The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-07
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TRAGEDY ORA SLEEPY GIRL.
Now She Wakes Up Every Morning
Regularly at 500 O'clock.

hcSuAarIy at 5:3O O'clock.
From the Chicago News.
If there was one thing more than
another that Grace detested it was
having to get up early in the morning.
In addition to the usual perverse sleep
mess at the rising hour that every one
experiences she had a deep-seated OBJ
lection to getting up while other folk
more fortunate were privileged to lie
and sleep. 1t spoiled her temper for
the day and her family learned to
let her severely alone till about noon,
when the atmosphere cleared and she
emerged into herself.
All during her school wears Grace
was routed out at $50 in order to get
her breakfast. collect her books. do
half an hours practicing' and travel
five miles to school and get there on
time at 8 O'clock. Those years were one
continuous grumble of rebellion, which
was plentitully interspersed with the
prophecy of the delicious hours she
should sleep when she had come to
the last period in her graduation essay.
She had charming dreams of the Ian
guild way in which she would arise at
10 and IL O'Clock when that halycon
time arrived.
When she got out of school the fam
lily fortunes had changed and Grace
went down town to work IN an office.
She had to be there at s o'clock and
her alarm clock went off at 6. OF
course, she never heard it, but no one
expected her to. 1t was her heroic
mother who took it upon herself to
get Grace up and hurry her away. The
young woman sat in a glover during
every trip to the city. She did not
read the paper like her fellow travel
ers1she brooded on the implacabilitY
of fate and tried to figure out if she
lived to be so years old just how many
times she would be dragged from
slumbers delicious at pitch dark in the
, winter time and at the early peep of
the robins in summer. The mathemat
ical result did not add to her geniality.
She meditated upon the revenge she
would take after that, because she in
tended to. save enough of her salary to
retire upon when she reached the half
century mark and she promised her
self that she would sleep twenty three
hours out of the twenty-four from that
time on. a
Then she got married. In jokes
Grace had always vowed she would
marry nobody but waiter in a night
make it unnecessary to have breakfast
before noon. Or, she admitted, a POI
liceman who went on duty about 8
o'clock in the afternoon would do. How
ever, the young man she welded was
a contractor. He had to be at his Of
flee at O'Clock precisely in order to
get his force of men off for the day.
when the two came back from their
wedding trip and opened the door of
the dainty fiat they had furnGhed
Grace faced the prospect of arising
aYlin CHI 1Nsl drx11a 1Aea
fore in ordersthata HaEry's coffee might
be just right and his breakfast hot
and tempting. For once in her life she
did not growl. Harry appreciated to
the full her imnolation on the altar of
devotion. Her family had jointly and
severally seen to it that her fondness
for late morning hours should be borne
in upon him and had drawn brilliant
pictures of Grace's husband in the act
of getting his own morning meal.
Grace purchased an alarm clock with
a gong like a fire bell and hung it
within two inches of her ear. The first
time a it went off she jumped from
dreamland with a start-in the direc-
ton of the clock. That gave her a
black eye and Harry a bad reputation
among the neighbors. When even the
alarm failed to arouse her, Harry dis
covered and purchased a fiendish in
vention that one winds up and sets
across the room. 1t makes a noise like
thirteen front-door bells, and in fif-
teen seconds, if one does not come over
and release the alarm it repeats the
performance, keeping it up till the
harassed sleeper gets up in self-de-
Tense to silence it. Stern devotion to
duty and this new alarm combined to
get Grace up in time. She re!inquish-
ed her dreams and was resigned to an
early rising fate.
When she had reached this point her
husband had a fine business offer
which made it unnecessary for him to
get to the city till 9 O'Clock or after
and Grace welcomed the prospect with
'boundless joy. Instead of 5:30vthe
hour which stretched hideous back
ward over two years-she might sleep
till or after. 1t was too good to be
true.
And SO it proved For the previous
years had left their mark on her brain
Now she wakes up every morning reg
Iularly at the same old hour-5:30!