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UNQUIET ON THE EASTERN FRONT
An Article for people who
CAN'T SLEEP
By
HAMISH FRASER
H
AVE
you ever
thought seriously about sleep, what a queer, unequal, mysterious thing it is?
OXFORD WOMEN Would Surprise You!
Says
Keith BrianT
author of "Oxford Limited," and former Editor of "lais"
At the Botany and Geography schools she must spend one or two. days a week tramping the lanes, observing the flora and the nature of the countryside and she must not get tired.
Only in five subjects were women not competing with men last year.. These were 'Geology; "Engineering,, Agriculture, Russian and Oriental languages.
It is essential that woman should
I AM asked "What are
Oxford women really prove her worth If she is to overcome the remaining shreds of male opposi- liko? Are they a set of blue- tion to her presence in the university, stockings with their noses glued Incredible though it may seem, not so long ago a certain lecturer refused to the grindstone, or are they to admit women to his lectures. flighty young misses for ever powdering their noses and gossiping about their latest con- quests?"
He Walked Out
THE story is told of icctures 1 Mr. X, who made a point
awake only for five days, andį suffered no after-effects beyond opposition to the intrusion of the sence of the women students.
Those pioneers who overcame male men," completely ignoring the pre-
of saying "Good-morning, gentle-
female into Oxford-for centuries a
a slight squint and decreased male preserve--would be amazed at One day the men conspired to stay
mental capacity which lasted fortnight.
!
proceeded with his lecture.
the variety of subjects which the Mr. X would have to acknowledge. away from the 'next lecture, so that
modern girl is covering in the uni- the women. Unfortunately, one undergraduate did not hear of this. versity to-day. Doctors have put up several |
Mr. X arrived, snid "Good morning, With regard, for instance, to my gentleman," to the young man and notable records. One went 18
own subject-Law-women cerluinly days without lying down during do not lack enterprise. I cats well remember a lecture I attended in my. used a malaria epidemic. He
second year. The lecturer was du to doze on his horse between moustrating a rather delicate point
in the study of Criminal Law.
Both Were Women
visits.
mon
might care to call on him after the
Next morning there were no men present. Amld an expectant hugh Mr. X walked in, surveyed the scene, remarked, "Ah! I see there is no one for the lecture to-day," and walked cut again!
At the other extreme are ex- cessive sleepers. Pavlov dis-
As each year passes, however, the cusses a case in which sleep con- Se Es not to offend the wo rules governing the women's colleges present by plain are being relaxed, and women are tinued uninterrupted for 20 years speaking, he offered to explain the joining more and more in, the social. except for slight restlessness at point in greater detail to anyone who life of the university. night, during which the patient lecture. Only two did call, and, to club meetings, and at dances, the At sherry parties, on the river, at used to get out of bed and write. his horror, both were wament
Oxford girl proves that she can be The famous sleeping beauty the woman science student has to be less studious sister. And she has It is no exaggeration to say that as charming and as decorative as her of Chicago was in a different hard boiled. She is called on to per- not so much tme to spend on her category. She suffered from en-form tasks at which her grandmother appearance.
would have fainted and she per- cephalitis lethargica, and her forms them well. There is no room brain cells were seriously in-for false modesty in a science school.
Why can one man count sure- ly on falling asleep within two minutes of touching the pillow, while another must let the The incident on the Polish-minutes tick by with torturing Lithuanian border which is dis-
slowness into hours? turbing Europe is nothing more
To reckon one person in a hun- than another example of the ill- feeling which
existed dred suffers from insomnia ia jured. has between the two states since probably an under-estimate. If I- the Great War and the altera- were paid a penny by all the bad tion of Europe's boundaries sleepers in England to hand over which followed that catastrophe. the secret of sound sleep and At ordinary times it would have plenty of them would gladly no great significance, but with enough pay £1,000 or more!- the tension in Europe so great I should net a small fortune. any spark must be watched lest Unfortunately it can't be done. it start a spreading fire.
Sleep is one of the most baffling, mysterious phases of our life on this earth.
Let's take a look for a moment at some cases on record.
To understand the Polish- Lithuanian dispute it is neces- sary to go back a few years and recall
that Poland thrust her frontier out to embrace Vilna In "Indiana" in 1898 a certain following the creation of David Jones, as a result of being Lithuania by Germany. In put on jury service, suffered 93 December, 1920, after
the nights' insomnia one year and Russo-Polish war of that year, 131 in the next. Poland
ter- won considerable ritory from White Russia and the Ukraine. But she was not nan who was such a victim of satisfied and raided Lithuania insomnia that he used to take and seized Vilna, thus driving out horses and gallop through a wedge between Lithuania and the night in an effort to tire him- ussia. The Lithuanians have self and thus induce sleep. The never acquiesced to this particu-result was that he wore out three I. Fingal's Cave. Ouverture......Mendelssohn. lar piece of brigandage and horses a night and himself went
rotaliated by closing the River sleepless for 15 days. Niemen and the port of Memel
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There is another instance of a
Dozed on his Horse
ONE investigator, in the
cause of medical science, voluntarily tried to do without sleep. He could keep
I know a girl who was reading Zoology, and she confided In me that the work was by no means easy and was often unpleasant.
Beat the Men
IN the world of sport, the women's colleges play mat- ches against the men in tennis and. hockey, and often beat them.
I know a doctor one of whose women patients no drug seemed to relieve. He began with "I work three days a week from @ But, you will ask, "What type of break for luncheon," she said. "The going down? Do they - concentrate bromide, then aspirin and sedam till 3 or 4 p.m. with an hour's Jobs do these Oxford women Lake on tives related to it, next simple other three days we do not start till on secretarial, teaching, and com- 10 or 11 nm. Apart from an hour's mercial work, or are they taking up barbiturates, and grander ones tecture, the whole time is spent on more specialised jobs?" whose formula went something dissection." like phenyl-diethyl-p-amino- isobutyl, and so on, proved a failure, until there was at last nothing left but to send for a Grand Old Man from Harley-asked street.
Admirable
"WHA sort
443/HAT
Many are now taking up such diverse posta na factory and labour management, hospital almening, house property management, adver of things do tising, dietelles, and paychiatry. you have to dissect?" I
The head of a big advertising Birmi recently told rae that he found young "In elementary Zoology we have women excellent copywriters, and the frog, rabbit, and dogfish as the that two of the ablest in his firm were And the Grand Old Man came three main types. I shall never for- from Oxford.
rabbit still warm from the chloroform
•
and gravely pronounced that inget how horrified I was at finding my In scientific research women have his view a simple pill of rhubarb chamber; while-I-couldn't get the already proved their worth. In the would be best. It was. It smell of the dogfish off my hands for Civil Service examination last year,
a week.
out of 47 places women took seven. wasn't "nerves" the patient
Twenty-four per cent of women suffered from, but a slightly dis-that you soon learn to forget minor of men. Of these seven women, we "But the subject is so fascinating were successful and only 15 per cent. ordered digestion.
Inconveniences. You learn to think were from Oxford, and the first place solely of the job in hand,'
for women was taken by an Oxford woman, In view of the fact that in Zoology and Medical schools
+
the the
side the men and under the super-
r
Common Sense
No
TOR have Oxford women that exaggerated opinion of their own importance which is
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Of course, everybody knows that what, when, and how you eat has a lot to do with sleep. young women have to dissect along- But you can't make a rule. Some vision of male demonstrators, such folk will snore away quite hap- an attitude is admirable. And it is pily after an 11 p.m. snack of new.
This is not Just Woman--the often so fatal to Oxford men gradu-
ates. Many Oxford women lobster, cold Christmas pudding, eternal feminine, giving herself. Welsh rarebit, and black coffee. coat of mental varnish. The modern straight into big West End stores and Others can't be too careful what young woman at Oxford is as eme- start behind the counter-and this lent, as practical, as cold-blooded policy pays. Three Oxford women 1 when she wants to be as a machine: know of oro earning £1,000 a year
in a big London store. they have for tea.
Some people are specially sen-
In the Physics and Chemistry
For her breadth of vision, her schools she takes equal risks with altive to the terrestrial magnemen in practical experiments and common sense, and her zest, I take tic field, and find they can sleep analyses, and in both cases she is as off my hat to the Oxford woman to only if they lie with their beds neat fingered and as competent as day. There is no need to wish her
along that field, with the head to the north.
any man.
luck.
an "inhibition" that is, a state Stroking the Temples This sounds fantastic but ap- of general standstill in the brain. pears an indubitable fact, and if Something cries "Halt and THEN she asks if he all other means fail It is worth all except the most vitul aervices
feals thirsty, and prob- ably persuades him to take a turning your bed on successive are suspended.
hot drink. Sometimes a few Whether this ban on unneces- Inzy puffs at a cigaretta bring
spread of a brain hormone, or is nervous tension, sometimes she would not object to Poland's It is natural that Russia would And so I'm afraid it goes on imposed by a special "eleep cen- completes the task by gently adventuring across the Lithu- have considerable interest
in with most of
the sage advice tre" which comes into action at stroking his temples.
night and keeps watch that the annexing these ports, and that their in- that can be given as regards Rest Rule is enforced is not yet has a similar effect to the count- anian border and
low pillows, light or certain. Memel, but it is improbable 'dependence of Germany or Po-high or
ing of jumping sheep. that Poland would venture to land is the next best thing to heavy bed-clothes, ventilation, a But we hope soon to be able to walk before retiring, reading in record the electric brain-waver this enterprise alone
since actual Russian ownership, as far bed, and anything else. Russia has given notice that ns Moscow is concerned. she will defend Lithuania
up with Pskov, in Russia, and nights to a different point of the There is an unpopular belief the railway to Leningrad, and compass to test your own re- sary business is caused by the about the essential lessening of in some quarters that Germany. also with Moscow and Smolensk.actions.
1
The monotony of the strokes
I think, however, that sheep which will pivo us the clus,
are too complex to imagine, too solid. Try instead Inducing a For Reservations please 'phone 27775
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though it is to hold ers to copy. The ports of Reval (or Tal- Czecho-Slovakia is not the only back sleep, does not affect all.
Say: "By the time I have She doesn't go first to the taken 50 breaths I shall be linn) in Estonia and Riga in thing which would draw Russia similarly. There are woment Latvia, two states which were into conflict. How France would who lie sleepless on account of drug cupboard. She speaks a asleep. One, two-now I'm
gentle word or two to the starting-three, four, five given their independence by the react to the Invasion of Lithu-wereld problem thon next patient, asks if he has pain, ro- slipping farther... and so on.
week's bridge-party, while on treaty of Brest-Litovsk, are still ania, or Latvia, or Estonia, the other hand, men on the brink assures him that, of course, he's Long before you get to be you going to sleep. will be imagining all sorts of the sea outlets and ratheads of is doubtful. But with things as of financial ruin may slumber! very considerable.. areas. of" they are any Polish enterprian liko peaceful babes.. western Russia. Reval is joined in the direction of Memel might
Leningrad by rail; Riga links camily start a conflagration.
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
She sees that he's not half on ridiculous ** and ** unconnected Let's try to make scientific and half off his pillow, that his things, and that meant et pas of all this. Physiologists feet are not cold, and that he well on the "down' lators to believe that aleep is essentially has enough blankets on his bed. sleep,
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