The evening times., 1898-06-11
DO YOU SLEKP ON .
YOUR LKPT SlDKl
The Proper Position for a
Round-Shouldered Girl.
One of the Secrets of Acauirins a
Graceful. Easy Carr.aEe-Drives
Away Double Chins.

''My doctor says that. 1t isn't what we
do during the day. but the way we sleep
at night that makes us round shoulder
ed." heard a tall. stanning-looking girl
say to her compafifon as they rested af-
ter the dumbbell dfifi at the gymnasium.
You know how dreaafully 1 stopped
when left school a year ago." she went
on. II tried physical culture and rode
horseback and played 1tennis-did every
thing. in fact. that was told would
straighten my shoulders. even to wearing
three different patent braces. but could
not see the least Improvement"
Didn't the braces do any good?'' I
heard her companion ask. II am just
tying pair myself"
She was a slender little thing and not
as fresh looking as the tall girl.
mo. they didn't" replied the other,
land what's more they hurt me dread
fully. / had the back ache all the time 1
wore them. and they plnched my arms.
too. But / want to tell you what my
doctor said. I went to him one day and
just sat down and cried like a baby.
felt sure that they would put me in a
plaster cast or something equally as aw-
full. He didn't. though. but just asked me
l slept"
How you sIept?" exclaimed the slend-
er GIRL showing deal of interest.
Yes. he wanted to know II slept on
downy bed and with a big pillow under
my head. OF couse. 1 did. and when /
told him so he nodded his head and said
he knew 1t. Then he went on to say that
/ would lie with my arms up over my
head or else. when on my side. they would
be in front of me, with the shoulders
thrown forward. that / often would curve
myself up In little roll and go to sleep.
These were the common mistakes, he said.
which most persons made in sleeping
We'll. how on earth are we to sleep.
and on what sort Of beds?' her compan-
ion asked. with very wide open eyes.
''On a hard bed. the narrower the bet
ter. He said to lie on my left side and
put my arm behind me. which naturally
would throw the shoulders back. l did it.
and just see how straight 1 ami she
added. standing up and showing her su-
perb neck and shoulders.
1T wasn't SO very hard. either" she
continued. but was determined to mas
ter the art of sleeping correctly. and I
have. You know Jessie Banks. don't you?
Well. the secret of her fine figure Is that
she has for years slept without pillow
and on a hard mattress scarcely three
feet wide She used to stoop over fright
fully. and her muscles were SO fiabby:
but the hard bed makes them solid, and
lying with the head on the same plane
with the body keeps the chest we'll thrown
out and the shoulders straight. She looks
lovely now In evening dress. There is so
| much expression in a pretty back and
well carried chest
This was ali l heard of their interesting
chat but it gave me SO great curiosity
to learn more about the theory that /
ha off ~
clan whose opinion comes very near be-
ing the law in this country today
ut is quite true" he said. People lie
on besls that are soft and pile so many
| covers over them that the body gains no
ventilation whatever. High pillows throw
| the head forward and interfere with
| healthful breathing. while all sorts Of
| positions are taken with only regard to
| getting easy. A hard bed makes the
| flesh firm. l have known patients to ap-
parentiy reduce their weight twenty or
thirty pounds after sleeping so for sew
eral months. but on being weighed they
would find that no flesh had been lost:
it had simply hardened and lost Its fab
| biness. Sleeping on the back is not
healthful 1t results In a gravitation of
blood to the spinal cord and the lower
| part of the BRAIN. Persons who dream
much and have rne nightmare usually
sleep this way: and. besides. 1t throws
the palate back in such a position as to
cause mouth-breathing, and its accom-
panying snore. A. deal of throat trouble
is caused by this. as the air reaches the
lungs without being purified and moist
| ened by passing through the noes
| Lying on the left side. with the arm
| thrown behind, Is the best position both
for giving a fine figure and in promoting
health. All animals sleep upon the chest.
| as nearly as possible with the back rp
L aud ttaHs lrv,n
right thing to do. 1t will be found that
In taking the position have just advis-
| ed. the throwing the arm behind one
brings the body nearly over on the chest.
'As for sleeping on high Pillows" the
doctor continued. cit Is the easiest thing
in the world to grow dependent upon
them. as they favor cerebal anaemia,
which induces sleep. but IL one wishes to
have a finely expanded chest she must
| dispense with even the smallest pillow. A
soft bed Is enervating; 1t embraces the
body and makes its tissues fiabby which.
| together with heavy covering, interferes
with the circulation and prevents the body
from throwing of impurities. One should
| have the air temperate and the room so
ventilated as to dispense with any but
light covering. 1t is not generally known.
but to sleep on the back makes one very
liable to take cold which Is easily under
stood. as the chest and throat are exposed.
| and l have found the majority Of persons
| with weak lungs and sensitive throats to
be addicted to this position in sleeping"
well. DOCTOR" questioned. docs the
sleeping on hard beds without pillows tend
to give women fine fgures?"
II have never considered 1t from the
point of beauty" he answered with great
dignity. but 1t must certainly do so. as
it is the healthful way. and that always
| means most beautiful. I have noticed that
the women of hot china have f3na fv.
ures and I do not doubt that the Sleep
ing on hard beds for coolness' sake has
much to do with it. had patient not
long ago who was greatly worried over
having a double chin. I learned that she
was accustomed to sleeping on a soft bed
and with high pillow. I persuaded her
to abandon them for a hard, narrow mat
tresS and prifhout further fronhla hor