Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-02
SLEEPLESSNESS.

The causes that produce this serious trouble
are various. Not infrequently the tendency
to it is inherited with a delicate nervous or
ganiZation, and OverwOrk will increase it. 1t
is difficult for the sufferer to know how much
work, mental and physical, may be accom-
plished without producing the unpleasant re-
suit. For one so constituted a most watchful
care becomes important and the most inter-
esting employment must be turned away from
at the first sense Of WEAKNESS.
An earnest conversation with friend eX-
citing your sympathy, the demand upon your
strength made by an invalid, reading an arti-
Gle that stimulates the mind with intense
thinking, may, any of them cause you to
spend many wakeful hours and lead to severe
exhaustion on the morrow.
| BY WatchfulneSs you may learn to spare
yourself the over-fatigue, as duty which
others may not understand the reason for.
You may avoid the conversation and the book
at evening, seeking them at an earlier hour
when the choice lies with you. But with ev-
cry care you are liable to suffer from causes
you may neither foresee nor prevent.
Sometimes indigestion will awaken you at
the small hours, and take revenge for some
very slight departure from the careful diet
you uniformly adopt Recently it has been
discovered that many persons lose hours OF
sleep because they are in need of nOurishment.
That the fast is too long that continues from
supper time at 6 O'Clock until six or eight the
next morning.
Physicians who used to prescribe bromide
of soda or potassium for sleeplessneSs now
urge their patients to take beef tea instead.
The writer, after trying various prescriptions
with little benefit, was at length so fortunate
as to receive such advice At first beef tea
was used with some light bread or biscuit bro
ken in it, slipped from spoon as warm as it
could be taken Afterwards, milk just Scald-
ed, not boiled, was substituted and to make
it a little more easy of digestion tablespoon
full Of lime water was added to half tumbler
of milk. To facilitate matters pocket-stove
with an alcohol lamp or an arrangement. for
the gas fixture should be at hand. If neither
beef tea nor milk can be easily procured, hot
water with an infusion of hops or mint may
be substituted, or even hot water alone will
quiet restlessness and induce sleep. A dark
ened room that the mOonbeams cannot enter,
little fresh air from an open fireplace or
window, are valuable assistants in making the
sleep continuous.
When once the habit of wakefulness is bro
ken up, the beef tea or milk may he taken cold,
but not iced. If you are always poor sleeper
it will be well to continue this late supper asa
permanent thing in your daily life.
Provide for it in the case of aged and deli
cate persons who may be under your roof
and as the troubles of life appear most weighty
when scanned in the midnight hours, you
may be able to tighten the load for the rest of
their Journeys. $. T., IN Christian Union
DARK ROOMs.-Whle absolute darkness
destroys the eyes, as in the case OF the eyeless
fish of the Mammoth Cave-dark and dismal
rooms must impair the sight. Hence, those
occupying such rooms, and have special occa-
sions to use the eyes much, soon find the light
to fail This results in part from the fact
that light stimulates the sight-its absence
failing to develop the power--and partly from
the additional effort to see, of course taxing
and weakening sight. The sunlight in the
room, indeed, may fade the carpet and affect
some other trifling results, but all of them
are more easily remedied than deficient sight
or the utter loss of it, so likely to follow this
foolish fashion of excluding Gods glorious
sunlight And while we remember that this
same light is one Of the best purifiers, absO-
lutely necessary to health-animai as well as
vegetable-to attempt to exclude it from the
room most occupied or to shun it's healing in
tuences, is unwise in the extreme. The alb
sence of it is too we'll known in it's results on
vegetable life to demand even reference,
and yet animal life if possible, is still more un-
favorably affected. This light is as free as the
air, while as remedial agent it is of the
utmost Importance.
THE INSECT POPULATION,-In lS49 Alex
ander Won Humboldt estimated the number of
species of insects preserved in collections at
between $50. 900 and 10, 900 Europe alone be-
ing represented by more than three times as
many species of insects as of phanerOgamous
plants. Ten years ago Dr. Gerstacker estima-
ted the number of species Of insects to be 225.
600 five-times as many as the known species of
all other classes of animals together. Ii we
assume that there exist in the whole world on
" three times as many insects as there are
phanerogamous plants-the latest estimate of
which approaches 225, ,000-we arrive at the
startling sum of about $50, 900. Bewildering
as this estimate appears, it is probably toolOw.
The oak alone gives shelter and support to 400
species of insects and the pine to more than
200, and one moth alone has IS different spe-
cies of parasites Without going further in
our calculations we may safely assert that if
the number of species of all other classes OF
animals should be doubled by new discoveries
(which is rather improbable for some classes.
and impossible for the vertebrates the num-
Der of species of of insects would be more than
five times that of all other animals taken to-
gether.
WHAT WOMEN EARN IN THE FAMILY
Consider the matter. We are constantly told
that the life work Of a wife is rs arduouS and
as absorbing rs that of her husband. We are
told that if she does her whole duty to her
family she can have no time to study meta
physics or to pnrN Slip or paper '1nrO a Dallot
box. think it was the conservative DR.. Ed
ward II. Clarke who declared that the duties
of mother Of a family required as much toll
of brain and body as those of the captain OF II
ship. Grant it all grant that she works as
hard as her husband does. IfSo, the Inference
is irresistible that she earns her share OF the
family income. The fact that he receives the
money and pays the bills makes him the treas
urer of the family that is all. When he pays
out money to her, it is not rs a gift, but as
earnings HOmen's Jonrnnl.
JOKE on THE DocTOR.--There was an Ell
ger and excited, rs we'll as anxious, throng OF
heirs gathered in the mansion Of an old
French lady recently deceased. She had left
to her physician, ''whose enlightened care
and wise prescriptions had made her live so
long" the contents of the old oaken chest.
The heirs were naturally indignant the doc
tor much elated at the thought of the treas
ures contained in the quantity carved old
chest. They gathered about it, waiting for
the lawyer to come with the key. At last
he arrived and handed the key to the doctor.
He unlocked the chest and opened it. The
sunlight fell upon its glistening contents. con-
sisting of the unopened bottles of medicine
which he had prescribed for her the previous
twenty years.
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