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HOW DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?
D'your stomach? Or curled up like a question. ID you sleep flat on your back last night? On
mark?
by Don Graham com
These are not trivial questions. For according to a book just out in Amerien your sleeping habits give the whole clue
charactor. to your instance:-
For
your back, IF you sleep on stretched out in all direction
Cachar 13 '-you're t
judge, a would-be potent al Girl Guide cominandant,
the high casualty 1st next day and the number of Ming vases invariably shattered,
You should, Kays Phylila Rosenteur, take sleep seriously. After all you spend one year out of three in your bed. Indeed a man who lives out his nifolted span of 70 years can actually remember only 47 of them.
Lots of eminent characters
IF you curl up nose to knees -you're a timid, shy character, have been fascinated by it. afraid of the boss, afraid of Including your job, afraid of head-walters, that it
IF you make yourself small na possible in bed--you're knee-deep in pessimism, per manently sunk in gloom. You always take an umbreltu oft hollday and wouldn't buy a car without a starting handle,
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1957. W
Nina takes me along_the Eyewash Road
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FTER five days with the group of tourists at third-class rates (£3 a day approxi- mately) I left them in Moscow to fly to the Crimes and the Black Bea. To travel alone (but with a compulsory interpreter) in Russia means I had to become what is called a "de luxe" traveller (£11 a day). This is strictly caviare-class travel. Cara and guides at every airport, and the sort of hotel suites that lived entirely up to my idea of a dictator's love nest. For a monolithic society Russia certainly turns up some surprising, if rather overblown, luxuries, I was to find.
I had warned Intourist, the Aristotle, who ruled State tourist
agency, against WDs: six hours sleep
equipping me with one of their for a man, seven for a woman,
stufer guides (and how stuffy and eight for a tool. Which
some of them seemed), so they makes idiota of an awful in of wisely gave me Nina as com- us.
panion.
Shakespeare thought highly enough of the business of sleep- ing to leave his second-best bed IF you sleep on your stomach to his wife in bis will.
Miss stubborn sirenk -you have a
In your character. You rarely
Reschleur cornx my
thanks for Bnally debunking
Nina was a large amlable girl, married for three years to a printing engineer and Biving
with her in-laws in Moscow.
give in on any point, and your the theory that leaping out of Her theory Ideal mate is a nose-to-knees bed In the morning denotes sleeper.
Best invention
The book reveals too that the senses leave you In this order you go to sleep-Art when sight, then taste, then xell, hearing and touch.-
deduce (From this you will that the caslest way to awaken anybody is to apply a blow lamp to their feet)
Phyll According Rosenteur-author of the bool: "Morpheus and Me-sleep has been the subject of hundreds of Inventions. The more alone is responsible for over 400.
Best of these, I suggest. Is the Shore Cuff, which consists of a pair wooden handcuffs-o of which is attached to
the
wrist, the other to a bedpost.
health and joie de vivre and is a Good Thing To Do.
Rubbish, she says. It throws a great strain on the heart and is a darned silly thing to do. It is also quite likely to result in your demise at an early age.
The approved Getting Up
Procedure is to lie quietly to a few moments, yawn deeply, streich the limbs, and then roll to the side of the bed and sil All in slow motion. up.
Miss Rosenteur reports that one of the surest ways to dispel short nap somnia is to take
to keep from being too tired to. sleep,
Drained off
Yes, it sunnuds he double talk. but it isn't-for 2 15. minute nu? A the afternoon On attempting to lurs into will drain c7 the exhaustion the snoring position
mat that
would otherwise
either awakce, dislocates is barrier to sleep at night. urm, or breaks the bedpost.
Come to think of
It-have
Sho suffered most of the time- from a combination of travel sickness and hunger because she would stick to her theory that the second symptom
was the only cure for the first. But she was a gentle, good-humoured girl and so long suffering that I grew to like her very much,
So now with Nina trying not to be alrsick wo were flying from Moscow in one of the amali serviceable 1-14's (rather like Our Viking) that run all the internal fights in Russia,
Noisy and inclined to buck a bit, they were nevertheless very punctual and completely without the fuss of bossy stewardesser and safety straps. But It was edd how the interior looked more like an old LNER railway conelt than an aircraft. The heavy conservation of Russian taste was something that fogged me all the time, bút in the end I got used to it.
For insomniacs there i 3 you ever met # Mexican, charming invention consisting Spaniard or Italian who suffers She sighed of a metal cylinder filed with From sleeplessners? That's
because they never allow them- selves to ect so overfatiguedt that they can't relax.
pellets. This revolves slowly, simulating the sound of the sea, The book also lists several thousand typas of alarms, Anolber ghastly discovery- Although none so effective as Hghting a cigaretle to soothe the
doesn't one they used in China several nerves
nake centuries ugo,
since tobacco has a tendency to increase the heart rale and inhibit sleep.
This was called a cruton sundial. A burning glass could be set in advance to catch the rage of the sun. The heat front
sense,
Tonight when you gel into bed don't just lako sleeping for the glass then exploded the granted. Think on these things. gun-powder. It proved tranen- I guarantee you'll stay awake dously effective if one ignored half the night....
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Nina was drinking in my fashion magazines. A deodorant advertisement got a full two- minute scrutiny. She signed: "Your women are so gracious.”
We landed at Simpheropol in the Crimea. There they told me that there was a three hours' car journey to Yalta,
For Nina meant just more nisory, as she got car sick too! But I was delighted. At last I shall see nome frank, unadorned Russia, I thought. I was getting rather red of the way every- thing I had seen so far seemed to be painted up for the tourist. But I underestimated the Russian capacity for eyewash. They in their turn had over- estimated the gulliblilty of tour- Ists like me,
As we drove down the road,
everything in sight had been
blitzed with new paint. Every
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Piirata
enterprise
Crimen
hay est-
Hawers,
and yelling tham für a rouble tapast-
wchllakh mother warke to a marby Falk,
1 TRAVEL TOURIST TO RUSSIA... by ANNE SHARPLEY
THE STORY OF AN ORDINARY SIGHTSEERS EXTRAORDINARY TRIP BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
́Nina, my guide, poses before silver-painted statuc, one of many that line the *only* road into Yalta
few hundred yards slood a We drove to look it over. Just Which makes
curo by Corin-
have them rolling in the aisles in Scunthorpe,
Silence
There was still, it seemed, "Let's go back by that road.” something p little dangerous I said, It was plainly marked about playing Western jazz. os. a Arst-class road, and even Nobody quite liked to take the a bus route, If I had suggested risk.
blowing up the road Nina "Show me could not have greeted my sug- Nightingale gestion with greater horror,
I asked Nina: whero Florence numed soldiers in the Crimcan war"
It was an Industrial Romance, Every time a piece of steal swung across the soreca we got the scaring music that in Holly- She looked wood is usually reserved for the never heard love scents. The lovers got a Nightingale. blank silence and little chance to express emotion about any- thing except steel construction, I searched
In Yalta I made my Arst cffort to get the rock 'n' roll re- cords I had brought from Lon-
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blank.
.of
I was quite frank, and ex- plained to her that I wanted to Bho had see what Russia looked lik Florence when it wasn't all painted up for
tourists.
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Together we found a map, and
for Sculart where Quietly
the barrack hospital had been, It was not marked on the map.
Nina knew that military nurs- don on to a gramophone, Zenin, ing began in the Crimean war. the Russians who jazz-hungry Husslan youth But it was who conducting Nina and me started it, she said. round. I up like a neon sign On the nap I noticed that when I said I hat the records. there was an alternative road to We set off to find a record- Simpheropol, where We were player.
returning next day.
Yet whenever we went to a
Zenia place where
positively knew there was a record-player, It just happened to be under
pair or unavailable,
So many excuses and reasons were given for not taking the road that I stopped trying, But I quietly increased my deter imination to get through the Eye- wash Barrier.
And that is exactly what I did In Socil, the next place I visited.
tomorrow: I GÈT MY
CAMERA GRABBED
TERROR IN BELGIUM
Fear Of
Brussels,
ELGIUM police
The Knife
killers
Police admit they are almost doorstep of a house or outaldo
The to stop the killers some local cafe, are powerless
briefed the
cross the French border on their murderous mission.
B trying to track down & who silp across the border from are marefully bit before they
hidden terror that strikes their bitter reprisal raids,
by night in the tiny mining towns around Mons, Char- lerol and Liege.
The police are baffled by the silence of these 6,000 Algeilans, who know the names of the tip-
Belgians who live in the terror arons are demanding
In the last four months, off men the men who arrange police action. there have been twenty but will not speak for fear of the knifings-within their midst, mysterious knifings as the knife. France's war against the Algerian terrorists spills over into Belgium's quiet cobbled streets.
A Belgian police officer said, “It is elmost impossible to step the ralds. We know the killers come from Northern France. As Algerians, they are French nationals so they can
A blackmail war is being cross the border with an iden- The killers are knife-wielding waged throughout Southern tity card. They do not need Algerian political gangsters, ac- Belgium, Algerian terroriat pasports." cording to the Belgian police.
agents, who have inaltrated into
the ranks of these North Afri He went on: "In the last year Their victims are carefully can miners, asit them to return we have deported 81 Algerians. chosen from some 5,000 Alger to Algeria to join the "bera They were known to be poll- heroic statue a Group of completed, it is a bullding that thian column rather an experians who work in the Belgian tion" army. If the miners retical tip-off men. Some of the muscular, workers and children would make Nero feel like an rive business, assuming Russian coalmines-men who
chose to use, they
are naked to sub men who denounced then to us that will make the Russian
cont the SpMO as live in peace as respected meat actibo to the Algerian terrorists' have been victims of the over- culture such a bore to dig up in odd-jobs man. Two hundred columns
bers of the Belgian community Aghting fund. Corinthian columns, each 38ft. English-£500 each. high, encircle the sanatorium.
and refuse to subscribe to the "How many beds?" I asked In the sonatorium the patients | Algerian
terrorists' fighting Nina, "A hundred," she replied. were seeing a film that would’and,
a few thousand years,
Typical
They had really overdone it, It this was a typical Russina Fond I thought, then
the Russians' greatest output must be in statues.
'All the houses along the road were either new or had had their ramshacide defects obli- terated with paint.
And this, Nina told me twice, was the only road into Yalta.
Eyewash apart, the Crimes is lovely.
Hills Hke green strakhan caps, wooded to their summits, Blossom, blue sea, cypresses and an engaging, darker but less- sullen looking people. Tartor girls in trousers put out their Kongues. One of them actually throw something at the eat- which was a fair indication of what she thought of the car- riding, eyewash-provoking cite,
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Yalta, which might be scribed as the Cannes of the Russian Riviera, is a quiet, dull, beautiful place. There is nothing to do: Just sanatoria and no sense of being at the seaside at all,
I went to Livadiyn, the for- mer Thar villa where the Yaitu Conference was hold, and was shown only what used to be the Imperial chapel, Under blazing mosaic of the Cruel- nxion, Russian convalesconta were playing a lively game of billiards.
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But Livadlya was nothing. Nina natured me, I must come to see their new sanatoriaen, Thoro vode a real pälsen,
VINALLA
If they refuse to pay, knife strikes-silently
on
“This one's mine-send him home with a Tony Curtis if you
the-border attacks. Now it is impossible
the to get any of the Algerian miners to talk.. They
the live in constant fear,"
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