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November 8, 1940,

By Walt Disney

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This is the fourth of an interesting sorics of articlos which tells you how to get the maximum bonofit from sloep, which in these days of strain is more important than ovor.

MINOR ANNOYANCES

In addition to mental and physical tensions there are several other factors, mainly physical, which tend to keep people awake at night. For instance, it is axiomatic that it is difficult to get to sleep when one's feet are cold,

The hot-water bottle, human or otherwise, is one answor to this problem, but it is never entirely satisfactory. . For one thing, it takes quite a time to warm feet at any kind of hot- water bottle, and the time so occupied is time needlessly spent awake.

In most marriages there is often one partner who is a "chilly mortal" and this partner sometimes .considers that it is a recognised marital privilege to warm cold feet on the other partner. This is not so funny as it sounds-not for the people who have to put up with it.

But do they have to put up with it? Actually, no! In some circumstances, however, this contact cannot be avoided without the risk of giving serious offence and the suf- ferer judges that this is not worth while.

nearly always the male partner who is left with no choice. During the honey- moon the wife chooses her sleeping position and this is, naturally, the side of the bed she has always been accustom- ed to sleep on.

Quite often this forces the husband to adopt new sleep- ing habits but he is never quite happy on the wrong side of the bed. When his wife is Rway he returns with relief to his old sleeping position, and sleeps the better for the change. In One Cn80 that came recently to my notice,

BY D. COMPTON JAMES

This sort of thing is three parts selfishness and one part Inzincas. A stone. or rubber hot-water bottle would servo the same purpose without causing discomfort to the Unfortunate- other partner.

ly, cold-blooded people are never able to appreciate the

the wife decided on twin beds because her husband tossed and turned so much that he disturbed her reat. She did not realise that her choice of sleeping position was probably the primary cause of her hus- band's restlessness.

Married couples should al-

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degree of discomfort--that-ways-sleep-in-twin warm-blooded people Buffer from contact with cold extre- mities.

I remember very well an oc- casion when I was running a high temperature with malaria. The doctor attend- ing mo came straight out of a snowstorm and pressed his icy hand on my spleen. He was never called. in to attend ma ngain.

In many

marriages one spouse has always to sleep on what is, for him, the wrong aido.of the bed. I write "him" advisedly because it is

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This removes all restrictions on position and makes it im- possible for one partner to dis- turb the other except by snor- ing. And, incidentally, twin- beds may prove to be a cure for snoring. This habit is greatly aggravated by an un- natural sleeping position.

To return to the question of cold feet. The best way out of this difficulty is to make sure that the feet are warm bofore going to bed. Toast- ing them in front of the fire, or soaking them in a hot fool- bath will not always achievo. this. Indeed, cold feet res-

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pond very slowly to external applications of heat. The heat way to get them warm is to take a sharp walk before go- ing to bed. A mile stepped out briskly is usually more than enough to warm up the coldest extremities, especially if precautions are taken to en- sure that circulation is not hindered by garters or tight stockings.

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Another physical factor which delays sleep far some people is an Inexplicable flching of the skin. This begins soon after the victim gets into bed. Much of this Irrita- on is nervous in origin, but there focal points on the skin which the give physical expression to

Ono nervous symptoms. good re- medy is a lukewarm bath just be fore going to bed; not a hot bath because hot water tends to make the skin prickle. Another remedy is to brush the skin all over with a medium-stiff hairbrush. -People-whose feet. perspire.rather. a lot often suffer from intense it- ching between the toes. This starts about ten minutes after they have climbed into bed. If they miss the lle first boat for sleep, they may awake for hours trying to ignore the itching. Sometimes they are actually awakened in the middle of

night

by this annoying symptom. It really saves time to get up as

the Itching begins, wash the feet thoroughly, and dust between the toes with bornele powder.

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Any form of itching at night is otten a sign that there are too many blankets on the bed. This is an other important argument in favour of twin beds, since "chilly mortals" require more

bed-clothing than ordinary folk.

snores

people's

do not normally waken a sleeper, but they can and do prevent.a sufferer from Insomnia from going to sleep. Twin

By Abner Dean beds are not a complete remedy for

this dimeulty, nor are separate rooms a solution, since snorer in full blast can be heard all over the house. The best plan is for the poor sleeper to get to sleep before the snorer starts his unconscious if this means going serenade, even to bed an hour earlier.

Other people cough a lot hefere they settle down to sleep. Much of this is due to habit and the practica of breathing through the mouth."

Many people put up with all kinds of minor sleep annoyances because they have not the foresight or the moral courage to apply the remedica.

King's

After thirteen years' residence in Paris, the correspondent,

of the "Daily Horald," feaving as a war refugco, packs six) stuffed monkeys in his luggage,

LEAVING

THE

HOME

THE queer things that people collect from their possessions when they flee their homes. When I was given only a few hours' notice to leave Paris-after having made it my home for thirteen years-I was able to take with me only one sult-

CASC.

When I unpacked it in London I was surprised to see what unsuitable trifles I had salvaged from my simple but adequate- ly equipped existence. Here is my list.

One sult, one frock, a hand- ful of underwear, a pair of roped-soled sandals that don't fit, two chiffon nightgowns, a bench robe, six'stuffed mon- keys, a camera, a portable typewriter, Shakespeare's son- nets, Browno's Religio Medici,

Humbert Wolfe's poems, air raid kit, the office petty cash. book, and a lace handkerchief.

Not much with which to start life afresh.

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By JOSE

Others had provided more adequately for the future.

On the roads out of Paris you could tell the people who had prepared for flight with foresight and those who had bundled their goods in at the last minute.

You could tell, too, which posscasions had been deliber- ately packed and the trifles rammed hugger-mugger into odd corners.

The beady eyes of a teddy bear peering from between two suitcases, an aspidistra wedged into a roll of blankets, scattering of books, cherished piece of crockery tucked into a coat pocket. .

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One couple had entirely filled the back of their car with clothes thrown pell-mell and stacked to the roof. A grey-haired woman clutched a caged canary, hens in per- forated cardboard boxes were Bсcurely tied to the wings of another car.

Some had taken so little and some had taken much. Many had only a bicycle or a perambulator with which to flee and carry their all. Ono party in a Hispano towed a smaller car carrying all their luggage.

Most pathetic of all were the peasants in their carts,

the man leading his horses, his dog walking to heel.

On a pile of blankets sat the family, their household goods stacked round them- tables, chairs, old fashioned lamps, cooking utensils, pots and pans.

Wide-eyed children peered over the sides of the carts, clutching battered toys.

Some farmers had salvaged

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their tractors, harnessed huge haycarts to them, and re- moved their household goods and farm implements bodily.

Well, the irrevocable choice has been made, the key turned in the lock.

"On a les larmes aux yeux en fermant sa porte," said an old peasant, a fellow refugee, as we sat munching a sand- wich at the roadside. "We. can't help weeping as the door. is closed.

When the tears have been smudged away, there remains only in the mind's eye the picture of what was home.

To me it is a tiny, airy flat among the roofs of Paris, & kitchen gay with blue and white spotted crockery and scarlet saucepans, a bathroom hung with curtains of striped Basque linen,

There was a room with a divan, a desk and a scarlet table, with green bookshelves crammed with books, a bunch of roses from the Maginot Line, bonbonniere from Honfleur, a statue from Spain.

There were few, but much loved things in that room whose beauty was precious to

me.

After all, maybe, this is the best way to hold one's passes- slons-in the mind's eye.

A Big

Father Had

Shelling Idea

The King and Queen heard recently how a suggestion made by King George V help- ed to defeat the Germans in 1918.

In a heavy artillery school In the Northern Command a Ileutenant-colonel of the Royal Engineers told how on August 8, 1918, King George the Fifth came to a 14-inch naval gun position on a railway near Arras and gave orders for the first shot to be fired on Donal rallway function.

After thusahöt King George told the floutenant-colonel in

command of the battery that he had just come from the Fourth Army, which was attack on launching its Amiens.

"you can be perfectly sure that the Germans will have to rush their reinforcements from Ypres through Doual," said King George VWhy not keep up a harassing firo on the railway function ?

high explosives on the railway Junction," the colonel told the King.

"Afterwards an English lady told me that there were 400 casualtics in a German troop train on our first day's 'firing.”

The gun, nicknamed the Boche Buster," and a sister gun, known as the "Scene Shifter," are goon to be in “We dropped: 120 tons of action against the Hun again.

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