The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

nights rest for three nights, thus break
| ing up the habit of sleepIessness you
have formed. I shau't tell you what
they are, or give you a prescription, so
three are all you can have AS you have
a roof which none of your neighbors can
overlook, ] want you to go up there
every morning at o'clock and take an
air bath. Remove your dressing gown
and let the fresh air and sunlight play
around your body freely. Don't try to
DO anything or think of anything just
relax, give up. Try to be oriental and
languorous- I'm sure you have seen pic
lures OF eastern beauties recl1n1ng on
d1vans or being famed by their women
attendants. See how 1t feels to be an
eastern beauty yourself. Being rich
woman, you can easily have your in
doors man carry a couch and rug up to
the roof for your comfort. If you drop
OFF to sleep, so much the better. After
half an hour or so. or when you wake
up, get on your things, go downstairs
and take a shower bath.
First tepid, then warm, then hot,
then cold. Have the hot water as hot
as you can bear it quite comfortably.
After three minutes turn the hot water
off short and the cold water on full. as
cold as you can get it. for three minutes
more. Then give yourself good ruD
down with a coarse Turkish towel. No,
want you to do it for yourself. Your
maid can help you into your clothes
afterward. if you want her to.
You will feel ready for breakfast by
$3.50 O'Clock. and see no reason why
you should not eat it with your nus
band and son. You are not an invalid,
remember, only a wornout, nervous. ir-
ritable woman, bored, blue and cross.
Make your breakfast nutritious, but
light, and eat all you want L should
think half muskmelon.a Graham muir
fin, an egg and as much cold milk as
you can drink would make good. typi-
cal breakfast"
The woman raised her head weakly
from the pillow in protest. But, doctor,
she said, in a pleading tone, Il can't
get along without my cup of coffee in
the morning. always have cofee
| brought to me in bed could simply
not dress without it-and then l posi-
lively must have it with my breakfast
Just as I supposed" rejoined the man
of medicine. You have been whipping
up your jaded nerves with coffee until
they simply refuse to carry you another
step. Not drop of coffee or tea shall
1 allow you until you have crawled out
of this hole into which you have DROP
ped l know perfectly well how it
would be-if I told you you could have
a small cup of weak coffee with your
breakfast. just for little taste. in a
week should find you taking two full
sized coffee cups of strong coffee in the
morning, and as much more in the
course of the day. In your present state
tea and coffee are simply poison-rank
poison.
Il want you to spend the remainder of
your day outdoors. Lie down as much
as you want, sleep all you can, read an
hour or two, but not in recumbent po-
sition, sew or do fancy work, but do
everything in the open. Air and sun
light have a wonderful effect on the
nerves. Try every little while to take
deep, full breaths. Be in bed by 9. Be
fore retiring take tepid bath-that is.
have the water 80 degrees-and stay in
it, the body completely submerged for
Is minutes Keep this treatment up for
week, and 1 think the next time I see
you 1 shall find a different kind of wo-
man.''-New York Tribune.