The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-07-24
WORST g., ALL HOURS
1T BEGINS WHEN ONE WAKES DP
At 2fN THE MORNING
Everyone Else Is Asleep, You Are
Helpless and Isolated and the
House Is Full Of Strange
Noises.

Did you ever wake up at some un-
known hour and listen for the clock to
strike and experience a great sense OF
relief that II counted four instead Of
two? You knew then that things
would be stirring before long: that the
milk wagons would soon be going past,
and that you weren't to remain the
only person awake west Of New York.
It is insisted that the first three
hours Of sleep are the gouDdest of all.
However that may be, Il certainly is
fact that II you get to sleep at all
you rarely awaken before two O'Clock.
Besides. the early part Of the night
isn't particularly lonesome. You know
that people are getting home from the
theaters and that up to say, one
o'clock. the town is just settling down
to sleep But when some noise, or
what you ate at dinner arouses you TO
hear the clock strike two. you are
overwhelmed b. the feeling Of your
own heiplessness and isolation. No
body else for miles around; you feel
quite sure. can be awake for any good
purpose.
The house Is full Of curious creaks
and groans. What is that strange
noise in the next room2 II must be
the window shade dapping In the
wind. Of course. It must be-
Still 1t might be somebody
moving ever so stealthily You
lie perfectly quiet and listen. strain
Ing your eardrums for some peculiarly
Of the sound that will settle its char
acter
Yes, ii is the window shade. But
now comes a crash from the kitchen
a distinct crash; no trick Of the inn
agination Did yop lock the kitchen I
window before you went to bed? You
think you did but a haunting doubt
comes over you Maybe It was the
cat But wasn't the cat put down
cellar2 Possibly the cellar door wasn't
quite latched The cat might have got
back into. the kitchen
Now one OF the children sneezes- |
sneezes repeatedly. He didn't seem
20 have any cold when he went to bed
Perhaps he has kicked the clothes on.
You would better go see. No. he is
covered up. Why should he have
sneezed2 Can he be coming down
with pneumonia. or scarlet fever or
something2 A good many serious dis
eases begin with bad cold perhaps !,
he is feverish You feel his hands.
They do feel h0t--or are you own |
cold? You give it up and go back to
bed Could you get the doctor # you
needed him? You strain to listen for
more sneezes or for the restlessness 4
that betrays fever. No. there isn't !
anything.
Once more the clock strikes-one, I
two. three. Only three. II It were
only four morning would be near You
are worn to a frazzle by this time.
You know you never can get 70 sleep (.
again. and the worst OF II is that you I
don't dare thrash around. as you would I
like to for fear you might waken
your wife Thank goodness. she has
slept through an these terrors. You
start to counting. get to AZ, and then
forget to 90 on in the strain Of listen
ing for more noises You are on the 4
verge Of despair. Can II be that the /
clock is striking agaln7 Yes. seven,
and it's morning. You had dozed on.
after all
Isn't morning great, And isIft the
hour from two to three the disnalest /
OF all the Kansas City Times.