Sleepless Nights
As a postscript to a letter to "The Listener's" circulation department, a subscriber, M.C.H., of Auckland, gave this as a suggested cure for insomnia. The circulation department hands it on with best wishes to worried puzzlers: Roll the eyes 20 times to the right, then 20 times to the left. Then 20 times to the right again, then. 20 more times to the left. Then blink 20 times. We might add that Bill (our stamp-licker) immediately put the proposal to the test. We are not yet sure if the result proves the theory or simply justifies a suspicion that Bill never had insomnia. '
Readers will no doubt find this a bit of a blow, after all their trouble in working out the ratios. But let them take heart. We can revenge them: Mr. Tisbury has failed to acknowledge the fact that wine is not alcohol, but ordinarily contains only a small proportion of alcohol. If it were all alcohol, we hate to think what might happen sometimes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 16
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169Sleepless Nights New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 16
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