Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-29
DRAWING UP THE KNEE TO INDUCE ,dEEP
or of some dark color which will deaden the

or of some dark color which will deaden the
light.
eyes. This will give tile eyes that tired
look and will eventually injure them.
Be careful in the choice of your bed.
Don't sacrifice comfort to looks in TINS re-
spect. Don't take rickety divan with an
uncomfortable mattress to sleep on just
because you want to have an artistic-look-
ing couch in the daytime. These couches
are almost always lop-sided unless of ex-
ceptionally good make. and the sleeper on
them is never comfortable.
If your bed and sitting room is one and
the same apartment. and you do not wish
your bed to appear for what 1t Is, get
| regular bedstead with four solid metal legs,
good springs and good mattress. To cover
it in the daytime get cretonne or some
other goods which will harmonic with your
other furniture, make a covering exactly
the size of the bed, enveloping the head and
the foot with fitted pieces of the material.
This will make the bed look like big set
tee during the daytime.
Be sure that your bed clothes are thor
cughly aired and your night gown as well,
and il for some reason the bed must be
made up at once after getting up In the
morning, put the outer covering over 1t,
having removed the sheets to give them a
chance to air at the windows. Fold them
up during the daytime to be replaced at
night in the regular, way.
When the novelist of hundred years
ago, wished to depict in the most startling
COlOrS, the mental VI pei
cuted heroine, he informed the gentle read
er that The fair Belinda had passed a
sleepless night" His ideas of suffering went
no further The Belindas of today have In
somnia on the slightest provocation as a
result of the strenuous age in which they
are living and many are the cures to
which the fair ones are resorting.
The very latest cure for sleeplessness
was thought out by an energetic western
physician who came to the conclusion
that most of the cases Of insomnia were
caused by overfatigue or over excite
uent of the nerves. To counterfeit this
the doctor believes In a series of muscu-
lar exercises warranted to relax the
tension of the nerves, and bring about
that delightfully."- drowsy sensation, the
Immediate forerunner eff refreshing sleep
If you are one of the many sufferers
from sleeplessness, or one of those whose
sleep seems never to be the refreshing,
restoring kind that childhood knew, try
some of these ways of procuring real
brain and body rest. Nothing is as nee
essany even the health food enthusiast
admits that, and no cure Is complete un-
less the patient at night sinks into real
refreshing slumber without having TO
fret or toss about for hours ana couIil
those dreadful sheep that are supposed
to precede the coming of the sand man
to adult and wide-awake eyes. Those
sheep have never allowed me to faIl
asleep so busy was / In counting the
woolly darlings as they ambled over the
Imaginary fence; nor will the minute
construction of air castles lull the brain.
On the contrary, If the air castle is very
far away in remote part of Spain you
are apt to get so excited about 1t that
YOU may find yourself sitting up straight
and alert trying to reach out toward the