Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1910 — Length of Dreams. [ARTICLE]

Length of Dreams.

Three physicians were discussing the matter of the length of dreams. “One afternoon,” said one of them, “I called to see a patient, and, much to my satisfaction, I found him sleeping soundly. I sat by his bed, felt of his pulse without disturbing him and waited for him to awaken. After a few minutes a junk dealer’s cart with discordant ringing bells* turned into the street, and as their first tones reached hs my patient opened his eyes. j “ ’Doctor,’ he said, *i’m glad to see you and awfully glad that you woke me, fdr I have been tortured by a most distressing dream that must have lasted for several hours. I dreamed that I was sick, as I am, and that my boy came into the room with a string of most horribly sounding sleighbells and rang them in my ears, while I hadn’t power to move or speak to him; I suffered tortures for what appeared to be an interminable time. I’m so-glad you woke me'.’ ; “The ringing‘of those bells for one second had caused all of that dream and Just at the waking moment.” When a girl says that she has no use for a certain young man it usually means that he has no time for her. The more expensive a thing is the easier it hr to get akmg wltbout it, -