Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-27
TEE FiANDs III YOUR ALoW.


The Horrors nf Io.omuig FFse Winch
Thsro 10 10 Esospe. ss..o..a...
London Qlcep. 1920
These who are stli c.ed with insomui.
know to the fall the tutiiity OF recipes.
Same advocate pine needle pillow; some
{ hop pllloR; he-s one so hard that it
might Fave Jsc)b's stone in toe middle.
For the arst two You IRE oppressed by tAe'r
OdoT-0pprrs rather than ECO he'd
the last makes yOur hesd8cne anaEgiyes
you sore spine all the day sitter, eS5gssS
again, tell YOU 10 est and drink Just be-
fore going to bed. a "nigntcsp,".
they cay, 81 genial spiTissss
win e few biscuits muHcned sis.
creet!7, Will co wonders for you. 4He
blood will be brought from the brain to
the stomach, and 81 SctiYe digestion vii.
cure your sieeplessness like magic, You
follow their 6dvice-the prescription be
ing pleHssIt-and you find that you hsve
to tske your liver Srd your "gouty dla-
thetis" IN hand as the result, with 70
better nights in the WAY of slumber than
before. You are told to battle your face
and wrists in cold water, and you do so,
HlSiCSJ JNG 1oh u WI IJIA Will
cor fl1es you to bed for week and to the
house for fortnight.
Then you have mental pronhylsctics,
and you hear with envy how one mar
cures himself OF insomnis, drives of ire
hsgs rho beset him, and wills back the
Sweet genius OF sleep by counting imsg
l1aTy sheep Jumping over an imaginary
fence He goes if like 3 lsmb, he says,
NsE ha Sn be
the ne Y pertinent AMI you 90 on 10 8
thousand or mure-Wi'a 1he result OF
feeling in kind q c whirlwind, where
ewes and the whiFiiDg dust1ssps
and ucTobAGc rams. Your
Jumping sheep become SIS tor
turing as shat barrel organ tune which
| SOU Is in your eSrs, do what ycu will ,sad
thsy stick 10 tour brain IS !he tune sticEs
reason OF EGce AS fer ikat urbijdsD
music, you think to exercise il by going
over the strain from the Il .sE note to the
last. You are conscientious il your
| memory, and put in every little trill sna
culver that may have been Incorporated.
Now then, you think, you have fsslly lsid
that noisy demon and are free 10 turn POUR
mind to the contemplation CT silence
iN3t bit Of it. Suddenly the tune
starts ouG again, loUdsT, cleases
more insisting than sSsspre, SD
you have 20 go Cye8 your wafEl
orce more, and lave for tie second tiAe;
the bitterness ottsilure. SEoa try,-.iase
TO come upon sleep by repeating poetfy
ell the poetry you know. Sepeiimes thfa
las lulling effect, as whsnscu tHanH
s.Ray st q piece known bWhea Vas
fGhiiliaHy as the alphabet. aBut4dor Sf6e
M 81 part you Wakeu up y9uls elfSby lust
SO much as you think to shSvHseeothed;
and the repetition of poetry proves, like
the counting OF sheep, snsntsl stimu-
lant instead OF sedatiVe. Then you are
wider and wider awake than ever, and
your pains ara increased, MOI Iightered.
Then there flow in On you all the sor-
rows of your life, and everything you
would gladly forget insists on being re-
membered with Photographic clearress
ana in gigantic proportions. Are you 3
little at Cross-c0rners with . beloved
frIend2 The slight misunderstanding,
which few moments OF honest talk will
clear away, becomes the frAc,ure
OF your friendship, which no time,
no effort can ever repsir. The word
that was s.id in thoughLlessness becomes
the Intentional insuIt-the designed cut.
rage. The look that had no significance
st ell becomes Is tie thrust of sword
and the sting OF 6 whip; and wherever
you can torture yourself ynu do-sll
because the power Of sleep las gone from |
you and your ieverish blood is firing your
throbbing brain. So with sll your life. |
II you are IN momeptary difficulty about |
money, YOU sre Oh the verge of ruin ard |
the Threshold OF the work house. |
II You have had an inf 1itss-
sim:l check in your career, you Sre
cast down from your secure holding snd
csn never make your footing sure again.
Whatever may have happened to rptfle
the still waters OF the lake and bresk the
deep silence Of the woods is q cataclysm,
no less, and sleeplessness exaggera.es
like the microphone and makes the foot
steps Of 5 fly like the swinging tread Of
grensdier. Thus you give yourself
40 for lest snd 10 the physical torments
Of your condition nre added the mental
sgonies Of fesr, despair snd anticipated
destruction. .a,ss..as