Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-03-29
Sleeplessness.


A few minutes rest before eating. plenty
of time and jokes and laughter while eat.
ing, and then again few minutes rest
and we believe you might laugh at dys
pepsia.
You might rest while wedding youI
garden. training your vines. playing with
the children. or dipping into some bright
work of poetry or fiction. ''lnnocents
Abroad" "IIelen's Babies" or "Don
Quixote" would be admirable anti-dys.
peptics. But, if sleepy. heed the sign.
You are either overtaxed and need rest.
or you have eaten too much-you are the
best judge as to that.
A five minutes nap is often better than
hali-hour's sleep. because you do not
wake up with that half-dead feeling which
some people complain Of when we urge
them to rcst-and the sleepiness is gone.
Some people find, after going to bed.
that they are hungry. They had light
supper early in the evening; they have
been out driving or walking have been
reading aloud, or singing, perhaps talk
ing good deal. and unheedtul of the
time, have sat up till it is late. They
cannot sleep-Naiure is calling out for
more fuel; they long for something to
eat.
but you know it is very unhealthy to
eat at so late an hour"
''Oh is it Then, by all means. don'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
your brain will work. and the harder will
throb your head; restlessly you will turn
and toss; you will strive to 1uell the
hunger-fit by draught of water; but
that won't do it; and at last, in despair,
you give up the hope Of sleep. A cracker
or small piece OF bread would have him
dered all this, and you would have fallen
into sleep as sweetly as little child does
after taking its milk.
Why don't you keep the baby awake
after feeding it, if it is injurious to sleep
on full stomash? We are tempted to
quote from an article we saw the other
day: ''Sleep following Supper"
Nothing is more absurd than to pre-
tend it is unhealthiul to sleep after the
days last meal. Is not man an animal
Do not animals, without exception. sleep
Immediately after eating? Do we not feel
like sleeping after each days last meal?
Evidently the body yearns for sleep. Ex-
ercise Immediately after eating is pernic
ious; rest is healthiul. What rest can
compare with sleep. which reposes the
mind, the lungs, even the hearth
"Soe the peasants! No persons enjoy
better health than they do. Supper is
the best meal of the day. No sooner
have they supped than they go to bed.
"Look at the actors There was Rubini,
who dined at three; went to his dressing
room in the Italian Opera House, and
slept until the theatre opened its doors
At midnight he supped Heartily. and went
straight 10 bed he died OF sheer old age
"You know Monsieur Theirs? The
moment his dinner was ended, he stretch
ed himself out to sleep, and sleptan hour.
"The truth is, if you look around you.
it will be found that the great majority of
men go to sleep Immediately after making
their best meal; and you certainly 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
he stars say goodnight. then they 60 to
sleep. Do YOU ever hear OF an astronomer
lying under 4 hundred2
The majority OF mechanics and SER
rants go TO sleep Immediately after eating
heir best meal. They are right; they
obey Natures voice, which always gives
udicious counsel"
Good Good" we ielt like exclaim-
ng, when we read that.
What the writer says is true, we be-
ieve. of any country but America. Amer
cans only go to bed with empty stom-
lchs.
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 are whirling through |
,our brain AT night. and you cannot stop
give the stomach cracker, or 4
'iece OF bread, and try that remedy.