Ways of Wooing Sleep
An American professor has been investigating the sleep habits of more than 500 of his distinguished countrymen. More than 70 per cent, reported sufficient difficulty in going to sleep to cause them to develop personal expedients. Thought control was used by 33 per cent., reading by 2i> per cent., relaxation by 18 per cent., drugs—not including alcohol —by 3 per cent., alcohol by 2 per CCI A' large number of unusual personal idiosyncrasies are reported in inducing sleep. One magazine editor sticks his feet from under the bed clothes. A judge buries his face in his pillow. A young writer strains to keep; his eyes ° P Aii actor-playwright repeats Christian names. A judge counts backwards. A college professor repeats the Apostles Creed. A journalist thinks over plans for an ideal home, and another judge thinks about the binominal theorem or extracts square roots.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 31
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147Ways of Wooing Sleep Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 31
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