The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-21
SOME ENEMIES THAT WE LOVE.
Following Out the Biblical Rule In u Very
Wrong Fashion.

Following Out the Biblical Rule In u Very
Wrong Fashion.
There is no end of pretty stuff written
about Cupids and the silken chains with
which he binds us close to do his will.
Love is blind, they say, yet playing the
part Of guide and leader trouble often EN-
sues. We don't need to have this illustrat-
ed, we just know it is so, and then will
ingly accept the fact
What most of us do not know is that
there is another little character who
roams about and holds each one of us
bound hand and foot, who controls us to
such degree that the power of life and
death itself is generally welded by his
apparently innocent little head. His
name is Custom, and he finds but few of
US Wei or strong enough to oppose him
when his requests are baleful. Through
his power to blind us, we sip the sweet
that hurt our ancestors and we in turn
are hurt. We love our greatest enemies.
1t sounds good. to love these enemies,
out 1t IS not, They are not human en-
emles, but only custom, and we ought to
make war upon them and cast them out.
One of the most delightful enemies we
nave hides IN the form of pillow! Pill
lows, soft, downy pillows. We pile them
up ON our dlvans, we make picturesque
heaps of them in corners about Our loung-
ing rooms. They are so ornamental and
IL
are decidedly the proper thing thus used
Ii you want to lean comfortably back and
have cosy chat they are just right
1t is not against the decorative furnish
ing pillow that we have anything to say,
but it is against their use at night. They
Sential part Of the bed. Give me pill
low and IN sleep on the floor We have
all heard this said, and the boaster will
verify his words, but Now, it is I'M
forgivably trite to say that we go to bed
to rest, but though we all know this we
don't all do it, and fact has shown that
much of the restless turning, the fatigued,
tired feeling forgive mel that one has in
the morning comes from the use of pil-
lows.
Sleep utterly fiat, without any pillow.
and see what will happen!
L can hear perfect torrent of defense
for your fayorite enemy, your pillows
perlence Of years, l finally saw light, l
too loved the pillow. l slept with three
always! The truth of the matter is that
to- rest the muscles must relax and to
relax they should be as nearly as posi-
bic free from all Stain, and this is only
attainable when the body is in it's nat
u uini relative position, one part with an
Try an experiment, those of YOU who
ike to lie with your shoulders on the
mattress, your head raised on a pillow.
Stand and then throw your head for
ward, out of line as it is when resting ~
on your enemy at night. How your neck
Will ache in FIVE minutes. Do you ever
wake up with a stiff neck? 1t is the spe
cial gift of your pillow.
BE broad! Exhibit something of the
explorers spirit and try sleeping wholly
without pillows for week. The he'd
should be soft, the mattress thick as
possible and the springs ready to yield
differently to your differently distributed
weight. The bed should hold you on it's
lap, as it were, and you lie upon your
back stretched at full length.
know hundreds of us dream. or arc
dizzy, or wake up the minute we lie on
our backs. l used to do all three, but
now l sleep as l never did before. |
rest more i'll ten minutes of such living
down than in hours where by reason Of
hard mattress, stiff springs or, worse
still, my treacherous friend, the pillow
my muscles are in a strain to meet the
requirements of some utterly unnatural
position.
Little things are truly of immense i'm
portance very often. If you will fight
your pillow and cut its acquaintance at
night your back will be straight, no
round shoulders will appear and Won will
find your figure preserved in many other
respects that will surprise you. Why not
try this! 1t cannot hurt you, and until
you have tested this simplest of rec;nes
for calm, healthful sleeping you have no
excuse for having recourse to doctor or
medicine in order to secure the same.
Try it, but before becoming Discouraged
give it n good long trial. You have slept
to enjoy the change the first night.-Ex-
change