Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1889 — A Somnambulist's Performance. [ARTICLE]

A Somnambulist's Performance.

Residing on the South Side, says the Chicago Herald, is a man whose physician has strongly advised him to in--dtdge io»-regttlar exercise This young man has been troubled with insomnia, aud is afflicted with anmnawhiiliam He believes, however, that he has the making of an athlete in him, and when he received his physician’s instructions he resolved to bring it out. So he had a horizontal bar erected in the back yard of tho house, and upon this he practiced daily. His principal feat | was to grab the smooth ‘bar with both | hands and swing around with great ! rapidity. One night the young man’s ! mother was awakened by the noise of ! a door closing. She arose and tiptoed ' toward the back part of the house, j Looking out of the rear window, she j saw her son, clad in his nightgown, revolving on tho horizontal bar with j lightning rapidity. Amazed at the spectacle of tho gyrating son and his flapping night garment, she aroused ; his father and told him about it. The ' old gentleman arose, donned his pants and went to the rescue. When he succeeded in stopping, the evolutions ot tfag flying boy he learned that he was : asleep, and that he had posed as a somnambulistic athlete. He awoke him with some difficulty and led him book ,to his bed. Now the young man has ! his parents lock his doors and windows f when he goes to bed: He is anxious to regain his health, but ho will not go so far as to do a horizontal act in his nightgown.