CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8824, 28 May 1907, Page 1

CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINE.

Sleep is the best and cheapest med:onc, and it is within the reach of everybody. We require as much sleep as we can procure. We may work at high pressure if we sleep enough, but if wo over-work and uuder-slaop, irritability, insomnia, and nenrasthara are almost certainly in store. One of the prime causes of ill-health among men and women who have to work with their brains is neglect of sleep. The woman who,curtails her sleep begins to worry. Insufficient sleep, in the first instance, is a common cause of insomnia. Eesfc and sleep are the only rational cures for brain fag and nervous exhaustion. It is the highlydeveloped mind (hat is liable to worry, the alert, highly-strung individual who is prone to suffer from sleeplessness. The country yokel can always sleep, and nobody ever saw a neurasthenic cow; bat the higher the type, the greater need for rest and sufficient sleep. ' The placid easy going people can afford to-curtail their rest; they se’dom do; but those of a ntrvoa j , energetic disposition require all the sleep they can get. Their wear and tear is excessive, and when the symptoms of irritability and worry appear they should serve as a warning that the brake is required. Un. fortunately most people at this stage resort to drugi and strong tea, medicine, and alcohol. They feel the need of stimulants or sedatives, they say.

But drugging on’y aggravates matter?, and by diminishing their will power and their resistance makes their last state worse than the first. When the working woman yearns for tea or a cigarette, when the harassed society woman turns to strong coffee and liqueur it is really rest that they should have. Best is Nature’s sedative, s’eep Nature’s sweet restorer. There is no drug that ha? the reparative power, no remedy in the world to equal the healing properties of sleep.