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The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page W ''iTT w ''V-' ' mil imwii im H imje.ii Copyright 111 by AirerRan-Examlner. Great Brlth. Rights Reserved. P"L ... no r 1 1: biIk . AIM it k m 7 Miffi.y $&mm HAT important topic, especially to dwellers in large cities and to the over worked dweller anywhere, sleep, is treated by Mme. Cavalieri to-day with even more than her usual union of common sense and scientific knowledge. She dwells in a long, yet interesting chapter, on the preliminaries of sleep, telling her readers how to secure sound, rejuvenating, life lengthening sleep, by pre paring for it. Mme. Lina Cavalieri. -Z Jr -J - . ...... j,"- "The nasal passage should be cleared, so tkat free "Rubbing the forehead with Ions strokes toward the temple has often brought sleep to the nervous By Mme. Lina Cavalieri. MT views sre a shade old fash ioned in regard to sleep. But of this I am jiot ashamed for some of the old views In regard to health and beauty cul ture are the soundest I believe, for Instance, that It is well to sleep while it Is dark and work while It is light. That is the law of life. It is true that the beautr sleep is that which we get the early part of the night, prefer, bly before midnight The buis of truth for this saying Is that it is the sleep we get while we are tired, that is, the first lap of rest from fatigue that refreshes and, so to speak, rebeautlfies us. One person In five hundred takes too much sleep. The others take scarcely enough. There is too little Bleeping done, for either health or beaaty, or for mental growth and well-being. I cannot say to you, "Sleep seven hours," and to you, "Sleep nine." You must decide for yourself how much sleep you need tn order to awake refreshed, and to feel strong, and. so to speak, "well slept," for the day. And having discovered this, take it at whatever cost For sleeplessness Is one of the three greatest foes of beauty. There Is a right wsy to prepare for sleep. The mind should be cleared of worries and of haunting thoughts, snd the body should be rleaneed by a warm bath, either :n the tub or by a sponge or wash clojh. The throat should be gargled and the nostrils cleansed of any ob structions so that free breatumg for the night is assured. Many use the atomizer with mild borax water or salt water for that purpose. There should be no violent exercise be fore retiring, no eating of heavy foods, and no hard metal labor. Nor should there be any excited conversation. If It is necessary o quarrel do your quarreling in the morning so that, as the wonderful old Book says, the sun shall not set on your wrath. Besides being . good counsel from a moral stand point this is most excellent beauty advice. From the woman who yields often to anger beauty soon vanishes. If you have not eaten for several hours before retiring" a cup of warm milk will refresh the stom ach and draw the excess of blood from the brain, permitting sleep. Sleep when you feel like it There is a possibility of over regularity In sleep. If you feel drowsy don't bat tle with that sensstien. Yield to It even though It be at midday, and if at all possible get a short nap at least. If you combat this tendency and finally conquer it nature is liable to wreak retribution by keep ing you awake later on when you need sleep by causing you to feel By M. B. Gleason. POOR drainage Is the most frequent cause of plant dis ease. If the water Is re tained unduly the earth soon be comes sour, snd the result Is dis eased roots. All pots should re ceive s layer of broken pottery or large pebbles for sn Inch or an inch snd a half before the soil Is put in. and as sn sdded precaution it Is wise to place over the broken crockery (bits of flower pots) a layer of charcoal broken Into pieces about Once Upon a Time. By THOMAS TAPPER. ONCE upon a Uma tfcara wu s Boy. It bg1na Uk a. Ulrr doesn't But this la only a Imitation at s Cairy ttls. Now. most fslry tsJes beeto wltb fairy or two and a few ImpoMiols thinr. and tiler ail proceed la a fclntin way. But this tale begins with Boy. some rdlnary people, and a lew common Jobs There is nothing fascinating about any of them. And yet this Boy. in a simple way. solved We one great problem of life A problem every human being must solve, or be a failure. His name was Horace Reyburn. He was a Yankee, born and bred on a New Hampshire farm. It was a stony farm, every acre of It, and the boy's father who had Inherited It from bis father sad so on back, got from It a scanty Uvlrg of the poorest kind Horace worked on the farm from tour teen to tsenty-one. and he was the first of all the Reyburns to begin to elear the land of stones. It sounds like a queer thing for a boy to do, does It not? But remember, this Is an imitation f a fairy tale, although It Is true, as fairy tales are not. In those seven years Horace desred ap four seres so thoroughly that the plough turned up no stones larger than walnut and not many even of that else. But Horace saw clearly that If be lived to be twice as old as his fither be cuuld never clear up the whole piece, so on his twenty-nrst birthday be wen: to work for a carpenter. n. The carpenter's name was Wheeler, end he was not much of a carpenter, either, which means that be was not much of a man. His mind was like the erlginal Reyburn farm, full of sticks and stones snd capable of giving only a scanty living Like Whee'.er mere the men who worked for him It Is generally so. Whether they hammered nai:s or planed a botrd or trimmed a joiet. they moved slowly, gave a good im.tanon of being tired, and depended oa Wheeler for directions. Toung Reyburn. being as strong as an ox and as full of energy as a nun. g red horse-power motor, could work at kte best aU day long and then be good and ready tor overtime. Wheeler let elm do It snd took things easy himself; or. rsiher. he took them easier. When Wheeler was not around the men would say: . -Oh. let up, Horace! What's the use of getting hot over a Job?" After a few month. Horace concluded that the boss snd his men were so like bis father's stony farm that he could never hope to have any help In clearing ap their stony condition, so be quit er.d went into the carpenter business for him self. Tfce man for whom hs did the first Job told another man and so on until Horses got to be so buiy thst he had to hire men. Every time a man came to him for work, he uli: -I'll pay you gjod wages promptly. "Tou must work eight hours a dayi and more, if necessary. Extra pay for evertime- Tou mutt do every Job as quickly as you can and as well as you can. No customer Is to be overcharged either through laziness or bad work. "When you don't know what to do, aek me." in. Being an extremely busy man. Heraoe nad spare time. He used this to arudy how to p'.an a house, estimate lis cofu sr.d build it so that both he and the owner would be satisfied with It. This principle of a good Job he applied when he fixed Mr. Fuller's barn door, as well as when he buirt a mansion for the owner f the silk milL As a result both Mr. Puller er.d the silk jriU man voted for Horace to be a Be.ectman of the town. The he was chosen for posusvsster. but refused the position. "Any man." he said, "who hires six men has to do seven sr-ta s work, so I can't aHord the post ftioe," Bit by bit Horace was climbing up. IV, ' Most fairy stories begin with an lm pos&iole fairy or two. doing lmpossibje thiaga. tM a fascinating way. This one begins with Horace's father and a farm so full of stones that ha never tried to clear It. But ths boy cleared four acres of it To old man Reyburn that waa Impossible Thing No. i. To Whee.er. the carpenter, a quickly .tone, honest Job was not possible, for be did not think ir.at way. When young Reyburn came along and proved that every job. b.g or little, could be done that way. Impossible Thing No J tap. peced. To Mr. Fuller, whoee bam door was as good as new after Carpenter Reyburn had fixed It Impossible Tuna- No. bap. pened. &e R seems te me that young Rey burn's life from beginning to end eras full of the doing of Utile things welt LiU'e thirds metl done are generally hr possible. Thit is why this story ts ahead of the vrt f;rv tale I II C4 T . S V : II I ,---jW-J T I le..i. . a .. Ills.' - a .avT JTSaf ' r ' ' i ' aia, u I. Dreaming y. r V, s - v ' r.5r ; .. , , . . -, 3w' -v V night v-' . wV Xr zrr. ?. MfhY f --. k ' itv ; .-.lm J fev,-;,f,B pi : :; 6 The Care of House Plants-No e3 nervous and overroufciit without craving sleep. Late hours are one of the chief causes of wrinkles. Disrobe slowly. Turn all your underwear wrong side out and hang It near the open window, where it will be well aired. Wear light night clothes. I have been told that those men and women of superb shysique, the Russian dancers, wear nose. They do this that their bodies may secure the ventilation they do not get in their closely fitted clothing of the day. This Is hygienic in the sense of ventilation. It is probable, though, that persons of frail physique might contract heavy colds, even pneumonia, in this wsy. Bleep in a bed that stands north and south or north-northeast or south-southwest, to meet earth cur rents of electricity, which will im part their strength to the body. Do not sleep on too soft a bed. I pre fer a medium mattress to a very thick one, snd I loathe that abomi nation, the featherbed. Don't sleep under too heavy bedclothing. That is weakening. For this reason I prefer co intertables or interlined spreads to blankets, one pair of blankets with extra spreads being enough no matter what the weather. Keep rolled or folded at the foot of your bed a comfortable for emer gency, as when It turns suddenly cold at night, or when there is extra moisture :n the air from a new snow or rainfall. Do not go to bed between sheets that seem damp or not fresh. That condition shows that they have not been properly aired or sunned. Don t try to read yourself to sleep. It strains the eyes and is quite as likely to overstimulate the brain and keep you awake as to soothe you to sleep. I prefer to sleep on the right side. It relaxes the body and pre vents the pressure upon the heart, as when lying on the left side. Sleeping on the back is restful to the muscles, bet In many causes nightmares. Try to have a current of air in your room. For that rea son it is well to have a room with at least two windows. Keep the windows open at top and bottom two Inches each at least for a tree current of air. It Is well to do tale In the coldest weather, rolling a woollen cloth or putting np a short screen before the lower part of the window to scatter the "draft" Snoring has several causes. It you are so troubled avoid sleeping on the back. Or It may be your snoring is caused by eatarfh. la that ease have It treated and. It possible, cured. If you sre affected with sleepless ness some of these precautions or remedies should banish the trouble. Never sleep la a warm room Have it aired and cooled before retiring. Undress in the dark. Light la nerve stimulant, and It this stimu lant is removed for twenty minutee or more the nerves are sarprlslngly rested. Dipping th fingers Into cold water and massaging the forehead with them rubbing with long strokes toward the temples and then back again until the tips of the fingers meet at the middle of the forehead. Is a soothing exercise that has often brought sleep te the nervous. A survival of the Knelpp cure, still practised for sleeplessness, is to d:p a sheet Into cold water, wring it out, wrsp it tightly around the body under the arms Then cover the body with several blankets This cold pack or vapor cure has relieved many of Insomnia, but I recommend it only to those who promise to first secure their physi cian's approval. If sleep resists these efforts resort te the Delsartean method of devi talizing, that Is ridding yourself of the excess of vitality that has kept you awake. First shake the fingers ss though you would loose them from their joints. Then turn the 'Twist the legs round and round, swinging the leg slowly wrists from right to left and back again. Bend the arms at the shoul der joints, moving them up and down. Swing the arms round and round at the shoulders. Twist the legs round and round from the up per joint, swinging the leg eolwty. Do the same with the lower leg from the knee. Even the toes can thus be flexed. The result of this unloosening the joints seems to be sn untieing ef the nerves. It seems sn opening of the gates of the being for the entrsnce cf s'eep. the size of a hazel nut. Treated In this way there is little likelihood of the soli becoming sour unless the pot is placed in a jardiniere where there is no chance of sn escape of the surplus wster. The red spider, though 'very tiny. Is very destructive to plsnts, par ticularly to palms. It delights in a hot, dry stmosphere, nence moisture is the weapon to use against the pest. Spray with the band atomizer daily and shower often. Scale, mealy-hug and aphis are other enemies to look out tor. Scale is s flat insect thst attaches itself to the leaves, usually on the under side, and looks like a small brown ish spot. Mealy-bug is a white cottony-looking parasite thst makes a home for itself In the rough places of the stslk, and aphides are the little green bugs so frequently found on plants. The most effective lusecrlcide Is a so.uUon of ivory osp. Melt about two ounces of shaved ivory soap and add it to a pailful of water snd waaa the plant in It thoroughly, being or t-ne leaves and stems are wet until there is no more trouble. It may need more than one application, but it will do the work, la perfectly safe, ,Dd win not injure the plants in the least If, for some particular reason, tobacco fumigation is preferred, an eaay way to accomplish this is to put the plant in a stationary laundry tub that has a tight -fitting cover. Place a vessel containing some lire coals beside the pot and sprlnlda tobacco thickly over the coala Close down the lid quickly, cover with newspapers and s heavy rug to make as airtight as possible, leave the plant in the tub for aa hour or two. The Ideal Husband By FJtiJfCES L. OABSIDE. THERE are those In this cold sad critical world who regard a man's weight ss an expoaeat of his wife's cooklag. If be U fa they regard him as a monument to kJa wife's culinary ability, and if he la thin they look on him with pity. an4 on his wife as a cook with disdain. In Justice to Mrs. Lysander J oka Appleton. therefore, it should be mada publicly known that the painful thin ness one mlKbt nlmoar M-r trin.n. oi ner nusoand is sot to be on her shoulders. He is thin becatiM t As. and he doesn't eat because be la try. u. io pe aa iceaL If you doubt it is bard to be loeei. Begin shedding all your terial comforts. Thst g what It means ms w iu xueai. The rules of the Ideal ssy the Ideal husband seeks to lift the mind of Ma wife from the rut of potatoes and paw by trying to be aa entertaining com panion; taw, xjj John. . W'hatha UP u Passed he begins to teal her of the bright little hat penlngs of bis day down town, sodhe gets one spoonful down; then the soup is taken a may. The rsys of sunshine thst have reached his office are enumerated gay. fdJf wltb never-Aagglaaj wtt to bring a smile to her lips wmu be cuts bis meet but a man can't eat a great deal wbXe trying at the mm time to bring sunshine fcito bis wife! life, snd when the table is cleared for the dessert he la as hungry as be waj when soup-time ended. Dessert finds htm painting the day with rainbow colore and leaves bint with the paint brush still la band sad not esough In his stomach to sustain a crow. "I sm starving to death." said Ly sender John, when alone la bis room, "but I go to my deeta fearlessly. It will be something fine to bsve In my feeble wsy demonstrsted thst It Is pos sible for a husband to be the kind of Ideal demanded, even though it killed him.'