The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-01-08


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keep YOUR BLOOD CLEAN
Remark the 9th: Let all insonnists
know for their consolation that some peo-
pie sleep more rapidly than others. a.
much In one hour AZ, others do In two,
and hence do not require as long q time
In Inconsistencies. In a book on the
subject Of health years ago saw this
fact stated by'a celebrated medical SCI
enlist: Some people do everything quick:
they eat quick, they walk quick, they
think quick, and Of course they sleep
quick. An express train can 90 as far in
80 minutes as a way train in 60 minutes.
People Of rapid Compartments ought not
to expect a whole night to do the work
Of recuperation which slow Compartments
require. Instead Of making II matter
Of irritation and alarm be a Christian
philosopher and set down this abbrevia-
-tion of somnolence as matter Of tenn
permanent. An antelope ought not to
complain because It was not an OK nor
an eagle because 1t can 60 faster than a
barnyard fowl
Remark the sixth: The aged insomnists
should understand that II their eyes are
held waking they do not require as much
sleep as once they did. Solomon, who in
knowledge was thousands of years ahead
of his time, in bis wondrous description
of old age recognizes this fact. He not
only speaks of the difficulty Of mastica-
ton on the part Of the aged when he
says, 1.-THE grinders cease because they
are few" and of the oetogenarian's eau
ton in getting up a.ladder or standing on
q scaffolding. saying, "They shall be
afraid Of that which Is high" and speaks
of the whiteness of the hair by c0rnpar-
Ing it to tree that has white blossoms,
saying, 'The almond tree shall flourish"
and speaks of the spinal cord, which is of
the color of silver and which relaxes in
old age, giving the tremor to the head,
saying, "The silver cord be loosed." But
he says Of the aged, HE shall rise up at
the voice Of the bird"-that is. about half
past 4 in the summer time, an nppro-
pirate hour for the bird to rise, for he
goes to his nest or bough at half past
in the evening. But the human mechan-
ism has been SO arranged that after it
has been running a good while change
takes place, and instead of the almost
perpetual sleep Of the babe and the nine
hours requisite In midlife six hours will
do for the aged, and 'he shall rise up at
the voice of the bird" Let all aged men
and women remember that they have
been permitted to do great deal Of
sleeping In their time and that il they do
not sleep so well now as they used to it Is
because they do not require so much
sleep.
Insomnia q Warming.
Remark the seventh: Insomnia is prob
ably a warning that you had better mod
crate your work. Most of those engaged
In employments that pull on nerve anu
brain are tempted to omit necessary rest.
and sleeplessness calls halt. Even their
pleasuring turns to work. as Sir Joshua
Reynolds, the great painter, taking q
walk with q friend, met sunbrowned
peasant boy and said, II must go home
and deepen the coloring Of my infant
Hercules" The sunbrowned boy suggest
ed an improvement in great picture.
By the time most people have reached
midlife, II they have behaved well, more
doors Of opportunity open before them
than they ought to enter. Power to de-
cline, power to say NO." they should
now cultivate. When a man is deter
mined to be useful and satan cannot dis
suade him from that course, the great de- /
ceiver induces him to overwork and in
that way get rid of him. We have Their
mometers to tell the heat and barometers |
to tell the air, and ometers hung In en- |
CINE rooms to tell the pressure of steam, |
and ometers to gauge and measure almost |
everything. Would that some genius /!
would invent an ometer which, being |
hung around the neck and dropped over |,
heart and lung, would by the pulsation
and respiration tell whether one is under !
too great pressure or might carry more.
All brain workers would want such an |
ometer and want I right away. For the
lack Of it how many are Dying and how |
many have died of overwork? A promi- |
nent fnancier who recently departed this !,
life was an officer in over a hundred |
financial and charitable institutions. !
Thousands of editors, of lawyers, Of ply
sicans, of merchants, of clergymen are
now dying of overwork. Do not be in the
board Of directors of more than three
banks and two trust companies and five
life and fire insurance establishments.
Do not as pastor preach more than three
sermons Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath school and conduct Bible
class the same day. Do not edit paper
and write for three magazines and go to
four public dinners where you will be
called on to make speech more than
four times a week. Do not 60 SO deep
into the real estate business that before
spring all the real estate you will really
possess will be piece Of ground about
six feet long and three feet wide. Your
insomnia is the voice of nature, the voice
of God. saying, Better slow up!" Stop
that long. swift train, the wheels Of
which are taking FIRE from the velocity
and smoking with the hot box. Do not
burn the candle at both ends. Do not UNI
der too many burdens sweat like camel
trudging from Aleppo to Damascus. Do
not commit suicide.
Remark the eighth All the victims of
insomnia ought to be consoled with the
fact that they will have a good long sleep
after awhile. Sacred and profane litera-
ture again and again speak Of that last
sleep. God knew that the human race
would be disposed to make great ado
about exit from this world, and SO he in
spires Job and David and Daniel and
John and Paul to call that condition
"slecp." When at Bethany the brother
who was the support Of his sisters after
their father and mother were gone had
himself expired, Christ cried out in re-
gard to him, "He Is not dead, but sleep
eth" Cheering thought to all poor sleep
ers, for that will be pleasant sleep, in
duced by no narcotic, disturbed by no
frightful dream. interrupted by no harsh
sound. Better than any sleep you ever
took. O child Of God, will be the last
sleep. In your other slumbers your home
may be invaded by burglars and your
treasures carried off, but while here and
there. in one case out of millions, the
may disturb the pillow Of