San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-13
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SLEEP.
All Sorts Described by q Humorist Who
Has Tried Them All.

The siesta is the sort of sleep after dinner,
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
to take siesta it is about tire 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. In
somnia 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 map" is the passing rest of a school
teacher who is just far enough gone" to APP
pear decetful, 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 talking to
him, fixing upon you a CLASSY stare that cur
dies your blood and makes you forget what
you were trying to say. Then he wakes up
and says, idiotically: Yes, yes; just so;
served him quite right; and them
To Just drop off for a second" is the term
applied by the offender to the act of going
sound asleep in church with ones head hang
open and the operator snoring like touse
afire until 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
To jam yourself up against your fathers
back, kick him black and blue from withcrS
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 a log in
one position is the 'sweet Sleep of the labor
ing man, who never gives his nose a holiday.
To punctuate ones slmnb2r by sudden blood
curdling yells in the middle of the night is
called sleeping" by people hoquaT llagon
of the New England national drink called pie
for a nightcap just before going to sleep. To
lose sound of the voice of the person address
ing you, to have the room pass in a misty
blur before your eyes, and to sink into utter
oblivion for about ten minutes, is called
''yawning" by very polite people.
10 ran OH Ine CHAIR ana rouse yOuTse!I by
knocking your head against corner of and
irons is what some people call just closing
the eyes" ITO 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. If he doesn't
wake till some time the next day he admits
that he was SLEEPY" To fold the hands
upon the breast, nestle the head in the 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 and enhancing visions,
with an accompaniment of soft, regular
breathing, scarce audible to people on the
next block, is to sleep like Christian, as l
do.-Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.