The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-11-15
WOOSLEEP UITH 4 PHONOGRIPIl
a Damper on Midn ght Inspirations, Bat
success - % Cure for In-omnia.

A Damper on Midn gnt Inspirations, Bat
success - "a 1ure for In-omnia.
i've a new cure FOR insomnia. said a
busy young sUIeeCn.-there lre a fcw-the
otAer cay. II haven't tiItd DO myself. out
nieLd OF mine has and he says it works
like a charm.
Lire most great inventions. IL was dis
covered quite accidentally. In the hrst
place, | generally hecy pretty late nours.
one has 10, you KNOW. ln my profession.
At any ratc-Wcll. never mind the hours
are late. As have just intinated | take
great interest I'm by profession and
have written Few things along that line.
Well. sir. when l sct fairly into Ded, with
the lights out ana everything favorable
.or sleeI ing. what DO you suppose my old
brain begins 20 dO2
1T begins TO scintillate. on. yes. ii
does. 1t gets right down 70 work. and It
turns out 50 me Of the best ideas along the
line Of surgery that the medical profess
sion has ever heard. But you bet l can I
be hopping up AT \. NJ. and lighting the
gas In order 20 prt these things down on
PAPER. Why Id never get any sleep II /
did. So I try TO FIX the idea in my mind
and hammer II there with about nifty
ways OF thinking OF IL IN the morning
and then l turn over and so to sleep. or
used 10.
well. Of course you anticipate that
Not biz of a. Core, clean gone, II was
dreadful ] tried all sorts OF ways out
of the difficulty, and finally / landed on
the brink OF insomnia m not dead sure
that | wasn't over the brink. II ! lay
there IN he'd and tried 10 impress the idea
so firmly on my mind that ! couldn't pos
sihly forget IL In the morning. rot my
self so wide awake that ! could fairly feel
my eyes popping Then / tried another
plan. | would yet up. light the gas. write
out my inspiration. and then put the gas
ont and WOO sleep again. But II WASH |
any use ] lay awake for hours.
Finally. n brilliant idea struck me.
Said I 10 myself.
III I could just lie there IN the dark
and think my thought and he done with
A. I'd he all rieht, By George. ri do IT,!
III get a phonCgraph and think out loud
when I've any thoughts that are worth
preserving.
81 didn't get around 10 the phon0graph,
however. IL was last spring when I
thought Of IL. and during the summer /
ran down In Jersey to spend Sunday with
a literary chap know down there. Wei.
sir what do you think was the first thing
/ saw In that fellows room. damned up
close 10 his bed as II Il were an animal
ready 10 swallow him. On. of course, you
guess, II was a photograph.
Hello. | said. that a good idea 1
know what you've got that there FOR I'm
/ We let fame and fortune get away from
me because / haven't had one OF those
things handy
We'll the fellow smiled and blew the
dust OH tie cylinder.
Yes. he said. i know That was my
idea. too. when I bought this thing. Id
been doing that Old trick q long time my
self I've lost 4 library full OF master
pieces by not remembering the things
/ thought OF during the night. But | 70
lust tell you that the monograph won
make YOU famous that way. Not hy the
whole ladder But it's a good thing. just
the same. because o cow ism canary
bird Is no sign that II isn't an excellent
COW This plCnC graph hasn't favored mo
with any echoes Of my night thoughts
tut-hold on do you want 60 hear snore
what Is snore2 4 regular titanic. sixty
fathoms- deep breath from the ocean o.
oblivion
IF youll believe me, the fellow got out
a cylinder. put II IN. and turned on the
machine Talk about circumsiantial svi-
dencei II that man had produced watch
ers who had sworn that he never closed
his ewes I'm slsep. that monograph would
have convicted them ali OF perjury. Oh,
with = sish Of envous rapture. TO sleep
the way that man did wher that phono-
craph was taking It's observations. And
he says he does il every nisht - hasn
corfdc 70 thst nrcrocr-rh ,nd he vows
II l- sure cure Tor that form OF in.om-
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