Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-11-05
QUEER TRAIN CUSTOMS.
Strange Things Which People 20 in
Pullman at Niuht.

| a Pullman car porter is authority for
the statement that many people sleep
W''h men glasses On. They are peo-
| pie who appear to be in their righ1
minds, too" he said. When ] 6rst
mace the acquaintance OF their tribe
! houSht they were crazy, but have
found out better since. The first fe.,
/ low | ever saw bunk up thus accoun,
tered was a politician who travelled
! over my road frequently stirring w the
voters in the western part of the state
The funny thing about him was that IL
didn't really need his glasses any more
than | did. He seldom wore them in
! the daytime, and generally read tny
papers and made notes for his speeches
with his glasses dangling from his Lut-
| tcnhoie three feet away from mis- eyes.
But the minute he got ready for sleep
they became indispensable. 1t howled
me clean over when ! bumped into his
curtains one night and found him
| sleeping with the things on. did not
know 1t was his custom TO wear them.
| | thought he had become so tired out
with speech-making and hand-shakine
and baby-kiSsing that he had temG0-
rarily lost his mind and gone to bed
with them on by mistake. was afraid
to leave him SO, tor it seemed 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
II as gently as summer breeze. bu,
at the first touch the old gentleman
was wide awake.
Taking off your glasses, sir said
l. You went to bed with them on
OF course i did, said he. I al
ways do. l couldn't sleep withom
them. Give EN- here"
Since then have seen lots of other
folks who were slaves to the eyeglass
habit. The politician wore plain.
cheap pair of reading glasses that
wouldn't have been much loss if they
had been broken unless the pieces had
happened to injure his eyes, but | have
seen other travellers with specially pre.
pared glasses. They are provided with
hooks and clasps and other appliances
to hold them in place and the eveglass
crank who goes to sleep with a 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 eve
glasses instead of morphine tablets as
oplates have the knack of holding their
heads at n safe angle even in sleep.
ana l nave seen few accidents happen
to the glasses"
raise teeth, although apparently con
tanning fewer potentialities of danger.
are, according to the same authority.
| treated with more respect by their
owners. Travellers who depend upon
the dentist for their grinders display a
good deal OF caution about creeping f.,
10 berth with their teeth in their
rths, and they tuck them under the
pillow and valises and even hand them
over to the porter for safekeepinq
rather than take chances on swallow.
Ing them in the night Wigs arc nm.
other thlng about which sleepers have
peculiar notions. Very few people like
10 Sicep In a wig on account of the diff
nculty Il combing 1t properly the next
morning, but the porter tells the story
OF one man who had the wig habit
developed to an extraordinary degree
lie too, was a frequent traveller
over my line" said the porter. Il had
had many nice little chat with him
ana thought him one of the most son.
slble fellows | ever knew. IL. was
quite bald from his forehead back mast
nc crown OF his head, and we often
JVneu about it being excess of brains
thdl mad pushed the hair out Rut az.
t0i found out about that wig business
wanted to take back everything | had
SAID about his brilliant mind founn
10 OUT by accident One evening had
occasion to look int e old gentle.
man berth after h, IS made nm 70,
the night. To my u er amazemept !
saw him logged out in a wig tha,
spread over the pillow like mon.
u, US mop OF auburn curls.
Excuse me- said /; have I made
mistake? | thought this was Mr.
Ms BERTH 90 MI
The old fellow laughed. 'Sh-sh.sh. ,
he said. This is me, all right. Don't
say anything about it, 1t is a fad Of
mine. All my life long | have wished
Tor fine head of curly auburn hair
Nature denied me that boon. She gave
me nothing but sparse black locks TO
start with. Now she has seen fit to
take eve1 those away and have con
Guided that since she played me such a
scurvy trick | am justified in & citing
'cL at he: by wearing any old kind
kindof hair | please Hence this red
wig. On account Of the inevitable I'M
Charitable remarks Of my friends |
could:i't blossom ont in a brand-new
suit OF hair in the day time, but have
made practice Of wearing 1t at night
and it gives me the greatest comfort
Imaginable And that man was uni.
versally rated a smart fellow too"