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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?

Why can one man count sure- ly on falling asleep within two minutes of touching the pillow, while another must let the

slowness into hours?

OXFORD WOMEN Would Surprise You!

Says KEITH BRIANT

author of "Oxford Limited," and former Editor of "izin”

AM asked "What are

At the Betony 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 ive subjects were women not competing with men last year. These were Geology, Engineering, Agriculture, Russian and Oriental languages.

It is essential that woman, should prove her worth if she is to overcome Oxford women really the remaining shreds of male opposi like? Are they a set of blue-tion to her presence in the university; stockings with their noses glued Incredible though it may seem, not 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?"?

so long ago a certain lecturer refused

He Walked Out

THE story is told of lecturer Mr. X, who made a point

one

awake only for five days, and

Those pioneers who overcame male men," completely ignoring the pre- of saying "Good-morning, gentle- suffered no after-effects beyond opposition to the intrusion of the ance of the women students. a slight squint and decreased female Into Oxford-for centuries a

male preserve-would be amazed at One day the men conspired to stay mental capacity which lasted a the variety of subjects which the Mr. X would have to acknowledge away from the next lecture, so that fortnight.

modern girl is covering in the uni- the women. Unfortunately, versity to-day.

undergraduate did not hear of this. Doctors have put up several

Mr. X arrived, sald "Good morning, notable records.

gentleman," to the young man and One went 18 days without lying down during

proceeded with his lecture, a malaria epidemic. He used to doze on his horse between monstrating a rather delicate point visits.

in the study of Criminal Law,

At the other extreme are ex-

With regard, for instance, to my own subject-Law-women certainly do not lack enterprise. I can well second year. The lecturer was de

remember a lecture I attended in my

Both Were Women

Next morning there were no men

present. Amid an expectant hush Mr. X walked in, surveyed the scene. remarked, "Ah! I see there is no one .for the lecture to-day," and walked

out again!

As each year passes, however, the

O as not to offend the wo rules governing the women's colleges men present by plain are being relaxed, and women are speaking, he offered to explain the joining more and more in the social point in greater detall to anyone who life of the university. might care to call on him after the

Beat the Men

the

her

cessive sleepers. Pavlov dis- cusses a case in which sleep con- tinued uninterrupted for 20 years except for slight restlessness at night, during which the patient lecture. Only two did call, and, to club meetings, and at dances,

At sherry parties, on the river, at used to get out of bed and write. his horror, both were women! 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 The incident on the Polish-minutes tick by with torturing of Chicago was in a different hard boiled. She is called on to per- not so much time to spend on

category. She suffered from en-form tasks at which her grandmother appearance.

would have fainted-and she per- céphalitis lethargica, and her forms them well. There is no room brain cells were seriously in for false modesty in a science school..

I knew a girl who was reading

the world of sport, the jured.

Zoology, and she confided in me that

women's colleges play mat- I know a doctor one of whose the work was by no means easy and ches against the men in tennis and

hockey, and often beat them. women patients no drug seemed was often unpleasant. began with

"I work three days a week from 9 But, you will ask, "What type of to relieve.. He

break for luncheon," she said. "The going down? Do they concentrate bromide, then aspirin and sedam till 3 or 4 pan. with an hour's jobs do these Oxford women take on tives related to it, next simple other three days we do not start till en secretarial, teaching, and com

10 or 11 am. Apart from an hour's mercial work, or are they taking up barbiturates, and grander ones lecture, 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.

Lithuanian border which is dis- turbing Europe is nothing more than another example of the ill-

which feeling

has existed between the two states since the Great War and the alters tion of Europe's boundaries which followed that catastrophe. At ordinary times it would have no great significance, but with the tension in Europe so great any spark must be watched lest it start a spreading fire.

To reckon one person in a hun- dred suffers from insomnia is probably an under-estimate. If I were paid a penny by all the bad sleepers in England to hand over the secret of sound sleep and plenty of them would gladly enough pay £1,000 or more! I should net a small fortune. Unfortunately, it can't be done. 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 98 December, 1920, after, the nights' insomnia one year and Russo-Polish war of that year, 131 in the next. Poland won considerable ter-

There is another instance of a ritory from White Russia and the Ukraine. But she was not man 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- Russia. The Lithuanians have self and thus induce sleep. The never acquiesced to this particu-result was that he wore out three 1. Fingal's Cave, Ouverture... Mendelssohn. lar piece of brigandage and horses a night and himself went

retallated by closing the River steepless for 15 days. Niemen and the port of Memel to the Poles. This dispute the (Violin Sota, P. Eadskoff). League of Nations has constant-

cause of medical ly tried to solve, but without success and there have been science, voluntarily tried to do Gruenfeld. frontier disturbances from time without sleep. He could keep

to time which have kept Eastern Europe on edge.

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Many are now taking up such diverse posts as factory and labour managernent, hospital almoning, house property management, advor- "WHAT sort of things do tiring. dietetics, and psychiatry.

you have to dissect?" I

and

The head of a big advertising firm recently told me that he found young have women excellent copywriters, "In elementary Zoology we 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. and gravely pronounced that in set how horrified I was at finding my In scientific research worrien have rabbit still warm from the chloroform 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, out of 47 places women took seven. a week. 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.

"But the subject is so fascinating wore successful and only 15 per cent. Of these seven women, two 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

new.

woman,

Common Sense

Of course, everybody knows

In view of the fact that in the that what, when, and how you Zoology and Medical schools the cat has a lot to do with sleep. young women have to dissect along- side the men and under the super- But you can't make a rule. Some vision of male demonstrators, such NOW have' Qxford' women folk will snore away quite hap-an attitude is admirable. And it is

that exaggerated opinion of their own importance which is pily after an 11 p.m. snack of

often so fatal to Oxford men gradu- This 18 not just Woman-the atcs. Many Oxford women go lobster, cold Christmas pudding,

eternal feminine, giving herself a Welsh rarebit, and black coffec. coat of metal art. The modern straight into big West End stores and Others can't be too careful what young woman at Oxford is as effic start behind the counter and this fent, as practical; as cold-blooded- know of are earning £1,000 a year policy pays. Three Oxford women I when she wants to be as a machine.

in a big Landon store. they have for tea.

Some people are specially sen- schools she takes equal risks with In the Physics and Chemistry

For her breadth of vision, her sitive to the terrestrial magne-men 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- ONE investigator, in the only if they lie with their beds angered and as competent as day. There is no need to wish her

along that field, with the head to the north.

Dozed on his Horse

any man.

heavy bed-clothes, ventilation, a But we hope soon to be able to

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 naks if he all'other means fall it is worth all except the most vital services

feels thirsty, and prob ably persuades him to take a up with Pakov, in Russia, and turning your bed on successive are suspended.

hot drink. Sometimes a few 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 Whether this ban on unneces- lazy puffs at a cigarette bring in some quarters that Germany also with Moscow and Smolensk. actions.

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 "sleep con- 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.

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

night and keeps watch that the

The monotony of the strokes Memel, but it is improbable dependence of Germany or Po-high or low pillows, light or certain.

ing of jumping sheep. that Poland would venture to land is the next best thing to

walk before retiring, reading in record the electric since actual Russian ownership, as far bed, and anything else. this enterprise alone Russia has given notice that as Moscow is concerned.

Electric Brain-Waves What a first-class nurse does profound relaxation of every Lithuania she will defend

It will thus be seen that the

to help a patient to sleep will limb and then count your preservation of the integrity of WORRY, powerful provide a few hints for bad sleep breaths.

though it is to hold ers to copy. The ports of Raval (or Tal- Czesho-Slovakia is not the only back sleep, does not affect all She doesn't go first to the taken 50 breaths, I shall be Baya "By the time I have linn) in Estonia and Riga in thing which would draw Russia similarly. There are women: drug cupboard. She speaks a asleep. One, two now Latvia, two states which were into conflict. How France would who lie sleepless on account of

no greater problem than next gentle word or two to the starting three, Lour given their independence by the react to the invasion of Lithu week's bridge-party, while on patient, asks if he has pain, re- slipping farther treaty of

Long before you get to aty of Brest Litovsk, are still ania, or Latvia, oz

the other hand, men on the brink aures him that, of course, he's of financial Seu may slumber going to sleep will be ime the sea outlets and railheads, of doubtful. But

dat he's not half on ridiculoung

that his thing

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COUNT THE

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EVERYWHERE

very considerable areas of

western Russia, Raval is joined

Estoni

"lika:poicafu

brain-waves

„schich will give us the clue.

alt off, his

ara hot cold

I think, however, that sheep: are too complex to imagine, too solid. Try instead inducing a

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