Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-28

DID you ever get angry with your
self lor going 10 sleep at the wrong
timer Did you ever miss a good OPP
portsnity because you couldn't keep
awake? Did It ever occur to you then
wha. a fine thing it would be to be
able to take waking potion that
would have the effect of liyening you
up and makeing you feel quite clipper
and alert again, without any bad after
effect? Well. 1t did occur to a certain
Berlin scientist that this was just
what was needed to increase human;
ity's earthly happiness.
He is man who has the good of
the world close at heart. He knows
how humanity suffers from the raw
ages OF unwelcome sleep. He feels
q deep sympathy for the man who in
.yariably, but involuntarily goes TO
sleep during the last act of play
or opera. He knows the discomfort
aud embarrassment of the young
woman who becomes drowsy in the
early part Ct the evening, and who can
not be reused even by the amorons
twaddie of her enthusiastic caller.
Surely he must have felt the irritat-
ing lethargy that often comes over
one in the middle of dinner or a
dance, and that makes one feel that
If SONS body doesn't soon jump over
the piano or create some other ex-
citing diversion. hasty exit will be
ones only salvation. If this German
scientist has not had all these expe-
riences himself. he must surely have
had other people tell him about them,
for he seems to have realized fully
tue urgent need Of a cure.
AS long as five years ago this Dr.
Weichardt began TO experiment on
guinea pigs have or can be made 10
ing of his friends, to find the true
cause of listlessness after labor. Pretty
socn he conceived the idea that ia
tigue was due to the working of some
substance like the toxins OF bacterial
disease which could be found In ia
tigued muscle tissues of the body.
After further experiments he pro-
duced an anti-toxin through the usual
meteorological process, and then tried
it on the guinea pigs.
He made them get all tired out,
working hard at whatever occupations
guinea pigs have or ca nbe made to
have. Then. when they were thor
oughly exhausted, he inoculated them
with this new serum, and Immediately
the WORKOUT little creatures took a
new lease on life, jumped up and be-
gan to be just as busy as before
The experiments with human be-
ings proved equally successful Dr.
Weichardt tested the amount of work
certain set of muscles could do in
lifting weights, and then ne tested
them when they were fatigued. After
an injection of his serum he tested
them a third time to find, as he ex-
pected, that their capacity for Work
had been perceptibly increased
Confident In the infaIlIbilIty If his
theory. Or. Weichardt is having his
anti-toxin patented, for he means to
open a factory for its manufacture.
II is to be taken like any ordinary
medicine-in fact it is TO be done up
in the form of little sugar-coated pills.
When fatigue comes on swallow pill.
Then, according to the theory. one can
do a lot more work When the extra
work brings on a new fatigue take
more pills, and one can do aEctner lot
OF work. but not so much as after the
first pill. Continue this process till
the pills produce no more stimulation.
Then one may know he is exhausted.
Knock of work now and rest No