Suggestions to Sleepless Women.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue I, 5 July 1902, Page 61

Suggestions to Sleepless Women.

(1) If you have anything on your mind, from a sonnet to a soup, “make a note of it.” It is less nerve expense to use a paper tablet than to use the brain tablet. (2) Relax. Lie as limply in your bed as a year-old babe. “Rest, relaxation. repose.” (3) You are too tense. When you think, use the brain alone. You cannot have repose of mind without repose of muscle. A well known author complained that his knees aehed while he was writing, and that his arms ached when he was walking. He broke down- Too tense. (4) Do no mental work after eight o’clock in the evening. Associate only with restful persons. (5) Place a handkerchief wet with cold water at the base of the brain. In extreme eases the sanitarium people use the ice-cap—a close-fitting double rubber cap filled with pounded ice(6) Lie face downward on your bed in such a position that the head may hang over the edge. Cross arms under chest for support. Bend head slowly forward as far as possible, then as far back as possible. Count twenty with eyes on ceiling. Repeat. (7) At the sanitarium just before retiring they give the sleepless ones a sitz and a foot bath—the sitz (16 degs. to 98 degs. Fahr., the foot 110 degs. to 115 degs. Fahr. (8) The salt rub is another sanitarium commandment. First, they turn the warm water on you. Second, rub you with handfuls of wet, not melted, salt. Third, rinse you- Fourth, dry you. This may be easily managed at home in a tub, or standing over a sheet.