The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-16
Sleeplessness.

A few minutes rest before eating
plenty Of time and Jokes and laughte
while eating: and then again a few
minutes rest, and We believe you nigh
laugh at dyspepsia.
You might rest while wedding your
garden, training your vines. playing
with the children, or dipping int
some bright work of poetry or Fiction
'Innocents Abroad 'Helen's Babies,
or Don Quixote, would be admirabl,
anti-dyspeptics. But, if sleepy, heed
the sign; you are either overtaxed and
need rest. or you have eaten two much
you are the best judge IS to that.
4 five minutes nap Is often better
than half hours sleep because you Dc
not wake up with that halt dead feel.
ing which some people complain oi
when we urge them to rest-snd the
sleepiness is gone.
Some people find, after going to bed,
they are hungry. They had q light
supper early in the evening: they have
been out driving or walking; have
been reading aloud or singing. perhaps
talking q good deal, and unheedful oi
the time, have sat up till it was late
They cannot sleep: Nature is calling
out for more fuel; they long for some
thing to eat.
But you know it is very unhealthy
TO eat at so late all hour
oh. is it: Then by oil means, don't t
yield to the demands of your stomach,
however long you lie awake
What fudge Are the English a
race OF dyspeptics: They often have
very heavy suppers just before retiring:
The hungrier you are the faster
your brain will work, and the harder
will throb your head; restlessly you
will torn and toss; you will strive to
quench the hunger fit by draugbt of
water; but that won't do it; and ct last
in despair, you give up the hope of
sleep. A cracker or a small piece of
bread would have hindered all this,
and you would have fallen into sleep
as sweetly as child does after taking
its milk
Why don't you keep the baby awake
after feeding it. if it is injurious to
sleep on a full stomachs We are temot.
ed To quote from an article we saw the
other day: Sleep Following Supper
Nothing is more absurd than to pre-
tend it is unhealthful to sleep after
the days meal. Is not man an ami.
NAL! DO not animals, without excep-
tion, sleep Immediately after eating?
DO we not feel like sleeping after each
days last meal? Evidently the body
yearns for sleep. Exercise Immediately
after eating is pernicious rest is health
full. What rest can compare with
sleep, which reposes the mind, the
lungs, even the heart?
See the peasants No persons enjoy
better health than they do. Supper is
the best meal of the day. No sooner
h".e ~ IN en's ,. ,nrrsd ,n than they go to bed
hin. % who " din.d at three rsATs Went to phi his
dressing room in the Italian Opera
House! and slept till the theater opened
it's doors. At midnight he supped
heartily, and went straight to bed. He
died of sheer old age.
You know Monsieur Thiers' habit?
The moment his dinner was ended he
stretched himself out to sleep. and
slept an hour.
The truth is. if you look around you,
it will be found that the great majority
of men 90 to sleep Immediately after
making their best meal; and you GER
tainly never saw healthier. stronger
woman than those of the great markets.
What is their life? Dinner. and to bed.
Take another, the very opposite class
astronomers. They keep late hours.
their best meal Is when the stars say
good night; then they 60 to sleep Do
you ever hear Of an astronomer dying
under hundred!
The majority of mechanics and ser
wants go to sleep Immediately after
eating their best meal. They..are right;
they obey Natures voice, which always
gives iudicious counsel
Good! Good' We felt like exclaim-
ing, when we read that.
What the writer says is true. we be-
lieve, of any country but America.
Americans only go to bed with full
stomachs.
A lady said once that III we want
the brain to stop working, give the
body something to do 1t is only
reasonable, therefore, if thoughts were
whirling through your brain at night,
and you cannot stop thinking, give the
stomach Q cracker. or iece of bread.
and try that remedy.