The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-03-09
What Dreams May Come.

In a recent lecture at the Royal
Institution, DR.. b. w. Richardson
says that the sleep of health is
dreamless. Dreams says Shakes
peare, "aTe children OF an idle BRAIN"
II both the doctor and the poet are
right it follows that idle brains are
unhealthy brains. No doubt there
might be truth in the inference, but
that is not quite the point. Are all
dreams signs Of diseased condition.
To this the doctor says "No." He
divides dreams into two classes:
those started by noises or other
causes outside the sleeper and those
produced BY pain, fever, or indiges-
ton.
Here we inject fact. We receive
multitudes OF letters containing this
affirmation, almost in identical
words: ~ tgds worse tired a., the morn
ing than when went TO bed" To this
the doctor has an answer. He says,
"When We feel wedried in the morning
very likely Il rsults from dreams that
we have forgotten" Quite so.
In other words there is a bodily
condition which may prevent a per
son from working by day at his usual
calling, but obliges him to labor all
night under . mental stimulus OF
which he knows nothing save by its
resulting exhaustion. These I'M
happy wretches toll harder, there
fore, for no compensation, when they
are i'll, than they have to do 10 earn
q living when they are we'll. What
an internal and frightiul fact! And
this too without taking into account
their physical suffering at all times.
might" said Coleridge, lis my hell"
From one Of the letters referred
to we quote what q woman says Of
her daughter: "She soas worse tired
in morning than When she Went TO
bed" Poor girl. Those forgotten
dreams" had tossed her about as a
ship is tossed in a tempest. Night
was her day Of labor.
The mothers simple tale is this:
"In June, 1890, my daughter Ann
Elizabeth became low, weak, and
fretful, and complained of pain in
the chest after eating. Next her
stomach was so irritable that she
vomited all the food she took. 1t
was awful to see her heave and
strain. For three weeks nothing
passed through her stomach except
little soda water and lime water.
Later on, her feet and legs began to
swell and puff from dropsy. She
was now pale as death and looked
as though she had not a drop OF
blood in her body, and was always
cold. Month after month dragged
by and she got weaker every day.
She could not walk without sup
port, for she had lost the proper
use OF her legs, and her body sway
ed from side to side as she moved.
"a doctor attended her for twelve
months, and finally said it was no
use giving her any more medicine, as
it would do no good. In May, 1891,
l took her to the Dewsbury Infirm-
airy. She got no better there, and
thought / was surely going to lose
her. She was then thirteen years OF
age.
"One day a lady (Mrs. Lightoller)
called at my shop and seeing how
bad my daughter was, spoke OF a
medicine called Mother Seigels Gu.
rative Syrup, and persuaded US to
try it. ! got a bottle from the
Thornhill Lees Cooperative Stores,
and she began taking it. In two
days she found a little relief; the
sickness was not so frequent. She
kept on with the Syrup and steadily
improved. Soon she was strong as
ever, and has since been in the best
Of health and can take any kind OF
food. After she has taken the Syrup
only two weeks the neighbors were
surprised at her improved appear,
ance and l told them what had
brought it about-that Siegefs Syrup
had done what the doctors could
not do, it saved her life. Yours
truly, (Signed), (Mrs,) SARAH AM
SHEARD, 10 Brewery Lane, Thorn
hill Lees, near Dewsbury, October
llth, 1892"
The melting cause OF all THU
young girls pitiful suffering was in