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BEAUTY SLEEP

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AN ESSENTIAL.

The Very Idea!

EXPLANATIONS AND APOLOGIES

By George

WING to an omission on the part of the post-

were very busy and trust that this excuse will serve

as an apology to those who looked forward to our pre- sence.

Mr. Norman Davis splita hafts at Geneva and Mr. Anthony Eden supports hin In what eir-66LEEP that knits up the heart muscles are so made that, as cumstances can tangible resulta

ravelled sleeve of carother must always be one go, emerge from such Capirit? It doen, but do we know how it they get their rest in between each Mutual Assistance Pacta may, as does it? Till lately we have known breath and beat. A narrow mar. Str. Davis asserted, be outside practically nothing about sleep. gin, but enough, the mandate of the Diarmament Though all of us, when we are Why can't wo rest in the earne Conference, ju themselves. But well, do it every night, we do not economical way? The ahawerman we were not present at Mr. Davin admits of the need for farn by experience here. In fact probably in that we are so intense the Governor's Ball on Mon- guarantee of execution within the general experience le that they alive. Being fully conscious all U Disarmament Treaty,

and folder we grow the lens we sleep, the day is a tremendous strain and day but then most of the Now we pay for it by blacking out all elite were not. Anyway we x pets pour though the more wa wish to.

the anfest guarantees of exetu-

cu- at last we are beginning to find out the night—or at least if we were tion, resistance to mere considera. tion in anomalous to say the least. few of sleep's secrete-at least really good business men with our. we are beginning to learn why we bodies We alsould Pay these M. Litvinaif is really inviting need sleep, and on the other hand essential debts night by night as acceptance of the principle that

BARE WHY t eludon us.

when we feel we need 'sleep they fall due, should br Levery man's hand

against an aggressor-ble schemo Sleep is not merely rest: it in impiten no mere and no less. Ho may be charged with thinking renovation and repair. Experi It is clear, then, that sleep is an chiefly of the Soviet's skla, butments carried out with healthy essential, and that brings us to the undergraduates showed this odd second question which research is int in itmelfies no nrgument ngainat the principle he dolines.act. For the first three hours beginning to answer: Why, If wo If his proposals offer security for after falling asleep the metabolism so need sleep, does sleep so often rolling and served as an intre-

of the body actually Increasee. the Soviet, they may offer

escape us? If we need air, It is clear what this means. breathe. If we need sleep, why duction to many sparring part- curity to all, if all come in. But Whe tho officials and clerks shouldn't we be able so close our ners who were waiting to fall the United Staten declines and Mr. Eden trends in Mr. Davis's gone, then the cleaning and eyes as we open our lungs and into a clinch. fintop. He may believe

repairing staff have to get to work. let nature do the rest? It has been known for some time

Coming ns they did at a Some people can, and the study M. Litvino that until the nations that wounds heal quicker if the of them and of animals has shown time when the Peak was feeling Deferred Terms--Repurchase- B

all the obligations that Licence & Insurance Arranged go with the kienl of collective patient can sleep. It is only after why so many of us can't. Steep is the housing depression more than Full particulars on application. responsibility for pence, perman- the Brst three hours or so that the fan act of attention. You have got

shift your attention. With little, the Invitations to the ball est power can never be ealabilah deeper centres of the body, after to

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WEDNERDAY, JUNK G, 1014.

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BRITAIN'S WAR DEBT DECISION

Britain's decision to make na| payment whatever to the United States on June 15, when the next

TEST TEAM

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ANOTHER REASON.;

We

A feature of the evening was

a Paul Jones which set the stone

The report that our colleague Mr. Kelly, was present at the ball by express invita. tion in recognition of hly gallant rescue attempt on Mon- day are slightly exaggerated but he was one of the select gate- crashers who were allowed to remain.

The reason

he attended,

Lessons in Journalism THE NEWS EDITOR.

we

you take no more than three hours without asking why, or at least pretend how indifferent they are. sleep you are living on loans becoming self-conscious about it. jadvanced from your deeper nervous) That klûd of attention is fatal. England's team for the Firat system, and sooner or later you Think how you are riding a Tent, or rather," the nomination will have to meet the overdraft. bicycle and, at least when you are uf fourteen players for the Trent Of course, people lo vary in learning, you will probably tumble Bridge game, hardly qualifies the their need of sleep, but probably off. Think how you are remember- Selection Committee for the not nearly as much as we haveing a long poem, and the tongue schwol of daring experimentera, supposed. It balances out in the stammers, or the fingering of The only choice that might bend Ho wito regularly cuts the piano pasange, and the fingers termed interesting is that which nightly hours due to sleep will stumble. This is an Blustration has fallen upon R. Farnes, Cam-probably be found sooner or later of what some psychologists have bridge and Esses. There is hard-jrepaying them by days and even called the Law of Reversed Effert. ly one other member of the likely weeks a-bed.

The more you think about trying Attack who Janka " possible

the less you can do the trick. Bradman-beatér, unless it bo

Our minds to-day are trained Geary, who doubtless Impressed Research has disclosed another more and more, to analyse every, nther, was that having spoiled his the selectors at Lelerater a few only everyday suit by jumping In-

harwood Is instalment of the war debt in- wegks ago.

out be Most of us think if we sleep well we say, to follow a line of thought. to the harbour he was reduced to huzzahs, we sleep all night through "like That frame of mind is fatal to going about in evening dress and terest fails due, is one which has raise, despite early

wat yet recoveredlog." This is #mistake." Asleep

You must, as it were, dilate there was only one function on been forced upon her: Had its foot has

front the strange injury that in-drugged man, a man who has been the mind, see things largely Monday where he could decently not been for the passing of the

A tortured may sleep with death-like little out of focus-before sleepwear that. Johnson Act, by which no discapacitated him in Australia.

suggestion made that sect in-immobility-not the healthy, will come. That analytle attention finition is drawn between for-furuçes played a' part, that lar-sound sleeper. It has been found has quite extraordinary power of mal defaulters and token payers, wood's absence is attributable to that the usual spell of steady sleep keeping us awake. Britain would once again have another "friendly gesture" to the in generally not more than ten This, then, seems the reason

bi dimise-minutes. made, a payment. As matters Australiana,

why we sleep so badly. We have After that the sleeper shifts so little control over our minds are. she has been left with theed. crudely, as boloney.

himself, alters breathing, comes that we cannot stop them thinking: alternatives of meeting all the

much nearer to the surface of con- we can't switch over, dechtch. We interest charges due. totalling

sciousness, generally turns over. keep on saying, "Oh, how I wish I $262,000,000, or, since a token

Then once more he switchbacks could sleep," hat really we prefer payment would not remove her

Equnity absurd, tog, is the re-down to sleep. In short, he to go on thinking.. from the category of an actual port, from quite another sphere rocks himself. That is why it is defaulter, of making no payment | of zurrent Interest that Red important to sleep in the dark and, at all. The resolve to adopt the troops have crossed the Man-even more important, in the quiet. latter course makes the questionchurian border and occupied Every light, every murmur la prob of getting down to a final settle- Tungtalshen. Moscow'k deniniably attended to.

scarcely песеннику. The ment one of urgency. The pro-Soviet's polley in The Far East fore the sleeper wakes his muscles shift that. It is half the battle. This creature has inordinate bability, indeed, is that the should be well understood by this will tauten if a light is brought That is the truth behind watching British decision was largely time. Moscow

in his little sphero and expects trouble near him. He is heginning to the sheep go through the hedge and power bared on the hope that it would and, far from hiding her fears. rouse himself long before he knows the other pictorial tricks for over-exercises it ruthlessly. Never be

ing allowed to forget that he was expedite negotiations with this makes preparations to meet it it. Sound is an even worse dia- coming sleeplessness, end in view. The point to be when and/or if it coment. But turlar. Nature lets us close our But do not count them with once a reporter, he practises the stressed is that there is no ques the Soviets are doing anything eyes but never our ears. We are a limit of, say, 100. If you do meanest tricks on that long suffer-

but seeking a clash. Their mill always ready to notice a suspicious your mind says, "What! 60 alreadying tribe. tary limitations are best known to sound. Sleep, therefore, In the gone and I'm still wide awake!"

Next

most to slooping, his themselves. As to the bapor- still hours is sleep of a higher At the century it says with self-potent faculty is sarcasm and while between the semi-congratulatory triumph, "There, I industrious reporters have been tance of such provocation pro-quality. In

this obviously depends rouses we slip deeper. Our cars know" It has really been using their spare time sharpening report "All clear," and for a few looking forward to being still pencils or brushing their hair in upon the source.

minutes we snatch a profounder awake at the 100! A far better the office he has been known to reat.

way is to pay attention to the stroll casually up to them and say:

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SOVIET IN FAR EAST

Was

ganda,

U.S. BONDS IN DEFAULT

in

A FEW HINTS.

man.

The news editor is a very clover It takes a clever man to do as little work as he does in such a long time and yet always manage to be busy.

A cross between a sub-editor and a policeman, the news editor stands So a few hints on how to sleep. on one of the lowest social planes of or rather, how to avoid keeping vegetable life and is seldom seen oneself awake, may help. The out in daylight for fear of being It has been found that long be- first thing is attention: fear to attacked.

to

Shaukiwan. There's been six muc- dors there this afternoon but don't bother if you're busy. I expect we can cut it out of the Daily Dodan to-morrow."

if you will notice them. Look at that easy, aimless procession. In

Lion of Britain repudiating her obligations. That is made per- fectly clear in the latest Note. In this connection, it must be remembered that over since she made her first token payment, Britain has taken the stand that she is not disposed to revert to

It sounds a restless business, but background of your thought. "Look here old man, when you've we must remember that Nature's Nearly all the while, behind your finished your toilet and spoken to payment of the debt on the old basis. She is, however, willing Mr. Neville Chamberlain might sub-pair are not ours. The great lunging a stream of thought-pictures, you'd mind slipping down

The suggest lon by a reader that ways of balancing up wear and re-reasonable thoughts, there is pass-the girl on the phone, I wonder if and anxious to negotiate a remit certain defaulted bonds to muscles, for instance, and the vised agreement. The trouble the United States Treasury

Continued on Next Columns.) has been that past approaches part payment of war debt obliga- have not produced anything like Lions strikes a piquant note, al- unanimity of view between Brit- though it la not thereby rendered jain and the United States us to any more helpful. Unfortunately, not the figure acceptable. Finland perhaps, these bonds are has been cited by America the meaning of the

honds of the United States within funding the only war debtor to meet its agreement. They represent jeans obligations in full, and it has to certain of the Staten in the been stated that an agreement South, funds employed in fighting with Finland would be used na a the North and the Federal idea. "yardstick" in respect of other As they are repudiated by the debtors. Against this, we have borrowers, there is double reason to put the fact that even a for refusal by the Federal au- "Finnish model revision" would validity. There is, of course, no thorities to recognise their not meet the British viewpoint, telling what would be Washing- Such a aettlement would be ton's reaction is the event of based upon a virtual cancellation British Chancellor making a col- of interest charges. Coupled lection and mustering the nerve with other adjustments, this to present them. They might be would bring the British obliga-accepted us a tribute to bravado, tion down to something like two And again, Washington might be billion dollars. Even this sumonly too glad to get hold of them, would, in Congress's present to the constant outdragging of at any price, to put an end at last! temper, be regarded as profligate this akeleton in the cupboard of generosity. Precisely what American internatiouni finance. Britain would be prepared to offer has not been disclosed, but |

it is said that Sir Frederick can conceptions. How to bridgo Leith Ross, when he visited the it is the problem of the moment. States last autumn, proposed a But two things are clear in re- tenth of two billion dollara, pay-gard to the British attitude- able in a lump sum. Although there is no intention to repudiate President Roosevelt has shown the debt, nor is there to be any himself more hospitable towards departure from the principle of the debtors' case than Congress, the Balfour Note, by which Brit the British offer of last autumn ain declared her intention of left him and his subordinate seeking no more from her negotiators cold. It is clear, debtors than she requires to. therefore, that a wide gap exists meet her obligations to the +between the British and Ameris United Status,"

a few minutes it has drawn you in and you are asleep.

Another hein is not mental but bodily, and so perhaps more help- ful in this age of education when we find it so much easier to do things with our bodies than with our minds. Change your breath- ing. Listen to a sleeping person. His breathing, when loud enough to be heard, is the opposite of con- acious breathing. When you are very conscious of your breathing, when you are nervous, you hear the breath drawn in, not the breath. is sant out. It

the sleeper's breathing out that you hear. A anoro is only a very successful breathing out. But all deep-sleep breathing in a sort of reversed gosp.

Try it next time you sleep badly. Don't dash at 14. Gradually change over from noticing your breathing-in to attending to your breathing-out. Don't be too In- terested. Pay also a littlo casual attention (the attention of a lazy person in a garden to birda skim-

ming over a pond) to thono vague, inconsequent pictures which aro prasing through the back of your mind.

You will have mastered the' art of shifting attention. You will be Hasleep before You Kn