The Washington times., 1919-10-24

lection of your body night during cold weather The
advice intended especially for the very old and for young
children.
While asleep your vitality is lowered You take in less
oxygen Your heart pumps less energetic lily needs
The mysterious fluid of the Withdrawn toward the
collar pexus from the extremities Your system, like
sleeping garrison needs every possible precauon against
the enemy.
The enemy during the fall and winter months is cold
your feet cold your heart forego its
work hard while you sleep to pump blood to the
remities If your wrists cold, the blood passing
through the great channels lying below the surface
the skin is chilled on every journey.
Laugh you choose at editor giving advice about
bedding instead of talking statesmansh But consider
carefully the following advice:
If cold at night sleep between blankets rather
shan between linen cotton sheets
1t exhauss your vitality greatly to heat over and over
again throughout the night pair of cold clamy sheets
With wool next retain of the natural warmth
Wise old Won Motke, Germany's great Danish protec
tor slept between travelled about wh-a pair of light
woolen blankets which he used as sheets They are not
very expensive and investment in few pairs to be
used and laundered instead of sheets will pay any house
hold well
Use flannel nightgowns Make your children use them
and let your children sleep between blankets ALWAYS when
it is cold Have foolish notions about ssmakinp them
rugged and nung them hardship That sort of inur
ing often ends in the graveyard
wise thing for those low in vitality especially for the
old Is to have for at night woolen stockings
They economze heat and help the system to get full rest
Remember that heat is life The main difference be-
tween dead and live thing is difference temperature
KEEP WARM
Make sure that in turning and twisting at n;obt vo do
not wrgge the off, When you settle down for your
eight nine hours of imitation death see that you are
protected
Never sleep your back. Encourage the habit of
sleeping on right side you sleep on your left side
put the weight of the body the heart and make
work at disadvantage
What about the hair on the monkeys arm?
Well, just this:
Nature lets all animals know by instinct that they must
be careful OF themselves while asleep household dog
foolish creature and round before he lies
down to sleep on the smooth He remembers family the
days when he wild animal and used to turn round in
that way to hollow out bed in the dry leaves
Your great grandfather monkey when he gets nm o
the chmpanzee or gorilla stage sleeps with his arms crled
up over his head protecting his and the huge blood
vessels In It, His hairy arm acts shield against wind
and rain The hair grows in opposite directions on his
upper and lower that each may the rain as
falls. "
Darwin says that mans arm the hair remnant of
our Wild state grows it does on the gorilla
That If should sleep Mr. Gorilla sleeps with arms
cured over heads poor foolish remnant of monkey
nr would try its best to turn the rain the hairs growing
in direction above the elbow and in contrarv direc
tion below the elbow Look and see for yourself.
What that monkey hair to do with Careful cotbro
at night? ''''n'As
Nothing at all 1t was just mentioned in the heading
thinking 1t might curiosity and induce you to
read what we think may do you good.
Whatever you do yourself tell your old father or
mother to take this advice about sleeping between blankets
and wearing warm stockings at night
ne or she says that it is nonsense and that peope
used to live to be very much older before such talk was
heard read what follows aloud very respectfully:
The Vlcomte dAvenel wrote history of material
civilization In France He demonstrates clearly the fact
hat health and average length of life have deve1
oped with modern ideas and scientific theories
For instance
In the good old days of the fifteenth century-n 1859
20 be exac-an official was taken of the largo and