Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 108

BY WILL ROGERS. 7 ELL, all I know is just what / "1 read in the papers. and | f what I see in the old Village. | You know when you got | nothing to talk about why | » nlways talk about the weather. nt remember in any article ng to talk about the weather, olly I got to say a good word it has been the warmest and and most beautiful Fall here ““ork that you ever saw in your part of the article will be 1sored or deleted entirely in | nia papers.) Chances are I my citizenship out there, and ngs will be confiscated. But h must out. It has been a What Is Sleep? | € | * pl ologist sleep is & condi- | 1 in which all the nervous func- ~ diminished and all the volun- ements suspended: the condi- hich the senses are closed as lows of a house are closed at The respiration is less full, the | slower, and the temperature lower than in the opposite di- There is also less blood in the 1 the brain. is the cause of sleep, that con- in which approximately one- the short human life is spent? ost plausible of hypotheses is p is the result of a poisoning ication caused by the waste in in the animal organism. . stretching and the inclina- yawn are symptomatic of poi- or intoxication. There are 1 poisons whose action causes s there are microbes which poisons that cause sleep. reasonable to suppose _that narcotic substance is accum- during the waking condi- 1en all the acts of the normal > ordered by the brain, and that 10 substance is eliminated during p. Man sleeps at night because | the time of calm, of silence, of ~» _of nature. says the poets, “is the first of the banquet of life.” Ani- at can resist hunger for lengthy will soon succumb if deprived of Certain animals have been to fast 40 days; no animal has 7 nights and days without sleep- ck people and nervous people “lieve that they get no sleep de- emselves: no matter how watch- vigils, there are moments when n loses consciousness. ving is more variable than the in- 21 need of sleep. In the same * are individuals who thrive on ~r four hours' sleep, while others ‘9 sleep eight or nine hours. Na- + slept when he wished to sleep ~on he found time to sleep. Doc- ~ld the opinion that infants re- 15 and 18 hours of sleep; that ‘he sixth year a child needs to from 11 to 15 hours. From the to the eleventh year from 9 to vs’ sleep are sufficient to the child health is normal. ) is not equally sound through- 12 night. It is soundest during st three hours, the maximum of ity being in the second hour. st sleep is, or ought to be, sacred; uld not be disturbed in any way. > middle of the night the sleep is sund. Toward morning it deep- ~ain, but it is always lighter then iuring the first three hours. -7e is no physiological reason for -ding that either the night or the ag sleep 'is the more healthful. =n_are, generally, night sleepers; less there are children who, hey reach their third year, sleep > morning. If a child sleeps late, is no reason for anxiety as long 5 sleep calm and of adequate * midday “nap” is. in some cases, ‘1 to the sleep of the night. Ner- veople and children rest as well at if they sleep a little during the ‘he day’s “nap” seems to improve “a¢p of the night. smnia, apart frotm the diseases 1 either suppress or exaggerate is the lot of brainworkers, numer- *d people and people of impression- and nervous temperaments. The sent prescribed is, in insomnia, ise moderated by tepid baths and 12ss and silence in the sleeping He who sleeps moderately should ! too great care concerning g conditions. Far from ‘habituat- ‘imself to take note of noises, he 1 accustom himself to sleep in ~ate light and in moderate noise. - motionless in_the physical at- . of sleep is to be near sleep. . hased by Waterspout. American vessel had the rare cxperience, while off the coast of ~mala, of being pursued by a water ., which suddenly appeared near In the midst of the consterna- the captain ordered his course d, and soon the vessel was driving with the water spout in pursuit. crest was hidden in a dark mass ‘oud, its base seeming to operate an_immense revolving colander, -~ the entire external periphery ~d a cushion of foam, over which sirds screamed, occasionally seizing 1 the dead fish that came within 1 1» spout formed a sort of spiral der, streaked with ‘opaque parallel through its whole length, from the ice of the sea upward. These lines evidently ascending columns of for afterward, when the upper (he lower sections became detached, accummulated volume of water head immediately began its descant 1 the body of the spout, as though been the valve of an immense e. 3 water thus released must have cqual to several tons, as it was and almost black, and returned to s>a with a loud roar, all the ather | 5 of the aerial structure gradually | nating. rhaps the most singular feature of was the serpentine form assumed 12 section nearest the clouds, which | ~d off at first almost horizontally ' then turned upon itself in a per- coil, so that for a moment, when end of the aqueous rope switched | nd squarely to the eye, showing a on, it resembled a ball of ink. hen the spout was in its finest stage, ning several times flew through the | umbra in zigzag courses, making # | tacle not only terrible, but sublime 1 beautiful as well. Forests and Hygiene. 7E hear much of the importance of the conservation of forests from cconomic standpeint, but little is 1 of the hygienic value of forests. “orests contribute to the general Ith by breaking the force of steadily | wing winds. They mitigate the heat Summer by the vast amount of noration from their leaves that oc- 5 by day. They also promote rain- Thus they check the tendency the earth to desiccate, which is al- | st as injurious to heaith as it is to | ~etation. | “holera often passes a wopded district 4 revels in @ treeless one. A certain | d in India leads for 60 miles through | dense forest. Farther on it runs for ' miles through a barren plain. indreds of persons_travel the entire 2d daily. Now in the first or wooded tion cases of cholera seldom occur, | “ile within the latter it has been of | quent occurrence. One year cholera | in Allahabad. _Soldiers whose | racks were on a hill suffered the | t from the epidemic: those in bar- | 2~ks surrounded by four rows of trees | ‘uch less; but not a single case was THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. DECEMBER 9, 1928—PART e wonderful Fall. Now Beverley Hills, if that treason burn me in effigy. Hoover is still prowling around down he is in. We know he went South one way and comes back another. We don, know whether he crossed over, under eor went around. I hope he is able to stir up a lot of interest in those South hAmencan Countries among people up ere. years ago, but I couldent seem to stir up much interest. - Magazine Carrier with 4 . norted among the soldiers whose bar- cks were in a thicket. It the me the next year, in South America. We know so little | gjan Territory. about it we dont know what country | sapointed in our reception. Upholstered Seat, Rocker Upholstered Foot Stool Porcelain Boudoir Lamp $1.00 Complete cord and socket. Another Cowboy, Dick Parris, and I went down in 1901 to the Argentine as Peace Envoys from Claremore, In- We was a little dis- We went out on the ranches and those Gouchos we discovered could throw a rawhide lasso further than either of us could throw a green apple. I wrote back and said I had never seen such a productive country. You just throw anything out I tried to do it twenty seven |there and it grows. Buenos Aires was a marvelous City of over a million people then. It comes nearer being an American City than any other City outside our own coun- try. But we had no shipping and busi- ness with them. England and Germany had all their trade. Those great docks in_Buenos Aires, second even then to only Liverpool, were packed with ships from every land. But not an old Stars and Stripes could you find. Course we have made some progress with them since then. But._there is where our | big trade should be, and this trip of Mr. Hoovers will be the greatest thing that ever was undertaken for us. Spanish is the language. This old ! —_— @ 3 Gag of having the children take up French because its fashionable is the Baloney. You dont see anybody in France but Americans, so you dont get any chance to try out your French anyway. But just look at the dozens of countries that speak Spanish in ad- dition to Spain. Its the only one to learn for you can use is commercially the rest of your life. There is a great gang of men thit did a great deal for us during the war. It was called the War Industries Board, it comprised the heads of all big busi- ness and they all worked in conjunc- tion with the Army and Navy to sup- ply our whole forces. Well they still kinder keep their organization together, and have a meeting every year. It is headed by Barney Baruch (the sole surviving wealthy Democrat). Most of the men that belong to it are Republi- cans, and are from all over the country. ‘Well there was about two hundred of * em and they was in our Opera House the other night, and we had a lot of fun. Baruch worked it pretty slick this year. He generally underwrites the Democratic foolishness’s every four vears, but this year he was smart. He located this fellow Raskob who had made so much money he was looking for some place to put some of it where he could show a loss on his income tax, so Barney got him interested in the Democrats, ;That he dident know of a surer fire place to put it to show a loss.” So Barney kinder “RELUC- TANTLY” relinquished the leadership to him, and got out from under for once in his life. Raskob, being in the Automobile busi- ness, naturally when told of the Demo- crats asked, “Is it a four or a six.” Barney replicd, “Its not a conveyance, its a stationary thing, it looks like its going but it aint.” So he sold the idea to Raskob. 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