The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-06-12

Some people are not satisfied with
having done a fair days work at their
regular occupation, but insist upon
keeping busy, even while they sleep.
Most Of this work, done unconscious
ly during the dead hours of the night,
is worth less, but sometimes intellect
ual feats are accomplished during
sleep which during waking hours
proved quite impossible.
From his early childhood Robert
Louis Stevenson was a dreamer and
his dreams were horrible. Later In life
he began to dream of journeys where
in he would see strange towns. In the
next phase he could read in his sleep,
and such wonderful books that never
afterward was he content with ordin
airy literature. Lastly he began to
dream in sequence, and he would con-
tinue the dream from the place where
he left off the previous night
1t is admitted that Stevenson dream
ed the window scene in "JelSyll and
Hyde" and some of his friends are
strange book came to the author while
he was asleep. His brownies showed
it to him in the night"
A pupil of Prof Won Swinden in Am
sterdam solved a difficult problem in
his sleep, after the professor and ten
of the brightest students in the class
had worked for days in the effort to
find the answer. Marquis de Condor
Get, the famous French mathematician,
solved a problem in integral calculus
while he was asleep, although the mat
ter had puzzled him for days. He did
not write the answer and process down
as Won Swindens pupil had done, but
he remembered the solution that came
in his dream, and put it on paper as
soon as he awoke.
Cabanis, the eminent French physi-
clan, says that Franklin told him, dur
ing one of his political missions to
Paris, that over and over again he
had gone to bed puzzled by political
events which became quite clear to
him during his sleep.
Dante is said to have dreamed THE
Divine Comedy" or at least the plot
and characters, and some part of the
details. This vision appeared to him
when he was only nine years old, &C
cording to some of the stories, while,
as others tell it, the dream came to
another child during a trance which
came with long illness.
Voltaire composed the first canto of
the "Henriade" while he was asleep.
Ideas occurred to me-" he says, lin
spite of myself, and in which had no
part whatever"
Some useful and prosaic things also
have come from dreams, 1t long has
been known that the making of shot
resulted from an idea that came to a
Bristol mechanic in his sleep. The
man was employed cutting up strips Of
lead, out of which his fellow-workmen
made shot. The process was slow and
expensive. One night this workman
had been drinking, and after he went
to bed he dreamed that it was raining.
; AS he watched the rain it turned to
lead, and the earth was covered with
L. shot. He awoke, and, filled with his
dream, went up into the tower of St
Mary Radcliffe, in Bristol, and, melt
ing some lead, poured it out from the
top of the tower. When he went to
look for the lead, he found it had TAX
en- the form of shot. Thus the shot
tower became fact, and the work
man made fortune out of his dream.
g g g g g
Yes said Thomas w. lawson dur
ing a discussion of the March panic,
"the stock market is a guileful maze.
1t is like some mems marriages.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, lunching at
the Waldorf, met Mr.. and Mrs. Jones.
Smith" said Jones, we had a
great time at the club last night. Sor-
ry you missed it, old man.
Mrs. Smith gave a start. and after
the Joneses' departure, she said in an
odd voice:
John, you told me you spent the
whole evening at the club"
So did, said her husband reaoi-
~ And the reason Jones didn't see
me there was because he wasn't there
himself. Trying to deceive his wife
I suppose"