Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-19
THE SHORE OF
DREAMLESS REST

Poets-the poets who write in
prose and the poets who write I'm
verse-have indited many beautiful
lines TO sleep, discussing it both OBJ
jectvely and subjectively. Literature
has been enriched by many tender
tribute TO morpheus, and many a
eulogy of the blessed state of dream
less slumber
Cervantes blessed the inventor of
sleep. Sterne wiohes that he might
write a chapter upon such a fine sub
ject, Tennyson sung to the mystery
of folded sleep" Young spoke Of
Natures sweet resturer. balmy
sleep and of sleeps soft domin-
ion" Homer apostrophized sleep as
being the nearest approach to the
eternal calm of death. Cicero said
that those who make the least of
death consider it as having great
resemblance to sleep Shakespeare
never wearied of describing the de
lights and consultations of sleep. To
him It was the balm of hurt minds.
and Natures second course, the chief
nourisher of LIES feast. Natures
soft nurse that sleeps the senses in
eye Sleep, he said, "knits up the
ravelld sleeve of care" ovid called
sleep the gentlest of the deties.
But what would the poets have
nj -1a a.,
his fellows snoring?
None sleeps so dreamlessly as the
man whose snore is strong and steady
like the voice OF a "cross-cut" saw
slowly eating its way through the
heart of poplar log, but one con
templating his sumbers, or giving
ear to the audible symptoms of the
profundity OF his repose is not in
spired to write blank verse, but rath-
er consumed by a desire to break
chair over his peaceful upturned
face.
1t is bad enough to have a snoring
man in ones hotel or sleeping car.
but to have one in the family means
murder or life of self-abnegation
None of the afflicted will fail to sym
pathize with Mrs Archer. of White
Plains, y. j., who is suing for di
vorce. After seeking relief by sit
ting up in bed and blowging a large
TIN whistle-a sort of fog horn
whenever Mr.. Archer's snore be
forgetfulness and shuts up sorrow
came uncomfortable, she found tina
with twenty devils at her elbow sug
costing the family Ratchet, the butch
er knife, the boys baseball bat and
other weapons more effective as silen
GERS, it was not safe to continue f..
live in the house with Archer.
Although the laws OF New Jersey
do not provide for legal separation
upon the ground of inhuman snor-
ing, there should be no difficulty I'm
securing the divorce upon a general
charge of ill-treatment with snor-
ing specified. But why does Mr.
Archer fight the case? AS we have
recently heard Mr.. Dolphin Delmas
say, there are laws higher than the
written law. Mrs. Archer is not go
ing to sit up O. nights blowing the
fog horn for the rest of her life.
Sooner or later the Ratchet, the
butcher knife or the baseball bat will
come and nestle in her hand. and
the last snore of her lord and master
viii mingle with the death rattle
1t would be a great deal safer for
the husband to answer the petition
by admitting the charge and take his
NIL of the chief nourisher of Iife's
feast in bachelor lodgings, undis-
turbed by the fog horn Life at best
is full OF dangers None but a fool
would court death throughout the
still watches Of the night by a steady
Indulgence in a snore that must f.
nally goad the listener to the point
Of committing murder
And why worry bout the loss OF
wife through legal separation when
there is always consolation of sleep
that shuts up sorrows eye, and sleeps
the sense in forgetfulness. and
smears balm thickly upon the hurt
mind? who has such peace as the
man who can snore sixty-three hours
week SO loudly that no one can live
IN house with him and sleeps SO
soundly that it takes a fog horn 20
awaken him. lie can afford to- let.
the ministering angel go hang
COurier-JOurnaI.