The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-04-09
EAT A GOOD SUPPER.
That Is the True Way to Obtain a
Re freshing Sleep.

Going TO bed with a well-flled
stomach is the essential prerequisite
of refreshing slumher. The eau
tons so often reiterated in old med.
ical Journals against late suppers
were directed chiefly to the bibu-
lous habits of those early times.
When at every late feast the guests
not unseldom drank themselves un>
der the table, Or needed strong as
sistance TO reach their couch, the
canon against such indulgence was
not. uRtimeis, Nature and GEMS
mon sense teach us that a full
stomach isessential to quiet repose.
Every man who has found it diff,
cult to keep awake after hearty
dinner has answered the problem
for himself. There are few Bni.
mails that can be trained TO rest una
til after they are fed.
Man, as he comes into the world,
presents a condition it would be
we'll for him to follow in all lis af.
ter life. The sweetest minstrel ev>
er sent out of paradise cannot sing
newborn child to sleep on an
empty stomach. We have known
reckless nurses to give the little
ones II dose Of paregqric, or sooth-
ing syrup, in place of its cup of
milk when too much troahle to get
the latter, but this is the one alter.
native. The little stomach of the
sleeping child, as it becomes grad
naIly empty, folds on itself plaits !;
two of these make it restless, three
will open its eyes, but by careful
soothing these may be c osed again,
four plaits and the charm is bros
ken-there is no more sleep in
that household until that child has
bell ted. Il seems to us so strange
that with this example before their
eyes flllsgrown men are so slow to
learn the lesson.
The farmer does it for his pig,
who would squeal all night if it
we're not ted at the last moment,
end the groom knows that his horse
sill paw in his stall until he has
had his meal. But when he wishes
to sleep himself he never seems to
think OF it. To sleer, the fulIuess
Of the blood must leave the head,
to digest the eaten food the blood
must come to the stomach. Thus
sleep and digestion are natural all
lies, one helps the other.
Man. iy long practice will train
hims,ltto sleep on an empty stom,
ech, bnt it is more the sleep of ex-
haustion than that of refreshment.
He wakes up after sach a troubled
sleep feeling utterly miserable ans
til he has had Il cup of coffee, or
some other stimulunt, and he has
50 injured the tone OF his stomach
that he has little appetite for break
FAST. Whereas, one who allows
himself to sleep after comiorta>
bic meal awakcs strengthened, and
his appetite has been quickeued by
that preceding indulgence.
The difficulty in the recovery
comes from the fact that we are
such creatures Of our habits that it
is impossible to break away from
them witho' I persistent Efforts. In
this case the man who has eaten
nothing after 6 O'Clock and retires
at IL or II takes to. bed an empty
stomach, upon which the action OF
the CAST ic iuicNs makes him un-
comfortable all the night. If he
props to try our experiment be
will sit down and ca; t0Ierahlv
hearty meal, lie is unaccustomed
to this at that hour and has a sense
of discorn ort with it. lie may
try it once or twice, or even lon err
and then he gives it Up, satisfied
that for himi is a failure.
The ttue course is to begin with
just one or two ,houthfuls the last
thing before eoius. To bed. And
this should BE Fight foot, easily
'ligested. No cake OF pastry should
be tolerated. One mtu'hful of
cold roast beef, c, III lamb, cold
chicken, and a little crust Of bread
will do l'egin with, or, what is
better YET, q spoonful or two OF
coodeused p,ifk (not the sweeteped
that comes in cans in. three times
as much Rlarpl wtter. Into this
cut bali psred peach and two or
three little squares Of bread, the
whole to beooeSiourth one. sixth
OF what wpeid bea light lapch. I