El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-02
The Spectator.

A physician of courtly old-school
manners used to give prescriptions
marked respectively tor early bedtime
and for late bedtime. A discussion
arose the other day between several
friends as to what constituted early
and what late bedtime. Some of the
ladies maintained that 10 o'clock was
the limit between the two, others
thought that early bedtime lasted I'M
til IL, aud few who believed in beau
ty sleep pleaded that early bedtime be-
Gan at 8 and ended at $50 o'clock. So
many people are engaged all day and
the dinner hour is necessarily, in city
life, deferred to so late an hour, that
families do not break up from their
quiet evenings until after 10. Society
pushes it's hours later and later and vO-
taries of fashion come near having no
bedtime at all, says writer in an ex-
change, snatching their rest when
they can between one gay route and
another. The invalid and the aged
person and the child must perforce re-
persons who regulate their lives by
rule and who habituallY rise at
o'clock, 10 is certainly q good bedtime
hour. Brain workers would find their
pose of the couch and the
darkened and silent chamber,
with preferably Opaque curtains
to exclude the light of the moon and
the street lamp alike, at 10 O'Clock.
A long sleep rests the mind ss well as
the body and prepares one for the work
of the next day, whatever it may be.
Far better than an opiate or narcotic
is the habit of seeking the pillow at an
early hour and quietly lying still, clos
ed ewes and relaxed limbs, until with
sleep, &c tly wooed, comes with it's heal
ing touch and softly weaves it's spells
of balm. The good doctor
probably meant by early bedtime any
hour between aud 9:3O O'Clock
and regarded the later period as be-
tween $50 o'clock and midnight.
Growing children can not too careful.
The boy or girl who has lessons to
learn must waken early after good
nights rest, and this is insured by
punctualisy in retiring. Eight O'Clock
is a good bedtime for al young people
under Is and should be insisted upon
byaparents.
A man handed in the foil owing at
this office yesterday aud said he had
used it in his own family and could
vouch for it's efficacy in the case OF
scarlet fever: A cure of smallpox aud
scarlet fever which the Rev. Adiron-
dack Murray claims to be as infallible
as fate is compo-ed of one grain of sui
phste of zinc, one grain of digitalis
commonly known as foxglove) and a
be thoroughly mixed with
two teaspoonfuls of wa
ter and four ounces of wa
ter added. The dose for adults is one
teaspoonful every hour, and for chill
dren smaller doses according to age.
Murray writes: ''The medicine is
harmless and is recommended by the
best schools in Paris. l have cured
my children of scarlet fever and others
of smallpox when the doctors said the
patients must die. Either disease IN.
der this treatment will disappear in Il
hours. If the countries would compe
their physicians to use it, there would
be no need of pesthouses."
An item has been going the round;
among south " estern newspapers to the
effect that bank checks drawn in favor
of the depositor do not require q re
venue stamp. The matter was called
to the attention of the treasury depart
ment, and the following letter was
sent out:
"WeshinRton D. C.,-This Office
is in receipt of a letter ask
ing whether check payable to tn.
order ''of bank" or Ito bearer,
tenderered by.s depositor upon tn
withdrawal of funds to his credit
should be stamped. Any check tender
ed by depositor upon the Withdrawal
of funds to his credit must have {
stamp affixed thereto.-a 2--cen
stamp.
Unexpectedly yours,
''W. B. SCOTT,
Commissioner"
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