The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-29
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eon NERVOUS PEOPLE.
How to Cultivate Siecp-Hot Foot Baths
and Reading Are Great Aids.

How to Cultivate S1eep--Hot Foot Baths
and Reading Are Great Aids.
Hot foot baths are very serviceable to
cure cold feet and quiet nervousness be-
fore retiring. Nerves and cold feet are
the cause Of much restlessness and the
foundation Of insomnia. The habit Of
going to bed and lying awake is some
thing to be dreaded, An authority on
nervous diseases gives this advice,
When sleep ceases to be matter OF
habit, it should be cultivated. It is a
good plan to read a few pages Of light
book just before bedtime, in order to
compose the mind after the days ex-
element. Poetry Is. good for this. If
there is feeling Of hunger, drink is bet
ter than solid food, but liquors are not
to be thought of--they are too stimulat-
ing.
Have window open, regardless of the
weather, for the supply of fresh air, but
draw the blinds and darken the room.
Electric and gas lamps in the street will
illuminate all the rooms in the neighbor-
ing houses and help to make maniacs Of
the inmates by numbering sleep. These
lamps are public nuisances, and If they
cannot be suppressed thick blue shades
and inside blinds should be provided.
No expense should be spared to invite
sleep, without which health and life
itself must succumb. A good warm
bath of the temperature of 100 degrees,
taken twice week, will be found help
full. A brisk rubbing with coarse
towel should be applied, as it draws the
blood TO the surface of the body and
brings about soothing reaction. This,
with light refreshments, will take the
blood from the head and insure sleep.
-Opiates should not be used until every
thing else has failed: Exercise in the
open air, simple and nutritious diet and
regularity of the bowels should be es-
tablished before consulting physician
regarding the use of opiates. II an
hours walk or physical exercise does not
produce sleepiness, two hours exercise
will.
What Men Like In Women.
What men like best IN the opposite sex Is
chat indefinableS called womanli-
ness which makes up for the lack of beauty
and other attractions But IL takes great
many virtues to make up this womanliness
Men like amiability in woman, they like
pleasant, cheerful face, the courtesy Of the
freside. They like motherliness large
enough to include the wants OF the older as
we'll as the younger boys.
They like sympathy, which means will
ing ear TO q tale of sorrow or OF gladness.
They like intelligence. but they prefer that
her heart should be stronger than her bvain-
They like women whose minds and faces
are always full of the sunshine OF con
tented mind and a cheerful disposition.
They like woman TO possess knowledge
of how to dress well, which doesn't mean
conspicuously. They like q companion
woman who has sufficient knowledge OF
the world and its ways to talk well with
them, who can become interested in their
plans and hopes and can give cheering
word or intelligent and sympathetic hear
ing.
A man shripks from woman who open
ly declares that she hates children and con
siders them bore and nuisance He ex
poets the maternal instinct 20 be present In
all good women, and he Is disappointed Il
he finds no evidence Of its existence.-St
Louis Post pispatch-