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How to Go To Sleep
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Here Is a Suggestion Offered Most Humbly.
Fortunately for the world, many millions of men never worry
about going to sleep. All they need is to find time and a bed for
sleeping, and the sleep comes to them.
But to many the sleep problem is as important and as terrifying
as that other problem, “how to digest.”
It is worth while to help solve these problems. For the most
useful work that is done in the world is the work that, uses up the
nerves and fatigues the brain, causing sleeplessness and tfie suffer
ing that accompanies it.
.Much advice has been given to the man who can not sleep.
One man will tell you to lie with your eyes shut, imagine sheep
jumping over a hedge, and count them.
Another will tell you to count from one up to a million—until
you go Io sleep.
Many men become more wide awake than ever when they try
1o invent imaginary sheep or to keep track of their counting.
At various times in this column we have given advice on this
subject, some of it. perhaps, not utterly worthless.
For instance, if you wake up and can not go to sleep again, you
may, by drinking a little milk or eating a cracker, overcome your
wakefulness
Sleeplessness is caused usually by pressure of blood on the
brain. By putting the stomach to work you draw the blood from
Ihe brain to the stomach, and sleep follows.
This idea yon will see illustrated in the cases of babies and of
puppies, which go to sleep as soon as their small stomachs are filled.
Another important thing is to study the art of lying in bed com
fortably. Many sleep in strained positions, with knees drawn up to
their chins, or with legs crossed, so that one set of muscles is neces
sarily fatigued, or with fingers clasped, and so on.
Try to find a position absolutely restful, in which the mattress
supports every ounce of your weight, and your muscles support
none of it.
The advice which we want to give, you today, and which we
should like to have you try, is theoretical, but in one or two cases it
has worked very well.
You know that the blood in the brain causes sleeplessness. You
know it is the heart that sends the blood there.
Sleeping on the left side all night is harmful, and for this rea
son: In lying on the left side the weight of your body presses on
your heart and interferes with its action. The heart is subjected
throughout the night to unusual pressure, which is harmful.
But if you can adoptnhe following plan, we believe it may do
good. Try it and watch the results anyhow:
When yo’u first go to bed. lie on your left side. 'Hie unusual
weight on the heart will quiet its action and tend to decrease its
activity and that of the brain. Retain this position until you find
that the world is getting hazy, and strange, foolish, incoherent ideas
creep into you mind -in other words, until you begin to go to
sleep.
If yon can catch yourself just as a sleepy moment comes on, and
then turn on your right side, we think you will have no difficulty
in sleeping through the night.
This way of inducing sleep will soon become a habit. In some
cases it has been known to dispose of sleeplessness altogether.
Try this suggestion, in addition to the others offered.
Reproach of Our Diplomatic
Service
Interesting figures are those in the report of Representative
Flood, for the committee of foreign affairs, on the Sulzer bill, show
ing how inadequately our diplomats are paid and housed as com
pared with those of other countries.
For instance, we pay our ambassador in Paris $17,500 a year,
while Great Britain pays hers $45,000. In Vienna. St. Petersburg,
Rome and Berlin the British ambassadors receive from $35,000 to
$45,000, the French from $24,000 to $40,000. Austria-Hungary pays
her ambassadors from $31,000 to $40,000, Russia from $22,000 to
$40,000, and Italy from $22,000 to $23,000.
Thus our representatives to the great capitals, where much is
expected in the way of entertainment, are forced to scrape along on
salaries insufficient to maintain Ihe dignity of their count n.
It follows that only men of means can be appointed to these
posts, and the list of our ambassadors to the powers is therefore a
list of millionaires.
In his report. Mr. Flood says that one of our most distinguished
ambassadors confessed that he was obliged to spend more than his
first year’s salary in refitting and furnishing a house which was in
ferior in every respect to that of his colleagues. After two years
the house was sold and he was obliged to repeat the same expe
rience.
In the plea for fit quarters for our ambassadors the report de
clares that the usefulness of an ambassador or a consul depends
upon the respect in which he is held in the country where he re,
sides. In the great capitals of Europe the public knows the British,
French, German. Austrian. Russian and Italian legations, but those
of the United States are unknown.
Mr. Sulzer hopes his bill appropriating half a million for suit
able residences in the City of Mexico. Tokio, Berne and Hankow will
pass. Certainly it is time that the United States placed its diplo
matic service on a par with other countries. _ t
The Atlanta Georgian
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■ and get busy; you can t get elected by the necktie vote! Theodore, that appears to be a fine speech you’re making, but I wish you would
say it over, and say it slow. Your words are having too many rear-end collisions with each other. I’ve just been calling on a friend of
mine who has had a terrible accident. Poor fellow, he’s very weak this morning. Um afraid he won’t be able to make his regular busi
ness collections for some time.” ;
I he Old Problem of Man and Woman
What May Be Learned From Pro f. Ferrero’s Contrast of the Roman Matron With the New Woman.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
EVERY thoughtful reader must
, be greatly interested by the
discussion in Hearst’s Mag
azine for July of "The New Woman
and the Old." it is a subject which
touches the most intimate relations
of the two sexes of mankind, and
is concerned with the basis of their
happiness on earth.
Ferrero takes as typical of the
woman of old Roman matrons, and
his exhaustive historical knowledge
enables him to make some state
ments which will, undoubtedly, sur
prise many readers who have not
given much attention to such
studies. He brings out in startling
contrast the difference between the
conditions of married couples in an
cient Rome apd in modern civilized
nations.
In Rome it was her father-in-law
that the bride had to please rather
than Iler husband. The father of
the bridegroom had the power, at
any time after the marriage, to dis
solve its bonds in case, for any rea
son, social or political, he were dis
satisfied with the bride. Then he
could compel his son to take an
other wife more to his (the fa
ther’s) liking.
Often it was no personal objec
tion that the father-in-law had to
his son’s wife, but merely some
reason of policy, which led him to
exercise this tyrannical right. He
would do it for what he thought
was the advantage of the family as
a whole, or for his own sole advan
tage and saf ty.
i Ancient Family Was Sort
Os Political Society.
It is very difficult for us, with our
present ideas, to conceive the state
of marriage In the mightiest empire
that had ever been known 2,000
years ago—an empire which has
affected the course of the world's
history more than any other that
has existed. "The ancient family
was a son of political society." In
political struggles families stood to
gether us solid units, "if not im
possible. it was a thing certainly
most improbable and unusual for a
son. or a son-in-law, to join a party
other than his father's or his fa
ther-in-law’s!”
Imagine such a state of things
existing today! Imagine one of our
political bosses compelling his son
to turn away his wife, and the
mother of his children, and to take
another wife from among the
daughters of his father’s henchmen!
The American political steam roller
may operate as effectually and as
brutally, but it is much less simple
in its machinery.
It needs hut a glance at Professor
Ferrero’s facts to see the tremen
dous political significance of the
ancient Roman family, and to un-
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1912.
derstand that woman played as im
portant a part in public affairs
then as now, although mainly with
out volition on her part. All that
was demanded of her was to taka
exceeding pains not to throw any
shadow on the pathway of her fa
ther-in-law’s ambition. But woe
to her if he happened to cast his*
eyes upon some other woman who,
in the character of his son's wife,
would forward his purposes better
than she could!
But there is another side to the
picture. With all her submission
to the irresponsible will of the fa
ther-in-law the Roman matron
was, in many ways, a model of
marital virtues. At the mention
of her we think instinctively of
Cornelia, the mother of the Grac
chi, vaunting her sons above all the
jewels of her worldly minded ac
quaintances. The Roman matron
::: On a Diet :::
By PERCY SHAW.
4 i TO wonder,” said the doctor,
As he looked the fat man
o’er,
“That you feel a trifle heavy
And without esprit de corps.
You must quickly take to fasting,
For by starving you I can
In a month or so transform you
To a nearly perfect man.
"Scorn potatoes, frown on coffee,
Spurn red meats and tidbits fried,
Cast away cigars and liquors
With a high and mighty pride.
Turn your face from pies and candy,
Put your ban on all things sweet,
And whatever's left, with caution,
You may taste, but do not eat.
"In the morning just at daybreak
Run ten miles with gentle sweep.
Mow the lawn before the noon hour.
Drink a glass of milk and sleep;
Cut a cord of wood by sunset,
Go to bed by eight or so.
So you won’t be waked or bothered '
By tl >w.*’
Thirty days the patient suffered,
Then his temper rose within—
"lf I've got to die. I'd rather
Make the journey fat than thin.”
"Please excuse me." said the doctor,
As the victim voiced his rage
In expressive words not suited
To the modest printed page.
"I was very much mistaken.”
Said the doctor with a smile.
"What you need is food a-plenty,
And you need it all the while.
Take a cocktail before dinner.
Munch on candy all you can.
And in thirty days you'll find that
You’ve become a perfect man.”
took almost as much interest in
the commonwealth as if she had
been a free agent in managing it.
But she was not personally much
occupied with affairs outside her
family circle. Spinning, weaving,
the supervision of the children and
the housiehold—these were the
things that occupied her time, if
she were not frivolous in mind,
and her habitually faithful per
formance of such duties has given
her imperishable renown and made
her a model in history.
The "modern woman” has a dif
ferent ambition. She wants to com
pete with her brothers, and even
with her husband, in things which
in ancient Rome were regarded as
peculiarly the business of men—as
they have continued to be gener
ally regarded in all civilized lands
since Rome became only a grand
memory. I iterary activity is not
included in these, nor works of
charity and morality. She Is a
dashing rider, a bicyclist, an auto
driver, an aeropianist, a public
speaker, a laborer in a thousand
occupations, and every day she does
many things which would have
caused a great scandal in Rome.
Modern Woman Has
Made Herself Interesting.
Thus the modern woman has
made herself interesting from a
great number of new viewpoints,
but there are those who question
whether she will appear as admir
able on the pages of history as
does the single-minded Roman ma
tron. The modern woman has di
vided the interest of the opposite
sex, whereas the Roman woman
kept it concentrated. Rut the sum
total of the interest she excites can
not be increased through such di
vision. That total was fixed at a
maximum by nature when it de
creed the existence of the two sexes.
And so again there will be doubt
ers who will question whether in
the subdivision of interest, as af
fecting herself, the modern woman
| gains anything in the end. Some
will even go so far as to suggest
that the final effect of the division
will be a loss—just as the many
faceted eye of the fly is a less effec
tive organ of vision than the sin
_ gle set of lenses that fills the hu
man orbit. In other words, the
question is whether the attraction
and the power of woman are not
stronger when exercised as a unit,
that unit being simple womanliness,
than when they are spread over a
broader field and penetrate what
many regard as alien regions.
These, at any rate, are questions
of the highest importance, witli
which we are imperatively called
upon to deal, and everybody ought
to give to then! his utmost powers
of observation and reason.
' ' This identity in principles be
tween state and national government makes it necessary to define what a
state may not do. or what acts the national government may perform ex
clusively.
A state may not enter in alliance. It may not coin money or issue pa
per money. It may pass no law destroying the obligations Included in con
tracts, and it may grant no titles of nobility.
A state may not engage in war. It may not enter Into any agreement
with a foreign power.
These are some of the powers denied to a state, it being recognized that
they are held by the Federal government for impartial execution in behalf
of all the states.
The state, then, is obligated to conform in its acts and in its own consti
tution to the constitution of the United States.
But it has its own form of government. It has the power to amend its
constitution. Like the Federal government. It has its own departments of
government: (1) legislative, (2) judicial, (3) executive.
A state has a governor and two legislative houses elected by the people.
It may remove officers by impeachment. All states, except Louisiana, recog.
nize the common law of England, and all support a system of public schools.
Criminal acts that are committed against the authority of the Federal
government result in the perpetrator being taken to a Federal prison, while
state prisons serve the same purpose when the law of the state itself has
been violated.
As the thirteen original colonies were subject to England, and yet pos
sessed some degree of independence, so the present states united in the Union
are subject to the Federal constitution, and yet are left otherwise free to
act under their own constitutions.
By the constitution, the Federal government regulates commerce between
the United States and foreign nations. It also requires that no state shall
refuse to admit the products of another state. The question of traffic and
business between the states has made it necessary to establish the interstate
commerce commission. This commission is a body of seven members. The
term of office is seven years, and the annual salary of each member is
SIO,OOO.
This commission undertakes to regulate comhierce of all kinds between
the states. It investigates freight and passenger rates, the equipment of
cars and locomotives. It may fix rates for common carriers. It regulates the
matter of free transportation. In brief, it brings all matters arising out of
the extensive transportation system of the country under central control.
Bit by bit, the amazing complexity of our country’s activity is being reg.
ulated and brought under control. All recent investigation of trusts will ul
timately result in direct control of certain orders of business, but it will
probably be some time before a practical basis of procedure and direction is
secured.
Like a Department Store.
The government, like a great department store, has its many branches
and its division of business. Each of these branches, like a stream that
flows into a river, must ultimately reach the central point.
The frequent condemnation of the government for failing to exercise
proper direction over large enterprises is unfair. That is what it is trying to
do. and gradually it is accomplishing something toward it.
With affairs of government, as with affairs of your own life, there is al
ways something yet to be done, and when it is done new conditions will hava
brought up something else.
A Little Song
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Copyright 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.
OH. a great world, a fair world, a true world 1 find it;
A sun that never forgets to rise,
On the darkest night a star in the skies,
And a God of love behind it.
Oh. a good life, a sweet life, a large life 1 take it,
Is what He offers to you and rne;
A chance to do. and a chance to be,
Whatever we choose to make it.
Oh. a far way, a high way, a sure way He leads us;
And it the journey at times seems long,
We must trudge ahead, with a trustful song,
And know at the end He needs us.
THE HOME PAPER
The
Education
of
the Voter
The State and
the Nation
By THOMAS TAPPER.
WHEN the Revolutionary war
broke out the colonies
were thirteen in number.
They were dependents of the Eng
lish government, and subject to the
English king.
Each of the thirteen colonies,
however, enjoyed a certain amount
of independence of self-govern
ment—-just enough, in fact, to make
it clear that they could very easily
manage all their own affairs. By
the Declaration of Independence
and the struggle that secured it
each one of the colonies became
virtually a separate nation.
Then the colonies, with freedom
won, adopted each for itself a con
stitution based more or less direct
ly upon the original charter which
had been granted to it by the
crown. In fact, Connecticut and
Rhode Island adopted their Eng
lish charter VERBATIM as their
new constitution.
From 1788 to 1790 the thirteen
independent states became a Union,
and this Union had, in turn, to be
provided with a constitution. There
were then fourteen constitutions in
active operation.
From that time to this, new com
munities have grown up and have
petitioned to be admitted to the
Union. This is allowed when a
sufficient population is attained and
a. constitution submitted that is
satisfactory to the congress of the
United States.
Officers of the Nation.
The nation as a whole provides
itself with a president, vice presi
dent, a senate, a house of represen
tatives and such other officers as
are needed. Likewise, each state
has Its governor, its lieutenant gov
ernor, its senate and house (or as
sembly).
