Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — To Awakcn Slcepyheads. [ARTICLE]

To Awakcn Slcepyheads.

For the benefit of the sluggard who finds it impossible to awake betimes, some Ingenious contrivances have been produced by inventors. There Is a kind of bedstead, for example, which holds its mattress in a frame that is retained in the normal position by a catch. At the proper hour the catch, operated by a clockwork mechanism, loses Its grip and the mattress frame becomes vertical instead of horizontal, throwing sleepyhead out upon the floor. Another bed lets the head of the sleepy person drop when getting-up time arrives, one end of the mattress frame collapsing. But one of the queerest of the patented methods of waking people up involves the employment of a tin pan and a weight hung by a cord. When the hands of a clock reach t. certain point, the weight is released and falls upon the pan, making a direful racket. Another oddity is a frame from which are suspended a number of corks. During the night it is lowered gradually by a clockwork mechanism until at the proper hour and minute the dangling corks begin to bob against the nose and face of the sleeper. Of course he promptly wakes up.