HOW DO YOU SLEEP?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 275, 14 November 1908, Page 4

HOW DO YOU SLEEP?

The ordinary Britisher, in order to sleep well, likes to have a soft pillow under his head. The Jap, stretching himself out on a rush mat on the floor, puts a. hard Mock of wood under his head, and is sleepless without it. lJie robust man at home and in America likes to have the window open at night-time, both summer and winter. Tile Rusisan, on tile contrary, likes no sleeping-place so well as the top o£ the big stove in his domicile. The Laplander crawls, head and all, into a bag of reindeer-skin; and often the East Indian follows a similar custom, Using, however, a more porous bag. This, it, should be explained, is intended as a protection, not from cold, but from mosquitoes. The tierman likes to have a feather covering, as well as lie on a feather bed. The Chinaman prefers a low couch, scarcely above the level of the floor. The people of Northern countries .prefer to sleep where there is plenty of room in which to stretch; while' the in'habitants of tile tropics are prone to curl themselves up in a suspended hammock. Diversity of method in sleeping! After this, we should think so.