A CURE FOR INSOMNIA

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 13

A CURE FOR INSOMNIA

‘' Yes,” murmured the man who suffered fix in insomnia, " same leiiow loid mo that if i drank ilkm diis-.es of milk before going to bed 1 should lie ics!c(p before had an hour was up. I did a., bo suggested. and now for (lie l.dKlil. of ole-i's who may be alilicted wiili insomnia 1 feel it to bo my duty to report whet hmpened, ?o far I am able to recall the d-tails. J-irsi, let me -ay th; t my fnond was rigid. I did go to sleep very soon after my r. lii'ernem. . . . Tumi .1 fr.cnd with ids lu:u! under his arm tame ■ .-drug, and asked me if j wanted to hoy In; • fe, t. 1 was negotiating vdlii li'i.i when '.he; (1 agon on which I was ndir-, shppcd out, et , his skin, and left; me floating in m d-air. i While I was considering how I sho; id get [ down a bull with two heads peered over the ' edge of the wall, and said he would haul me up if I would fitst climb up and rig a wind- j loss for him. Ifo as I was sliding down the . mountain side the ticket-collector came in, 1 and 1 asked him when the train would reach \ my station. ‘We passed your station four hundred years ago,’ he said, calmly, folding the train up and slipping it into his vest po.-ket. At this juncture the clown bounded into the ring and pulled the ccntre-polo out 1 of the ground, lifting the tent and all (he people in it up, while I stood on the earth below watching myself go out of sight among the clouds above. Then I awoke, and found I had been asleep almost ten minutes.”