The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-14
IF YOU SLEPT LIKE A TOP YOU
TOSSED ALL NIGHT

Observations Of many normal individuals
have shown that healthy persons in good
nights sleep change their position from 20 to
As times. Some of the positions sleeper as
sumeS for anywhere from minute to half an
hour are contortions rather than relaxations.
recognize this fact when they instruct the
nurse to turn the Frustrated. perhaps delirious
or unconscious patient from side to side reg
ularly.
Veterinarians often ask whether one
should sleep the right side or on the left,
prone or supine, stretched out or curled up,
with Pillow without under many covers or
none. In warm room or cold one, under a
draft from open window or fan or protected
all these questions. Sleep in whatever posture
and surroundings you like.
For instance if you harbor quaint notions
about the effects of drafts or exposure to
cold", if You take the half-baked warnings
of our self-styled 'Sscientifc" health authori-
ties as seriously as they do, it would probably
spoil your sleep to leave The fan going or the
window open on a sultry night-you'd' be SO
afraid of pneumonia you couldn't sleep. Far
better a restless night of fitful sweltering than
hours of silent vigil-for mind too
strong.
In sleep the breathing becomes slower and
deeper-deeper because it is freer, uninhibited
by consciousness, freea when one is under
the fleets of anesthesia. The breathing in sleep
is belly breathing A simple belly breathing
exercise at sleepy time sends thousands of in
valids and well folk off to happy dreams every
night. Send stamped addressed envelope and
ask for the Belly Breathing Instructions. 1t
it will do no one any harm to practice Belly
Breathing few moments night and morning.
In normal sleep the breathing has ten
dency to increase and decrease periodically. q
type of breathing which in pathological lexag-
geration is called Cheyne- Stokes breathing, the
tsriking characteristic being the intervals Of
no breathing between the waning and waxing
phases. In normal sleep, too. the expiration is
apt to be shorter and more audible than in
waking hours.
The pulse rate slows down in sleep-the
heart gets rest The blood pressure is lower,
and a relatively greater quantity Of blood is
held in the surface vessels in the arms and
legs and in the skin. The skin is warm and
slightly flushed; the arms and legs are slightly
enlarged Or swollen Every one knows that
warmth, especially Of the hands and feet, con-
duces to sleepiness. Thousands of our readers
know that the Belly Breathing exercise con-
duces to warmth of the feet.
In healthy sleeping person the eyeballs
roll upward and outward and the pupils are
contracted as in opium. laudanum or morphine
poisoning. The skin, too. is warm and dry, as
in the early stage of opium poisoning.
Psychologists disagree to the state of the
brain in Sleep You see it is so hard to ex-
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Slow to Learn
L have long tale of suffering from throat
the diathermy method had been used on me
in the beginning. However. realize that some
doctors must live Mrs F. L. d.
Answer-Yeah, but must they live in the
nineteenth century?
Baby Available
Please place in your column an item stating
there will be newborn baby for adoption
around August 10. Parents can give best of
references. Send names and addresses to me.
Mrs WyOming)
Answer-No, can't do that. If you wish
I'll file your letter and give your name and adj
dress to any correspondent who wishes to
adopt baby. can't give any other informa-
ton than this! have here on file letters from
a Brooklyn NJ Y, couple and from a Charles
ton, S. c., couple who want to adopt a baby.
But you must tell me whether you wish me
to give these people your address and name.
The Best Cheese
You had statement that s'pure fresh raw
milk and plenty OF cheese are the best foods
for the arthritis patient" Does this mean
cottage cheese or store cheese? MRS j. G. S.)
Answer-It means cottage cheese or any
other kind of cheese you like. There IL moth
ing superior to cottage cheese for the purpose.
/ Copyright 1893. John #. Ollie Coz