The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF WHILE ASLEEP
Many Catch Their Death" While Sleeping-Observe tbs

Inc aQVlce INTENDED especially IOE very
for young children.
While asleep your vitality is lowered You take in less
oxygen Your heart pumps less theoretically. needs
The mysterious fluid Of the is withdrawn to-
ward the solar pexus fro mthe exremties. Your sys-
tenn like sleeping garrison needs every possible pre-
caution against the enemy.
The enemy during the fall and winter months is cold
If your feet are cold your heart must forego its rest
and work hard while you sleep to pump blood to the
extremities If your wrists cold, the blood passing
through the great channels lying just below the skin is
chilled every journey
Laugh if you choose at editor giving advice about
bedding instead of talking craftsmanship But consider
carefully the following advice
you cold at night sleep between blankets rather
than between linen cotton sheets.
1t exhausts your vitality greatly to heat and
again throughout the night pair of cold cammy sheets
With wool next you, you retain of the natural
warmth.
Wise old Won Motke, Germanys great Danish protec
tor slept between-and travelled about with-a pair of
light wooden blankets which he used as Sheets They
not very expensive, and investment in few pairs to
be used and Numbered instead of sheets will pay any
household we'll
Use flannel nghtgowns. Make your children use hem
and let your children sleep between blankets always
when it is cold Have foolish notions about making
them rugged and nurng them to hardship" That sort of
inurng often ends in the graveyard.
wise thing for those low in vitality especially for the
old, is to have for at night warm wooden stockings
They economic heat and help the system to get full
rest,
Remember that heat life. The main difference be-
tween dead and live thing is difference of tempera-
ture
KEEP WARM
Make sure that in turning and twisting at night you
do not wgge the off When you settle down for
your eight hours of imitation death see that you
are protected.
Never sleep on your bac Encourage the habit of sleep
ing your right side If you sleep on your left side,
you put the weight of the body your heart and make
it work at disadvantage
What about the hair on monkeys arm?
Well, just this
Nature lets all animals know by instinct that they must
be careful of themselves while asleep Your household
dog poor foolish creature round and round before
ne lies down to sleep the smooth rug 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 greatgrandfather the monkey, when he gets up
to the chmpanSee or gorilla stage sleeps with his
up his head protecting his neck and the huge
blood vessels in it. The hair grows in opposite directions
on his upper and lower arm that each may turn the
rain as it falls
Darwin says that mans the hair, remnant of
our wild state, grows does on the gorilla
That if we should sleep Mr. Gorilla sleeps with arms
cured over our heads poor foolish remnant of mon
key hair would try its best to turn the ran the hairs
growing in direction above the elbow and in a con-
trary direction below the elbow Look and see for your
| self
What has that omnkey hair to do with careful clothing
at night?
Nothing at all 1t was just mentioned in the heading,
thinking 1t might arouse your curiosity and induce you
to read what we think may do you good
Whatever you do yourself tell your old father or moth
er TO take this advice about sleeping between blankets
and wearing stockings at night
If he or she says that is nonsense and that people
used to live to be very much older before such talk was
heard read what follows aloud very respectfully;
The Vicomte d'Avene wrote history of material civil
zation in France. He demonstrated clearly the fact
that average health and average length of life have de-
veloped with modern ideas and scientific theories
For instance:
In the good old days of the fifth century-n 1859
to be exactan official taken of the large and
populous city of Mines.
THERE WAS NOT IN THE ENTIRE CITY ONE MAN
OR WOMAN OVER SIXTY YEARS OF AGE.
What happened to the good, simple, old days" in
Mines? Why did not simplicity of life and freedom from
modern plumbing and bathing and other sanitary tom
foolishness make these people live long?
The wind blew through the imperfect windows at night
1t caught and killed the aged They had never read the
Times on the subject of nightgowns.
Diseases of all kinds strewn about the dirty streets
without sewers That disease caught first of all the old
with their vitality low.
THERE WAS NOT AN INHABITANT OVER SIXTY
If you want to live be sixty listen to us when
we talk about health, For, truly we have studied the
matter We know something of what we nresch md