Wichita eagle., 1888-03-03
CURES FOR INSOMNIA.
ROB euRDErTE GIVES A LONG LIST
OF SURE REMEDIES.

Som. OF the "InfalliSle Cures" Which
tb. Hnmorist Has Jotted Down in HIS
little Health Book-One Of the Mys.
teries.
What pleases me when am tormented
with sleeplessness is a little health book
of nv own, in which have jotted down
few-a very few-of the "infallible RENE
dies, for sleeplessness which have been
tried in thousands-or perhaps it was NIL
lions-of cases, most of which were the
prescriber's own immediate family, or, at
the farthest. circle of immediate friends,
and had never once failed to effect per-
manent, and it is needless to say. instant
cure All of these cases collectively and
each one by itself individually were anu
was exactly like my own in cause, oura-
ton and operation. The simplicity OF the
/ combined remedy appeals at once to hu-
| man confidence.
Eat nothing within three hours before
retiring.
Fat q light but substantial luncheon
! inst before going to bed. Nature abhors
ayacuum. This is one of the prescriptions
likeD
Read light literature before going to
bed.
Read nothing after supper. Walk q
mile in the open air just before bedtime.
Go to YOUR room an hour before retiring
and read until bedtime. Give up smoking
altogether.
If YOU are a smoker, cigar just before
retiring will soothe and tranquiliize your
nerves until you can't keep awake.
Don't think about sleeping; you scare
away slumDer by wooing the drowsy god.
ADDITIONAL REMEDIES.
Resolutely resolve as You lie down. that
You will go to sleep, and sleep Will come
naturally.
Take q warm bath and 60 from the tub
into bed.
Take 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.
Drink milk. This, according to my
experience, is the best prescription in the
lot. 1t will make you sleep better than
all the broTnides going, which are srares
and delusions. But milk diet not only
makes you sleep at night, but you want
to sleep all the next day 1t makes you
intolerably stupid all the time. 1t is a
very pleasant, half awake feeling, If you
have nothing else to do but to enjoy fall
ing asleep at any time and in all manner
of places, like Colville in the best told
story of these times, "Indian Summer
but if you have any Work to do 1t Is en-
barrassinG.)
Count up to 100. q tried this inhuman
bit of idiocy one night. | came very neal
falling asleep two or three times, but was
started wide awake by suddenly becoming
conscious that had lost my count, and
rad to begin over again. This cure KEPT
me awake one whole night, while ! was
so Sleepy could scarcely hold my eye.
open. The friend who gave me this pre-
scription is not living now. She was
J woman, and could not, as n gentleman
offer her violence So ! dosed box O
narshmallows with Rough On Rats ant
sent them to herr
WHAT IS TO BE DONE9
] So, what is a sleepless man who want
1 | to sleep going 10 do' If be eats Sigh
: luncheon, smokes a mild cigar, read Bun
ner an hour. walks mile in the air
e comes back and walks another mile abor
: his room, takes q sponge bath, cold, fol
\ lowed by tub bath. warm. drinks pin
t of milk, jumps into bed and lies on bot
sides, with his head on one arm and on
r hand, and counts thousand, il will b
S time to get up, anyhow, and he can hav
Q few nervous fits during the day.
r 1t is a fact, however, that even me-
: who think they suffer from sleeplessues
do not lie awake half so long as they iHl
9 agine they do. When man says TO me
: II did not close my eyes once all night.
Q I know he lies. Not Intentionally, G
. course; he thinks he was awake all night
g the probability is that ne did not &c: /
( sleep until two hours after his reeula
s time. and it seemed an age 20 hin
s Really, it isn't often that n man lie
d awake the whole night through. I am nc
: physician. and cannot speak by tn
e book, but / believe that men tb ahou
n their restless nights more than any othe
o i'll to which our weak humanity is heii
8 Now take your own case; you rerneulbe
e the last time you lay awake al night
don't your Yes, / see you do. Wei
don't you remember that same night 20
heard the clock strike 9, and then th
next time you heard it il struck ~ fes
l see YOU do Well, that's one If n
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