Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-03
HOW TO SLEEP IN HOT WEATHER.
New York Sun.]

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In these hot nights even some of the
persons who have no unphilosophical
quarrel with the weather may find 1t a
little harder than usual to fall asleep,
and the unfortunate souls who have an
especial gift for lying awake are forced
to kick and roll more than usual. What
is a poor devil to do who can't sleep
Slumber- charming drugs are out of the
question. TO become dependent upon
them is worse than to be a hanger-on of
insomnia The mechanical tricks of re-
peating poetry, or the multiplication
table or nursery rhymes are not likely
to work save with beginners. The
nerves are not to be fooled often by
such palpable devices. Hot milk. hot
baths are old stories to the practised in
somniac; and who wants them at this
time of year? Light. late suppers, beer
and so on are usually only more burden
for a mutinous stomach.
Get up and take exercise say SYM
pathizing friends. Now who is going to
get up on hot night and swing Indian
clubs, pull weights or even do gentle
stunts without apparatus? Muscular
| relaxation and n mind emptled of
thought are the preliminary requisites,
says DIR. j. L. Mitchell in Harper's
! Bazaar. Muscular relaxation. Well. that
| shows you the folly of exercise. But
/ how ia tbs. laxness to be obtained? Var
lious authorities tell You that You must
l.become absolutely limp. Embrace Your
lscif. become aa soft as soap so as to
\ offer no resistance, to be in the receptive
lmood when sleep may be pleased to
call But you are in the receptive mood.
| 1t is not you but sleep that is coy. And
! there seems TO be some hint of witch
/ craft or Christian science in this recipe.
| Lie awake for a few hours and You are
lax and limp enough, but no more SOM
nolent than before
Then how IS the mind to be "emptied
of thought There again is a sort Of
magical process for an impossbility.
/ How is the mind to be emptied of
thought by filling it with the thought
4 that it must be enptied? You can
think yourself into nervousness by try
ing 70 think thought OUT of Your thinker
but you viii not fiji youaelf With sleep
By trying the emptying remedy SieeT
lis an eccentric humorist. He likes his
little joke. He lkes 10 surprise you in
Iohu:eli. OF IN the elevaled car jus; be
a fore You come 10 the station, or in your
little bed just hefor, YOU must get W
\ to take n train and afie: You have beer
loailee You VIII get nothing out Of tbs
rascal by form ard Srdesy proceedings
Let himGsee that you are fellow after
his own heart and can b. a. whimsical
aa he Let there be no cock on watch
in the roam Then YOU Wort have e
eet III, 10 see What time ii is II yot
smoke. smoke cigar in bed. Il Is al
, infallible means of inducing sleep fo
II s,tre people There are many eXeeiteIi
, fire insurance companies: and shouls
anything happen, You would neSe; wax
iup. This is serious advice There. ia y
other remedy for sleeplessnes' TIM
equals the smoking ~ cigar in bee
!, II you mus; read either the fire, or sec
! ond volume Of the Hon Ganallel Brad
lords masterpiece Will sei5ve your turn
! But II isn't always necessary 70 read
! Think of the Hon, Edwin MARKHAM
!, reading raptly and forever The Ma
!, With the Hoe" Perhaps that Is as ilea
!. Il, emptying the mind as II is safe
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