The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-19
"SIE.EP"
BY Gillian Scott.

| Next to air. sleep is the greatest
necessity of life.
You've never thought Of that, have
you?
Il asked. you would probably have
/ Deprived Of air we are dead within
i've minutes.
Deprived OF sleep, we become insane
and are dead within five days.
i Deprived OF water, we are dead with
in ten days.
Deprived of food, we may live as
many az fifty days.
4. Il Is evident then, that sleep is
of vital Importance and demands
scientific consideration.
- IL the same care was taken to protect
(. the peoples sleep as Is taken to guide
them to heaven, there would be fewer
go to the other place for GUESSING.
Bootjacks, hair brushes, slippers and
strong language have been thrown at
knows how many years; yet thought
less people continue to keep cats. The
remedy for cats liz prohibition.
Dogs are a. constant source of dan
ger and annoyance in a city. Timid
children are frightened into fits, and
hydrophobia from dog bites causes
horrible deaths. ninety nine per cent
of which would. be prevented by pro-
hibiting dogs, excepting on farms or
other places, where they are impera-
pride in making their gardens look
nice are subjected to annoyance by
dogs, which undo In a few moments
the patient care of weeks.
The barking of one dog at night will
disturb whole neighborhood. A dog
in the distance will bark defiance and
in turn fetch others into the argument
until a SUFFICIENT number of folks who
don't keep dogs have been aroused
from slumber to cusS those who do.
f6Ao fnr 6nor fer In
deaf and dumb asylum.
In spite of all the sauSages made,
there are still about seven million
dogs to the square mile wherever peo
pie congregate for the purpose of
sleeping.
Whereas, the city belongs to the peo-
pie and dogs belong to the woods.
where they can howl at the moon and
one another to their hearts content;
people who are so outrageously con-
structed as to want to sleep occasion
ally at night and make the foolish mis-
take Of being awakened by noise,
should apparently take to the woods
and leave the city to the dogs and
You didn't know that all the people
who Own cats or dogs or roosters are
deaf, did you?
When the grand triumphant chorus
OF the night is in full swing, dogs
barking, cats moll-rowing and roosters
Growing. their owners sing a hymn
"PescA Perfect Peace" or "Now Lay
Me pEwS to Rest" and retire to their
virtu6Ss touches after reading in the
prayer book, my duty towards my
neigioor is to love him as myself, and
to do to all men as would they should
do unto me-"
Ask one of them after an extra
special nocturnal oratorio whether his
sleep was much disturbed and he will
look at you with shocked surprise and
tell you he slept like a top; that he
was asleep as soon as he hit the bed
and never heard a sound.
Some of those people will get left
on the great day of Judgment. Gabriel's
bugle call will fail to awaken them;
and If they ever do wake up. it will be
TO a realization of the punishment they
have so selfishly and unnecessarily in
fiicted upon their neighbors
Medical specialists are now tracing
infectious diseases from the f1eas
which infest cats and dogs to the peo-
pie who fondle these f1ea-ridden ami
mails and get a house full of f1eas as
q reward.
A flea bite is as likely TO carry in
lection as a fly bite or a mosquito
bite: and legislation for the eNtermin-
alton of flies and mosquitoes should
include fieas. Also, measures for
cleaning up breeding places of flies
and mosquitoes shouldN include the
wholesale condemnation of cats and
dogs as the breeding places of fleas.
Sleep, natures sweet restorer, is
held in anything but silent contempt
by the majestic and authoritative
rooster.
This bird of paradise objects to the
discontinuance of meals at night. The
hours are long and he's tired of his