Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — How Sleep May Be Wooed. [ARTICLE]

How Sleep May Be Wooed.

Few persona In an ordinary assemblage can tell offhand what positions they assume to Invite sleep, and yet there Is not an individual in the world who has not some trick of distributing limbs and trunk to Insure slumber’s blls»r-i spell whlgh he practices unconsciously. This Is a night habit as perpetual and Immutable under normal conditions as- the succession of the seasons. No sooner are we really off to the land of nod than the night habit asserts Its dominion. Our hands and arms seek the same parts of the bed or the same portions of our bodies upon which we have nightly rested since infancy; our feet and legs stretch at the same angles or loosely entwine in comfortable relaxation as commanded by unconscious will. It is seldom of our own deliberate volition that we place our bodies in position for sleep, as you will find tonight on going to bed if you remember these words. In truth, if you do not seek to combat the instincts you will be surprised at the dispositions of the various members involuntarily If you endeavor to go to sleep by a new arrangment of the body you will also be surprised by the revolt against slumber which will surely ensue, but even before the struggle is well begun you will probably surrender and permit the all-masterful night habit to reinstate those little details of position which long practice has made necessary to your comfort.