The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-20

Prince Charming wooed his ladye fair
over the sea; when princesses pricked
their fingers on a spinning wheel and
slept a hundred years !-7he GALAXY
for August,
SLEEP and HOY TO WOO IT.
From the New York Graphic.]
An article by Mr.. Frank auckland,
which recently appeared in Land and
Water, has naturally excited good deal
Of attention, since it gave expression to
some very decided views in regard to a
subject which always has been and al
ways will be of interest to mankind
sleep, that mental death from which man
is born anew in mind and body-the true
fountain of youth which Ponce de Leon
sought in Florida and found in his bed.
Mr.. auckland, who gave the first great
impulse to the study of geology in Eng
land, and whose Bridgewater treatise on
sociology and Mincralogy Considered
with reference to Natural Theology has,
with general readers, always been the
most popular Ct the series. Mr.. Buck
land runs counter to generally received
the story of how his father worked, who,
being exceedingly busy during the day,
dined heartily at seven o'clock
in the evening and Immediately
went to bed and slept. till about
ten, when he rose and wrote till two or
three in the. morning. Before retiring
for the second time he ate pudding or a
sandwich, and having thus ''diverted tho
blood from his brain to his stomach, -
slept the sleep of the orthodox till he felt
like getting up in the later morning. Un-
doubtcdly it is the generally received
opinion laid down as doctrine in works
on hygiene that sleep should be sought
on a nearly empty stomach, and that to
yield to the gentle god Immediately after
discussing a hearty meal leads to disar-
rangements Of the liver and stomach,
and produces distinct tendency to apo
plexy.
There is hardly subject of the regime
of life which has attracted more discus
sion than the overcoming of insomnia
And this is as it should be, for all the
world knows that sleeplessness is curse
such as life has few to offer. Doctors
tell us that if long protracted it leads to
mental disorder. of which also
it is not infrequently one
of the earliest symptoms,
The old books of medicine are full of rem.
edies for it, and quaint old Burton, in
his ANATOMY Of Melancholy much
doth talk thereon, and sensibly saith
*'Andrew Borde commendeth frication, -
but for his own part he finds nothing
n$feA kaA u
a posset Of the same" That there is a
great deal of truth in this remark as ap.
piled to persons of a full but nervous
habit, who have much brain-wo1k to d.
there is no doubt. In winter ale will pro
duce fine sense of fullness in the ston.
| ach, and if it be not partaken of in guam
titles which would have satisfied and did
kill King John, it doubtless does employ
the blood in healthier work than it finds
in running through the overweight al
ieys of the brain and filling them with
fantastic thoughts and forms. One Of
our most eminent physicians has lately
expressed his views on, this point, anc
finds in lager beer stuff which will
'Pluck from the memory rooted rrow,
Rae out tie written troubles of the brain,
| And with some sweet, oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom OF that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart''--
and prevent sleep, the ''ob.ivious anti
dote' of all ills to the healthy brain, but
the provoker of all fantastic demons auc
nightmares if it is but light and partial
Mr.. auckland tells of the way IN which
the late DR.. Wilbcrforce, Bishop of Ok
ford, and almost as we'll known by the
name of ''Soapy SAM" used to sootht
himself to slumber when he did moi
easily fall off to sleep. The bishop:
prescription was to repeat very slowl,
the novels A. E. l. O. In doing this h.
pronounced each letter family with eact
ms piration ana expiration, and seldom
found the prescription to fail. CT sucf
methods there are a legion. One cay.
that, when sleep will not visit our eye.
nor slumber our eyelids, we should ii,
our minds on something vast, as the sky
the ocean, our landlady's bill, OF tn.
pyramids; another says we should thinl
Of q succession of rythmical movements
like2th breaking of the waves on a Sc,
beach; another that we should endeavol
to think of nothing; another that ",
should take cold bath, or battle tn,
feet in cold water and rub them brisklv-
and undoubtedly this is an excellent rem
edial measure when, as is often the cas-
at such times, the extremities ar,
cold. But each person has his; own rec
ipe in this matter. When one canno
sleep, generally speaking, he will do wei
to get out of bed and read, sleeplessnes
! is often natures protest against idlenes
and esluggishness Of mind.
Mr.. auckland would have US 90 t,
sleep Immediately after the chief meal q