Arizona republican., 1904-02-23
TO SLEEP CORRECTLY AN ART.
Some Rules for Getting a Good Nights
 Rest.

Rest.
 There is a good deal more in the art of sleeping correctly than one might suppose.
 A comfortable nights rest depends upon a soft bed for one thing. The Led should be soft enough to yield to every muscle of the body. If there is an aching spot, the bed should not be hard enough to hurt it.
 A feather bed was not without its advantages Indeed. in these days, feather beds would do great deal to- ward banishing insomnia.
 There are many people whose nerves are so delicate that the body cannot rest comfortably at night in the ordi- nary bed. Each nerve seems strained, and the slightest move wakens the sleeper again.
 Feather beds for invalids are good things; also for brain workers. and for all who get very tired every day.
 The trouble with the feather bed. the great objection there is to it, is the great trouble to renovate it. The sec ond objection is the heating qualities. In a house that is kept too hot in win ter the body would be heated beyond endurance by leather Deu
 But If the restless sleeper will get thin bed of feathers or of down and will keen it well shaken up and will sleep in a moderately cool room, then the first step toward banishing insom- mia will be taken.
 The second step comes in the finding Of the correct pillows.
 There is no one general rule to be hn Brain workers and all full-blooded peo- pie should sleep with the head hign.
 It is positively injurious to sleep with the blood rushing into the brain. Rush nf blood to the head will cause head ache, and many persons are made i'll by no greater thing than sleeping with the head too low.
 Those who have been sleeping with the head fiat should try the plan of lifting it gradually. At first the neck will be uncomfortable, but soon it will bc habit to sleep with the head rais- ed.
 If you are a light sleeper and most people at some time or other have trouble getting to sleep you may try tho pillow cure. This calls for soft pillows of two sizes. One is to rest under the head and the other is 10 make the neck comfortable
 The rule is to make your neck com fortable when you go to sleep. Make your head as easy as you can. Then make your neck comfortable was the advice given by a London physician to an insomnia patient.
 If you go to sleep with the neck unsupported you will not sleep long, said physician to a New York bank er After your head is comfortable, begin and prop up your neck.
 "Place a small pillow under it, twist and turn the corners of your pillow, and keep on until the head is perfectly supported. Then fall asleep and you will sleep until morning" A great many women and men too, sleep better sitting up in a chair than in bed. The reason said physician lis that the neck is supported better when they are sleeping in that way" But before she goes to sleep, the wo- man who wants to be pretty will com pose her features. She will try 10 think of pleasant things. The woman wEo goes to sleep worrying will wake up during the night. Pleasant thoughts will make a sound sleeper. | Here is another rule for the woman l WHO WdiilS lO Slttp SOuilNlS anu NeAtNI up pretty. Don't go to bed until you are sleepy. The rule of going to bed Tt 10 o'clock. whether you are sleepy or rot makes many an insomnia patient out of an otherwise healthy person.
 A woman afflicted with insomnia went to a physician for d cure. T go to bed every night at ten o'clock" said she and I waken at 8. From that time un- til I lay awake. Then I sleep an hour very heavily"
 Try going to bed at 12 o'clock for while" said the physician.
 A week later the woman came to his Eofice with beaming face and bright eyes.
 T have tried your remedy said she and it worked. I go to sleep at F and sleep like a top until 7.'' l find that ] did not need more than seven hours sleep
 That" said the physician, has cur ed half the insomnia patients in th's country. There are people who nee nine hours sleep q night and other. that do not need over seven. It is all a matter of personal idiosyncrasy."
 Prepare yourself slowly and com fortabfy for bed. Do not go to bed until you are sleepy. And then make yourself perfectly easy. These are the rules for getting a good nights rest
 The woman who counts sheep jump ing over a wall in the hope of getting sleep will find relief in this way The man who says the alphabet, the nerv- ous woman who cannot keep her mind off the house, and the head of the fam. fly whose cares disturb him to the point of distraction-all of these vii find that sleep is not so far away ii only they knew how to woo it hither. BEATING TIE WIND.