Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — Ways of Sleeping. [ARTICLE]

Ways of Sleeping.

“Men have different ways of sleeping,” said the proprietor of a downtown 15-cent lodging-house. “Some can’t sleep unless their heads are turned in a certain direction. I reserve one of my beds every Saturday night for a man who comes in from the country. It heads northwest and southeast, and he says that is the only way he can sleep. But most of my customers are poor men, and so tired that they are glad to throw themselves down and sleep anyway. “Some bury themselves in the bedclothing until you would think that they would surely smother. Others he on their backs, and this is the kind that snore. See these linen strips! When a man snores so loudly as to disturb the others, I tie up his chin so softly as not to awaken him. He don’t snore any more after that. I have to keep awake all night on the lookout for sleepwalkers, who might injure themselves if not cared for”. New York Sun.