The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-01

not first getting asleep ones self?
| am inclined to think that the Inn
munitv comes from the inward admit
ration of the accomplishment itself. A
distinguishing feature OF a first-Water
snore is it's seriousness. 1t has Il
dignity all its own. The sound is con-
scIenhous to a degree. 1t implies u
duty and it suggests a staunchness
ana a power when one feels envelopes
the actions and the life awake of him
who possesses the gift. 1t is as if the
character OF the man came out from
Inc haunts of dreamland to emphasis
its force in the power with which he
sleeps. The snore tells OF the vigOr
that animates the recumbent form; Ii
promises q return to deeds, to SYmpa-
Lhies and to physical delights. There
is little of the ''sleep that seems akin
to death in the siumber OF a hard
working man of sixteen stone when he
is taking his ease. And If the art that
pictures an army asleep on the field
were troubled with a painful necessity
OF accurate realism, the painting to be
true to life would have to have con.
cealed about its frame monograph
which had been slept into by a soap
drummer.
Yet there is nothing which so sets
forth the sweetness of sleep as a sim
pie, deafenng snore! 1t is It's own best
proof OF the restful oblivion of Ma
lures daily anesthetic. of the deepnesS
of the drug of work. whether it be
with the hands or the stomach. How
man can slumber through his own
Stertorous remarks and lie awake all
night at the perhaps far more modest
efforts of a less competent artist is one
Of the eternal mysteries, an object les
son in sub-consciouS discrimination. IL
t is a habit how did it become ac-
quired? There is a difference in one
earning to sleep in a boiler factory
md coming to put up with his own
Snore. In the one case. it is the habit
Of a class of sounds; in the second.
an egotistical sufference in himself OF
4 disturbance that he cannot abide in
others. No one ever heard of a man
whose Snore was his alarm clock: and
yet the same individual who sleeps like
one mauling rails Will. rouse at the
scratching of a mouse or leap culver
ing from bed at the crack of a con-
tracting door joist.
Yet snoring is not a pastime: it is
privilege. IT is one of those nat
ural manifestations, those inbred i'm
pulses which 'Wall-eyed science" has
discovered to be unhealthy. One by
one are the the innocuous privileges OF
the peope taken away. Any doctor
will demonstrate the fact that mouth
breathing is an enemy to health; is, in
fact, a constant invitation to a speedy
and greedy fate. Yet, while there are
brilliant EXCEPTIONS the average snor-
er is fat. And he is jocund. Shakes
peare knew that he was honest and
that he toiled. Sparing the anomaly
of the spindle-shanked New England
CT, who does all things, inclusive of his
fellow man, through his nose, your
hearty snorer is bluff. round-visaged,
frank and Industrious. He is as d
rule orthodox and possessed of an
abiding and comfortable faith that
permits him no doubts-even as to the
rest of the rest of the world. He
judges men and things by the stand
ard of his own honest and open
mouthed expression, and one will make
no mistake in telling him joke or in
choosing him as a companion--oy day.
For all the labor of his nights, he
arises far fresher than you who DO
not Snore; and he is a stranger to
anemia or to nervous prostration. He
will devour live broiled lobster, pate
de fol gras and drink champagne by
the quart. or do justice to drsh of
green's and Baltimore meat with equal
gusto and impartiality. He takes the
world as he finds it-and he generally
finds it good. There is no dissimula-
ton in his life or in his sleep. He
will apologize for keeping you awake
the sort which slaps YOU on the back
with force that makes your teeth
rattle in your head and loans you mon
ey when you are hard up. Confidence
men and sly ladies in distress al
ways pick him as an easy mark. He
is generally as short of breath when
awake as he is prodigai of that COM
modify when asleep. He will puff by
day at flight of six steps and use up
the material for d tariff debate in Il
rap of half an hour. 1t is as though
he realizes the importance of saving
his breath by dav that he may dissi-
pate it at night. The snore is the
coin of his pleasure and the inspiration
of his ease.
II In this Sdiscu Ssior, + have been using
the word man generically. l had
thought it more gallant to SO include
the women--but this is a travel af-
ter truth. The womanly snore is, how
ever, a falsetto imitation. 1t means
we'll but it falls short 1t does not take
a manly stride. 1t is like a stage beauty
in pants: it doesn't know how to play
the variations, as Soubrette doesn't