Show WOOING SLEEP A haggard looking man strolled Into a downtown drug store the other day and asked aked the druggist for help He Ho said he had trouble In getting sleep Bleep when he retired No Na matter how sleepy sleep he might LI bo be during the do day or how much sleep he mIght have lost the moment his head hend tou touched the pillow h hp he was wide wILle awake and la lay thus thuR for several hours Once asleep be ho was waD hard to oJ en but ho hod to be up tip at ot a c certain hour and In tn consequence consequence conse conse- Qu quence of his peculiar affliction he was wa-j losing more moro Bleep sleep than he ho could stand eland Tho The dru drug clerk regarded him ally a few moments and ond then Ihen replied My Iy dear man you dont don't want medi cine What Vh t you want Is something to change the tr trend nd of your thoughts Doas Do Da Doas as 9 a a. friend of ot mine dl did lie He was troubled trou trou- bled the same wa way and found that theold tho the old folks' folks plan of fir Imagining sheep pass- pass inga Ing a barrier and counting them thorn was out of ot date So he be began an trying to lo name all the states In the union lie Ho soon got at th them m so he lie could cla classify thorn thom alphabetically Then when they no na longer Interested him he started on the counties of the state stale Hn now has them at ot his tongues tongue's H end cla classified up lo to the Iho fourth letter Now he ho Is Ie starting on state stale capitals and their locations then he lie will take up county seats scats A moments moment's glance at an atlas during tho day shows howl him when ho he I is wrong and the beauty of the plan IB is that he rarely has to think alon along these ao lines looser longer er than ten minutes before ho Is Found pound asleep To make It ItI short the tho stud of ot Is study geography a good I narcotic Philadelphia Philadelphia Record |