Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1919 — Bismarck Liked City's Noise. [ARTICLE]

Bismarck Liked City's Noise.

Bismarck would have had little sympathy with the present crusade against the sounding of motor Jborns when most people are in bed, for he found that enhanced the value of a night’s rest. In his old age he confided to an interviewer that he’could “never sleep in Berlin at night when it Is quiet, but as soon as the noise begins, about four o’clock in the morning, I can Sleep a little and get my restfor the day.” Pepys also found comfort in nocturnal noises. “I still remember,” he records on September 23, 1661, when staying at Welling, “that of all the nights that I ever slept in my life I never did pass a night with more epicurfsm for sleep; there being now and then a noise of-people that waked me, and then it was a very rainy night, and then I was a little weary, that what between waking and then sleeping again., one after another, I never had so much content in all my life.”