The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-10-20

But l can sleep" insisted the pa
tent.
That nothing" repeated the doc
tir. s
Nothing! Why | stay awake all
uisht.'
no. you-dcn't,I rejoined the doc
tor "You stay awake part Of the
time andsdream some more Of the time
that you're awake, and betimes you
Sleep soundly."
..Well, you can put it that way if
you want to; what I'm after is some
thing that will make me sleep instead
Of lying awake, and will keep NE from,
dreaming that I'm awake"
You're Ygoing too fast" said the
doctor. '.Ini the. first place how do
YOU know that you need to sleep any
more than yougdc Pilots Of people
sleep too much for their own good"
"I've been accustomed to my seven
straight hours all my life, and T don t
know why should cut down the al
lowance now."
"Some people, " retorted the doctor,
"come in. here and say they've been
accustomed to their three square meals
day all their lives, and they don t
see why they should have dyspepsia
now. There are a lot of possible dan
gers about too much sleep in the way
Of causing certain ailments to say
nothing Of che wear and tear of the
nerves brought about By trying TO
force yourself .to2sleep;more than your
\ nature says, just because you've heard
\ that the normal man spends q third Of
his life in bed. Why, don't you know
that the higher the intellectual rank,
the less sleep man requires I? Goethe
and Humboldt got along with two or
q three hours of sleep day. Napoleon
needed Only four or FIVE hours, and
4 Kant scolded bis pupils for exceeding
that limit. Now, you're intellectual.
"And victim Of INSOMNIA" added
4 the patient.
II once sawa Chinaman I admired"
continued the doctor. "He was wait
ing for train at station consisting
I Of platform set down in the middle
Of nowhere out west. We intellectual
Cancasians fretted AND fumed, but my
Celestial friend merely sat down on
! one side of the edge of barrel, rested
! his feet against the other edge-an un-
comfortable position,lyou will observe
laid his arms on his knees and his
head on his arms, and went off to sleep
! as sweetly as child up there on his
perch. its faculty that civilization.
deprives us of, that Of going to sleep
at any time and in any place. The .
pspuans fall asleep when they've
nothing else to do. So do all sayages.
So do dogs.'
Dogs cen fall asleep a. any moment
during the day interrupted the pa
tient, because they stay awake all
night barking, as you'd know if you
had ever tried TO keep one in a house
in the country"
q when you're growing DID, con-.
q tined the doctor, syou may know that
4 'osT intslie0rffis ali right and peg.
a powers are unimpaired so long % you
say awake it's only when You feel g |
4 constant need Of sleep that the decay
i Vi ine mental faeulties has set in.
Then maybe I'm growing young"
sla the patient. II used to, take |
lsp after dinner. erd nov Idon' = even |
q % that" s. ssl5 ..S & s
A good thing for you,,' said the |
s'etor. "You oughtn't 70 sleep after
j Reals." S,I,
How about she famous i eieats &c !
d Latin countries p
Its all wrong, If doctors wait
s. s. hAs esoagh . case is pretty sure TO |
ssae along THAT will tell them what
zS lug want TO know, It would, Of |
course, be easier to cut people up saa |
q md cut the things We wantto know |
@!he questions arise, but there are |
q Objections TO doing that, and so s. weI We
nave to wait until good fortune injnres
], somebody il the right way So FL |
happened that onoe d man had bis /