The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-07-02
a CHAT ARour SLEEP

"A CHAT AR0UT SLEEP
A very thin lady Of about thirty years, with
a promising beau, came to consult me about
her skin and bones." had frequently met
her when she seemed even more emacated,
but now she would give the world to be
plump" Sitting down in front Of me, she be-
/ gan with
Don't you think, doctor, that look very
old for twenty ~
| twenty.
"Can't any thing be done for mes What
can take for ita / should be willing to take
a hundred bottles of the worst stuff in the
world if can only get some fat on these
bones. friend of mine cher heau) was say
ing he would give fortune to see me round
and plump"
would you be willing to go to the Cliff
Springs in Arkansas 9'
81 would start t. morrow"
.But the water is very bad to drink /
said.
81 don't care how bad they are, know
can drink Them
to the Arkansas Springs to test the strength
of your purpose. 1t is not necessary to leave
your home. Nine thin people out of ten can
become reasonably plump without such sacri-
fice.'
"Why DOCTOR am delighted to hear it,
but suppose it is lot of some awful bitter
stuff. Idon't care | would take it if it were
| tnp ,,I hot, Il, II, "a a
"The technical name of the stuff is Bedi5as
niae-o' ciocki6us.n
"Why doctor, what an awful name !! am
sure shall never be able to speak it. Is there
no common English word to t?"
s'0h yes, the English of it is, You must
be in bed every night at nine o'clock. -
| We doctors generally use Latin
ooh, that is dreadful. l thought it was
something could tais.'
at is. You must take your bed every
night before nine Clock
mo but what | thought was that you
would give me something in bottle to take"
''Of course | know very well what you
Thought. That's the way with all of you.n
One person eats enormously of rich food
till his stomach and liver refuse to bulge !;
then he cries out, Oh, Doctor, what can
take, must take something"
Another fills his system with tobacco until
his nerves are ruined, and then trembling and
| full of horrors, he exclaims, ssOh, DOCTOR
what shall takea'' | write prescription
for him, -Quitibus chawibus ct smoks5as.
sob, doctor, thought you would give me
something to take.''
Another sits up till thirteen or fourteen o.
clock, leads life of theatres and other dissi-
pations, becomes pale, dyspeptic and wretch
ed, and then flies to the doctor and cries, "Oh
doctor what shall tale what shall take y
"Now madam you are distressed because
your lover has been looking at your .sskin and
bones"
"But doctor, you are entirely"
"Oh, well, we'll say nothing about it then.
Buttell me what time do you go to bed ?"
"Gcnerally about twelve O'clock
Yes, | thought so. Now will you go to
bed every night for six months at nine oclock?
Without making IN. other change in your hal :
its, you will gain ten pounds in weight, and
look five years younger. Your skin viii be-
come fresh, and yout spirits improve wonder
fully"
"Ill do it. Though of course, when have
company, and during the opera, can't do
it,"
1t is regularity that does the business. To
sit up till twelve o'clock three nights of the
week, and then get to bed at nine o'clock four
nights, one might think would do very well,
and that at any rate it would be $50 far, so
good.' don't think this every other night
early and every other night late is much bet
ter than every night late. 1t is regularity
that is vital in the case. Even sitting up one
night in the week sderanges the nervous sys-
tenn for the whole week. | have sometimes
thought that these people who sit up till elev-
ell or twelve O'Clock every night get on quite
as well as those who turn i'll early six nights,
and then sit up once a week till mid night
Regularity i'll sleep is every whit as important
as regularity in food.
At length my patient exclaimed, Doctor,
will go to bed every night for six months be-
fore nine o'clock, if it kills me, or rather, if
it breaks the heart of all my friends"
She did it. Twenty-one pounds was the
gain in five months. Her spirits were hap
PLY enlivened, and she spent half her time in
telling her friends of her delight with the new
habits. She had no furtherca to complain
of skin and bones, and had the especial graft
fcation Of appearing more attractive in the
eyes of her lover. He, like sensible man,
when he saw the good effects Of the nine o.
clock-to-bed arrangement, heartily approved
of it, and became convert himself.-Dio.
Lemts
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SUNLIGHT AND HEALTH.--At the rear end
of our parlof it was not very dark Indeed
we could see to read small newspaper print
at the least lighted point. At that point we