SUMMER AND SLEEP

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 11

SUMMER AND SLEEP

The reason that summer is Tearing on many persons is that more sleep is lost than is realised. Hot ilightte easily induce late' hours. One dislikes going to bed at 10 or half-past 10 o’clock, as is the habit of cold -weather, and sits up several hours, later than she is accustomed to do. ' ; . On hot-nights sleep is broken, and tne early morning light curtails clumber at the other end of the day. For a week or so-this makes comparatively little difference, but by the end of three hot months the continued loss of sleep makes itself felt.

The woman who wishes to get the best rest out of her summer will go to bed early, whether she feels so inclined or not. If her room is stuffy, she will do everything to get a <3Urx*ent of air. Many women swelter at night through cowardice. Fearful of robbers, they.lock doors rather than leave them open for a cross .draft. Much - more to be dreaded is fatigue from spending hot, restless, often sleepless nights. When boarding, an open door is possibly out of the question, but try to induce tbe landlord to put up—or let you put up—the slat swinging ooors, much used now in country bouses. These •fit in tbe door jamb, give privacy, but escape floor and top of door by five or six inches, enough to give a current of air and keep out intruders.

Keep a light fan by the bed, one that can be used with little effort. Five or ten minutes" slow, regular fanning will generally woo sleep on the hottest night. Outwitting early daylight is a harder problem for the woman who wakes easily. To shut out the sun means shut out air. With slat shutters the difficulty is more easily regulated. Without them have dark green shades, that can be pulled down and fastened to the inner edge of sill. This prevents blowing, lets in air, but sensibly darkens a room. One woman keeps a dark green shade such as is worn to shield the eyes from electric light. When the sun shines on her bod in the early morning she dons

[the shade and quiokly : (falls to oleoj again. ' - , The chief cause of sleeplessness on earnmer morning' is less sunlight than flies and mosquitoes. Screens in the window are an economy. If only to give one an extra nap each day. If you cannot afford regular screens, anyone can tack up netting outside the window from top to bottom. Bemembor summer is more Healthful and more endurable if youJ sleep is not disturbed* OTHER DAYS, OTHER FIGURES Oh, where are the maidens of yesteryear, ■With their shirt-waists white ana peek-a^-boo? "They are gone/' we lament with glint of a tear, , And their hasty departure we cannort but rue. . Oh, where are the visions of nineteen eight. With their chic waist-lines and elbows slim? They too are far and away out of date, 'But wo sigh for a glimpse of their forms so trim. Arms browned by the sun no more do we see, Nor shoulders so dainty and white and fair; . , For sleeves by the yard are now fashion e decree, And man and old Sol are both in despair. ' . ' For summers agone the heart of Ufi pines When Helen's neat figure was second to none; ~ 1 For now in a gown, with all-vertical lines. She looks for the world like the numeral one! —Littell McClung. TAPIOCA DELICIA. Take two tablespoonfuls of fine tapioca, the juice of two oranges, one cupful 01 water and sugar to taste. Boil it elowlj for fifteen or twenty minutes, then turr it into a mould to cool. Servo the. sweet with whipped cream.