WHY GO TO BED?
Why be a slave to senseless convention ? If you want to sleep well and wisely do not go to bed. This is the latest dictum. The bed has been condemned by medical authority. It is the very cradle of insomania, an unhygenic Invention, and as Mark Twain has already reminded us, it is the unsafest place in the world, since more people die there than anywhere else. The hammock is suggested as a substitute. Bed chambers are, or should be, rest chambers, and when people are weary or sleepy the surest way to get perfect rest is to fling themselves into a hammock, or if that doesn't suit to lie down upon a which is not elaborately made up as a bed. It is the preparations for sleep, the conventional bed clothes, and all that sort of thing that have fallen under medical condemnation. Some suggest that a mat is the best thing to sleep on, while others pin their j faith upon the Esquimau plan of | placing oneself in a bag. —New \ orl" I "Sun."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 November 1910, Page 2
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180WHY GO TO BED? King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 November 1910, Page 2
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