A Hint to Sleepers.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 240, 4 February 1888, Page 7

A Hint to Sleepers.

IT IS perfectly true (remarks "Fireside") that no one ever heard of a snoring savage. In fact, if the wild man of the woods and plains does nofc sleep quietly he runs the risk of being discovered by his enemy, and the scalp ot the snorer would soon adorn the belt of his crafty and more silent sleeping adversary. In the natural state, then, "natural selection" weeds out those who disturb their neighbours by making, night hideous with snores. With civilisation, however, we have changed all this. The impure air of our sleeping rooms induces all manner of catarrhal affections. The nasal passages are the first to become affected. Instead of warming the inspired air on its way to • thD lungs, and removing from it> the dangerous impurities with which it is loaded, the nose becomes obstructed. A part of the air enters and escapes by way of the mouth. The veil of the palate vibrates between the two currents -that' through the mouth and the one still passing through' the partially closed noßtrils-4ike a torn sail in the wind. The snore, then, means that the sleeper's mouth is -partially open, that his nose is partially closed, and that his > lungs iare in danger from < the air not' being properly warmed and purified. < From the continual operation*" of these causes— < fthe increase of, impure ai£in sleeping rooms; and permitting ' habitual > snores' fto *esoape ■ killing and 1 scalping— some* -' Scientist' hafei predidte&'that in fche future allimen-(and u the women, too -I) willsnore;; di goes along^ 'with decay of the teefch and bald-headed-'ness. ;■ •■< '..--*' •<-•>•' m>*< :i " f^: