"Take a blanket with you."
He said that not only did the German hotel-keepers never give you
sufficient bedclothes to keep you warm of a night, but they never
properly aired their sheets. He said that a young friend of his had gone
for a tour through Germany once, and had slept in a damp bed, and had
caught rheumatic fever, and had come home and died.
His wife joined us at this point. (He was waiting for her outside a
draper's shop when I met him.) He explained to her that I was going to
Germany, and she said:
"Oh! take a pillow with you. They don't give you any pillows--not like
our pillows--and it's _so_ wretched, you'll never get a decent night's
rest if you don't take a pillow." She said: "You can have a little bag
made for it, and it doesn't look anything."