Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-12-17
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Most People Have an Aversion to
Seeking 1t.
Not That They Have Any Objection
to Slumber in Itself, but That
They Reject the AFFECT Sur
render involved.

One of the characters in THE Moon
and Sixpence" remarked that he had
faithfully lived up to the old precept
about doing every day two things
you heartily dislike; for said he, every
day he had got up and he had gone
to bed.
1t is a sad thing that as soon as the
hands of the clock have turned ten the
shadow of going to bed begins to creep
over the evening. We have never
heard bedgoing spoken of with any
enthusiasm. One after another we
have seen a gathering dispense, each
person saying with an air of solemn
resignation) well, | guess I'll go to
bed But there was no hlarity
about 1t. 1t is really rather touching
how they cling to the departing skirts
of the day that Is vanishing under the
spinning shadow of night.
This is odd, we repeat, for sleep is
highly popular among human beings.
The reluctance to go to ones couch Is
not at all a reluctance to slumber, for
almost all of us will doze happily in
an armchair or on sofa, or even fes-
TONED on the floor with q couple of
cushions. But the actual and formal
yielding to sheets and blankets is to
be postponed to the last possible mo-
ment.
The devil of drowsiness is most po
tent, we find about 10: 80 p. m. At
/ this period the human carcass seems
70 consider that it has finished It's
cycle, which began with SO much cour-
age about Is hours before. 1t be-
gins to slack and the mind halts on
a dead center every now and then, re-
fusing to complete the revolution.
Now, there are those who hold that
this is certainly the seemly and ap-
pointed time to go to bed, and they
do SO as matter of routine.
These are, commonly, the happier
creatures, for they take the tide of
sleep at the food and are borne calmly
and with gracious gentleness out to
great waters of nothingness. They
push off from the wharf on tranquil
current, and nothing more Is to be
seen or heard Of these voyagers until
they reappear at the breakfast table,
digging Justify into the gra pefruit
These people are happy, aye, In
british and sedentary fashion, but they
miss the admirable adventures of
those more embittered wrestlers who
| will not give in without struggle.
These latter suffer severe pangs be-
tween 10 80 and about II 10, while
they grapple with their falling facul-
ties and seek to re-establish the will
on its tottering throne.
This requires courage, stout valor
unbending. Once you yield, be 1t ever
so little to the tempter, you are lost.
And here our poor bard's clay plays
us false, undermining the intellect
with many trick and vile. 81 will
sill down for a season in that COM
Portable chair" the creature says to
himself, land read this sprightly
novel. That will ease my mind and
put me in humor for a continuance
Of lively thinking"
And the end of that man is a steady
naZal buzz from the bottom of the
chair, where he has collapsed, an I'M
slightly object and a disgrace to hui
mainly. This also means big bill
from the electric light company at
the end of the month. In many such
ways will his corpus betray him, lead
ing him by plausible self-deceptions
into a pitfall of sleep, whence he is
aroused about three a. m, when the
planet turns over on the other side.
Boston Globe.