Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-20

It's distinguished advocate must part
company and the charm of something
doing yield to an unwonted sense of
something possible without his doing,
before the best ministry of sleep or
dreams lays hold of any mortal.
J This. indeed, is principle of science
in the whole case that any man can
test for himself. Let but a fraction OF
some vain and unhappy wrestle of his
own with fate and circumstances lin
ger in his brain as he lays him down
to sleep, and natures soft nurse is
frightened off and the whole weary
{ struggle and loss repeat themselves
| with double power ip the night watch
ed "a recent Writer tells the story of
/ THIS in cqlorS that many a restless
soAlA CAM red gnizs ITO be awake
through the slow dragging hours" he
exclaims surrounded by a somber
quetude from whose sitting black
ness thoughts like demans leap to
catch us by the throat, to roll and
toss until the soul within us cries out
in agony, and we reach out frantic
hands into a void that mocks us by
the contrast of it's deep and awful
quiet; At such times" he adds. "our
/
petty they be. grow and magnify
themselves until they overflow the
night, filling the universe above and
around u.s.
And over against that e'er true pic
ture Of sleep1ess mortal, set the old.
but none too familiar one of the i'm
mortal Knight Errant in the realm of
happy dreams. who called down bless
ings on him who invented sleep.
ct covers n man all over, thoughts
and all, like a cloak" runs the old
time strain. at is meat for the hun
CRY. thirst for the thirsty, heat for the
cold and cold for the hot. 1t is the
current coin that purchases all the
pleasures of the world cheap, and the
balance that sets the king and the
shepherd the fool and the wise man
even.
Is it we'll for any age, for any pur-
pose, to deprive man of that heaven
blessed mantle, and that, too, before
the dreams that went with it have
come true? May there not really be
something in the psychologists recent
claim that out of those dreams when
man sleepeth, come the ideals that
help most surely to guide him on to
the perfect life that is to be? 1t seems
logical that when the veil of sleep
falls over the imperfect life that is,
the vision of life as it ought to be
would have fuller power. There is
certainly more than an idle guess in
Emerson's idea that in the dreams of
the night We are carried forward. 1t
may, to be sure, make some difference
whether those dreams come of a clear
conscience and a quiet mind or lobster
neuberg and cafe noir, hence the
There has been long process of adj
writer's who are striving to show man
how bodies and minds should work
together for the best offering of sleep
and dreams are on the right track, of
course. But If they want to consider
all the difficulties the times present as
well as some practical features of the
case, that take little note of the ply
chic or mental side of the question,
they must go back to the lessons of
the ancient wise man who made quite
a study of sleep and dreams in his
day, and rather summed the matter
up in the announcement:
The sleep of laboring man is
sweet whether We eat little or much,
but the abundance of the rich will not
suffer him to Sleep. 1t Is true that
the application of the saw today would
put the little pronoun him" in as
close relation to the laboring man as
the rich, since abundance of riches are
found to disturb the rest of toilers
who contribute to them quite as much
as of idlers who possess them. But
that the secret of sleep lies very much
in that rest after healthful labor
which tired nature makes sweet is q.
simple truth that rather mocks the in
volved theories and lucubrations of
the scientists and teachers who would
on natures plan.
1t is much like the case of the man
who had murdered sleep by turning
night into day and was treated for in
somnia by all the medical experts and
specialists within reach, but found no
help till at length one humble friend
suggested that if all other remedies
failed he might try going to bed.
Natures laws are simple and sure
enough, il not violated, to bring the
balm of sleep to all her children. The
supreme insight of Avon's immortal
bard showed itself nowhere more
clearly than in his treatment of this
problem of sleep. The uneasy head
that wears a crown or hides a crime
was duly noted in the reckoning with
all the telling strength that mental
science could ask for it. But when it
comes to the appointed agency of
HAPPY, helpful slunber, it is the rest
after toll he turns to, and declares
that it is not scientist or philosopher.
nor yet saint or mystic, but he who
follows the ever-running year with
profitable labor who all night long
sleeps in Elysium.' 1t may be that
seeing something of the fruit of his
labor has to do with this Elysan
slumher in most cases. and just there
is where the mental or psychic sci
ence no doubt finds the happiest field
for it's exercise.-St Louis Globe DEM
ocrat.
Plenty Of Room Yet.