Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14

IuDDlng DOWN and warm, clean Deu 10 geL
into after, or cool, clean one, according to
the season. If you fall sleepless in town
these warm nights don't put your taxed
nerves in irons by forcing yourself to lie
still without moving a finger till you sleep,
for you may 60 delirious before Your
nerves are stronger than you, and they may
jump on you some time when you little ex-
pect it. Get out of bed, dress, if the bath
don't make you sleepy, and take walk.
An hour OF pure breeze and gentle motion
Will do more to calm your nerves nd get
them under control than chloral or any
amount of twill power"
1t the trouble lies with digestion,
draught of plain hot soda may set it right,
or laxative, like compound 1icorice pow
der. 1t nourishment is needed, cup of hot
cocoa or chocolate, with coarse cracker or
two, is a good sleeping draught, or a fresh
egg broken and stirred into half cup of
bouillon such as you can buy for 30 cents
bottle, and make with cold water. The
liquid foods, when fresh and good, answer
admirably as nightcaps, with the advantage
OF being easy to take, but they are either
very good or very bad-very good when
perfectly fresh, kept very cold and free
from the slightest change; very dangerous
when change begins The fresh egg beaten in
liquid beef extract with toasted cracker is
much better, when one cannot be sure of the
quality of liquid food Malt foods injure
by creating or adding to the interior fer
ment which causes the mischief, and one
had better get the soporifc influence of malt
liquors by taking a dose of hop tea. Alco-
holic stimulants are safer than malt.
The Mind at Games.
The stock prescriptions for going to sleep
are counting flock of sheep, repeating
poetry, saying the multiplication table or
preaching q sermon, but L have for years
been looking for anyone who was ever sent
to sleep by these means, and have failed to
hear of one. The device which catches the
fag end of one persons mind and furls it
into close reefed sleep will not do for any
one else. / hesitate to mention my own
prescription, which has secured sleep a
thousand nights, to read bright novel five
or ten minutes on going to bed. A dull one
does not hold the mind
But can give an unfailing recipe for
not going to sleep in case of people who use
their brains during the day, and that is to
spend an evening in those diversions so dear
to people whose minds are not much called
upon, word making with shuffled letters,
authors games"-save the mark-and
buried cities" tasks with which the juve-
nile mind delights to tax tagged elders.
There are many who share the repulsion for
these tasks in name of pleasure with me, and
hnd rest massacred by a round game of
cards or Chautauqua lesson evenings more
effectually than by hard days work in of
flee hours. 1 had rather do days work in
day than to play at any of the popular
amusements an evening. Light chat, good
humored and diverting, is the only real rest
for tired mind, but this is an accomplish
ment not taught in children's magazines.
Follow Your Own Bent.
The secret of rest, of health, of happiness
and long life is to follow ones own bent,
under control of right principles What
Injuries is to be given up. But, this aside,
men serve God and the world better by fol-
lowing their natural gifts and tastes than by
any distorted life The world has but half
learned this, and to-day crowds more duties
upon all who aspire to any social place.
Women's clubs and societies squander time
and effort to keep up a thousand petty
organizations, each having hundreds of mott
fcatiOns to be sent out, the annual fuss of
elections and skirmishes over new members
The societies for small benevolences entail
more work for willing members than they
ever begin to do good. The hunting up and
sending off old newspapers and books,
and post card autograph collections, wastes
work and nerves for ends which by no
means recompense the wear and tear of
strength involved. 1 have had this SO
ground into my own experience that for
years, in writing to busy persons, the clos
ing sentence has been, 'No answer needed"
and when some serupulously polite public
person felt obliged to send thanks, etc, 1
did not feel complimented at all.
Newspaper people are the only ones who
know the value of time and nerves, and
their courtesies are brief or taken for
granted, and no one is the worse for 1t. The
people with no interest in life and little to
do may indulge in these benevolent ways of
killing of time, but the moment one finds
real work in the world, their pastime kills
tie person, too.
Taking Life as It Is
Pretending is very hard work save for
natures which are spawn of the Old Ser
pent, snd somehow people find them out by
the hiss. the rattle or the sting. 1t is easier
to be sincere, and tells less on the nerves in
the long run. The most fascinating woman
I have known for long time is one Of the
frankest, and she never wastes herself un-
She has laid out her life for
having the good of it, and refuses to assume
any responsibility which will interfere wiz.
with it. She knows how to take hold of
worries by the handle, not the poker end.
She is q very efficient business woman, but
business done she leaves lesser duties to
those whose work it is. She will not make
her own bed or hang up her own gowns, Cor
she pays some one else to save her these
minor e1ertions.,
She takes time for punctilious toilet, and
to see her come to you as fresh as the morn
ing, sweet as bath and violet powder. well
washed and coiffed hair and becoming
gown can make her, is as reviving IS the
fragrance of a newly opened rost. She
works hard and she rests well, amuses her
self to her taste evenings, and sleeps
soundly. She has had heavy losses, but
bears them well, and reeoups herself admi-
rably by taking the best personal care of
herself; and bright brain repays her by
good spirits, which are delight to all about
her; clear sense, which prompts the right
word and action, and poise which it is not
easy for circumstances to disturb.
Men and women both like her, she is so
sound and sweet, and not afraid to speak
the most unwelcome truths when necessary.
Speaking the truth is an accomplishment
with her, she says it so fully, and yet with
put ill natured sting; you get the good of
It, and yet your feelings are saved all that
IS possible.
You know people put salt with rose leaves
20 keep the scent. SHIRLEY DARE.
Rev. Adam Bakers Cure for Dysentery.
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