The Iola register., 1885-01-16

sleeping togetherin the ordinary double
bed, quarreled at least once an hour,
and often went to sleep worn out
with passionate CRYING. The mother
argued and punished, plead and pun
ished again, half desperate at times
over the state of things, and expert
menting in every way with food, tenn
perature and exercise, to bring them
into better condition.
| II don't know what it MEANS" she
walled one day. They are lovely ba-
bies. Look at their eyes when they ara
good, sweet and quiet as little cherubs,
and yet they behave like little demons.
There's nobody on either side of the
house with such dispositions, and they
| wear on one another and on me until i
want to die and take them with me-"
| 1t was puzzle, solved year later in
| a fashion so simple that the mother
walls again over the time lost. There
was a cure; not instantaneous by any
means, but cure, and the children ar
now as harmonious group as are often
to be found.
"You want to know how 1 did it."
Suc StSlu, Ouc udy III u IcCtuL VlSlt.
didn't do it at all. 1t was single beds.
Bess and Mabel slept together, you
know, and had incessant trouble try
ing to keep Mabel warm enough and
Bess cool enough. Bess could not bear
to be touched and Mabel could not bear
not to be. No matter how Bess fought
her off, the moment sleep came Mabel
rolled over and had her arms around
her. put bar between, but 1t made
little difference. 1t was precisely the
same case with the two boys. One day.
it came to me all at once, as / looked
at the baby quiet and comfortable in
his crib, these children need separate
beds. / had thought and talked often
enough of the influence of people ON
one another, but never dreamed of ap-
plying it to them. What fool you
have been' said to myself. Here they
are, all with marked individualities and
with the most differing physical charac-
teristics. Mabel draws on Bess and ex-
hausts tshernervousforce every night and
Harry does the same. / will see if it
can't be mended.' We are not over
burdened with money, and l had to
think and plan before l could change
the big double beds for single ones. /
had the mattresses made over, and
succeeded in making an exchange with
| an amiable old furniture dealer. The
children were delighted the day the
four pretty single beds were set up. In
| a week L saw u difference, and in q
month it was so marked that every
| one noticed it. Each one had freedom,
just the amount of covering required.
and slept quietly and almost dream
lessly. Not a room in my house save
the spare room has anything now but
single bed, and the gain has been for
every one of us. 1t makes no more, or
very little more work. Sheets are
smaller and more easily washed. and if
it doubles the wear should still know
the gain to be incalculable. Half the
| ill-temper of the world comes from the
electrical changes undergone by the
| nervous system where couples sleep
night after night under the same bed
clothing, for life is system of giving
and taking in more ways than one, and
/ want you who preach the things that
make for peace to preach this also."
| had come to the same faith and did
not need the exhortation, but there are
many who do and who would find the
difference immense were they once will
ling to try the experiment. The Scien-
| tfc american some time ago made q
forcible plea for the adoption of the
habit. writing:
There is nothing that will more de-
range the nervous system of a person
| who is eliminative in nervous force than
to lie all night in bed with another per-
son who is absorbent in nervous force.
The absorber will 60 to sleep and rest
all night, while the eliminator will be
tumbling and tossing, restless and nerv-
Gus, and wake up in the morning fret
ful, peevish. fault-fnding and dis
couraged. No two persons, no matter
who they are, should habitually sleep
together. One will thrive and the 9TH
er will lose."
Even for the most phlegmatic this
has proved itself true, and the matter
demands the consideration not only of
mothers, but of all who desire the best
and most efficient Congregation
dlist.