The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-29
TRICKS TO woo SLUMBER.
SURE CURES FOR INSOMNIA TRED
ny THE WESTERN WOMAN.
As Many of Them as There Are Ways
of Curing a COId--An Imitation
Rain storm the Only Thing That
Promised Success, But the Neigh
Ianrs IntnrfnroH
FROM the New York Sun.

bors Interfered.
From the New York Sun.
The western woman looked tagged and
worn. She not only looked il, but she was
it, and she gave her friend. Mrs. Gotham,
to understand that unless something hap
pened. and happened soon. something else
would be sure to happen. and she knew i'll
Mrs. Gotham said she understood perfect
ly. 1t was too bad she agreed, and she Of
fered the western woman the address of a
3'lady physician" who was splendid.
1T amt a physician / need" said the
western woman YEARLY; its sleep. If
could sleep the way l used to in Oshkosh,
I'D be as good as new. But I can't. lie
awake hours and hours, and, as 1 said, if
something doesn't happen, l don't know
what's going TO become of meY'
II know" said Mrs. Gotham briskly.
you're going to have nervous prostration,
and thatn run into melancho and then
you'll commit suicide. That's what will be-
come of you"
The western woman gasped.
rs this one of the programmes which
are subject to changer" she asked with a
quizzical smile. "You seem TO be so wen
informed"
"Change? OF course you can change IT.!
All you need to do is to drink glass of hot
milk before you go to bed. You'll sleep like
a baby"
The western woman made a gesture of
protest.
But 1 can't drink milk" she said. ut
disagrees with me. and would keep me
awake if 1 were fairly dead sleepy"
"Oh!' said Mrs. Gotham. She was taken
aback, but IL was only for a moment
Well" she SAID, have you tried count
ing?"
Have l tried countngY' she said. "wun-
t-three-fr-five-why I've counted millions
and the more counted the wider awake
Soh, but you mustn't count fast like
that You must go s-l-o-w-l-y."
II know! | know Wunna,m,,twoooo-
black in the face
"And il didn't do any good? Well I
see you are an obstinate case. What you
need is to count this way, inhaling aud oX-
haling slowly on the same count: Wu-nn,
Jwo-Oo, three-ee, to-our, and so on
up to twenty-five" interrupted the
western woman. Eyes, ] know all about
that and l know still better plan. You
inhale and exhale the same way but IN
stead of counting straight ahead, you go
This way: one one, two; one, two, three
one, two. three, four and 80 on. That
viii always put you to sleep-if you are
sleepy enough What want is somethng
that would make the pictures on the waits
We'll. have you tried hot foot baths?"
Yes hot ones, that blistered my joints
and in addition to that, cold ones thal
chilled my very marrow. And I'VE even
tried putting one foot 10 a hot bath ana
the other in a cold one at the same tlhe.
1 didn't know but might happen on tne
very thing wanted; but 1t d.dn nave aug
effect except to give me ch4lls anu lever
next day"
Mrs. Gotham looked downcast;
1--WE tried everything that anybody SUE
gested," resumed the western W woi'l ~
YEARLY, land nothing does any good; DO
these things ever do any goodE Dlu YOU
ever hear of anybodys putting hinseH 20
sleep by any of these tricksY peneV@
neople who can't sleep lie awake making
them up and, / must say some OF them
are fairly diaboliCal. For instance, some
one of an ingeniously cruel turn or mlnu
fold me that must elevate my feet high
or than my head If / wanted TO go 20 sleep;
took the suggestion in good iallh, anu
that night put my pillow uhuer my ,, teS
instead Of in its customary position. Nell,
after | had stood on my mead Tor an hout
or two ] did go to sleep al last. But sucn
sleeDi / dreamed that DIG green no5
was sitting on my chest aud bowling al
ternately IN one of my ears ana theh IN
ny @I don't don't suppose you did find that pleas
anti said Mrs Gotham sympathetlealiy;
mo hut / found It pieasanter than dlu
nv next experience. You see, tod me
Wonan who had suggested the plan VIVA I
I Thought OF II ana o. nNis anu - -
believe me, l was goose enough to let her
bambooz.e me again. que toiu ny ti s :
/ ought to have put my feet on soinetnnB
a good deal higher. Wen l tnought .i n,,
rate. | was willing to make another ira !;
So that night, when / went 70 bed ! cast
about i'm my mind for something 70 put
my feet on. / had only one extra pillow,
80 that would not be enough. There
wasn't a hassock in the room, so conciud :
ed 10 pile up a lot of books Ia the loot OF
them, and my feet on top of the combina-
ton
How ingeniousr' said Mrs. Gotham.
"D.d 1t work.
"Weil. not any to speak OF; ! Qua most
pied over-which was pretty otten-l piled
them up and got myself into sleeping or
der again. OF course l didn't steep. !
didn't have a chance to. But IL wasn't
HOMOGENEOUS. 1t was too exciting in fact,
and finally / concluded TO abandon my
library attachment and try the footboard.
This wasn't easy because II necessitated
INV hanging the clothes over the foot OF the
bed instead of tucking them IN.
II will say this for myself" continued
the western woman after pause ~
back into bed and gingerly drew the COW
ers up as far as / dared. felt morally
certain that they would never stay where
they belonged. And they d!dn't-they
didn't l think had worn myself out the
early part of the night taking care of my
circulating library. AT any rate, whether
n was from sheer exhaustion or not | fell
asleep with my feet up on the footboard.
/ suffered various fortunes without wax
ing up entirely, but, finally, when dream
ed that my feet we're frozen tight in an
Arctic iceberg and my head was being
rapidly buried by Sahara sand storm il
seemed to be high time for me to get back
TO my proper senses. / did, and Il was
lust In the nick of time to escape dying
the death Of Desdemona. The covers, OF
course, had stealthily crept down from the
mountain top Of my toes and settled In
drifts in the valley where my head Law"
What a breezy way you have of putting
things!" said Mrs. Gotham.
do you think so2 That comes Of living
in Oshkosh. We have cyclones out our
way, and we get into the habit OF being
breezy. But anyway, my experience In
trying to sleep has been enough TO wake
any one up. Therei ] didn't mean that
literally, but II is true just the same
remember another method was advised
10 try 1t was 20 lie fiat on my back. with
my arms down at my sides, then bend
my feet slowly upward and downward
from the ankles. i was to bend them as
far as I possibly could and inhale and
eNhale as did IT,"
WAS the plan a success?'
"Oh, a glowing success. But In the
wrong direction. II produced the most
excruciating cramps IN the soles OF my
feet and the calves OF my legs, so that
didn't get 10 sleep until morning But
Of course. there's no telling how N would
have worked ~ / hadn't had thOee era fnna