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November 8, 1940.

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This is the fourth of an interesting series of articlos which tells you how to get tha maximum benefit from sloop, which in these days of strain is more important than ever.

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 answer 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" und 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?

In Actually, no! 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

male the 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 now sleep- ing habits but he is never quite happy on the wrong side of the bed. When his wife is away he returns with relief to his old sleeping position, and sleeps the better for the change. In one

that came recently to my notice,

BY D. COMPTON JAMES

This sort of thing is three parts selfishness and one part laziness. A stone or rubber hot-water bottle would serve the same

purpose without

causing discomfort to the other partner. Unfortunate- ly, cold-blooded people are never able to appreciate the degree of discomfort that warm-blooded people suffer from contact with cold extre- mitics.

I remember very well an oc casion when I was running

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high temperature with malarla. The doctor attend- ing me came straight out of a snowstorm and pressed his icy hand on my spleen. He was never called in to attend me ngain.

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

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the wife decided on twin beds because her husband tossed and turned so much that he disturbed her rest. 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- beds. ways sleep in twin 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 iB 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 aure that the feet are warm before going to bed. Toast. ing them in front of the fire, or soaking them in a hot foot. bath will not always achieve this. Indeed, cold feet res-

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lieutenant, that you are a prominent member of the Strength. Through-Joy movement

pond very slowly to external The best applications of 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 for some people is an inexplicable itching of the skin. This begins soon after the victim gets into bed. Much of this irrita- tion is nervous in origin, but there are focal points the skin which expression to the give physical nervous symptoms. One good re- medy is a lukewarm lath just be- fore going to bed; not a hot bath because hot water tends to make the skin prickle. Another remedy to brush the skin all over wítion medium-stiff hairbrush.

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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 Arst boat for sleep, they may lie awake for hours trying to ignore the itching. Sometimes they are actually awakened in the middle of

night

this by

annoying symptom. It really saves time to the itching get up begins, wash the feet thoroughly, and dust between the toes with boracle powder.

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Any form of itching at night la often 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 rolle bed-clothing than

Other people's snores do not normally waken a sleeper, but they can and do prevent a sufferer from Insomnia from going to sleep. Twin beds are not a complete remedy for

By Abner Dean this dimculty, nor are separate

a solution, since a morer in rooms a full blast can be heard all over the house. The best plazi is for the poor alcoper to get to sleep before the snorer starts his unconscious If this means going serenade, even if to bed an hour earlier.

Other people. cough a lot before they settle down to sleep. Much of this is due to habit and the practice 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 remedies.

King's

After thirteen years' residence in Paris, the correspondent:

of the "Dally Herald," Toaving as a war refugee, packs.sixĮ stuffed monkeys.in his luggage. **

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LEAVING

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-

case,

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 suit, 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, Browne's Religlo 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.

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, coolding utensils, pots and pans.

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

Some farmers had salvaged

By JOSE SHERCLIFF

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 possessions 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, 3 scattering of books, a cherished piece of crockery tucked into a coat pocket.

One couple had entirely filled the back of their car with clothes thrown pell-mell A and stacked to the roof. grey-haired woman clutched a caged canary, hens in per- forated cardboard boxes were securely 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 fled and carry their all. One party in a Hispano towed a smaller car carrying all their luggage.

Most pathetic of all were the peasants in their carts,

Father Had

The King and Queen heard recently how a suggestion made by King George V help- ed to defeat the Gormans in 1018:

In a heavy artillery school In the Northern Command a Heutenant-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 tho

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 refugce, as we sat munching a sand- wich-at-the-roadside."Wo- 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, a 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, à statue from Spain. There were few, but much loved things in that room whose beauty was precious to

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After all, maybe, this is the beat way to hold one's posses- alonsIn the mind's eye.

Shelling

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

"You can be, porfectly sure that the Germans will have to rush their reinforcements front Ypres through Doual," said King George V. "Why

first shot to be fired on Douai - not keep up a harassing fire

railway junction.

After the chot King George told the lieutenant-colonel in

on the railway Junction ?"

"We dropped 120 tons of

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

"Afterwards an English Lady told me that there were 400 casualties in a German troop train on our first day's fring."

The gun, nicknamed the "Bocho Buster,” and a sister gun, known as the "Scone Shifter," are soon to be in action against the Hun again.

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