Show MAGAZINE SECTION THE H The Position on the Right Side Followed by Seventy Per Cent of Sleepers and Indorsed by Physiologists as Favoring the Best Action of the Heart and Most Complete Rest to the Body Just Why the Right Side is Favored by Physiologists nothing quite so will induce sleep Besides cleansing and at the same the body it settles and calms the THERE so beneficial as sleep nerves and consequently invites reconsequently it is of vital impor- laxation There is nothing quite as tance that this phase of living be luxurious and delightful as a cold rightly understood One cannot be cream massage or an alcohol rub If the tired person can employ some healthy and cannot therefore be — one to knead a little cold cream on beautiful without right sleeping the face forehead to as and temples and quality quantity right In the first place one cannot in- wrists the result is instantaneous duce sleep unless the body and mind for instead of feeling like a deadare permitted to relax to the extent weight one slips into that natural of putting all matters out of the fatigue which comes before slumber mind that would tend to excite it to So it is with the rub of alcohol or action The habit of relaxing is an witch hazel — it revives and rests the excellent one especially previous to nerves When trying to induce sleep sleeping time for in this wray one It is well as has been stated to put prepares the mind and body for that away all serious thoughts and try to get the mind into a pleasant elelapse which restores inSome people make a vated state an the health and vitality of of habit dividual reading before retiring That well is and and good if it really works One cannot induce relaxation Often it excites results the right sleep unless the body is in a fresh mind and so the the wholesome cohdltion It is most important that the venmatter of the daily bath is an imIntilation of the sleeping apartment be portant detail to be considered deed very often when body and mind attended to for without clear fresh seem too weary to rest the hot or air there can be no good results cold bath proves the one thing that since sleeping in a stuffy sub-conscio- half-wakin- g d Sleeping on the Back Is Indorsed for Infants but Not for The Chest Down Position Favored by Animals and Followed by Many Persons Who Have Experimented with Various Poses room is more harmful than neglecting the sleeping hours entirely People vary in opinion as to the correct position in sleeping and this probably is best decided by each individual as long as the body is not folded up in some grotesque position As the Doctor Views the Sleep Question By DR LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG The victims of high blood pressure OME people by actual experience Indeed so necessary Is it to have this ulcer of the stomach hardening of “blue a closed that ovale” “foramen seem to sleep best when they — the aorta and 57 different varieties one with heart this deformity baby” ” lie “face down” or — may die If this port-hol- e is not of heart spleen and pancreatic as boys on their sleds quickly and permanently closed diseases — all structures on the left Others sleep on the back others Infants and children however as side of the anatomy — are apt to feel again even on their “heart side” a general rule also rugged men and certain minor disagreeable or and comfortable sensations if they rest is of course a wide margin women forced by circumstances to able are better sleep on the left side which might interprivations ror individual needs and habits u on on their chests and fere with sleep backS( Those same persons often spend by actual hospital and institution in- animals naturally sleep than be- - the their women and more men and pleasantest pights when they average person spoiled vestigation on to their “tummies” like a boy make and accustomed coddled sleep tween 21 and 60 sleep on their right who eats as as comfortable green apples or on the possible Bides than any other way One In- howside as best side right High pillows are to them Right sleeping - also vestigator gives 0 per cent as the ever more obserseveral productive of slumber supported by The heart than low ones figure vatlons In physiology There are some persons There are facts reasons and a and the huge pipeline for the blood — to explain this preponderance the aorta — incline more towards the sionally those with colic pains in the stomach and left flexure of the colon in adult life Just before the baby left side than the right on an When is the the is for born instance there is right or big intestine who are able to sleeper are sleep better on the left side than on two structures blood of or a these side window with flap opening tissue over It between the two up- allowed to relax themselves without any other The very pressure upon per chambers of the heart This port- - the weight and pressure of the rest- those organs which might incom-holwith cover is in the partition of the anatomy constricting or in- mode others acts as a s tant to relieve them of their aches and is terfering with them the Undue heat or localized fever of called the "foramen ovale” or oval Obviously sleep cannot readily intervene if these structures are not se- - any part of the surface of the skin window With the thought that this flap has cured from impressions made by the may cause wakefulness if the af not yet thoroughly fastened and rest of the body Indeed It is almost fected side is in contact with the bet sealed up the window completely an axiomatic fact that sleeplessness clothes Boys often have a tendency to doctors and nurses place the new- - and insomnia are for the most part born infant on its right side This the consequence of not being able sleep on the back The habit should sometimes but not often starts a completely to shut out all kinds of be corrected They ought to sleep in cool hygienic nihl-shirt- s of habit of right-sidesleep excitants inside and outside S' “belly-whopper- un-Ther- e occa-theor- y e counter-irri-betwee- n d and sleep-preventin- is g g half-believe- d By MARY GLYNN life-lon- half-sleepin- doze is occasionally caused by persistently going over in thought the affairs of the day After the head has touched the pillow a silent mental prayer should be said by everybody This may be in some a habit only in or paid attention to as a check to nocturnal yet it acts mental gymnastics and soothes the g savage mind of many reflections Another diversion of this wakeful mind activity is “to let the stomach do the thinking” by drinking a glass of warm milk and eating some zwiebak Finally it may be said that each person must find out for himself which side or surface gives him most comfort in sleep As his health his growth his diet and' his circumstances change this too may change and the chest sleeper may even sleep better on the much abused left side The Beauty Student’s Point of View heart-cavitie- --E fresh white linen The mattress of the bed must be hard and in order to prevent them sleeping on their backs a spool or similar hard object is to be belted tied or by means of adhesive plaster fastened to the In this way small of their backs they will even in sleep turn automatically from the back to sleep on their sides Tossing from one side to the other in a and Why You Must Decide for ill-aire- - MAGAZINE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY JANUARY 28 1917 ERATjD-REPTTBLTCA- N Grown-up- s |