Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-07-18
SLEEP MADE TO ORDER.
Proper Behavior when the Eyes Are
Closed Insures Complete Repose

We seem TO have an epidemic Of
sads rs sften as we do of the grip, and
ii breaks out at about the same season.
says tho N. Y. Recorder. The latest
Thing in fads is the education of sleep.
1t is u Boston woman who has evolved
the system. Even Bostou girls have
not until now carried education be-
yond the realm of consciousness.
The apostle Of this new creed is
Miss Alice Call. and she has come to
New York with the idea OF expound-
ing her theories.
Miss Call starts ont with the astound.
ing statement that not more than one
human being in hundred knows how
10 Sleep and this hundredth wise per-
son is baby. She points 10 the aban-
don OF the domestic cat or dog while
1t slumbers, to the peaceful expression
of the tired cart-horse as he stands
mapping by the curbstone. and she
says. Now you never see human be-
Ing sleep like that" Miss Call then
proceeds to describe the various poses
aud attitudes that render sleep unrest
full. She says it Is sort of instinct
i've egotism" that makes people try TO
look after themselves during the hours
of sleep. They have not sufficient
faith in the bed TO relax the muscle,
apd trust to its soft aud willing sup.
port.
They cling to il as il the mattress,
with some sudden aud malicious inn
pulse, might toss them on the floor.
aHd they dig their heads down into
the pillow rs il there was danger of a
sudden insurrection among the feath-
ers They clutch the bedclothes, brace
themselves. clasp their knees, ciinca
their hands, set their teeth, and wrig-
gle and writhe as If the surface OF the
bed were an angry sea in which they
were about 10 drown: ia fact, waking
becomes relaxation from the tension
OF sleeping.
Miss Call has theory so exhaustive
and lengthy that it is only possible to
give a summary.
First of all, you must stop wasting
your energy. Save your strength
that the soul may act. Don't grip aud
clutch So much. When you carry a
mutr don't clinch your hands within it.
and il you hold a book don't do it as il
steam engine were trying to pull it
away from you. When you ride in a
street car don't stilfen the muscles Of
your neck so. Your head won't fall
of; it can't"
Proceeding in her discourse Miss
Call touches one of woman's weakest
points by saying that all this labor
during sleep has tendency to produce
a look of care and induce wrinkles.
1T is of little use" she SAYS. ito plas-
ter your face with creams aud cerates
when you go TO bed. and then screw
your features into grimace Of agony
and keep them so all night"
Now all this may be conquered by
cultivating n spirit of independence
among the members of your body.
Teach them that they are detacbments
and not corporations, and that such OF
them as are not wanted shall keep
still. For instance. if you wish to do
something with the fourth finger OF
your left hand use it as If you hadn't
another finger in stock.
mo matter how small you are al
ways think of yourself rs colossal.
This feeling reacts upon the mind and
you become as biz as you think you
are" The object Of all this is to bring
the body so completely under subjec.
ton 10 the mind that even in sleep the
mind retains its mastery. Before re-
tiriug you are TO relax all the muscles.
Conceive of the arms Is dead weights
and lift them up aud down by means
OF the shoulders. Consider your legs
pendulums and let them swing like
inert thugs. When you have com.
lleted the process of LIBERALIZATION
that il. when YOU are all dead except
your miud-go into bed; sit upright,
conceive of your back bone as a strand
of beads and let yourself down until
the uulimbered head falls upon the pill.
low. Let the arms fall helplessly.
Giyost the whole body of its response
bility. which the bed has assumed.
II you follow these instructions prop
erly Miss Call assures you that you
will go IN sleep at once and sleep all
night. Il YOU lie awake. then your
lesson has not been properly learned.
A part OF the teaching consists in
training the pupils to 60 to sleep at
the word of command. Ii is claimed
that one can be trained 10 lie down
and instantly fall asleep. and this
sleep may continue exactly as long As
the sleeper wills-a fact. IL u fact.
which is Of interest to mothers Of large
families. or 10 nurses in orphan asy-
lums. where One, two. three. sleepw
might. if serviceab,e, prove con-
yenicnt admonition.