The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, July 08, 1909, Image 4
DROWSINESS. A* a Rule It Indicate* Something Wrong In Habit* or Health. 8! (vp! n t'"* h it normal and health v condition when it occur* at the ii-uul !•'*<!li im? .uni when not j i*\tP’iiii* ami ovcr|mw cring, Imt. it I i- not alttave -I'.iK niii'il with >!«*<•[*. j Sonin perron* m |H*rfect health am! excellent slceners Itanily know the meaning of drnw-ines*. They are j active mentally ami physically until thev are in lied. I lien sleep comes . ut on< e, and when it leave* them in the morning they are again in full mental awakenc--. There are ie-> fortunate persons; who never have a complete and sat isfactory night's rest who are yet almost constantly drowsy. They are always nodding, but when the head touches the pillow sleep re- i cedes and the night is a succession, nf drousv lap-.es to sleep with the in taut return of semiconsciousness.! In general, with the exception noted at the beginning of this arti cle. drowsiness is abnormal and in dicate- something wrong either with the hodv of the sufferer or in hi* halms. Those who habitually; cat off their hours of alee (I, the “night owls” and the burners of tin* midnight oil, pay for their bad ha hit bv attacks of sleepiness in tin* afternoon and early evening. J . ter. unfortunately, as ter the in- | j! iciiee of digestion wears otr, the drowsiness disappears, and then, re lieved of his burden, the person! “sits up to all hours” again, think- J in/ in that way to make up for the I hours lost by the drowsiness. If he j would abandon bis owlish habit, go to bed betimes and get the seven or eight hours of continuous sleep that lie needs his daytime and evening; drowsiness would disappear, he could do more and better work and find life much more enjoyable. A slight drowsiness is often no- ! tiled after a hearty meal, because j digestion draws a greater volume of: blood to the stomach, so that the brain is relatively poorly supplied. In some southern countries this tendency is favored, and the siesta after the noon meal is a nationals custom. With us the after dinner cup of black coffee often drives awav the impulse to sleep whether for good or ill may he left to the physiologists to determine. Sometimes we hear of attacks of sleepiness occurring suddenly at certain periods of the day ut ir regular intervals. These are alto gether abnormal, and in such eases there i* almost always some poison at work in the nervous centers, usually a self manufactured poison, which, because it is made in too great quantity or because constipa tion or kidney disease prevents its rapid elimination, accumulates in the system. An essential in the treatment of such cases is dieting. Meat should! lie given up for a time at least, and the otilv beverage allowable is water or milk. Youth’s Companion. Flower* In a Mexican Jungle. For four or live miles our road passed through a marsh, and for a mile our horses splashed stirrup; deep in water. Then vie reached the first rise of the foot-hills, and a tropical growth, dense and high, dosed in upon us and shut out the last breath of air that in the open marsh below had fanned our cheeks and m some degree made tolerable the burning intensity of the noon day sun. Stately palms and gigan tic ferns, with a luxuriant tropical undergrowth, made impenetrable t lie jungle that lined our road. Mar velous flowering vines that intvvined themselves in the forest trees, blooming shrubs and here and there beautiful orchids and masses of wild honeysuckle gave a setting of gorgeous color and charged the j atmosphere with delicious perfume. —Outing Magazine. They Got Through. Ahrahatn Lincoln was a captain ; of Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk war. Mr. Norman Ha|»good in his “Life of Lincoln” relates that during this campaign Lincoln once had his company marching in a column twenty nten wide when be was suddenly confronted with a, high fence with an open gate, through which only one man could pa># at a time. He had no idea of the proper way to get his men into single file, so tic halted the com pany and said:* “Tins company is dismissed, but it will ootue together immediately after getting through that irate!” Mor« Than Sha Expected. A little girl well expressed the mingling of hope and doubt which anticipation holds for many people When she received her first "very own" doll after n succession oi treasures inherited from her oldet s.stcr* she turned to her mother n face fall of rapture. ”1 expected I’d have n doll %orr.r dnv.” she »nid breathlessly, “but I didn’t expert I should ever have my expect Exchange. • N DRUDGERY OF MUSIC. JoWihim Practiced One CorrfjO»itio» For Over Sixty Year*. When in interviewer, who had : put to Kubelik a question as to* the number of hours a day he panel irdL j ! was answered, “Practically all my i waking hours,” it i* probable that ; the interrogator, as well as others j who beard the reply, thought the j response ii bit of artistic exaggera tion. Yet there is much evidence i . to sustain Kubelik’s assertion. I’uganini, the greatest of all vio-, linist-, was conipt*lied by an avari cjous father to practice twelve or fourteen hours each day. So wearied I ! did I’aganini become of his drudg erv that for several years he actual- j Iv laid aside the instrument over j which In- had such consummate i control and devoted himself to ag . ricultural pursuits. This period of; musical disgu-t soon passed, how-; ever, and the violinist again turned to his hard work, and to such good purpose that, there was nothing ■ written for the violin, no matter | what its technical difficulties might he, that he was not able to play Late in bis life Paganini gave over his practicing, for the reason, it is said, that he then played only hie own compositions. A saving of Rubinstein’s indi cates concisely the importance of : unwearying practice, “Should I not practice for a day I know it, should I miss two days my friends know ! it, and should I miss three days : even the public knows it.” Joachim, another violinist, during his student days was an inmate of the house of his master, and it was j largely due t<> the inexorable de mands to practice that the teacher laid on him that Joachim was cn- ! aided to attain his proud position. The room wherein the pupil prac | (iced was without any window, but I had a glass panel in the door. If ; the sound of Joachim’s violin ceased i for a moment during the hours set | apart for practice, then could be seen tbe scowling face of tin* in structor peering through the panel. Joachim practiced one composition the difficult Beethoven concerto for over sixty years. Mendelssohn lias left an interest ing observation touching bis ardu ous hours of practice. Speaking of ; certain recitals he was giving on j the organ, lie said: “1 became so; interested in mv work that whole j days passed like hours. I practiced pedal passages to such an extent j that the act of walking along the 1 street actually transformed itself into a fugue, so automatic had my | | movements become.’’ With regard to his practicing | Paderewski entertains some odd no- ; tioiis. one of which is a penchant , i for a nocturnal running of the , scales. The great Pole has been ! known to spend the whole night in | achieving perfection in one or two i runs of a composition he is study- I ing. Paderewski has said that the | greatest foe a musician lias to fight is the feeling of satiety that is sure , i to oppress him should his work he ! I not well apportioned. Each season ] the Pole finds that he must acquire j Mime twenty to thirty new eompo- i sit ions. So hard does he work at ! (lime that at tlu> conclusion of his , short tour lie cannot endure to hoar ! a single bar of any of thorn. Like j many other musicians, lie is saved from inaction only by the acquire- i incut of novelties. Now York Tribune Coat* of Arms. The origin of the term “coats of | J arms" is thus explained: lit the; ! davs of chivalry the knights, of j course, wore coats of linked steel or : some kind of armor to protect them j ii*. battle or tourney. These coats i would soon become useless on ae- j count of the rusting caused by ex posure to drenching rains, and in tin* sunlight they were exceedingly 1 hot and dazzling. So the kuigbts 1 put on a silken surooat over these coats of mail, and as. with helmets ion and visors closed, there was no wav of distinguishing one from an other the armorial bearings of each knight were emblazoned on his silk en surcoat, which thus became a t “coat of arms.” The practice was then extended to the trappings of; the horse and afterward to tin* arti cles of the household, as the linen and plate. King Canute’s Church. Canewdon is a small Essex vil lage which once held an important I place in the making of England. It was here that Canute and his Panes won that decisive victory over Ed mund Ironsides which gave the Eng lish crown to the Panish pirate The conqueror named its rising ground “Canute’s Down" (Canew- j deal. and gave the five manors com prising the parish to his son Sweyn. Embracing Christianity. Canute founded a church at Canewdon. and to this day Canewdon gives its name to a rural deanery which include* Southend, eight miles to the south ! —Westminster Gazette. the Montgomery moNitoh—thi usDav, jfi.y ioob. • 1 ■- ■■■■'■■ ■ ■ -* ■ . .. , -- ■ A PERPETUAL CLOCK. Th« Way Its Curious Mechanism Dis appeared In China. 'ln the eighteenth century an in i genious jeweler named James Cox ! of Shoe lane, London, constructed a clock which was rendered per petual by a cleverly contrived at ] - tachment which utilized the risi ! and fall of the barometer to supplv the necessary energy. 'fhe movement of the mereurv actuated a cogwheel in such a map ner that whether the mereurv ro-t or fell the wheel always revolved ir. the same direction and kept the i weights that supplied the move ment of the clock always wound I up. The barometer bulb dipped into a mercury cistern. The cistern hung uttached to the extremities : of two rockers, to the left end of j . 1 one and the right end of the other The bulb was similarly attached to the other extremities of the rock : ers, which are thus moved every ' r time there is a change in the - amount of mercury in bub* andcis-! ■ tern respectively. The rockers ac tuated a vertical ratchet, and the teeth were so arranged that the wheel they controlled could only move in one direction, whether the ratchet ascended or descended. The clock itself was an ordinary one, hut of very strong and su perior workmanship and was jewel ed with diamonds at every bearing, the whole being inclosed in a case, which, while it excluded dust, ’ displayed the entire mechanism. The fate of Cox's clock was brought to light in a workvt*alled “Travels of China,” published in , 1804 and written by John Harrow. In this hook it is stated that in the list of presents carried by “the • late Dutch ambussador” were “two grand pieces of machinery that . were part of the curious museum of Cox.” One of these apparently was this perpetual clock, and it was taken by the Dutch embassy to Chi na, where in the journey from Can- • ton to Pekin both the instruments - suffered some slight damage. Ef forts were made to repair them at Pekin, but on leaving the capital it was discovered that the Chinese prime minister, He Tchangtong ’ had substituted two other clocks ol ■ very inferior workmanship and had . reserved Cox’s mechanism for him self.—London Times. All There. A philanthropic citizen of a small city, moved by sympathy for his t unfortunate townspeople, who were j suffering from want during an ex ceedingly cold winter, arranged a public entertainment in their be- I half. Xo admission fee was charged, but it was announced that a collec tion would he taken. The evening | came, anil (he hall was well tilled. The entertainment, consisting of i recitations, music and amateur sleight of hand performances, was generously applauded, and with much satisfaction the philanthropic j citizen, assisted by the performers, i ; proceeded to take up the contribu ■ tions. They amounted to ss. (id. “Well,” he said to the audience after he had counted the money, I : “this collection, as you understand, i j is for the benefit of the poor —and ! thev seem to be all here.”—London Tit-Bits. • Watch the Sky. The different colors of the sky are caused by certain rays of light ! being more or less strongly reflected : or absorbed, according to the amount of moisture contained in the atmos phere. Such colors do, therefore, portend to some extent the kind of weather that may naturally be ex pected to follow. For instance, a red sunset indicates a fine day to follow, because the air when dry re -1 fracts more red or heat making rays and as dry air is not perfectly traits- j parent they are again reflected in the horizon. A coppery or yellowy \ sunset generally foretells ruin. The 1 following has been advocated as a fairlv successful wav of prognosti eating: Fix your eye on the small est cloud you can see; if it decreases and disappears, the weather will be , good; if it increases in size, rain may be looked for. Improving the Opportunity. The small bov was ready to start on a long promised week’s visit to his grandfather’s in the country. There was an exasperating delay in the appearance of the carriage to take them to the station. The young man worked off his impa tience in various annoying ways for half an hour. Then suddenly he was seen to kneel beside a chair in the corner and bury his face in his hands. 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