SLUMBER PILLOWS.

Mataura Ensign, 4 November 1913, Page 5

SLUMBER PILLOWS.

HOW TO GET TO SLEEP. Many people fly to drugs to cure the troublesome complaint of sleeplessnein when some much more simple device would often set matters rigttt. The good old-fashioned hop pillow is by no means to be despised, although for son* reason these are not much used nowadays. The best :>kn is to get a quantity of dried hons tram the chemist and pock a small pillow evenly with the materia). This is placed on a lar.'£< v supporting pillow, and a little adjustment willaonft make matters quite com for tabic. Most people who have not tried thia plan will be surprised how drowsy one becomes after renting one's head upon the hop pillow for about 20 minutes. The smell of the hops is by no meariH disagreeable. A great many obstinate cases have yielded to thia treatment. To get th*» best results the pillow should bo packed with fresh hops every few months. Many folk have found even better resulta from packing the pillow with some blossoms of a scented description. A rose pillow sounds delightful, and it is really an almost magical cure for insomnia in many cases. The root* are gathered wliolo and when fivshly expanded, and each bloom is cut off quit© short, so that nothing' spiky in tho way of a stalk is left. The blossoms should then bo spread out on a tray to dry. and by gradually adding to the number it does not take a very long time to collect wiffieient to fill a pillow. The flowers should be packed in a* evenly as possible, and ii rJibs » done the pillow will l>e surprisingly comfort. able. On the whole it will be found that the fragrance of the roses tends to improve, for a while at any rate, and the pillow will certain!)' last until roses come round again. It may be mentioned that autum« roses are especially suitable for tiim purpose, as those retain their fragrance much better than .blossoms which am expanded in very hot weather. Of course the'particular fragrance of the pillow largely decides its efficacy as an inducer of nleep. It will lie found that it is a wise plan to sekvt * perfume of which one is really fowl.