Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24

vv,1-nn two.oo three-ee, fo-our. and so
on" A..
'Trn 70 twenty-five" interrupted the
western woman. Eyes, know all ABOUT
that and know n still better plan. You
inhale and exhale the same way, put
instead of counting straight ahead' you
go this way: One, one, two; one t"o'
three; one two, three, four, and so on.
That will always put you 10 sleep-u 20"
are sleenv enough. What ] want is some
thing that would make the p'S'u4SS ""
the walls doze off,"
"Well have you tried hot footbathsG.
eyes. hot ones. that blistered my joints,
and. in addition 10 that, cold ones that
chilled nv very marrow. AND I've even
tried nutting one foot IN hot bath ana
the other in a. cold one at the same time
I didn't know, but I might happen on the
very thing / wanted; but 1t didn't nave
any effect except to give me ci'iiiS "''1
fever next day"
Mrs Gotham looked downcast
1--WE tried everything that ANYBODY
rrroested. resumed the western woman
YEARLY. 'and nothing does any good. DO
these things ever do any good? Did you
ever hear of anybody's putting himseir
10 sleep by any of these tricks? L oelieVe
people who can't. sleep lie awake MAKING
them I'D. and. 7 must say, some OF lheAi
are fairly diabolical For instance. some
ono Of an ingenously cruel turn OF mind
told me that must elevate my feet Nigh
err than my head II I wanted TO 90 70
sleep. I took the suggestion IN goou
faith. and that night / put my pillow
under my feet instead OF In It's CUSTOMARY
nosition. Well. after l had stood on my
bcad for an hour or two ] did go TO
sleen M last. But such sleepl l dreamed
that a big green dog was sitting on my
chest and bowling alternately IN one OF
nv ears and then in the other
oT don't suppose you did find that plea
sant" said Mrs. Gotham sympathetically.
"No. but I found It pleasanter than l
did nv next experience. You see. toiu
the woman who had suggested the plan
what I thought Of II and Of her; and II
vou'u believe me. was goose enough 70
let her bambooZle me again. she toid
me that ! ought TO have left the pillow
under my head, and then have put my
feet on something good deal higher.
Well. I thought that, maybe the iauit
had been mine AZ any RATE W.
willing to make another trial 80 that
right when I went 10 bed, I cast about
in nv mind for something to put my feet
on. had only one extra pillow so
that would not be enough. There wasn't
n hassock I'm the room; so ] concluded
10 pile I'D a lot of books In the foot OF
the he'd and put the extra pillow on top
Of them. and my feet on top Of tho COM
How ingeniousw said Mrs. Gotham.
"Did IL work?'
well, not any TO speak Of. ! did most
Of the work. AS often az the books
toppled over-which was pretty often-I
piled them up and got myself into sleep
IN
sleep. I didn't have a chance 10. But
n wasn't monotonous. 1t was too ex-
citing in fact; and, finally. l concluded
70 abandon nv library attachment and
fry the footboard This wasn't easy, be-
cause Il necesSitated my hanging the
clothes over the foot OF the bed, instead
Of tucking them in.
'I will say this for myself" continued
the western woman, after a pause, l
thought II would happen. When | got
back into bed. and gingerly drew the
covers up as far as / dared. felt moral
w certain that they would never stay
where thew belonged. And they didn't
tbev didn'ti 1 think I had worn myself
out the early part OF tne hlght tahlIls
cora ~ nv circulating library. At any
rote whether II was from sheer exhaus-
zion mr. not. I fell asleep with my feet
I'm on the footboard l suffered various
t1-tures without waking up entirely; but.
fnallv when 7 dreamed that my feet
were frozen tight in an Arctic Iceberg,
ord nv head was being rapidly buried
10 q sahara sand-storm. IL seemed to be
high time for me TO get back to my pro-
ner senses. did; and It was just in
the nick OF time to escape dying the deaf
of Desdemona. The covers, or cours-
had stealthily crept down from the noun
tain-top OF my toes and settled In drifts
In the valley where my head lay"
"what a breezy way you have OF put
ting thingsr' said Mrs. Gotham.
"no Won think so? That comes OF
living in Oshkosh. We have cyclones
out our way. and we get into the habit
Of being breezy. But anyway, my ex-
nerience in trying TO sleep has been
enough 10 wake any one up. Therel
didn't mean that literally. but II Is
true tust the same. / remember another
,nsthod I was advised to try: II was to
lie fat on my back. with my arms down
M INV sides, then bend my feet slowly
yard and downward from the ankles.
was 10 bend them as far as I possibly
Gould ana inhale and exhale as did IT,"
.sWas the plan successr'
ooh. glowing successi But In the
wrong direction. II produced the most
excruclsting cramps In the soes Of my
faat and the calves OF my legs, so that I
didn't get 10 sleep until morning. But, OF
course there's no telling how II would
have worked II hadn't had those