Pleasant Grove Review | 1935-06-28 | Page 5 | Snoring Described as Disease of Civilization

Snoring Described as Disease of Civilization Snoring, observes the Manchester Guardian, has been called a disease . of civilization, on the ground that savages do not snore because the man who gave audible announcement in that way of the presence of himself him-self and other tribesmen in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of nn enemy would get short shrift. With civilization (runs the argument) came security, and with security those nasal noises of the night and not of the night only, for Lord Ullswater, when he was speaker, speak-er, ruled that snoring was out o-f order In the house of commons. There are those who draw fine distinctions between different ways of snoring. When Beau Rrununell was once traveling from Calais to Paris, he found himself In the company com-pany of a king's messenger, who later said that the Beau slept the whole way, and even snored. But the messenger added what he thought was an extenuating circumstance, that "Mr. Brummell snored very much like a gentleman."