Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — How We Go to Sleep [ARTICLE]

How We Go to Sleep

■ ■ Hew. >do two. go to slsspti /HtoW Mas Mother Nature, abash* awajr oar oan» sciousness ? First- a# sh cbs-lbaft her spo* on those oantros of oaf bodies that preside over the asaaeolar system, causing one group ofmuada* after another graddaHy* to cwflapad* Thereafter, varioua powers of MU* succumb in. regular order. - TSfsd we lose attention and judgment That memory goes- mad Imagination wanders away in ravelriea of ita own. Ideas of time and space seas# to control thought as gentle sleep—the nurse of our Ills—draws nearer. Tiki comes the torn of the special aonadC beginning with sight—eyslidaelose sad eyeballs tarn upward-and inward,- aa if to shut out all llght, the pupils contracting mors and mars- aa slumhsr steals over us. The turn si ■ the cam -eaassa dha heart bents and brketh isid«w»«ssre and- mere > slowly, The (haarhnhsaCC from ten to twsmtyvtlmae toes* frequently each- mlauto; .erhsflTO? ia> rand times Isas daring; the- sight, while breathing- la- not4 only niewor but much: more shallow- than during waking- hows, T any sapkiro/inia'-by perhaps two degrees and fho body awake. And seat tosh slaCg uoroM a man Ml over slosp .that, slats-np sorrow’s 1 eye. 4