HOW YOU SLEEP.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1924, Page 4

HOW YOU SLEEP.

,ISv One AYlio Doesn't Know.) AVI,In is the ideal position tor the sleeper and is it possible to eultivate it!- Doctors. I know, have no vary helpful suooestions to make. One prepared for me, however, a list of 1sleepers under his care at a certain hospital. None suffered from a complaint which would have marked intluenee on normal sleeping haliits. 1. Off pillow. Apparently liked head on level with rest of body. .Mouth open. Hands clutching sheets and blankets. 2. Under bed-clothes. Invisible. Did not disturb as patient rarely could sleep. 3. On back. Head thrown well back, so that pillow was really at neck. Chin thrust out. Hands across middle. nearly clasped. 4. Hands held bedclothes up to

inoutli. Head bant forward on left Bide. A very old man, this. o. Right thumb in mouth. I.eft hand held right wrist. A child. (i. On hack. Knees drawn high lip. Hands loosely lying outside bedclothes. 7. On right side. Forefinger of left hand thrust through buttonhole of pyjama jacket.. Right arm tucked under side.

8. Left cheek rested on open palm of left hand. Right hand hung behind the hodv. ft. Pushed close up against wall, so lying on edge of metal bed. Clothes pushed contemptuously away. This one had been accustomed to roughing it. lit. Two extra pillows. Sleeping, or endeavouring to sleep, practically sitting up. Nurse said patient rarely did more than dnv.e. 11. On face, arms over head, knees drawn under, so that sleeper seemed to lie burrowing. 12. An exact X. Head and shoulders bent down and legs turned back from tbe knees. Hands outspread as if pushing something away. There are probably a hundred other pastures, and it would he most fascinating to know tiie reason of each.