of the two sticks could be fastened in the opposite wall.  Clapboards were laid across these, and thus the bed made complete.  Guests were given this bed, while the family disposed of themselves in another corner of the room, or in the "loft."  When several guests were on hand at once they were sometimes kept over night in the following manner:  When bedtime came the men were requested to step out of doors while the women spread out a broad bed upon the mid-floor and put themselves to bed in the corner.  The signal was given and the men came in and each took his place in bed next to his own wife, and the single men outside beyond them again. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L