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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1938,

FORMULA FOR SAFETY

A

SMALL planet, pre- for some time, although on the night of the fall and for several viously unknown, was

subsequent nights brilliant discovered. on the

green, gold, and crimson twilight night of October 28 last, and hues were seen in England and was found to be moving elsewhere, caused by fine dust towards the earth.

carried high up into the atmos-

Then woTM learned that three- phere by the explosive impact. days later it passed us at a dis- Weird Effect

tance of 400,000 miles, making

the closest approach to the earth

of any known celestial body.

WHEN the spot was eventually reached it

It has been said that this was was found that the trees in the the narrowest escape the earth surrounding forests had been has ever had in the period of blown down to a distance of astronomical observation.

about 20 miles by the force of What would the effect have wind when the meteor 'fell. been if this small planet had ne They produced, when seen

My Golden Rule for

SLEEP

tally collided with the earth? from the air, a weird appearance.

A great crater, perhaps 50 They had been stripped of their his first questions will be, "How miles in diameter and a mile bark, and most of the branches

This crater, in Arizona, described in this article, 100s caused by one of the greatest meteorites which ever hit the earth. The picture was

Taken from a height of 5,000ft.

Destruction

IF you ask a doctor to examine you, one of do you sleep?" Your

answer will tell him more than he can find out with a stethoscope.

My own dealings with doctors have been restricted to examinations for Insurance. I do not remember ever taking medicine from a bottle, But every night of my life, unless I have good reasons for avoiding It, 1 take a deep and copious draught of the most powerful medicine known to science. I sleep,

In prescribing this remedy to my friends I know what to expect. Some will tell me that they cannot sleep. Others will say, "Yes; but how do. you make yourself go to sleep?"

I

DON'T COUNT SHEEP

Do not make myself go to sleep. Anybody who tries to make himself do anything at all, even count sheep, once his head is on the pillow. is certain to keep himself awake.

The body is always ready to rest at were the proper time. But It cannot do ofen if the mind is busy with worry,

are

It is a frightening thing to contemplate and calculate the price the world is going to pay for the stubborn addiction of

What keeps people awake is not nations

to policies of non-co- deep, which would have resem- had been scorched as though by to sicep comes regularly and rhyth- the body but the mind. The Impulse operation. There have been bled the larger mountain craters the heat of an enormous furnace,mically to all normal human beings. plenty of examples in the past on the moon, would have been About 1,000 reindeer to warn responsible lenders off produced on the surface of the killed. Eye-witnesses told the road on which the present:

earth.

the appearance of fiery flame excitement, or fear.

The worst fear of all is the fear race of competition is being run.

much brightor than the sun,

wakefulness. Peopic of

who But although there are a few

giving off great and violent, ex-afraid of Insomnin are the only true with vision enough to foresec

WITHIN this area de- plosions, followed by a tremend- | Insomniacs. the ultimate unhappiness for been complete, and all visible barrage, lasting

struction would have ous cannonade, like an artillery

for which they are hended, circum-landmarks, such as hills, valleys, minutes.

several stances have dragged them along and rivers would have disappear- with those whose lack of judged. ment and recklessness lead them to desperate expedients.

Had it not been for a certain aggressiveness-and- aquisitive-tive effects due to the blast and Pierced the RockTM

The weight of this meteor is estimated to have been 130 tons. The explosive blast of excER-

The earth bears the scar of a sively hot air after the impact would have been felt the whole more violent impact in the Great world over, and serious destruc-

Meteor crater in Arizona.

the heat would have occurred of

of square miles. over an area of some thousands

THIS is a vast cup shaped hole with a

By CARL BRISSON

Famous Star of

Stage and Screen

enjoyed my usual two hours of walk- ing in the lanes before rehearsul si 10.30.

Bex Is 10 place for thinking. People who drive off their problems until they get there have only them- selves to thank if they keep them- selves awake. I have a friend who says he can straighten out all the worries of the day once he gels be-

tween the sheets. I can do better:

can abolish them.

an

There can hardly be a more nerve- racking profession than mine. Hours of exertion and excitement at the wrong end of the day are notorious as the

caltsc

of wakefulness. Some

reading people cannot sleep after exciting book or working out a cross- word puzzle. How would they feel after singing and dancing in front of an audience and then perhaps talking and eating for a couple of hours after that?

SOFT PILLOWS

TFI can sleep, so, I should think, can anybody, unless he is down- right .

Occasionally, for the sheer luxury of it, I have tried reading in bed. But I have found that the greater the intellectual demands of the book the less I wanted to be bothered with $. So to my wakeful friends I recom- mond hard books. And soft pillows. Not that soft pillows make much difference to me. When you have stayed in all sorts of hotels and pro- fessional "diga" you scarcely notice the difference between down and straw. You can sleep on a clothes-

Indeed, a little discomfort is pro bably good for the tardy sleeper. A tepid bath, leaving the victim a little damp and chilly, makes him enjoy the comfort of bed and often sende him off.

line.

If there is one golden ruic for sleep, this is it: Once you have closed your eyes, do not open them. Any normal person who will lie for 15 minutes in à dark room with his eyes closed will almost certainly fall asleep.

NOTHING TO FEAR

I have heard of a good many recipes for sleep, but they all seem to involve too much brain work at the very time when the brain should be resting. They are all variations of the sheep- AND if he does not sleep, what does counting process.

T

THE SLATE METHOD

He only use that I can see in such

devices is that they may possibly take the mind off the fear of lying awake. There is, for example, the state method.

You shut your eyes and imagine a

slate. Then you let forge

writes. on the state

your an unseen

raised rim about one mile in thoughts wander, while every If the planet had struck the diameter and 600ft. deep caused thought that rises. But before the earth in the middle of one of by a collision probably the oceans, waves of gigantic thousand years ago when dimensions would have carried meteor or comet which weighed destruction far and wide.

about 1,000,000 tons hit the

ness, mingled with fear paralysing competition and even attack from some other quarter, Japan might have won a mea- sure of co-operation from China nine months ago which would have been of inestimable value to both countries. As it is she has plunged the two nations into a maelstrom from which in Siberia.

In 1908 a large meteor hit the

earth in a remote forest region earth.

few unseen hand gets a chance to com- plete a sentence. you rub it out. The Hame is to keep the slate clean.

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it matter? Some people afraid of missing a night's rest. I see nothing to be afraid of in that.

I have missed many, because I had something more urgent to do. Once bedtime was well

my body well past, and had become used to the unusual de- mands I was making, it stayed awake and energetic next until bed- time came again. Then it was ready and

I belleve that eager for sleep. no harm was done.

Sleep is merely a recharging of the human battery. If you stay, up all to-night you will sleep to-morrow night, or the night after that. Nothing is more certain than that you will eventually fall into a good, sound, healthful sleep, and awake refreshed.

If you would sleep well to-night put yourself in the proper state for sleep. Lie down in a duris room with your eyes closed and breathe slowly, deeply, rhythmically, as you do when you are asleep. And if you catch yourself thinking about anything at

I tried that once, but soon went back to the method I had always used. No slate was needed, but the process was much the вате. Аз It pierced through the hard stopped thinking. Nothing was worth soon as I found myself thinking. I rock and the heat thinking about except sleep, and that was the last thing I wanted to think great a quantity of steam that about. the whole of the meteoric mass

Daylight awakened me-I have was shot out again with explo- never needed an alarm clock--and I all, even sleep, forget It. issive violence..

both may emerge permanently ed reached the civilised world that was generated produced so

No news of what had happen- sandstone handicapped economically and certainly with hurts which it

will

armaments:

When You Feel "On Edge'

72

the

that breathless feeling, when heart beats furiously, the whole nervous system seems to fangle, and the muscles of the face and roots of

of the hair tingle. Palpitations may, course, be due to some organic trou- ble, in which case a, doctor should be

sult only from nerves.

Beneficial Deep Breathing

with an attack of nervous palpitations The most effective way to deal

la by deep breathing. The moment you feel that strupg-up feeling com- Ing on, stop and take a deep breath. But it must be a very deep breath. Breathe in slowly and deliberately, hold the breath as long as possible, then breathe out

take years to heal. The thetic aid will be forthcoming. cost of such a war as this is Her future, economically, incalculable; for the people will more hopeful than Japan's. continue

There is no record of what to pay for its conse- But this not the end of the the effects of this explosion quences all through the weary discouraging tale. Look at the were, but as this meteor was years of reconstruction. And rest of the world! There is a several hundred times heavier if Japan belleves that by victory forces

dangerous stirring of armed than the Siberian one, its de-T must be a very fortunate and,

in Germany, Poland, structive effect must have been she can extract from China the Austria and Lithuania; there is serious up to a distance of 100 who never has the nerve-racking ex incidentally, uncommon, person millions .she will need to rehaa bloody conflict in Spain, still!or 200 miles.

perience of feeling "on edge." The bilitate herself and the pro-threatening to involve other

majority of us are subject, at some vinces she occupies, she is sadly nations

in the horror;

time or other, to that trying strung- every The planet that passed near up feeling which makes us "want to mistaken. The fallacy of that power is pouring its wealth into the earth at the end of last scream," or which causes everything consulted. But very often they r assumption has been

distrust is in the October was a small body, prob- to seem so depressing. It is too much proved eyes of every man who walks ably not more than one mile in to expect to eliminate this state al- too often here. The best Japan can hope Only a few faint voices cry for somewhere about 1,000,000,000 "anodynes," the reason for this being

to requiro argument the frontiers of his homeland. | diameter. Its weight would be together, but we can alleviate it.

Different people require different for is an armistico upon which an attempt at mutual under- tons.

two-fold. First, people vary in their to try, once more, to build for standing. Only a handful acc

and do not, con- permanent pence and under that the world is building its mate that its weight exceeded methods; and, Roughly speaking, We esti- temperaments

sequently, respond to the SAMIC standing. And though China own ruin.

that of the Arizona meteor by the trouble socondly, the cause of veries and, again, has suffered injuries which have It is too late now to talk of as many times as that in turn proached. The obvious thing to do

must therefore be differently

ap- wrought an iron hatred in her disarmament. But there is still a exceeded the Siberian meteor, is to find the most effective method soul against things Japanese, solve to some extent the dis these two impacts we can ob- which a choice may be made.

chance that Individuals can dis- und by comparing the results of for oneself, and here are a few from the philosphy and psychology trusts and antagonisms which tain some idea of what the re- of China's people are such that ride this civilisation down bysults of the collision with this co-operation, freely offered, may endeavouring, to improve rela-planet would have been! still be acceptable under some tions through personal contact circumstances. As for China, and the written and spoken earth has had a narrow escape. We may say, perhaps, that the she will survive despite her word. Unfortunately the ef- But was it really so very nar- easy target to hit. wounds, and repair the fabric fort is of little avall if it is one row? If a marksman aimed at of the nation on whatever sided, and is frequently mis-a 6in. target and missed it by tunity of shooting a planet at If we were given the oppor- ground is left to her, concen- interpreted as a sign of weak- 25ft, we should consider it a the earth from somewhere out trating on the development of ness. But it is still worth try- pretty bad miss. It was by the in space resources as far removed from ing. The world must put a same relative margin that the away we should have to make a few million miles threats of future attack as stop to war and the depressions earth escaped. possible. If she must lose her which follow Inevitably. And northern territories, she still the only formula which contains Not has wide and fertile lands in the a scrap of usefulness is that south and west. Because she based upon co-operation and

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Some people are subject to what is commonly called "palpitations,"

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Deep breathing is not merely for the physical benefit, though that eer- tainly enters; its chief reason is to cut off the on-coming excitement, and this it does almost unfailingly, oli other action and thought are sis- pended; you can think of nothing else and do nothing else but the actual motion of taking in and letting out air... The result is absolute and almost Involuntary. calm, which acte: as check to the nervousness. Count.up to keep lo ten, between the breaths, this also

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