The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-11
ODD PATRONS
 OF SLIPPERS
SOME TURN INTO THEIR BUNKS
 WEARING THEIR EYEGLASSES
Cannot Rest Without Feeling Pres sure of the Nose Bows-one Traveller Puts on Wig When
 He Retires to His Berth.

Philadelphia Ledger.
 PL<man car porter Is authority TOT the statement that many people sleep with their glasses on.
 'They are people who appear to be Tn their right minds, too," he said. when I first made the acquaintance of their | tribe I thought they were crazy, but l have found out better since. The first fei- low ever saw bunk up thus accoutered was a politician who travelled over my road frequently stirring up the voters in the western part of the State. The funny thing about him was that he didn't really need his glasses any more than I did. He seldom wore them in the daytime. and generally read the papers and made notes for his speeches with his glasses dangling from his buttonhole three feet away from his eyes. But ~the minute he got ready for sleep they became indispensable. It bowled me clean over when I bumped into his curtains one night and found him sleeping with the things ion. I did not know 1t was his custom to wear them. thought he had become so tired out with speech-making and hand-shaking and baby kissing that he had temporrily lost his mind and gone to bed with them on by mistake. I was afraid to leave him so, for 1t seemed a dead certainty that if he should roll over in the night he would smash the things to atoms and perhaps put his eyes out. So took the glasses off myself. did It as gently as a summer breeze. but at the first touch the old gen. tleman was wide awake.
 "'Taking off your glasses, sir said I. You went to bed with them on.
 "'Of course I did, said he. I always do. I couldn't sleep without them. Give 'em here.'
 Slept With Glasses and False Teeth.
 Since then have seen lots of other folks who were slaves to the eyeglass habit. The politician wore a plain, cheap pair of reading glasses that wouldn't have beon much loss If they had been broken unless the pieces had happened to injure his eyes. but I have seen other travellers with specially prepared glasses They are provided with hooks and slaps and other appliances to hold them In place and the eye-glass crank who goes to sleep with pair of them on can stand all the jolting the roughest/road in the United States can give him without their being dislodged. However, the people who take to eyeglasses instead of nor phine tablets as opiates have the knack of holding their heads at safe angle even in sleep, and I have seen few accidents happen to the glasses
 False teeth, although apparently con- taining fewer potentialIties of danger. are, according to the same authority, treated with more respect by their owners. Trav- elers who depend upon the dentist for their grinders display a good deal of caution about creeping into berth with their teeth in their mouths, and they tuck them under the pillow and valises and et ten hand them over to the porter for safekeeping rather than take chances on swallowing them in the night.
 Wigs are another thing about which sleepers have peculiar notions. Very sN-- A,, wrvl1- count of the difficulty in combing 1t prop the story of one man who had the wig habit developed to an extraordinary de- gree.
 He, too, was a frequent traveller over my line" said the porter"I had had many a nice little chat with him and thought him one of the most sensible fellows l ever knewHe was quite bald from his fore head back past the crown of his head, and we often joked about 1t being excess of brains that had pushed his hair out. But after I found out about that wig business I wanted to take back every thing had said about his brilliant mind. I found it out by accident
 Trying to Deceive Himself.
 "One evening I had occasion to look into the old genelemans berth after he was rede up for the night. To my utter amazement saw him logged out in wig that spread over the pillow like monstrous mop of auburn curls.
 Excuse me- said l; have I made mistake ?I thought this was Mir. Ms berth.
 The old fellow laughed. 'Sh-sh-sh,' he said. This is me, all right. Don't say anything about it. It is a fad of mine. All my life long have wished for a fine head of curly auburn hair. Nature denied me that boon. She gave me noth- ing but sparse black locks to start with. Now she has seen fit to take even those away and have concluded that since she played me such a scurvy trick l am justi- fled in getting back at her by wearing any old kind of hair please. Hence this red wig. On account of the inevitable uncharitable remarks of my friends couldn't blossom out in a brand-new suit of hair in the day time, but I have made a practice of wearing 1t at night and 1t gives me the greatest comfort im- aginable.
 smart fellow, too.
 that us fellows who travel in Pullmans regularly find out about. I remember well one old chap with an ear trumpet Every night when he turned in he ar ranged the trumpet with the tube to his ear and fastened it 'someway so 1t couldn't budge I got to know the man pretty well and one night I jollied him about mahing preparations to hear Gabriers 1t in the middle of the night. The old nttffa