Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-02-03
BED NOT POPULAR
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 1.-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
II is 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 gathering dispense, each
person saying with an air of solemn
resignation): "Well, l guess I'll go to
bed" But there was no hilarity
about it. 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 a SOFA or even fes-
TONED on the floor with a 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 1890 p. m. At
this period the human carcass seems
to consider that it has finished its
cycle, which began with so much cour-
age about 16 hours before. 1t be-
gins to slack and the mind halts on
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 APP
pointed time to go to bed, and they
do SO as a matter of routine.
These are, commonly, the happier
creatures, for they take the tide Of
sleep at the flood and are borne calmly
and with gracious gentleness out to
great waters of nothingness. They
push off from the wharf on tranquil
seen or heard of these voyagers until
they reappear at the breakfast table,
digging Justify into the grapefruit.
These people are happy, aye, in a
british and sedentary fashion, but they
miss the admirable adventures OF
those more embittered wrestlers who
will not give In without a struggle |
These latter suffer severe pangs be-
tween 1890 and about II rs, while |
they grapple with their failing facul- |
ties and seek to re-establish the will |
on its tottering throne.
This requires courage stout valor !
unbending. Once you yield, be it 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. Il will
sit down for season in that COM
Portable chair" the creature says to
himself. 'and read this sprlghtly
novel, That will ease my mind and
put me in humor for a continuance
Of lively thinking"
And the end Of that man is steady
nazal buzz from the bottom Of the
chair, where he has collapsed, an I'M
slightly object and a disgrace to hui
manity. This also means "a big bill
from the electric light company at
the end Of the month. In many such
ways win his corpus betray him. lead
Ing him by plausible self-deceptiOns
into pitfall Of sleep, whence he is
aroused about three a. M, when the
planet turns over on the other side.
Boston Globe.