St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-22
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SLEEP.
All Sorts and Varieties Described
by q HumOrist Who Has Ap.
Darent1V Tried Them AL

All Sorts and Varieties Described
by q Humorist Who Has Ap.
parently Tried Them All.
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
The iesta is the short sleep after din
ner, and fifteen minutes worth Of it is
one of the best daily investments of
time busy man or woman can make.
When you haven't time t0take siesta,
ii Is about time you went off and died
somewhere. Slumber is the light sleep.
varied by startling facial contortions and
sudden spasmOdic motions of the limbs.
accompanied by compulsory silence
all over the house. which is the rest
of infants. Insomnia is sleeping wide
awake in state of irritable imbecility.
1t is the common lot of actresses and
literary people who are in need of rest
or advertising. A 'nap" is the passing
rest of school teacher who is just far
enough ''gOne' to appear deceitful, and
wide enough awake to catch the smart
boy who thinks that all things are what
they seem. A ''doze" is the hideous
sleep Of man who goes to sleep with
his eyes wide open while you are talk
ing to him, fixing upon you a CLASSY
stare that curdles your blood and
trying to say. Then he wakes up and
says, idiOtically: Eyes, yes; just so;
served him quite right; and then?" To
''just drop Off for second" is the term
applied by the offender to the act OF
going asleep in church with ones head
hanging over the back of the pew, the
mouth wide open and the operator snor-
ing like house afire until the deacon
hits him on the head with collection
basket, or the choir rises to sing the last
hymn. '.Nodding" in church is sleep
ing 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 tn Q
who is .'nodding." To jam yourself up
black and blue from withers 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 posi-
ton is the ''sweet sleep" of the labor
ing man, who never gives his nose a
holiday. To punctuate ones slumber
by sudden blood-curdling yells in the
middle of the night is called sleeping"
by people who quaff tiagOn of the New
England national drink called pie
for nightcap just before going to
sleep. To lose sound of the voice of
the person addressing you; to have the
room pass into a misty blur before your
eyes and to sink into utter oblivion for
about ten minutes is called ''yawning"
by very polite people. To fall off the
chair and rouse yourself by knocking
your head against the corner of andirons
is what some people call just "closing
the eyes," sTo feel little drowsy,"
is the term applied to his condition by
the man who sleeps seven stations past
the place where he wants to get off. II
he doesn't wake until sometime the
next day he admits that he was
''sIeepy." To fold the hands on the
breast, nestle the head in the
folds Of snowy pillow, straighten
the shapely limbs and arrange the figure
gracefully, with lightly closed eyes to
pass the night in mist of pleasant
dreams and enhancing visions, with
an accompaniment of soft. regular
reathing, scarce audible to people on
the next block, is to sleep like Chris
tian, as do.