The Jersey City news., 1904-10-14

bow. Try to smile and cultivate a
pleased expression.
Then there is the trick of the elastic
step. This is largely matter of phys-
cal culture and of early morning exercise.
But it is thing which every woman can
acquire. There is no question but that
a woman can learn to be buoyant in body
and. in spirits and pleasant. And that she
can be handsome if she will.
l hold. in theory, that every woman
should lie down every afternoon and re-
lax, taking an hours interval of entire
repose, not even thinking of anything
that her. and thus repairing the waste
places of her life after busy morning,
says the "Woman's Home Companion
This is my theory, firmly held and warm
ly recommended to yon. Let me
whisper, in strict confidence, that
I lnlS Is HOt u lUilS 6NCl w ihs 1SiA.i "
take a nap in the daytime would be for
me one of the impossibilities. and the
mere suggestion is enough to keep me
wide awake. My preference is rock
ing chair and footstool and bright short
story in the half-hour after the midday
meal A neighbor of mine has always
white shawl on hand and knits when she
wants to relax could not tell you how
many white shawls this lady has made
and given away, but she is so proficient
in her manufacture that she knits like
an automaton. This pastime is her seda-
tive, and she would not forego it on any
account
Certain men among my friends say
that a days fishing rests them to an ex-
tent that nothing else does, and they af-
firm that the rest is in the fishing, not on
the catch. l think. as I am sure you do,
that everybody who is busy-and most
of us women are must have an -oceas-
sociable souls in the homes of our friends
or in little excursions abroad: some of us
really never rest well except in our
own beds and we hate to leave home
even for night. Which of US can die
tate to the other? Your road to Already
and mine may lead across different rivers
and through diverse valleys. II does not
matter much, if we reach our goal, by
what route we make the journey.
So many people are complaining of in
somnia, which refuses to yield TO any of
the established remedies, that the dis
covery of cure by a New York ply
sician cannot fail to be welcome news,
says the "Gentlewoman." Drugs though
they may be efficacious at first soon lose
their effect unless the quantity is increas-
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they are very injurious and terrible
things to tamper with. | know of cases
where women, who at first had only re-
course to drugs for sleeplessness. have be-
come eventually perfect slaves to this fa-
tai habit.
The cure this physician claims to have
discovered is simple in the extreme He
has tried it himself and also on his
patients with intarable success. The
process is as foHows:-"A long breath is
first taken, and the air is kept in until
positive discomfort is felt, when it is
slowly exhaled; this is repeated "a second
and third time, and in minute or 80
the patient is asleep
This appears almost too good to be
true, and if experiments prove it to be
successful it will quite supersede the old
fashioned remedies, such as counting
sheep going through the gate, repeating
poetry, making the mind a perfect blank,
etc.
Oftentimes. it induces sleep to eat or
drink something. such as cup Of very
hot milk taken in small sips, or hard
biscuit chewed thoroughly.