The Red Cloud chief., 1881-08-18

noon su, : Why sho6J1~ tec BE-
hurt oy yielding to its f5ofnPtingss
Eisher postpone the principal meal to
| the end Of the day. or increase the noon
hide recess to at least thres hours, 80
a. TO leave time for digestive siesta.
Necessity insy compel individuals to
compromise such matters. Ii I had to
work or teach all day. l would not eat
q crumb between breakfast and sup
per. and pass the dinner-hour under a
shade tree; but parents who can afford
to educate their children at home
should give them either an all-sumner
vacation OF q half-afternoon recess
let them rest from twelve till three. cS
sleep if they prefer; in the eySefhg.
do not send them TO bed tiSS1hev are
really tired, and till fbs~fight wind has
revitalized the sir-03 their bedrooms;
but make tbs1f rise with the sun--if
they ore drowsy they VIII 90 % bed
It~r1er the next evening. There is no
danger Of a child especially of a
boy's-oversleeping himself. unless the
h~ardships of his waking hours are SO
intolcrable that oblivion becomes q
blessing; but il can do no harm 10
make the health-giving morning hour
rs attractive as possible: provide some
outdoor amusement, 4 prize foot-race,
a butterily-hunt, or gathering wIndfalls
in the apple orchard; if the desire for
longer sleep can outweigh such in
ducements, there must be something
wrong-plethOrifc diet, probably. or
| ~. .trI,- TIN ray.-us.a .n.a,,rt If
sleep depends on temperament and
occupation as well Is on age; with
children under ten, however, too much
indulgence would be an error on the
safer side; let them choose their allow
ance between eight and ten hours; in
after year seven hours should be the
minimum, nine the maximum for
heatthy children; sickly Ones ought TO
have cnrte blanche. both As 10 guantum
and time of repose; consumptives, cs-
p~ecialiy, need all the rest they can get.
Profound sleep in a cool, quiet retreat
is Natures own specific for all wasting
diseases. a panacca without price and
money.
Nothing can be more injudicious than
TO stint children in their sleep with a
view of gaining a few hours for study.
That pian.' says Pestalozzi. defeats
its W purpose, for such children are
never wide-awake; you can keep them
out OF bed. but you can not prevent
them from DOING with their eyes open.
A wide-awake boy VIII learn more in
hour than a day-drcamcr in ten"
Habitual deficiency OF sleep will IN
dcrmine the strongest constitution;
headache. throbbing and feyerish heat
are the precursors of graver evils, I'M
less a temporary loss Of mental power
comDels an armistice with outraged Ma
ture. IL is a curious fact that compUl-
sorry wakefulness combined with mental
activity often induces a state of morbid
insomnia, an absolute inability to OBJ
tain the sleep which it was at first so
difficult to resist. In such cases the
only remedy is fresh air and a complete
change Of occupation. During sleep
the brain is in a comparatively blood
less condition; n hot head and throb-
bing temples are ~unfavorable to repose,
and it has been suggested that insomnia
might be counteracted by q hot foot
bath. chatting the arms and legs, or any
similar operation that would divert the
blood from the head toward the extrem-
tiles, and thus tend to diminish the ac-
tivity of the cerebral circulation. Lis
teninG to distant music or the ripple of
4 river current has also n wonderful
hypnotic effect, the repetition of monot-
onouS sounds, or, indeed. of any sense
rial impression, seems more favorable
to repose than their entire absence.
A South German feather-bed is n
Trophonian cave; the difficulty of turn
ing from side to side crowds the brain
with alarming phantasms, and the ex-
cessive warmth of the thing itself is
apt to affect the ina yination. The best
bed is, indeed. a hard, broad mattress,
or a well-stufled straw tick, and a
wooden blanket over q linen bed-sheet
is preferable to n quilt. Those who
find it uncomfortable to sleep i'm an alb
solutely horizontal position should
slightly raise the head-end of the bed
stead rather than use a thick bolster.
A thick pillow bends the head upon
the breast, or keeps the neck in a posi-
ton that ~aggravates the distress OF
respiratory difficulties. Woven-wire
mattresses recommend themselves by
their cleanliness and durability; their
elastic qualities alone would hardly
Justify a great expense, though luxury
has eve devised an ..hydrostatic bed
q trough of water with n tegument of
caoutchouc. History records the name
of the Sybarite who ''cr:ed aloud because
a leaiict of his i!ower-mattress rot crum-
pied :" and Chevalier Luckner, the Rus
sian Lucullus, built himself an air pillow
bed on noiselesS wheels, that could be
turned by a hand-lcver, in order to
move the s~leeping-car from or toward
the stove, the aphelion and perihelion
being determ ned by the state of the
outdoor atmosphere. Such ~chevaliers
deserve the penan"c of Ezekiel (iv,
$50, who had to lie three hundred and
ninety days on his left side for the in
EQUITY of the house of Israel. and forty
days extra for the iniquity of the house
of Judah. A weary head needs no
air-cushions with wheel attachments;
brakesmen take their intermittent maps
on the hard caboose-bunk of a rumbliny
freight-train; and the log of the ROYAL
Sovereign records that. during the heat
of the battle of the Nile. some of the
o~ver-fatigued boys fell asleep upon the
deck.-feiiE L. OSWALD, IL. D., in Pop
aiar Science NoHtaly.
Didn't Recognize Him.
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