Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-16

poor girl cannot have tan bark. sne hi"s
shut herself in her cage and endure
with open eyes. aching brain, and qu'ver
ing nerves.
This changing OF bells on the cars u
another useless noise The brain gets
hammered enough without being nam
mered by sound. And az for this business
OF working in the streets at night, dig
ging up and adjusting water mains, gas
pipes, and what not. II " an interference
with the personal liberty OF man. why
should he be forced TO give UP his sleep
What is Il all for? To satisfy the greco
OF some one. These are all preventapie
| noises. and the fact that they are sucn
adds a double shock.
However, this condition Of extreme
! nervousness in woman is complex con-
! dition, and is due to other things be-
sides noise Most OF II Is due to want
| OF sleep and rest There is more real
| work in the treadmii of pleasure than
there is in the washtub l wish women
! could be made to realize that crime ana
| punishment grow out OF one stem. Many
| OF them devote themselves so entlrely
TO pleasure these days that 1t is actually
criminal To do anything that hurts
one physically is almost criminal. Henry
Ward Beecher was exactly right wheh
he said that It was sin to be SICK Iol
It showed plainly that some law OF
| nature had been violated. Emerson was
quite right when he said: punishment
! Is a fruit that, unsupported, ripens WITHIN
| the flower Of the pleasure which conceal
ed it,
"Women seem to think that there Is
no such thing as toll In pleasure Ihey
| cannot associate the two in their minds.
It is fashionable now to keep very iate
hours. The young girl and the matroh'
| too doesn't think that she has hlied her
mission unless she has late supper III
a fashionable restaurant after the
theatre party, dance, or reception. she
Gets home at 1 O'Clock and more often
after 2, and is in a poor conultioi- W
get to sleep. Finally she drops into
strained. uneasy sleep toward morning,
and wher she should be up getting sun
shine and air. she is lying abed In
languid stupor. About midday she gets
I'M and swaps her breakfast for
luncheon. and in the afternoon starts on
q shopping expedition, or on round Oh
afternoon teas and receptions, ali urea
out and with digestion upset by lrregu-
lar hours and meals She listens 10 ana
INDUCES in inane conversation ana Is
bored almost to a frenzy, Tor there IL
nothing more exhausting than oelhs
bored 1t saps the vitality right up
That night it is the theatre again. VI
n dinner followed by dance, OF pdi'
or something, and on and on she eoes'
never even admitting to herself that II
is very hard work to have what IL caleu
a good time, and growing more nervous
every day. She is strained by me giale
of lights. the music, the dahcihs' anu,
most Of all. by repression by never oelng
able to say what she THINKS Vi iee'a "
be her own natural sell.
.,yvbat are the remedies for this con-
diuon?'
..,rhe secret Of a healthful life" answer
ed DR.. Schrady, lis moderation with
regularity Nature never likes an excess
of work or PLEASURE she likes regularity.
The woman of the period does not set
enough sleep Of the right KIND ApoNe
ALL things she wants more sleep 10 bring
her back TO a normal condition. NotnIus
charges the vitality like sleep, ana
should say that woman needs sleep more
than anything in the world. she se'S
food enough, too much in fact; she over
foods herself. for she eats sweets and
candies between meals. Yes, what she
needs is sleep. You tell woman that she
needs sleep and she says. "Oh, no that
is impossible for / was lying in bed TO-
dav until noon" We do not get good |
sleep when we have 10 breathe in the |
noises of the day.
scientists have found by testing the |
intensity Of sound, that the first two hours /
of sleep are the best. Statistics show |
this If any woman doubts the effect |
OF the want of sleep, she has only TO note
the irritabiity that follows restless
night-a night broken by preventable
noises. If these hundreds Of women
would only deny themselves and get TO
bed at half past o'clock, and up at 7,
they would wonder what had struck
them. This sleep would do them more
good than any medicine in the world.
I'VE say that people can become accus-
toned to noise, so that they can go 10
sleep easily in spite OF 1t. This is true
of noises that are necessary. for nature
gets easily accustomed to what is a ne
cessity. In crossing the ocean the throb-
bling of the engine lulls to sleep those
who hear It, If it stops in midocean at
night every one wakes up. 1t is said
that those fellows who live on light
ship off Cape Cod sometimes have 10
keep the fog-bel ringing for days at a
time. and that il il stops for even a
minute or two, when they are sleeping.
they wake up. This. they know, is
necessary noise. and it does not Jar on
them 1t is the irritating noises, those
sudden, irregular or reasonably unex-
pected sounds that upset the nerves,
and the more we get irritated the worse
we become. We drift into an exaspe-
rated state and feel that we would like
10 have the poultice OF silence for the
arring sounds, that Oliver Wendell
Holmes tells us about. If all of the
people irritated by noises could speak
put at one time, II would be worse than
he clamor around the tower Of Babel.
Each one protests individually, and gene
rally silently, within her own home. She
-epresses her irritation, and this very re-
PRESTON makes II that much worse In
Is effect.
IF all the men and women who are
lriven into a state of extreme nervous
less by preventable noises could come
ogether in one mass-meeting and let |
20 their feelings, the protest would swell
o Heaven. This discipline of tolerance
which culture imposes on us makes il
m the harder on humanity, and this re-
,ression gives horrible strain on the
nervous system"
When asked If asphalt pnvements
would not lessen this nervousness DR..
hrady replied:
"They will doubtless do a great deal
oward II. They are a great boon TO
ne people in the city, especially since
orses are being shod with rubbers. so
hat we do not have the clang OF their ,
oofs on the pavements. But what is
eing gained by the general laying OF
sphalt pavements Is more than made !.
% hy the dreadful changing Of gongs
n the cars. People have been trained