Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1903 — SLEEP ON A COLD SMOKE. [ARTICLE]

SLEEP ON A COLD SMOKE.

Paflug in Empty Ftp* til* to Be >■ Insomnia Core. After giving a fair and patient trial to eaclr *of many alleged cures for sleeplessness the writer stumbled across a simple method of Inducing somnolence that haß the merit of being harmless and inexpensive. To smokers the remedy involves no cost whatever, but of uonsmokers the capital outlay of the price of a pipe is required. It must be a woodeu pipe and curved, not straight. Having retired for the night, the sufferer should lie perfectly flat ou his back, discarding pillow, rests, and puff Steadily at an empty pipe until he feels thoroughly drowsy. The desired result usually is after from about sixty to a hundred puffs have been made. The puffing should be done slowly, with a deep inhaling movement. The expelling motions must be made •deliberately with uarrowed mouth< During the entire operation the pipe should not be removed, sis each displacing and replacing movement tends to wakefulness. Those capable of great concentration of thought should, if smokers, imagine they see volumes of smoke, and those who eschew the burning weed will be helped by counting the puffs. As sleep is often successfully wooed while yet the pipe is In the mouth, bowls of meerschaum or clay are not recommended, since these are liable to be broken when the coming of slumber allows the pipe to slide from the mouth. people may be reassured that there Is no danger in falling asleep with the stem edge of a curved pipe caught between one’s teeth. Sleep always occasions the grip to be removed. That may hold also of straight pipes, but for other and obvious reasons these are less suitable than those with curved stems.—New York Mail and Express.