The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-04
HOW TO GO TO SLEEP
By EUSTACE MILES.

leaves Of lettuce or endive, then put
them In the inside pan of a double
pan boiler with a little butter and
half a wineglassful of water. In the
outer vessel let there be boiling water.
Meanwhile fry some opinion slices IN
oil. Serve the green food just as IT
is, pouring none of ii away, and leis-
urely cat first a mouthful of the let
tuce, then a mouthful OF the onions.
A well-known writer has plan that
is the exact reverse of this. He tells
us to ignore all other helps, and to
think of the eternal verities. The ma
tural effect of this will be confidence
Tor the absence Of worry and repose.
Here. again, the tendency will be TO
restore the rhythm of the body-ot
.he breathing, heart, and digestive or
gan or gland that, like the stomach
and intestines according to DR.. can
mons recent experiments), mas peat
and swing of its own, depending partly
on the emotions2
Don't Hurry.
But repose can be sought in the
physical way also. You can smile, UNI
tense the eye, think of distant hori-
zon, breathe deeply, and relax more
and more together with the outward
breath. l described an exercise in a
previous article. 1t must be done with
Out hurry. vi Ollt VI tAAt bASe-N
ORANGES to sleep is jumpiness and alert
quicl1ness, and, on the other hand,
muscular tension. Notice how muscu-
lar tension comes when you are send
ing out thoughts against others. They
must be avoided at all costs. Send
out thoughts for the health of others,
II you like, but never any thought
against the all-round health of others.
One writer, Thomas Jay Hudson,
says that this suggestion of health for
others this imagination and realiza-
ton of others as healthy, produces the
sweetest and best kind of sleep. Need
less to say, you cannot worry while
you are are imagining and realizing
this, and, If you do not actually get
sleep, at any rate you are avoiding
harmful thoughts.
Early rising is another cure. Many
people have told me that when they
have had sleepless nights they rise
early and, after day or two of this,
a natural sleep comes. But the human
temptation is rather to get sleep by
means of some drug; people have not
the patience to wait for sleep.
Think Yourself to Sleep.
And, indeed, there is one enormous
difficulty In acquiring sleep. From the
mere fact that sleeplessness is close
ly ASHOtldltu Nlll iidAtpW oNAhHilllIoop
with what is wrongly regarded as to
be self-centered and really is to be
f-circumferenced. directly you be-
gin to fuss about yourself you are
likely to destroy the power of sleep.
What you need to do is to turn your
| attention by some means from the
worldly interests of the petty self to
the eternal interests Of the larger Self,
which interests are the interests OF
all other living beings.
Then, even If sleep does not come,
at any rate the activity of the mind
is doing you almost II not quite as
much good as sleep itself. IT, as GER
tain "transcendentalists" hold, and as
the Bible and some of Platos follow
ers imply more than once. sleep is the
time when the spirit lives and grows,
| then to send out these thoughts for
others may be, in a sense. the sleep
of the body, and. according to recent
science, cannot hurt the body as much
as worry would.