The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03

ner law 10 De broken, so Sne SENDS tnem
to sleep sitting in their chairs. People
therefore who feel sleepy after dinner
ought to dine late, and go straight to
bed when a sleepy feeling comes over
them.
Most good folks, however, do the
worst thing imaginable; they retire alto
gether into the drawing-room, and then,
to make matters worse, they drink tea
and coffee. Now / regard tea and coffee
when taken at night to be poison to Ger
tain constitutions. 1t is very well in the
morning, but it is very bad at night.
The reason why tea and coffee should
not be taken at night is that the n con
tains IN alkaloid called theme, and the
other contains an alkaloid called caffeine.
These two alkaloids taken into the sys-
TEN stimulate the brain and do not allow
it to go to rest. I speak of this matter
from experience. Ii 1 take thought
lessly a cup of tea or coffee after 5 o'clock
in the evening, going to bed about II,
I cannot go to sleep; and if the brain
does fall asleep, the alkaloid will wake
it up in about an hour or two. Sleep
l~essness, therefore, is usually caused by
tea or coffee, though strange to say that
tea and coffee actually send some people
into sound slumber.
well recollect the late DR.. WILDER
force, then Bishop of Oxford, telling my
father, then most actively engaged as
Dean of Westminster, of his patent way
of going to sleep. 1t is better than the
old-fashioned prescription of watching
sheep jumping through hedge one after
another, ships sailing out to sea-, etc.
The Bishops prescription was to repeat
very slowly the vowels A o. In do
ing this, they were to be family pro-
nounced with each inspiration and expi-
ration. 1t will be found easy to do this
without moving the lips, but the vowel
U must not be pronounced, for to do
this the muscular action of the lips nee
essarily takes place, and sleep comes not.
1 advise my readers to try this plan.
I once heard of a midshipman who
complained that he could not sleep at
night because there were no waves DASH
ing against the sides of the ship.
To this noise he had so many months
been accustomed that he could
not sleep without the familiar sound.
He asked his mother to dash pals of
water against his bedroom door till he
went to sleep. I was once told, when
on q salmon inspection, that a certain
miller could sleep so long as the con-
tinued whirr of the mill wheel was going
on, but directly the noise stopped he
awoke.
The deepest sleep is always just before
dawn. 1t is, l believe, probable that
some change takes place at this time In
the atmospheric condition, s the hour
just before dawn is selected by savages
to make their attack, and it is at this
time also, 1 believe, that a great proper
: ton of children are born. When staying
. at a country house, unfortunately, the
visitor not accustomed to country sounds
, gets often woke up. The abominable
: cocks begin theirhorrible growing, called,
J in Herefordshire, "cock shoot" Irecol
. lect on one occasion, after the wretched
: cocks had gone from the fowl-house tc
= feed, 1 fell asleep, and then there cam
, a most awful cry of agony /; in fact, the
farmer killed a pig under nay window
= enough to wake anybody. This pig wa
most vociferous, but as he was inundated
; in honor OF my arrival, I could not say
. much.
. My monkeys always get sleepy whel
the gas is lighted in my study, where
. and my monkeys always sit. This roon
was once called by the servants til,
"Master's room;' but I found out lately
by accident, that they now call it til,
r "Monkey's room" This is Darwin
going backward
Dogs, likewise, will sleep at night i
they can ; cats, I observe, are sleepy il
the morning, the reason being that tn,
wretches have been out all night, and, o
s course, feel very seedy in the morning
e and doubtless their heads ache some
times !; and it serves them right if they
e did, considering the row they make
e fighting and caterwauling 1 hav,
strong reasons to think that my owl
@ black cat is president of a free and easy
g club, for they hold their meetings among
the ruins of the Colosseum at the bacl
of my house. This a regular "cattery.
All the stray cats in the Regents Park ant
e family matters ; sometimes they com
into a back cellar where I keep skele
" tons, casts, etc., and kindly supply mt
with a fine lot of kittens, which 1 con
vert into skeletons, casts, etc. 1 confess
1 do not know how to get rid of cater
s wauling cats. Will any one tell us?
L now venture to suggest a new bu
simple remedy for want of sleep. Opt
ates in any form, even the liquor Opt
sedat., and chlorodyne, will leave trace
of their influence the next morning.
therefore prescribe for myself-and hav,
frequently done SO for others-onions
y simply common onions raw, but Spanisl
Y onions stewed will do. Everybod,
d knows the taste of onions this is due t
IS a peculiar essential oil contained in thi
). most valuable and healthy root
1t This oil has, 1 am sure, highl,
n soporific powers. In my own cas-
they never fail. If L am much pressed
l. with work, and feel 1 shall not sleep,
eat two or three small onions, and tn
n effect is magical. Onions are also excel
lent things to eat when much exposed T.
intense cold. Mr.. Parnaby, Troutdal
Fishery, Keswick, informs me that
when collecting salmon and trout egg
in the winter, he finds that common ra,
- onions enable him and his men to bea
the ice and cold of the semi-frozen waite
much better than spirits, beer, etc. TIL
arctic expedition, Just now about to start
. SnOulo therefore take q GOOD STOCK o
= onions. Finally, if a person canno
!. sleep, it is because the blood is in hi
. brain, not in his stomach; the remedy
-" therefore, is obvious: call the bloo'
down from the brain to the stomach
This is to be done by eating a biscuit,
. hard boiled egg, a bit of bread an
d cheese, or something. Follow this III
with a glass of wine or milk, or eve
T. water, and you will fall asleep, and viii
I trust, bless the name of-Ffank BUCK
land, in Land and Water.
ir A Youthful Genius.