A HINT TO SLEEPERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1759, 6 February 1888, Page 3

A HINT TO SLEEPERS

It is perfectly truo that do one ever he*rd ot a snoring savage In f»ct if •he vvi d man of the w.oda end plains does not sleep quietly be rune tbe risk of being discovered ly hie enemy, and tho Bcalp of the snoior would aoon adorn the belto f h a crafty v and wore si ent-sleeping adversary. In the natural state, then, ' natural selection ' weeds out tho c who di-larb their neighbors by muking night hideous with mores. With civiiiauiion, however, we have changed all this. The impure air of our sleeping roorau mduo.es a'l manner ot catanhal affe tio c, I'ho v sal pa-B«i>e< are the first to become affected loateal of warming the m piicd air on its w<*y 10 ttie lungH, and r mo ing from it the (tnngerous impurities with wbii-h it ia lo del, tho no»e becomes oooiructed. A pait of toe uir enters »>nd escapes by way of the v outh the Veil • f the pa ate vibrates bet w em the two coneuta -that through the mouth and the one still passing thiough the partia ly closed no tnls— .ike a torn sail iv the wiud The sfror", then means that the sleeper's mouth is pur ialiy open, and his none iv puriia )y cloj.d, and that his lungs are m danger from the air nnt being pr .'per y warmed nod purified. From the continu (i op ritioQ of tueee caustß— the inceare of impure air m s.-epiog rooms and puimittin^ liabitual suorers to tscpe kill.ng aid 'BCitlpiug- some B 3 emi'-t ha* predicted th.it m the future a 1 men (aud women too I) wil> s-.ore. It goes a>ong with decay ot the t'-eth and bald huadednets. — >4 i' reside. "