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MAY 17, Just What Is Insomnia? 1920 _ Dr. William S. Walsh Says: < It’s a Symptom, Not a°Disease; but Don’t Worry About It—Too Much Sleep I» Bad for You. » You Can Live Longer Without Food Than Sleep, — — ie ad Coprtiabt, 199%, ID you know that you can live longer without food than you can live without sleep? ‘That is one of the interesting facts brought out by Dr. William S. Walsh in his book “Yours for Sleep,” recent- ly published by E. P. Dutton & Co. “We sleep,” he declares, “because we must, el die. Animals deprived of food for twenty days, and which have then lost more than half their weight, COUNTING A FEW THOUSAND SHEEP, AS THEY GAM By Marguerite Mooers Mar shall. }, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) blood pressure and arterio-sclerosis would head the list. Remove the un- derlying cause, and the insomnia will take care of itself.” Some of these causes, of course, need medical attention. But of one of the commonest of them, Dr. Walsh says, “the cure of worry depends much upon the worrier. “In place of worrying about sleep, we should give it no concern whateve! By avoiding deeply intellectual pur- suits for a few hours before bedtime and spending these hours in simple GREEN, MAY WOO OLD MAN SLEEP. May still be saved by judicious fecd- ing, but complete deprivation of sleep will cause their deaths in from four to five days—this in spite of the most careful feeding and other care. Luss of sleep is, therefore, worse than stur- vation. Those who never sleep die quickly; it may be a week, ten days ut the: most.” However, Dr. Walsh points out that the «person whe thinks “never sleeps” almost inyartably does get at * least a few hours—which may suffice for his individual needs, as a similar period is enough for Edison, and was “enough for Napoleon, Frederick the Greut, Goethe, Mirabeau, the Duke of Wellington, Virgil, Horace, Sir Thom- More and Ben Franklin. “Too much sleep,” he says, “is al- most as detrimental as too little sleep. Ag a rule, adults require from seven to eight hours’ sleep out’ of every itwenty-four, Women can do with less sleep than men. In old age the re- quitement is ices. In cold climates more sleep is required than in warm or temperate climates.” (Note for the t. b. m.—who h be called at least three times: taking of second naps in the morn- ing,” warns Dr. Walsh, “is not bene ficial. It Is the lazy man’s habit.”) ‘Why don't we all sleep as much we should? Why are there so many insomniacs? “Insomnia,” says Dr. Walsh, “is but a symptom and not a disease. If « compilation of all the causes for in- somnia were made. !twould be found that indigestion, neurasthenla, worry, eye defeetar-sedentary existence, high fames or in reading a book of light verse, the mind is placed in a recep- tive mood for sleep. One should seck his bed at his regular time, and make up his mind that if he can’t sleep he'll rest, anyway. By disregarding sleep it is won. In place of the thought, ‘I won't be able to sleep,’ replace it by ‘I don't give a ang whether I sleep or not." Dr. Walsh highly approves of the practice of sleeping outdoors or with the windoWs “nailed open.” “Methuse- lah," he reminds us, “always slept in the open air. When he had reached the record-breaking age of 500 years, it ig said that an angel appeared be- fore him saying, ‘Arise, Methuselah. and build thee a house, for thou shalt live 500 years longer.’ But Methuse- lah answered, ‘If I am to live but 500 years longer, it is not worth while to build me a house. I will sleep in the air as I have used to do.” For enti¢ing back sleep, after the basic cause of insomnia has been cor- rected, the doctor suggests a light meal before retiring; a hot bath; en- veloping the body in moist sheets, these in turn being covered by warm. dry wraps; massage of the feet or head; the reading of a dry Look; sit- ting before an open fire; soft musi a relaxed position maintained without @ single movement for fifteen or twen- ty minutes, Finally, he urges that at Yeast seven hours out of the twenty-four be spent in bed—thinking pleasant, tranquil thoughts and resting even during the time when sleep is obstinately absent. Good night! ~The Mayorat Delhi Copyright, 1920, by The Wes Publishing Co. AYOR cYRus PERKINS WALKER of Delhi is very much incensed over what he considers an attempt on the part of {he anti-Walker Democrats :o belit- tle him in the eyes of the public and thus injure him in his race for re- election. He has decreed that people who interrupt public speakers while they are discoursing on topics of the day shall be ejected from the meeting places and, if arrested, fined. The Mayor's ruling comes after an inci- dent of this sort which occurred dur- ing a meeting of the Lower the Cost of Living Society, held at Hugus Hall Wednesday evening When the Mayor, the principal speaker of the evening, was called on * for an address he chose the proposed advance in the price of hair-cuts to $1 as his subject “This thing of advancing prices must stop somewhere,” he said. “Only to-day I met P. Silas Pettibone, who owns the Marigold barber shop und he told me he might charge $1 for hair-cuts soon. It’s an oyptrage. Where is the man who wouldn't reg- ister a vigorous kick at such a step? Where is he, I ask.” (The New York Evening World.) “Right here,” said a voice in the audience, . “Who are you—Pettibone, himself?” demanded the Mayor. Not on your li @ man’s. “Well, who are you, then?” “Hep Kingston of Braxton. “I don't know said the Mayor. “Will you kindly tell me why you would not complain about an advance in the price of haircuts?” re, I will!” came the reply. Well, why ig it?” “Um bald.” The roar of laughter that followed disconcerted the Mayor greally and he became angry. “Is Constable Pelee Brown in the house?” he asked. “Right here!” came from the off- cer. “Arrest that man!” The Constable flew at his man. fight followed in which Brown was knocked down four times, but he subdued his man by singing “The Love-Sick Blues” to him and prom- jsing to buy him an ice-cream soda. As Kingston dragged the brave Con- stable out of the hall the audience ap- plauded Brown vigorously. The Mayor thinks Kingston was induced to try to humiliate him by the anti- Walker Democrats The affair has set the whole town talking. ‘There is much indignation. said the voice, Pauline furlongs On Heall¢hn Copyright, 1920, Lip Exercises—J, M. Hi: Whistling aod stretching the lips by forming certain lettera such as a, ¢, 1, 0, u, such as are practised in vocal culture, wil help strengthen the musol around the mouth, To Keep The Hair Light—A little borax or ammonia added to the last rinsing water will accomplish this, This is very drying to the scalp and should not be used unless the hair is oily. Whitening Gray Hair—K. E.: Or- dinary blueing in the fast rinsing water will keep gray hair white, Heart Disease—E, L.: Please con- sult your physician about this. Slow walks of short duration will probably not overtax you. Warts—J. L. P. Touch the wart with a piece of cotton wrapped around a toothpick saturated with carbolic acid, being careful not to wouch any other part of the skin. ‘The wart will dry up and drop off. Hepeat the treatment if necessary. Gymnasium—Alice 0.: You can enter a class at the Young Women's Christian Association at a very rea- Sonuble price, They have @ most by ‘The Prew Publishing Co, QUeOFICS Boquty (Tee New York Brening World.) complete equipment for all kinds of indoor and outdoor exercises, swim- ming pool and day and night classes. Horseback Riding—Mary J.: This healthful outdoor exercise is most beneficial inasmuch as it causes deep breathing which stimulates the blood circulation to such an extent that it naturally develops all muscle» of the body. Dark Oily Neck—Mary 8.—Sponge the neck with lemon juice or peroxide of hydrogen to bleach it from pun- burn, stains and lines caused by high tight collars, Another good bleach is made with equal parts of witch hazel ard peroxide. A mixture of glycerine, one ounce; rose water, one ounce; carbolic acid, five drops, and tincture of benzoin, five drops, is recommend- ed as a valuable neck whitener. To Keep Hair in Curl—D. H.; Ap- ply white of egg diluted with water to hair before doing it up in kids or paper. This remedy is a harmless one. Clammy Hands.—Eva C.; This con- dition is sometimes the result of ex- treme nervousness. To keep the hands dry rub with alcohol several times « day. RC ARBOMOR VDT AN Core raiors ap Naa ERGO a rope HELLO WIFEY FOR THE UVE INVITED JOHN ¢ WEEK-END CEG PUTHR JOHN \| INTHE Partor AND COME ! HERE RIGHT) ~ AWAY MOTHER HAS THE COUCH me e WHY DID YOu INVITE HIM ANYHOW ( WE HAVE | No Room AYR HIM = SouR | FAMILY CAME (To Day =I HE HAS QuITE oyal “Shadow” to Banker By Otis Peabody Swift. Copyrimht, 19 66 TILL” Nyx, banker, ‘That |. by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York World) wlier of the Order of Leopold, is about to become @ ise a sort of a banker, Don't remember Hill as a leader in American finance? Perhaps not, but if you were one of the thousands who lined Fifth Ave- nue to watch H, I M., Albert of Belgium, drive wp the porte cochere of the Waldoif-Asivria last winter you may recall the tall figure of the lone civilian who stood on the running board of the King, Amid the galaxy of uniforms, Navy Admirals, Army Generals, Polce Re- serve Majors and the frock coats of the Mayor's committee, his slouch brown hat and tweed suit seemed a bit out of place. He was a square jawed man, with square fists and big square toed boots, introduce Bill Nye. was born Joseph M Nye —-* BILL NYE He was the Secret Service man charged with the job of chapcroning royalty. He had been a member of the Secret Service guard of Prenident Wilson, had gunrded yon Bernstortf when he left country after the declaration of war, and toured the country with both King Albert, Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wules, managing their tours and protecting ,them during théir stay here, In po! parlance he was known as a "Shadow Now Bill Nye is about to become @ of Leopold. the motor car chatting affably with banker. On June 1 Chief Special Agent of the State De- Partment to become connected with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York in the somewhat mysterious ca- pacity of General Assistant to the Executive Office. Bank officials say that his post will be that of “General Diplor Bil always had a taking way with royalty > Prince of Wales liked him so well that, after he had sailed on H. M.S. Renown for England he wirelessed back a special message to Bill, saying: “Many thanks for your unfailing care and kindness to me during my siay in the United States. I hope to give you the trouble of ca ing for me fut? in as soon as poss. ble At New Year's, Nye received a card signed “Edward P." which read “Happy New Year to you.” It is also said that Nye has # personal invita- Uon from the Prince to drop in and say hello whenever he's round Buck ingham Palace way, or goes walking in the neighborhood of Windsor King Albert liked Bill tao. While the special royal train was specding across Kansas he decorated him with the medal of a Chevalier of the Order Bill doesn't wear his He may, however, in bis new pacity. Nye’s duties with the bank have not been fully determined as yet,” ex- plained F. H. Sisson, Vice sident of the Guaranty Trust Company at No. 140 Broadway, to-day re are many things that a man of Nye's training can do in an organization of our type. There are special invest.g: tions; work of a diplomatic nat But Nye never impressed wrmen as being of the diplu matic "| wid. “He was, ag I recall im, nuleman with rather jarge feet not well adapted to the rather halls of banking Institucions pa You re 1 the time when Mra. Mere dith P. ‘der, the wife of the Mayor of Low An slapped Nye'y face before the Queen of Belgium when hi was roughiy evicting hey from the he resigns as SOFA «5 NAY BE HE CAN SLEEP ON THE IRONING BaARD IF Lt Pur IT ON TWO CHAIRS | Asan HE CAN'T Go A Une Has BACK To THE TAREN The CITY. THE LAST i. TRAIN LEFT FINE MINUTES AGo IT'S KIND. oF HARD Burt (t'Ste-Besr WE CAN Do, FRENCH GIRLG FENCERS CLUB ON THE MARNE. (AFTER SWIMMING THEY FENCE.) © by navn b- wanaear. royal carriage, grabbing ber by the arm, and saying: ‘Get During Marshal, Joffr Philadelphia when BK. head of Drexel é of the give bim a receptic “Cm running thi pain, a hustle e's stay wanted in StotesLury, and Premcent Reading Ratlroad, Nye annuuaced, There will be no reception York Bill's courtesy so tm- New York Association of vtographers that they sent round robin to the State Depart- nient prolesdng against his demi neering attitude. “He seems to stand pretty well with the State Department," said Mr. Sisson.” They certainly wanted t keep him in their organtzation “The fact that N » to buve a ‘diplomatic’ ' ean mber that Lew how he onc ment stor “Two thing,’ said every ent ‘dipl aescribe bus got a job in depart- neral manager of In full che departin “Ww y'd wend for me and I'd be ed her. tak come ba thred I was sor 1 gu matic # the duties, Ay Ww no apologies, you're ‘ lik t th best sys you're eli hat after t J rb ery: and ten MORES MONDAY, MAY This Is Sure a Jaz 17, z Life Classics Now Hit With— “ Shimmying “Just a Jazz “Annie, Annie Laurie” To-Night”’ at Twilight” Nothing Sacred These Days if You Can Jazz It Out. By Marguerite Dean. Copyright. N with the jaz O 1020, by The Pree Publishing Co, Jet joy be unrefined! Jaze hit feet a long time ago—your feet, my feet. Now it's hit Poetical feet, and knocked them galley-west. Even our sentiment in (The New Tory Rvening World.) the future will be syncopated. The tenderest love songs must trot; sonnets must skip and sway; odes must waddie—although many of them have done that pretty well in the past “The Children's Hour,” “The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” “Casey at the Bat"—all those dear old poetical favorites doubtless will be presented to us soon in the #waying, braying, lilting, tilting measures to which we have eaten our dinners in every Now York restaurant for months, For Clement Wood, writing in The Review, announces that he has just examined the advance sheets of a snappy, modern collection of “Home Jazzes.” THE VOLSTEAD ACT WAS SOME SURPRISE, BUT WE MAY SOON “An energetic adap! Mr. Wood reassures us, “has redone the old songs in the erepitative metre.” Then he quotes two old favorites, jazzed to a razzle- je, For example: “Home, home, saccharinio home, Place to lay your dome, What? Home!” Jazz artist tn town will agree could hear this syncopa' that ny og Annie Laurie and make his feet have: “Down in bonny Scotland where the thistles grow There's q little kiddie with @ drow like Bhe haln't any frosty mitt, 'd have Bare—Oh, my! . nd on Mazwelton'’s brace She's (Slower) ay Matrimonial note,” notes Mr. Wook eae tthe brief chorus “Come back to Erin for a Sinn Foin Use ‘the ballot—or @ mallet—for the old Welt print ‘our books in Gaelic, never failtc, fi seo win, at last that Home Rule, * Binn Fein rag!” EXPECT TO SEE THE CLASSICS ALL JAZZED UP. t “We regret,” continues Mr. Wood— @ regret his readers will share-~“that we cannot quote the intoxicati: of ‘Drink to Byes," th ‘The Battle Hymn of New Re-~ public,’ ‘Shimmying To-night on the ola Ground,’ ‘The Camp Jangied Banner,’ The garn Jam fly Coprright,’ 1920, by The Press Publishing Oo, (Tho New York Breniag Worth) “ec RS, STRYVER wants me to help her in her relief work,” sald Mrs. Jarr to friend husband the other morning. “It's a wonder that woman doesn't have & rvous collapse!” war, dare only, remarked, “And what with strikes and freight congestion and farm workers leaving the farm, I wonder when ham and eggs will cease to be rated as jewelry and will pe within the means of the upper middle-classes again?” “Now, if that isn’t just like you!” cried Mrs. Jarr, “When one speaks of art you reply about corn beef and cabbage! “You never spoke of art, and I never mentioned corn beef and cab- page,” Mr. Jarr declared. “You spoke of nervous prostration for @ friend, and I spoke of ham and eggs for myself.” “Well, I only know I should give up trying to be refined,” sighed Mrs. Sarr. “I didn't object to your speaking about what your friends enjoy,” said Mr. Jarr, “#o why should you object when I speak of what I enjoy?” “Food!” remarked Mrs. Jarr, dis- daintully, “You should speak of higher things. “Nothing's higher than food, ex- cept’ clothes,” replied Mr “And pearls, platinum and polecat fur have Jar. gone up too"—— ‘Now, don't you start to talk about the cost of things, or I'll have @ nervous collapse myself,” interrupted Mrs. Jarre. at was why I thought I'd help Mrs. Stryver in her relief work, just to get my mind off my own troubles.” “Now, my dear,” remarke) Mr. Jarr, “don't worry when you have your health, and that kimonr you are wearin Yes," said Mrs, Jarr, giving her- self an approving glance, “these ki- monos are lovely to run to the door fn to get the mail when your hair is up in curlers, for | want to tell you that these so-culled electric curlers have no electricity im them and Mrs, Gratch, who sells them, confessed to 1 is so very becoming to you.” h me that sf simply tinctures them with oil of pepper and aske the ladies she sells them to to tolich their tongues to them and feel the elec- tricity, because—she telly them—the electric curlers are made of solid radium, which ts charged with elec- tricity, and electricity makes the hair grow, because bald-headed people can't strike sparks from their hair like when a cat's fur is rubbed the wrong way in the dark”—— “And now I have @ nervous coi. lapse!” muttered Mr. Jarr. “Yes, yes! Go on; your story intetests me wtrangely! And then, what was the secret of the Duke's mysterious con- duct on the night the aparition was seen for the last time at Danksmere Towers? “Well,” said Mrs. Jarr, “if you'd only listen to @ person trying to explain, I'd tell you that if instead of worrying about what things cost you might let me have some money to buy some clothes and go to Atlantic City with Clara Mudridge Smith. And Mrs. Jenkins has invited me to come out to Bast Malaria. That's because:she has no servant! Oh, if you only knew hew those suburban people, Invite you to their homes when they have no ser- vant, especially if you are a good cook and say ‘We'll just make a jolly lark of it’ Then do you wonder I feel like having 4 nervous collapse?” “Not at all, my dear,” replied Mr, Jarr, “So don't be alarmed if 1 join you by throwing a ft! But Mrs. Jarr gave him such a look! And told him to throw himself into his clothes and get to his work—which was the fittest thing he could do, > NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE, Algeria, which makes more than 1,000,000,000 packages of cigarettes an- nually, 1s gradually adopting Amert- can tobacco. preparing and cigarette forming machinery, Operated on the rheostatic prin- ciple, @ headlight controlled for guto- mobiles can be mounted on the stee! ing post and operated with the same used for driving. * Madé of paper obtained from mul- berry tree fibre, a lifeboat that can be folded into a space of about @ ubic foot has been invented by @ Japanese naval officer. To afford the interior connection with the Aegean Sea the new Serbian vernment is planning to build 375-mile barge canal from @ point 0a ‘we Danube to Salonica,