"A wooden bedstead, two or three mattresses piled up to above the height of the table, a vallance attached to the frame,nothing but a miracle could ever thoroughly dry or air such a bed and bedding,"is the ordinary bed of a private house, than which nothing can be more unwholesome.

Life: by Mackail; by Cary; by Vallance.

His uncle, Tom Vallance, was in his day, one of the very greatest football players in Scotland.

On New Year's Eveit fell on a SundayTom Vallance, my brother-in-law, asked me to tea with him and his family in Clapham, where he lived.

And I tried to cheer up, and feel better, so that I would not spoil the pleasure of the others at Tom Vallance's house.

It was then that my brother-in-law, Tom Vallance, began to go aboot everywhere wi' me.

Tom Vallance had disappeared.

(Pub. abroad as Those foreigners) By Raymond Postgate & Aylmer Vallance.

VALLANCE, AYLMER.

(Pub. abroad as Those foreigners) By Raymond Postgate & Aylmer Vallance.

VALLANCE, AYLMER.

She edged past him on hands and knees towards the vallance draperies.

" She dived out beneath the vallance, caught a glimpse of Miss Sally and Sir Elphinstone making their way at a brisk pace through the crowd, and hurried up the slope in pursuit.

In the darkness at its rear there was no need of caution, and she plunged under the vallance boldly.

Someone was stealthily lifting the vallance.

Concealing the utensils behind the vallance to the bed seems all the precaution which is thought necessary for safety in private nursing.

If I were looking out for an example in order to show what not to do, I should take the specimen of an ordinary bed in a private house: a wooden bedstead, two or even three mattresses piled up to above the height of a table; a vallance attached to the framenothing but a miracle could ever thoroughly dry or air such a bed and bedding.

The only way of really nursing a real patient is to have an iron bedstead, with rheocline springs, which are permeable by the air up to the very mattress (no vallance, of course), the mattress to be a thin hair one; the bed to be not above 3-1/2 feet wide.