BOOKS FOR THE BEDSIDE.
Another large class of patients suffriing fiom insomnia is the womed class. Of course we are all worried, but some of us are born cheery optimists, and sleep tho sleep of the cheery whatever disasters threaten. How are we to carry out the excellent advice to leave our monies outside oui bedioom doois? Well, I am sony foi those who have never learnt to derive comfort from books. ' To turn the channel of the thoughts from worries to other things, there, is' nothing to beat a book. You ought all to have your favourite books by your bedside. I will take no responsibility if you set light to the bedclothes, but 1 do urge those who lie awake tossing and worried to read, to listen to some great man talking to you through the written page, to revel in descriptions of restful scenes, to smile at the whimsical sayings of comic i personalities. But choose your book with discretion. .
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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163BOOKS FOR THE BEDSIDE. Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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