The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-08-29
Some Fallacles About Sleep

A few minutes rest before eating, plen-
ty of time and jokes and laughter while
eating, and then again few minutes rest,
and we believe you might laugh at dys-
pepsia.
You might rest while wedding your
garden, training your vines, playing with
the children, or dipping into some bright
work of poetry or fiction. But, if sleepy,
heed the sign You are either overtaxed
and need rest, or you have eaten too
much-you are the best judge of that.
A five minutes nap is often better than
half hours sleep, because you do not
wake up with that halfdead feeling
which some people complain of when we
urge them to rest-and the sleepiness is
gone.
Some people find, after going to bed,
that they are hungry. They had light
been out driving or walking; have been
reading aloud, or singing, or perhaps
talking good deal, and unheedful of the
time have set up till it is late. They
cannot sleep-Nature 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 fudgel Are the English 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 turn and
toss; you will strive to quell the hunger
fit by draught of water; but that won t
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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 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 stomach ? We are tempted to
quote from an article we saw the other
day: "SIeep following Supper.
"N othing is more absurd than to pre-
tend it is unhealthy 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. Exercise Immediately after eating
is pernicious rest is healthful. What
rest can compare with sleep, which re-
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''See 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 g
room in the Italian Opera House, and
slept until, the theatre opened its doors
At midnight he supped heartily, and
went straight to bed he died of sheer
old age.
You know Monsieur Thiers' habit p
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 go to sleep Immediately after max
ing their best meal; and you certainly
never saw healthier, stronger women than
those of the great markets. What is
their life p? Dinner, and to bed. Take
another the very opposite class-astron-
omers. They keep late hours their best
meal is when the stars say good night,
then they go to sleep. Do you ever hear
of an astronomer dying under hundred2
The majority of mechanics and serv-
ants go to sleep Immediately after eating
their best meal. They are right; they
obey natures voice, which always gives
judicious counsel"
Good Good p we felt like exclaiming,
when we read that.
What the writer says is true, we be-
lieve, of any country but America. Amer
leans only go to bed with empty stom-
achs.
A lady once said that "If we want the
brain to stop working, give the body
something to do" 1t is only reasonable,
therefore, if thoughts are whirling thro'
your brain at night, and you cannot stop
thinking, give the stomach cracker, or
piece of bread, and try that remedy.