The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-01-07
BURDETTE ON INSOMNIA.
A Few standard Methods OF CourtIng Ma
lures sweet Restorer.

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lures sweet Restorer.
What pleases me, when / am tor
mented with sleeplessncss. is little
health book of my own. in which have
jotted down few-a very few-of the
"infallible remedies for sleeplessness
which have been tried in thousands
or perhaps il was millions-of cases,
most Of which were in tho subscribers
own immediate family. or. at the
farthest circle Of intimate friends. and
had never once failed TO effect per-
manent and il is needless To say. in
slant cure. All of these cases collect
lively and each one by itself individu-
ally were and was exactly lik % my own
in cause. duration and operation. The
simplicity of the combined remedy APP
peals at once TO human confidence.
Eat nothing within three hours be-
fore retiring.
Eat light but substantial luncheon
Just before going to bed Nature alb
hors a vacuum. (rhis Is one Of tho
prescriptions likc.)
Read1ight literature before going to
bed
Read nothing after supper Walk q
mile in the open mir just before bed
time.
Go TO your room an hour before re-
firing and read until bedtime. Give
up smoking altogether
II you are a smoker. cigar Just be-
fure retiring will soothe and tranquil.
ize your nerves until you can't keep
awake.
Don't think about sleeping; You
scare away slumber by wooing tho
drowsy god.
Rnsolutely resolve rs you lie down
that you will go to sleep. and sleep
will come naturally.
Take warm bath. and 90 from the
tub into bed.
Take n cold sponge bath, jump into
bed. and you'll be asleep before your
head touches the pillow.
Walk slowly about your room half
an hour
Lie on your right side. with your
cheek on your hand.
Lie on your left side. with your head
resting on your arm.
Count up 10 one thousand. Q tried
this inhuman bit of idiocy one night
came very near falling asleep two or
three times. but was startled wido
awake by suddenly becoming con.
scious that i had lost my count. and
had to begin over again. This caro-
kept me awake one whole night YhaH
my eyes open. The friend who gave
me this prescription is not living now.
She was woman, and / could not, as
a gentleman. offer her violence. So i
dosed box OF marshmellows with
death TO rats and sent them to herr
Drink milk. (This. according to my
experience. is the best prescription In
the lot IL will make you sleep better
than all the bromides going, which
are snares and delusions. But milk
diet not only makes you sleep at night,
but you want to sleep all the next day.
II makes you intolerably stupid all
the time. 1t Is very plesant, half
awake feeling. IL you have nothing else
TO do but to enjoy falling asleep at any
time and In all manner OF places. like
Colvlle in tho best told story Of these
times "Indian summer but IL you
have any work to do it Is embarrass.
ing).
So, what Is slcoplcsS man who
wants 70 sleep. going to do? II he
eats light luncheon, smokes n mild
cigar, reads Bonner an hour, walks
mile in the air. comes back and walks
another milo about his room. takes
sponge bath. cold, followed by tub
bath. warm. drinks pint Of milk.
Jumps into bed. and lies on both sides,
with his head on one arm and ono
hand and counts thousand, it will
be time TO get mp anyhow. and he can
have few nervous fits during the
day.
1t Is fact, however, that even men
who think they suffer from slecpless-
ness do not lie awake half 50 long as
they imagine they do. When man
says to me: II did not close my eyes
once all night" know he lies. Not
Intentionally. Of course. Hs thinks he
was awake all night; the probability
ia that he did no get 10 sleep until
two hours after his regular time. and
II seemed an age TO him. Really, II
isn't often that man lies awake the
whole night through. | am not a
physician. and can not speak by the
look, but / believe that men fib about
their sleepless nights more than any
other III 10 which our weak humani-
ty is heir. Now. take your own case;
you remember the last time yon lay
awake all night. don't youP Yes. ]
see you do. Well. don't you remem.
Der that same night you heard the
clock strike two, and then the next
time you heard it, T. struck seven'
Yesp see you do. Well. that's one
Of the mysteries about insomnia that
is difficult to exp ain. Robert j. Bur
delte, ia Des NOiqci Register.