HOW THE NATIONS WOO SLEEP

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 285, 28 August 1919, Page 8

HOW THE NATIONS WOO SLEEP

; $ What seeins indispensable to one nation for a good sleep another considers the surest means of driving away repose. Europeans require, as a rule, a soft pillow, while tho Japanese stretches himself on his mat and puts a. square wooden block under his head, upon lie rests quite comfortably. To the Cliinaninn his bod is-a vory important affair. It is low and often adoaned with precious carvings, but it never ocours to him that anything could be more comfortable than plaited mats. While tho people of northern countries cannot sleep unless tlioy have sufficient : space to stretch themselves at full length,. the natives of the tropics aro often satisfied with a. 'hammock. The inhabitant of Russia Minor loves to sleep on his hot stove, from which, on awakening half roasted in Hie morning, ho will immediately plunge into cold water so as to reestablish his physical equilibrium. Tho Lapp crawls into a sack made of reindeer skins, while the Hindu, who, likewise uses a sack, though an airy and light one, does so for the purpose of protecting himself against the mosquitoes, not against cold.