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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
TO POOR SLEEPERS
Bv H. AddingtOn Bruce

" INSOMNIA continues to be one of the
great medical problems of our day. This
is borne in upon me by the number OF
inquiries l receive asking for help in the
conquest of sleeplesness. And, unfortunately
it is by no means always possible to render
such help through correspondence for in
somnia has many causes.
Still, there are certain general suggestions
beneficial in the great majority Of cases.
This because most insomnia is product, not
of serious conditions of organic disease, but
of faulty bodily or mental habits.
Many people, for instance, sleep poorly be-
cause of eating the wrong kinds or the wrong
amounts of food. The undernourished are
prone to sleep poorly. SO are those who
overeat or are partial to foods that tend to
cause intestinal poisoning and nerve irrita-
ton.
Excessive indulgence in meat, sugar, salt
tea, coffee is a frequent factor in pro-
ducing sleeplessness. The elimination of a
single favorite food may be found sufficient
to effect cure.
Or sleeplessness may Develop as symp-
tom of hunger. Early morning wakefulness
is often thus caused. For which reason those
who wake too early may be helped to fall
| asleep again by drinking glass of milk or
eating some crackers soon as Wakefu1-
ness comes.
The matter of bed-covering and ventila
ton of the bedroom is Of prime Importance
in many cases.
Some people are wakeful because they are
afraid of fresh air and do not permit am
pie supply of it in their sleeping quarters.
Wholly psychic causes Of sleeplessness
must also be taken into account.
Many insomniacs-I am tempted to say
most-create their insomnia by self-sugges-
ton. Wakefulness for a few NIGHTS gives
rise to the fear that wakefulness may be-
come chronic. Then it does, indeed, tend
to become chronic.
Here the needed remedy is a strong coun-
tersuggestion to the effect that one can and
will sleep readily. This idea fully accepted
may Danish insomnia as by magic.
Worry over anything is VIGOROUSLY Sleep
disturbing, if only because worry causes ten
sion both of mind and body. When tension
of any sort is present, sleep is gained with
difficulty
Herein we find a valuable hint for in
somniacs. Cultivate the art of mental and
physical relaxation.
On going to bed relax your muscles, let
ting the bed support you rather than hold
ing yourself tensely in it. Close your eyes,
breathe slowly, assume the posture of sleep,
no matter how wakeful you feel.
And turn your thoughts from problems and
cares of the waking life. Think of some
thing pleasant that has occurred to you or to
some friend of yours during the day. Build
castles in Spain.
You may say that you cannot do this, that
the unpleasant holds you much too firmly
But you can always sidetrack unpleasant
thoughts and substitute pleasant ones, if
only you will make an honest effort
Finally, whatever course you take to re-
gain sleep, do not take the easy course of
drugs. These can never truly cure insomnia
and they may merely add a drug habit to
the habit of sleeplessness.
copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
A FAMOUS VICTORY
BV DR.. Frank Crane

Not victory of one nation over another,
not the triumph of red uniforms over blue.
nor OF striped banner over a starred, not
my slaughter of thousands of peasants who
had no desire to kill the peasants who were
drawn up in array against them.
NotSlng OF the sort. But a real victory
over real enemy by a real general with
rains.
And Japanese, to boot
refer to the victory over Yellow Fever
y DR.. Hideyo Nogucbi, of Rockefeller In
titute.
Yellow fever is a real enemy. 1t is deadly,
~eacherous, efficient. 1t has slain it's tens
# thousands. 1t has devastated entire cities
nd depopulated states.
One of its strongholds was Guayaquil,
cuador.
IN 1918 commission, headed by Dr. A. I.
andall OF Northwestern University, set sail
r South America. 1t was kindly received
the authorities and physicians at Guaya-
FHe preliminary work was done, pre-
ing the way for the work of DR.. Noguchf.
fhen, says DR.. George E. Vincent, presi-
mt Of the Rockefeller Institute with the
Goa or patients who were in the early stages
the disease, Noguchi infected guinea pigs.
hese fell i'll, showing symptoms which re-
.loleu those OF men suffering from yellow
attempts to transfer the infection from
another by means of mosuui-
: 700 g. ncessful Finally Noguchi was
oble to cultivate from the blood a minute,
deHcate, thread-like, spiral organism-half
way between microscopic animal (microbe)
and microscopic plant (bacterium) To
THIS ne gave the name slim spiral, the jaun-
dice maker
ellis discovery enabled him to prepare a
serum. This has been administered in a
number Of cases with apparently favorable
effect. Furthermore, vaccine can be made
which apparently protects non-immunes
against Infection"
The experimenters arrived in Quayaquil
when the disease was at it's height in Ecua-
dor. They now report no cases at all in the
capital since June, 1919, and the Vincent
bulletin concludes
"The public has proclaimed it's deliver
ance from a menace which had never been
absent since 1912. General Gorgas' ambi-
ton to write the last chapter of yellow
fever seems no utopian dream
And this I rank a victory of more sig
nificance in history than Waterloo or Ira
falgar.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
FAMOUS AUTHOR
HAD TROUBLES

That famous authors not only have
had serious struggles with publishers
to. get a start in their profession, but
nave had some of what the world
now considers their best works re-
jected by certain firms, is recalled in
some literary anecdotes now going
the rounds in England.
A British publisher named Arrow.
smith many years ago received some
stories from India, with a letter
which made the publisher imagine
the writer had too high an opinion
of himself. He therefore rejected
the manuscripts-and regretted the
aspiring young author happened to
be Rudyard Kipling, and the stories
some of the famous Tales from the
Hills"
Another publishing house has the
record of having declined Stevenson,
Barrie, Kipling and Crockett. Steven
sons Treasure Island" was said by
the publisher to be too cold-bloodedly
murderous for any self-respecting
person to read, which recalls the re-
mark of the publisher who rejected
w. S. Gilbert's "Tale of the Nancy
Bell" as too cannibalisttc.
Dawn" was sent back to him six
times before it found publisher.
w. w. Jacobs had a similar ex-
perience with his wonderfully anus.
ing MANY Cargoes." He tried it all
around London until another humor"
list, Jerome, took pity on him and ran
the stories in a magazine he was at
that time editing. =.
Cast Lynne" both as novel and
a play, has been a perfect gold mlne'
vet it was rejected by no less a per-
son than George Meredith when read"
err for a well-known publishing house.
J. j. Bell actually had to publish
I'VE MacGregor" himself. He got an
accomplished artist to draw the IA
NOUS cover and became his own pun
Usher, with excellent results 10 hlih''
self and the reading public
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
Sane the Vans

CAGE advice to the farmer is given by
the Triton Gazette in a recent edito-
rial on Potato Curing Houses" Says
the Gazette, anent the statement of some
growers that they are going to "let the
hogs gather the CROP rather than take the
trouble Of housing it until prices are high
er on potatoes:
"This would be another mistake,
equal to that of letting peanuts stay
in the ground. That portion of the crop
that can be used to advantage by feed
ing to hogs would be we'll invested that
way. But for the balance, it should be
gathered and if the market is not sat
isfactory. put in a curing house and
hold until the pric' goes up after
Christmas. Last spring sweet potatoes
sold as high as $3.50 bushel Things
are coming down, and no such price
may be expected next year. but before
the summer is on, they will be selling
for price that will repay growing and
handling
The Gazette adds that, with the price of
cotton unstable and rains threatening the
crop, no farmer afford to allow any
thing that will bring money to go to waste
Potatoes, even at their greatest abundance,
bring fair price, ana with the growing
popularity Of the sweet potato in the north
and east, and the tendency to make it an
all-the-year-round" crop, the growers
should be we'll repaid for their yield in
the long run.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
First American Horse
0nIY is Inches HiQh

The first horse that .roamed the
plains of America was just sixteen
inches high, according to Prof. Henry
Fairfield Osborn, considered the most
eminent authority on the subject.
Thousands of these horses graZed
together, some 100000 years ago,
throughout Americas vast west.
The first horses may have had five
toes, the professor says, but the fos-
sils of the earliest horses, found in
the bad lands, have but four toes.
Later the horse lost another toe,
and today he is walking on the nail
of what was once his middle toe.
If the leg of the present day horse
is dissected there will be found two
splinters of bone, above the, hoof,
on either side of his leg, beneath the
flesh.
While the horse first Craze in
America, the species died out here.
and our modern horses are descended
from old world stock.
The first of them to arrive in
America were brought to Mexico by
the Spanish conquerors, and caused
great fright to the people of Monte
yuma, who thought they were super
natural monsters.-The Detroit
News
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
A MANS IDEAL "
Highest Paid Won
BY DOROTHY DIX

WINGED that he is the real fountain
of all wisdom.
No hiuu en- ever imagine him.
self marrying woman who is clever
er than he is. or has better judy
ment, or who is more widely IN
fC rmed and clearer thinker very
often he does, but this is only when
the woman is so supernaturally cieV-
er that she knows enough to conceal
from him how clever she is.
A mans ideal woman is always a
domestic creature whose dearest am
hilton is to make a prize angel FOOD
III her community. She may have
been society butterfly, or a fashion
plate, or a prize private secretary,
or successful professional or BUSH
ness woman, but man never visions
her, in his minds eye, as continuing
to take any interest after marriage
in the thing that was her whole in
terest before marriage.
His ideal woman joyfully gives up
NeVep~-Aing for the privilege of cook
ing things the way he likes them,
and would rather turn out a batch
of bread such as his mother used
to make than to write sixth best
seller Or pull off big financial deal.
But while she spends her life in
the kitchen, she never smells of the
cook stove, nor does her conversation
run to recipes and the price OF
butchers meat. And, somehow, in
tie establishment presided over by
the ideal woman there are no bills
to mar the sweet serenity Of domes-
tic life.
Perhaps clothes grow on the back
Of the ideal woman as feathers do on
hens. Perhaps the ideal woman is
a conjurer who can wave a magic
wand over the gas range and pro-
duce luxurious meal out of thin
air. At any rate, the woman man
seek in the smoke of his pipe never,
never says, John, the grocer says
that If you don't pay" etc, etc.
The ideal woman is never sick, nor
nervous, nor frazzled, worn out and
cross. She can be up all night walk
and smiling ard raoiantly good ma
tured at breakfast and look as fresh
and spic and span Rs the stenogra
pher who is waiting for man in
his office. But the ideal woman
knows by intuition when a mans
stomach is out of order and he is
dyspeptic and grouchy; and she can
distinguish between temper and
nerves, and instead of getting angry
when he behaves like a sooilt baLy
she kisses and coddles him and hfr-
RIGS up the dinner.
The ideal wife is an adoring wor-
shipper who never gets jealous. She
is a slave who hugs her chain. She
gives her husband freedom to wan
der but stays put herself. And she
is the champion forgiven of the uni
verse.
A composite portrait of her would
show a picture of Lillian Russell,
Theda Bara, Hetty Green and Pa
tient Griselda.
And there isn't any such person.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
SUGAR FROM SAWDUST
NOT FOR TABLE USE

THE recent announcement that
sugar can be produced from sawdust
is true, but it will not help the house,
wife. for the kind of sugar which
can be so produced iS not the same
kind as the ordinary table sugar,
the cane sugar" or even the best
glucose, an entirely different sub
Stance chemically, and will not heip
for a long time to come, IL ever 10
relieve the sugar fNnine.
This is the announcement or the
New York State College OF Forestry
at Syracuse N. Y, through DR.. Louis
b. Wise, professor Of forest chem
istry Of wood, who says:
IAN important sugar can be pre-
pared from sawdust by hydrolysis
with acid, but it must not be con-
fused with the sugar of the break
fast table. This sugar prepared from
wood is dextrose or glucose and 10
identical with the sugar obtained by
acid treatment of starch. The sugar
is not identical, however, with su.
crosse. commonly termed cane sugar
or beet sugar" Glucose is, however.
widely used commercially. and Is an
important foodstuff, being the prin.
cipal components of corn syrups and
the like and has distinct nutritive
value. AS sucrose cannot be prepared
from glucose, either commercially or
in the laboratory, there is little pros
pect that such a synthesis will be
an accomplished fact in the near fu-
ture."-Louisville Courier-Journal
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

siderable extent in those counties, it is not
as an invader of the ranks of wisconsin,
but only as a diverter Of votes which other
wise would go solidly and effectively against
the great menace of the hour. Let no Geor-
gan who would safeguard the State against
destructive radicalism be deceved-a vote for
Governor Dorsey will be half a vote for Mr..
Watson. On the other hand, every ballot that
is cast for Senator Smith will make Watson
ism's defeat that much surer, that much
more overwhelming, and at the same time
will assure our beloved Commonwealth all
the advantages which an experienced, able
and faithful Senator can secure.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
tn HE must be beautiful, prefer
ably tall and slender. though

TN HE must be beautiful, prefer
ably tall and slender. though
an occasional man leans to
what was once called the "pocker
Venus" and is now spoken Of in the
vernacular as the "cuddle pup" size
No matter what her height or weight
however, she must have peaches
and-cream complexion, Cinderella
feet, large ox-like eyes, and hair that
curls.
Furthermore, the beauty of /
mans ideal woman must be OF the
adamantine kind that can stand the
kicks and cuffs of fate without get
ting it's paint scratched off, or being
dented. For the ideal woman never
never gets grizzled or thin. She
never grows old, for she has not
only tasted the waters Of the
has picked herself in them.
A mans ideal woman is always ex-
quisitely dressed in soft filmy things
of delicate, pastel shades and he
hair is waved and curled in that
quires couple of hours to do, If
You are a quick worker. A man may
be a tightwad who bowls with
agony, as If she had gotten his life
blood, every time his wife strikes
him for a hand-me-down frock, but
always clothed in Paris creations.
He may expect his wife to cook
and scrub, and wash, and tend baby,
but he never looks at her bungalow
apron and work-roughened hands
without thinking how different she Is
from his ideal, and that, somehow,
a woman ought to be able to be a
good cook and look like a lady love
at the same time.
A mans ideal woman is the cling
ing vine. She is as spineless as 81
shoe string, and all she asks Of her
husband is to be permitted to cling
to him. echo all of his opinions and
have no mind of her own whatever.
But she must be able to reverse
roles and become the sturdy oak if
necessity demands helpful energet-
ic, capable woman in the family
Also the clinging vine, even in her
l1mpest moments, must have deer
sion of character enough to deal with
family of self-willed children and
fight. profiteering tradesmen to a
standstill.
In word, mans ideal woman Is
| Towering vine which festoons It.
self gracefully about him in public,
and so calls attention to his strength,
while in private he expects it not
only to stand alone and avoid be-
coming a burden upon him, but to
prop him up
In intelligence a mans ideal wom-
an knows just little less than he
does. She follows at his heels like
his dog and devours hungrily and
gratefully whatever bones Of his
thoughts he throws to her. And she
gaZes reverently UP into his eyes and
takes her cues from his looks, con-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
OUIPS AND QUIDDIES

The sanitary inspector knocked
sharply at the door and it soon
opened.
"I4ow many people live here?" he
began.
Nobody lives here" answered the
daughter of the house; we're only
staying for a short tibe."
But how many are here?"
"T'm here. Fathers gone for a
walk and mother is"
stop! stopr exclaimed the man
impatiently. II want to know how
many inmates are in this house.
How many people slept here last
night?"
well, you see" was the reply,
my little brother had the stomach
ache and we all took on so much
that nobody slept wink"
Then the inspector said he would
call again.
"Six years ago." said Smithson, 81
made up my mind that I was smok-
ing too much. It didn't seem to af-
feet my health in the least, but
thought it a foolish waste Of money
and 1 decide sen 80 five d it qp remarked
Brownlow.
$50 I thought at that time.
reckoned up as closely as I could
how much ! had been spending each
day on cigars and tobacco. That sum
I set aside each morning and start
ed a banking account with it.
wanted to be able to show exactly
how much I had saved by not smok-
ing"
"And how did it work." inquired
Brownlow.
"At the end of six years I had a
thousand dollars in the bank"
Good. Could you let me"
"And a few days later" interrupt.
ed Smithston, last Tuesday, in fact
the bank failed. You haven't got
a cigar about you, have you?"
1t was during the cross-examinatior
of the young physicians that thu
counsel made his disgraceful remraks
touching the improbability that So
Juvenile a practitioner should thor
oughly understand his profession.
you claim to be acquainted with
the various symptoms attending con-
cussion of the brain?" asked the
lawyer.
1--WE will take a concrete case" con-
tinued the counsel. eff my learned
friend, counsel for the defense, and
myself were to Dang our heads to-
gether, should we get concussion OF
the brain?"
The young physician smiled. 1.-THE
probabilities are," he replied, "that
counsel for the defense would"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
WITH THE GEORGIA
PRESS
Improved Highways

Says the Albany Herald: 1.-THE
building of paved roads in the south
has a good start, IN spite of the high
cost Of construction, and that means
that the good work will continue. A
paved road is an argument to which
there is no answer" The Herald is
right about the matter, and we are
glad to note that Spalding is building
miles Of paved highways and having
a part in the souths great work.
Griffin News and Sun.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
cold Glory" Is Oldest EIau

(From the London Chronicle.)
It is not little singular that the
oldest flag belongs, comparatively
speaking, to the newest nation. The
United States adopted its present col
ors 140-odd years ago (June IA,
IT'D, and the only change in it
since has been the addition Of new
stars for every new state added to
the union.
course, taken from the arms of Cen
George Washington, the shell. of
whose family is depicted on monu-
ments in Brinton church.
The Union Jack. in it's present
form, dates only from 1901, while the
French, tricolor was adopted in
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
A Newspaper Family

r. o. Majors, who has been with
the Lapjer County News, will leave
Sunday morning for ClaXton, Ga,
where he will be editor and publish
er of the Claxton Enterprise. His
father, T. h. Majors, is editor of the
Willacoochce Times; his brother,
Jack Majors, Jr., is editor of the Blu
ford Advertiser, and his brother, r.
e. L. Majors, is with the Americas
Tines Recorder. - Lanier County
News
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NOTJCE no SIJBSCRTBERS

The label addressing shows the time
your subscription expires By renewing at least two weeks
before the date this LABEL insure regular service
In ordering paper changed, be to mention your
old as well your address, If on route. please
give the route number. 49,, -
We cannot subscriptions to begin with back num-
hers Remttanoes should be sent by postal order or
registered mail. -, r.-. l..
THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
Our Most PapuIar Product

No matter how much fault some
alien parasite living off this country
finds with American houses, food,
customs and government, he never
seems able to find any fault with
American money that gets into his
hands.-Tolcdo Blade.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
The Same Old Error

Another bit of circumstantial evil
dence supporting the charge that the
Russian Red army is directed largely
by German officers is the fact that
the Reds are repeating so many of
the characteristic plumbers of the
German militarists.-Chicago Daily
News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

If there is no shortage just talk about
one and it will serve the same purpose
Jacksonville Florida Times Union.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
Renublioan, suoniulix.

The Republicans have plenty of
money with which to cover their
shortage Of principles and sound
ideas. = Thomasville Times-Enter-
prise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

The White Housing problem is the only
housing question that received the atten-
ton of political platform makers-Green-
vile g.. CO. Piedmont.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

Ponzi it is said, will be able to pay half
his debts. A lot of us rated more solvent
than Ponzi would be glad to be able to do
as much.-Omaha World Herald
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
Editorial Echoes

The Dayton. News and Marion Star are
making the covenant scrap of paper
Columbia Is. CO. Record.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

The bear that used to walk like ma
now runs like rabbit.-Columbus co.
Dispatch.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

Editor Harding has decided to abandon
the old front porch and to increase his
circulation.-Little Rock Arkansas Ga
Zette.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

IN a tiny paragraph well-nigh buried I'M
der the avalanche of news in the pa
- pers of August 81, "fnis" was written
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07

OAGE advice to the farmer is given by
the Triton Gazette in recent edito-