Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1878 — No More Sleepless Nights. [ARTICLE]

No More Sleepless Nights.

Somebody who seems to have tried it says: “The last method we have heard of for curing cases of pure sleeplessness, when unaccompanied by pain or disease, is the following : Get out of bed and take a linen bandage—although a handkerchief, neatly folded longwise, will do as well, perhaps better. Dip one-half of the handkerchief into water; pass the wet portion around the wrist; over this lay the dry half, and tuck in the ends so as to make all secure. Lie down again. The wet bandage will be found to exercise a most soothing influence on the pulse; this will soon extend all over the nervous system, and calm, refreshing sleep will be the result.” Tub “ agony columns” of the Turkish newspapers are filled with advertisements for lost relations, giving painful evidence of the dispersion of families of the Mussulman population which has taken plaoe in the districts by war.