FOR BETTER SLEEP

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1932, Page 3

FOR BETTER SLEEP

. TURN.FEDS TO THE) NORTH. EXPERIMENTS, IN" ENGLAND; ; V i " LONDON, September 10; A great game cf general post with . the’ bedroom funiture appears to be m progress in hundreds of homes all-over the British Isles. It is. being played by people who read an article by Mr Bernard Falk, and’ are acting on bis advice to sleep - with their heads to the noreh. Many’ have expressed -delight at having found that they slept better as soon as they had tried the experiment i'Soulid sleepers stated that' they had (examined the direction in which they slept and had found it to be northwards. ' ..

Tiiere is, indeed, general acceptance of’ the statement that when the head rests towards the north—in line with the earth’s main magnetic currents —- sleep comes mo: c easily, and is rounder and more beneficial than when the head rests in other directions, f 5 The theory has heen Widely cliscussed in hotels, boarding houses and sim- ! ilar establishments, many of which a™ experimenting on. the “sleep with your head to the north” advice for ' the benefit of visitors. ' Ainot/g them is the Strand Palace Hotel, where a number of beds were v'esterday turned to. the ricrth. “AVe ! will place these beds at the disposal of ■visitors who.. s;ay they are bad,, sleepers,” an oficial fold n rennrfer.