The Press., 1889-05-23
tBurdette in Brooklyn Eagle.) REMARKS ON SLEEP,

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 REMARKS ON SLEEP. The siesta is the short sleep after din- ner, and fifteen minutes worth of 1t IS one of the best daily investments of time busy man or woman can make. When you haven't time to take siesta 1t IS about time you went off and died some where. Slumber is the light sleep, varied by startling facial contortions and sudden spasmodic motions of the limbs, accompa- nied by compulsory silence all over the house, which is tie rest of infants. In somina is sleeping wide awake in state of irritable imbecility. It is the common lot of actresses and literary people who are in need of rest or advertising. map is the passing rest of school teacher who is just far enough 'sgone" to appear de- ceitful, and wide enough awake to catch the smart boy who thinks that all things are what they seem. A "doze" is the hid eous sleep of a man who goes to sleep with his eyes wide open while you are talking to him, fixing upon you glassy stare that curdles your blood and makes you forget what you were trying to say. Then he wakes up and says, idioslcaliy l: "Yes, yes; just SO; served him qulfe right; and then ?" To ''just drop off for second" is the term applied by the of- fender to the act of going sound asleep in church with ones head hanging over the back of the pew, the mouth wide open and the operator snoring like house afire un- til the deacon hits him on the head with a collection basket, or the choir rises to sing the last hymn. "Nodding" in church is sleeping clear through the entire sermon, but without snoring, and with head bowed on the back of the pew in front, as though in prayer. Nobody in the whole church, by the way, thinks it remotely resembles the attitude of prayer except the person who is ssnodding." To jam yourself up against your fathers back, kick him black and blue from whithers to hook, crowd him out of bed twice or thrice during the night, and to lie habitually across the middle of the bed, is the ''sound sleep" of boyhood. To make terrific noises with the nose all night long, while lying like log in one position, is the ''sweet sleep" of the laboring man, who never gives his nose holiday. To punctuate one's slumber by sudden blood curdling yells in the middle of the night is called 'ssleeping" by people national drink called pie for night cap ljust before going to sleep. To lose sound of the voice of the person addressing you, to have the room pass in misty blur be- fore your eyes, and to sink into utter oblivion for about ten minutes, is called syawning" by very polite people. To fall off the chair and rouse yourself by knock ing your head against corner of andirons is what some people call just "closing the eyes," ''To feel little drowsy' is the term applied to his condition by the mar who sleeps seven stations past the place where he wants to g. off. If he doesn'i wake till some time the next day he admits that he was sssleepy." To fold the hands upon the breast, nestle the head instl ( folds of a snowy pillow, straighten the shapely limbs and arrange the figure gracefully, with lightly closed eyes to pass the night in mist of pleasant dreams anc entrancing visions, with an accompani ment of soft, regular breathing, scarce aud ible to people in the next block, is to sleeI like a christian, as I do. Strictly Hu.iness. !, What is the Swift Specific Company? Wht compose the organization Is it @ clap-trar patent medicine humbug, gotten up to de ceive and make money out of the people These questions we think are answered by thu officials and citizens of our city and state.
 ATLANTA, GA. Nov. 1O 1888. We know the gentlemen composing tn, Swift Specific Company. They are promi nent citizens of our state, men of high charac ter and standing.
 w. A. HEMPH1LL, Pres. Capital City Bank J. H. PORTER, Pres. Merchants Bank ] PAUL RUMARE, Vice-Pres. Atlanta Nat Bank ) L. J. HILL, Pres. Gate City Nat Bank
 JNo. B. GORDON, Governor of Georgia.
 ALFRED Fl. CoLoU1Tr, U. s. Senator.
 J. r. COOPER, Mayor of Atlanta.
 H. W. GRADY, Editor Atlanta Constitution THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
 I think Swift's Specific is the best blood remedy in the world. I have known it te make some wonderful cures of patients who were considered incurable.
 D. M. GRAYsoN, Crowville La. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co.,, Drawer 3, At lanta, Ga.