The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-07

have an infallible rule when want to
wake up early to catch a train or any
thing. The night before am restless
and uneasy, and don't go to sleep for fear
of missing it. / toss around in bed till
1 or o'clock, aud kick holes in the air
with my feet until thoroughly tired out,
when / 90 to sleep and slumber peace
fully till three hours after the train is
gone. Then conclude that u later train
will do just rs we'll. The method works
admirably.
"Why don't you have an alarm clock f''
says some real wise fellow. Well, have I;
but as can sleep through heavy earth
quake shock, a rafting thunder storm, a
full gale at sea, or anything else that's
particularly noisy, somehow the alarm
clock seems inadequate.
My old professor of some ology or other
used to tell me that a man could go to
bed with his mind all made up to wake up
at IA certain hour and he'd do it by un-
conscious cerebration. That sounds
pretty, but / don't think it very
practical. Suppose. dear reader, you
we're to sit up all night reading novel.
II no clock were near you'd have very
little idea whether IL was o'clock in the
morning or or even 4. Well now, and
this is what l asked the professor, il a
man can't tell what time IL is when he's
awake how's he going to do it when
asleepg Is his brain keener when his
body's asleepy
of this sort of ability. IL, or she, is a
young student, healthy, sensible, good
humored and, very evidently, OF an easy
conscience. She used to live near her
college, and when an hour intervened be-
tween lessons would 20 home and go to
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left the class room, she'd be sleeping as
peacefully as baby Ia perfect confidence
that she'd not miss the next lesson.
Suppose that was 1905 A. M. At'10:55
exactly she would awake and have Just
time to smooth down her hair and hustle
over to the next class room rs bright as
a buZzard dollar and as clipper as a
sparrow. When sleeping she kept her
opened watch hanging up in front OF her.
She said that helped. How /! Could she
see the minute hand from her closed eyes?
we'll remember waking up one morn
ing at st. Niklaus, ten miles or SO up the
Visp Or Zermatt Valley, with just two
hours to eat my breakfast and catch the
meant to wake an hour earlier, and of
course didn't. IL was u beautiful, cool
morning. The valley. with its green de-
scending slopes smiled in the sun like
the Woonasquatucketer Thai from Fruit
Hill. The mule-path-the cog. wheel
railroad wasn't then complete ran
sharply down hill ali the way. Behind
lowered the majestic range which swsep
around Zermatt and reach their climax
in the dizzy Matterhorn. / literally ran
down the valley nearly all the way,
steaming like half back" in footba
game. Through Stalden l went a few
minutes past the hour, the country folk
staring AS If they saw "a ghost. "Mein
Gottv they murmured to each other,
mad or English" l caught the train,
after breathless scramble through the
cobble-payed streets of Visp, with the
guard trantically beckoning me- to come
on.
Perhaps some genius will one day In.
vent system which will obviate any
necessity of waking up at all-that is at
any particular time. Then you and /.
and everybody who has been a good Re-
publican ana is untroubied by remor Sc,
can seek our downy couches in blissfui
don't careness whether we wake up at 4
A. NJ. or 10 What an invention that
would be