Evening star., 1924-12-22

the next on such hops and faith az
he happens to possess.
| n X n
| How some folks can stay up to
| midnight every night, night after
night, month after month, year after
year, is a standing mystery to US
| who believe In going to bed early.
| o sleep! 1t is q gentle thing.
| Beloved from pole to pole!
Coleridge was right when he wrote
that, but no one would suspect 1t
| from the actions of many folk. They
| never even start to go to bed until
midnight or later. Sleep Is to them
only a disagreeable necessity.
Now. perhaps 1t would be fine
! thing IL mankind had been made so
that he might have worked and play
ed the clock around, but somehow the
Creator made US up on an entirely
different principle.
We are like clocks that have to be
| wound up every night. Our winding
up Is accomplished by nature while
we sleep. 1t is possible to get just
| sufficient sleep to get by" but In
the end the big handspring Is going
to break before its appointed time.
Nature Is one thing you cannot get
around. Whether you like the plan
! or not, there 1t is, and you either
comply with 1t or pay the penalty.
| Nature knows neither pity or blame.
AS Emerson says, the river browns
/ the ferocious tiger and the innocent
! baby exactly the same.
God bless the man who first IN
vented sleep." said Sancho Panza-
| The world has agreed with that pious
| sentiment ever since.
Sleep Is an art as well as a neceS-
| sity. Like the other laws of our
being, the best way is to fall In with
| II peacefully and do not put up too
| big a fuss about 1t.
The world OF men has discovered
that about eight hours OF sleep are
necessary for most men and women
| with 8 or 10 required for the best health
Of children.
Mavbe II would be a better thing
| IL some one would invent way 70
dispense with sleep. Then H u.
Wells could turn out 200 novels IN
stead of 100, and there would be
twice as many fox-trot tunes on the
air.
But would the world be any better
off?
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Sleep certainly knits up the raveled
sleeve of care. as Shakespeare put 1t.
That sleeve, by the way, ought to be
pretty we'll knit UP by this time.
! Sleep is a great pacifier, Troubles
vanish in It's soothing insensibillty.
| Pains become as if they were not.
and often, happily, are no more, In
/ reality, when one awakes.
Heavy sleep, the cousin OF death,
| some one spoke of it; and certainly
| sleep is about as near death as we
will ever get until we arrive there.
| A sleep without dreams is the ideal.
Most dreams come when one is lying
| on the back, SO that care to sleep on
| the side or stomach Will obViate most
| of them. Dreaming is mostly nui-
sance and can well be dispensed with,
as 1T allows the vagaries of the sub
| conscious mind to break loose.
What probing deep has ever solved
| the mystery of sleep?" asked Thomas
| Bailey Aldrich. The animals accept
! the mystery more complacently than
we do. and give themselves up TO
| its beneficial sway. Maybe that is
| one reason why they are so healthy.
| Even as sleep seems to resemble
death, so 1t is best accomplished in
a quiet place. The ears are always
| open, II must be remembered, and
| cient to actually awake the sleeper.
they have enough volume to vftiate
| the deepness of his slumber.
| 1t is the real, heavy sleep that
counts. In a modern city. with all
| night traffic and noises made by the
night hawks" who think they are
! putting something over on nature, 1t
is probable that few get all the Al
! quality sleep they need.
! Yes, we spend one-third OF our life
In sleep, and I, for one, think 1t is
| very we'll spent there. Certainly 1t
/ has the very highest authorship.
| He giveth His beloved sleep"