Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER WHAT IS SLEEP health deportment of bew york some time ago reported a rate of faur new cisca a day of the mysterious malady known as sleeping sickness the patient goes to sleep and re mains dormant for days or weeks some of theu never awakening awik ening aih ars wal ing for a few minutes lid lin relapsing into conn the disease lian it first made its appearance was supposed to he a re fault of I 1 ater cases hive when there ins been no in no treatment seems to be effective in accomplishing a cure the only pro beng to sustain the strength of alie patient by nourishing feeding and waiting for n iture to the strange attack sleep natural or unnatural hub been a scientific mystery since the first human lay down to rest und closing his bios lapsed into umon e go to sleep by degrees one iby one the senses become inactive ahe first anse to Is sight e tint by closing our a after sight goes taste smell anil and alien four hae be come dormant w e are sound asleep tio sense of heanry neer entirely stops it Is the sentinel sense duller lu action inn when e are dwile tant stio on ane job while the others arc resting f alien we arca we are in a condition nest door nl the 0 an tass us to ui condl flon of some people and some animals sleep ery deeply end soundly with them the unknown sense awakuni us from seep seems to be less aeu and acthen some people require or think the require much sleep others do with little sopie of alie tower 01 life are said not to alie ant one of the most outly of all IMIL organisms has peer been found asleep it will work without for periods as long as 12 hours aej then after a short rest hut without leep it begins biln its there tome possible way by man could gc without sleep Is no one lias ever discovered it cro in the war were to th limit of ui bleed bleep tind mir clied when he motion of alx limbs were it Is impossible to v a acan now 1 alie denand of ali senses for rest and no afton of power can conquer it the study of alie sickness may lead to better under standing of sleep and more thorough knowledge of what really causes alie feat consciousness to w w e glad ly ourselves dally may find out the source and reason for dreams thy alue of which as a basis for reasoning been in question ever since in bible units joseph incurred the hatred of brethren bv reeling to biem what he had seen in his sleep ve hive much to learn about evau so common and universal a tiling as sleep the study of the sleeping sick ness may solve some of its mysteries c by mcclure newspaper syndicate i |