Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-20
RELATION OF SLEEP TO LIFE.
Necessary to Have the Mind Free
From Worry to Get Real Rest from
Slumber.

An age that murderers sleep is the
last indictment the critics bring
against us. The serious nature of ii
| not the sternest of them feels eompe-
| tent 10 declare. TO offer gentle helps
to the sufferers is about ali that the
kindliest venture to undertake. That
sleep will never lie where care lodges
is a conclusion of the doctors that has
put all the poppy and the man
dragora and the droWsy sirupS of the
world" out of use, without quite sat
isfying them of those mental aids
which neat exercises in counting or
watching imaginary sheep, in single
file, leap ina ginary bars, We're sup
posed to offer. Yet that its case is one
wherein the patient must minister to
himself is so well established u con-
vietion that mental science naturally
turns in this direction to capture def
mite results that can be measured" for
the building up of itself with ordinary
people.
This. at any rate, is much the posi-
ton of the author who offers a work,
entitled THE Gift of Sleep that is
designed to bring the mental forces
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recovering that lost gift which the
heavenly powers provided as tired ma
lures sweet restorer for mortal men.
1t is significant that it is to it's opera
ton here that he locks especially for
results that may be measured and
known of ali men for the vindieation
of mental science in his whole field.
a point of browning interest lies also
in the authors claim that, with the
help of mental science, sweet sleep
may continue to weigh mans eyelids
down, despite any turmoil or clatter
which the modern world may keep up
about him. And this certainly does
look like recovering natures gift,
which the poet submits. can
Seal up the ship boys eyes and rock his
brain
In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
Or in the visitation of the winds
That take the ruttian pillows by the top
Hanging them
With deafening clamor to the slippery
clouds.
1t was Shakespeare who reduced this
problem of sleep to the very lines and
principles science is now bringing
| forward to rescue Cassius' tribe of lean
/ and anxious men from their growing
insomnia Peaceful creatures and
| such as sleep o nights are greatly in
demand, and To bring the honey dew
| of slumber' to bear Hpon some, of the
restless spirits that murder sleep for
! the whole population is contamination
! devoutly to he wished. Science and
| the immortal bard might we'll COM
pound together in the noble work, es-
peeially if they could effect it, before
some veteran editors and inexperi-
enced politicians way too wrothy or
too rash and stir up party strife that
! will make a whole nation lie awake
nights devising ways of escape from
the. melee. Sealing up a ship boys
ieSes amid the most deafening clamor
of the angry clouds would be small
matter beside soothing poor creatures
to rest who We're caught in the ruff
! fan pillows" of a Presidential cam
paign, and it is n gracious and timely
service that the writer's are concerned
in who are trying to show the Arneri
can people how to sleep. in spite of
any turmoil that may go on about
them. one scientific writer even goes
so far as to tell the sleeper how to
dream, how to understand and invite
j, the dreams that make for his happf-
ness and advancement. and if the ex-
cited leaders would be content with
this the curtain of peaceful sleep
might once more drop down upon "a
rescued nation. Fol- it is first
principle of this happy dreaming that
all the wearing elements of the garish
day must be dropped out of the life
atmosphere. The strenuous life and