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Exeter Advocate, 1913-9-11, Page 6WONDERS :RS ANE) HORRORS OF DREAMS 1 comedy dream, the merely faxxtzW- t1 e splendid building, , and the like, *ie. oecrusionAtl dreams, vary - lug in. kind with different people and seldom repeated', ' There are, however, at few gen- ;eral statements that can be xuacle about all dreams, First, all dreams alm rapid—a tutor fell asleep as a scholar was reeiting,'daeamed a lit- tle playlet, and awoke to hear the end of the boy's seutence; elapsed time not more thatfifteen seconds, Touch, sight and hearing are proami- nent in dreams, but taste and small exceptionally rare. • Dreams can be made to order by outsiders, but not by the dreamer. Yell "Fire l" °in the ear of a sound sleeper or allow a sudden draft of cold air to play on the back of his neck and he will dream. to order,. but he can't go to sleep with his mind made up to dream of any cer- tain thing and then actually dream of it. In spite of this fact, books are sold in Europewhioh tell what one must do in order to dream, the lucky number in the lottery:. Furthermore, there are no ethics in dreamland. One sees or com- mits himself the most atrocious crime with no feeling of pity or guilt. Oases have been known where A Whispered -Question to a man asleep has been answered aloud by the sleeper. Convensa- tions even have been carried on in this way. Psychologists studying, the subject have carried ,en such conversations merely as an experi- ment, but a more practical use of this knowledge is the following ease, never brought before a scien— tific body, but well known a few years ago in the town where it oc- curred. I. .questioning a person who talks in his sleep it has been found that a harsh or commanding tone brings more immediate results. If you wish to learn the amount of your wife's millinery hill, speak sharply to her while she is muttering in her sleep aud'she probably will answer. A elan who awake is most pro- saic, whose mind is oommonpleee, who ie utterly unable blto vent a >� story or write a drama, will asleep have the most astonishing flights of imagination. He imagines: a story. He peoples it with players, men, women and animals, and each one of them ---even. :the •animals at times speaks his part as perfectly as if he actually were alive. The mind not only invents the plot of this drama, but also invents the characters. Sometimes they net and look as they do in real life; at others they are changed in char- acter and appearanees • but are still recognizable. Sometimes the characters are well-known men whom the dreamer has never seen, such as foreign . kings, presidents, inventors or scholars. Many times they are unnamed strangers that the mind of the dreamer conjures up with no foundation upon which to build_ These characters are painted in a more lifelike way than the best artist that ever lived could paint them. • The mind - of the dreamer then creates a background before which the actors play. He' paints the scenes of the drama. Le other words, wonderful palaces, tall mountains, 'fantastic cities, - any sort of scene, may be depicted. The players then proceed to enact a drama, tragic, comic, -merely ludi- crous, as the ease may be, • and throughout the action the players speak their parts more naturally than Booth or Irving ever did. In a Single Night. A third of a main'''s life is spent, iii land far more weird than aaq Oyer conjured up by the most `:ixxkagxrra- tive of writes, For eight hour* out of each. 24 we dwell in a country far more fantaetie than that of the Brobdignagitan.s, the Lilliputians or any: Gulliver ever visited. It is a. land of grewaorne horrors *---infested with loathsome, terrible beasts, the like of which was novor seen since the dinoseurue' left the earth; a laid] of fairylike gorgeous- ness, of insupportable embarrass- zueut or supernatural bliss. There we try in vain to run from the burly eriTninal who is pursuing us knife in hand. There we dwell in magnificent palaees, more splen- did than any we ever have seen by day. There we parade through staring erowds ,clad only in a bath robe. And there we meet again the old sweetheart who long since has married the- more •sueeesefu1 nlau. Again we are young, our head is *covered with real hair, the beauti- ful country landscape is seen through the rose-colored glasses of youth, and we are Buggy -riding with the girl we loved twenty years. ago. Men flew through the air in this land of dreams long before the Wrights were Beard of, Men ,fell from tremendous precipices, but never are injured. Highly; humor - oars situations develop fax more laughable than the best of the stage farces. Time and tide wait for us ass they never do in real life. But even in this fantastic land all men are not equal; sore men dream fax more than others; some men dream happily, others are oppressed by a succession " of unnatural horrors; still there are stock dreams that nearly everyone of ushats experi- enced—bromide dreams we might call them. Probably all of us have dreamed that we were falling down the back stairs or off a high cliff, then glid- ing swimmingly off into space. This n :bion as dream gives the same s•e sa a rapidly. -descending elevator or A. Fast -Swaying Swing. We are worried for the instant about what will happen when we e'trike .bottom, but w'e never strike. Either we are off -on another dream before that disastrous event hap pens or we awake. There is an old superstitiom that if . one ever hit the ground the shock would -kill the dreamer, but this is difficult of proof, for, as our Irish neighbor might reanark,` the only way it could be proved would be to have the dreamer wake up dead and tell us about it, Of the thousands who wrote letters afew ;years ago to an Englishman who had published an essay on the sub- ject, but one correspondent had dreamed that the fall -continued clear to the ground. This. woman dreamed she fell off a tall rock. When she bit the ground she was broken into small- bits, but a sort of second self gathered up the piece of humanity as good as new. This dream, however, is unique. Dreams are peculiarly a personal matter; one cannot lay down gen- eral rules for dreamers. The hor- rible feeling of being unable to move when pursued by some 'hide_ nus hobgoblin has several varia tions: Some people are stricken with a painless paralyysis, -their legs refuse to obey " orders; othershave their feet entangled in . some sticky substance like mud or .soft cement —in ane ease strawberry jam. Sometimes the pursuer is a.dragon,: a lion, a criminal or a maniac. One writer tells us of dreaming he was drawn towards a tremendous red- hot teakesttle, but wase unable to hold back or turn away the oppo- site of the last class of .dreams. Parading through a crowd of ple in various stages of dishabille is a common experience i -n dream- land. The informal orundress uniform varies with different people —some of us in dreamland'are far more shameless than others—but the costume of each dreamer is al- ways the same, no mutter how often he is afflicted with this dream and no matter in what company he ap pears. In all cases' the dreamer worries over the probable outcome of his lack of dress --he fears 'the police or the ridicule of the crowd although the surrounding people show exceptional tact by going- cheerfully oingcheerfully about their own 'business without apparently .noticing .the costume or lack of costume of the dreamer. The Flying Dream as experienced by most of us 'starts with a jump: that is, we 1:is „ ve the ground: first by jumping. We pad- dle with our hands somewhat as if we were swimming. We alto not fly high in the air, but skim just above the heads of the people. And we wonder *hy we have failed to' keep up this delightful exercise, 'for we. realize in our dream that we have been in the habit of flying before. These four., with the "gratifica- tion of a dear desire" dream—the gift of a top or doll rix childhood, the hand of one's lady love in Later life -are the principal dreams com- mon to all of us. One wonders if blind men experienced them, Other etrearns,. like the rapid fire Furthermore, not ane, but many such one -act • playlets are invented by the sleeper during the 'course of a single night. During a ooanpara, tively few nights the most clodlike laborer may invent more stories than• the most indefatigable 'novel- ist that ever lived. Not only does the mind paint the scenery,- invent the actors, pla,oe the proper word in the mouth of eadh and ea -use -them to act, out the plot, but it does it with incredible rapidity. A dream covering a ser- ies of adventures that the sleeper ~supposes takes place during a per- iod of many days in reality lasts but a few minutes. Edward W. Cox in his book on dreams states that within the space of four minutes from the time he fell asleep until he awoke he dreamed a series of events that were supposed to cover the period of a whole day, The mind acts with wonderful rapidity while its owner is asleep,` but it also is capable of doing greater work than when the dream- er is awake. Sit down and try to write ,out on paper a series of events that night dchur in a'dreani;= Of course, the mere physicalact of writing will cause you to work slower, but notice your leek of in- ventiveness. You have to cudgel your brains to invent a plot. Your back -ground is too commonplace. And the process requires hours of work. If one is a natural-born genius, a story -teller or draanaitist, his work may be easier, but even, the genius on occasion has had to thank his. dreaming mind. Coleridge cam - posed that.magnifieoxi,t fragment of a poem, Kubl ,i than, iiia dream., Ice bad eotnposed an entire poem` While asks?, On awakening he, • Smart Fall Gown by Becker. Model of brown and- white -striped ,eivool cloth, with collar, vest and belt of brown poplin. started to write it down, but was called away from his work.:On re- turning he was unable to remem- ber the restt o f i< theworld was given but the e- and exquisite portion of what would have been a wonder - fel work. Voltaire made a duplicate ,ef the first canto of the . Hesiriade: while dreaming and the. Divine Comedia was .said -to have been founded on a dream. Oandoreet solved •:a diffi cult mathematical problern while asleep, whioh had baffled him while awake. Musicians often compose music in their dreams. Bartini wrote the Devil's Senate after haoinggdneem- ed it. But what is stillmore mar- velous, people who knew nothing of music have invented Wonderfully Beautiful Themes while dreaming. ' Savages and the less civilized races • always have had superstitions about dreams, and some people in our own land buy dream books that tell what dreams mean. The Fijians. believe that the, spirit. of a living luau leaves his body to trouble the thoughts of the dream- er. " . The Greenlanders think thait the soul -leaves the body. The In- dians of Guiana think that: what they dream actually happens; the events of the day are performed by the spirit and the body, using in- side play, but at night the spirit leaves the body and goes adventur- ing. For instance, Thurn, in his book, The Indians of Guiana, tells us that the natives of his expedi- tion if they dreamed they were beaten wanted :liniment in the morning to anoint their bruised bodies. A powerful Indian called Captain Sam, the ,sane book tells us, dream- ed , he was told by theleader of the expedition to punish one of the ne- groes. On awakening, seeing no further authority than his dream commands, he proceeded to beat the unfortunate colored man. Men used to think that dreamas were sent by the gods as communi- cations to men, and in some quar- ters the belief still lingers. The. Indians of. North America, having learned that fasting produced ex- traordinary dreai is, practiced star- vation in order to learn the will of the gods: Whatever was first seen in a dream after such an extended fast was the manitou or guardian spirit of the life of that Indian, and a .man who because of much fasting dreamed strange dreaam,s and' cultic voted the art of explaining thein, became a "medicine man.'' Plato, Aristotle and Cicero' be- lieved that dreams foretold future events if rightly interpreted, • Arte- mido'rous of Ephesus, who lived about the middle of the second een' tury, wrote books of elaborate rules'', telling how to interpret dreams, Anzong ' other . things he says that he who shall dream he has Post a tooth shall lose a,..friend. It is easier to break a man's will than it is to .sidetrack a woman's won't. "I thought I'told you to quit us- ing' tobacco doctor." said the "1 have quit it," replied theyoung man, "Then what is that in 'your Mouth I" asked the doctor. "A cig- arette," replied the, young ,man. OME Good_ Canning. How often do you hear the coral" plaint that the squash or beans you took so much trouble to can have a little bitter taste from the preserv- ing acid you used? It does not af- fect corn or tomatoes in this way, but does almost every ether'vege table. Secure: the best vinegar you can buy on the: market and try : the followi'ig: recipe, whioh has been used with success :— Wash : your beans flint -me -qty.. Some persons string them, but they retain their flavor better whole. Measure them carefully in a quart cup, counting -each quart 'as you put it into the kettle. Add just enough water to cover them. Then put inl one teaspoonful of vinegar to revery quart of vegetables. Cook until tender, but not a, minute longer. Have jars' scalded and standing in hot water. Fill to overflowing with the hot vegetables and put caps on ingtantly. The rubbers should be put on beforehand. The same recipe 'applies to squash, butter. beans and okra. A teaspoonful and a half of vinegar is required for cucumbers. These are gathered just � st before they are ripe,. and are peeled, not sliced. An in- ferior vinegar will ruin your work. Danish Pic -1e.—Cu•t. three medi- *um-sized headsDanish of Dan sh cabbage, commonly known in America as. purple cabbage, and three :quarts of firm onions in -moderate-sized pieces. Mix thoroughly with the vegetables one large cupful of salt. Put in a thin bag to drip overnight. The:next morning wash the cabbage and onions through several waters, and then boil them untiltender in a porcelain or granite vessel. Then squeeze all the water from the mix- ture. In one pound of brown sugar mix two tablespoonfuls of ground cin- namon and add three quarts of the best cider vinegar. In' a little cheesecloth bag put one tablespoon- ful of prepared pickle flavoring, -which can be bought in ten -cent. packages, and place it in the vine- gar. When the liquid ` begins to boil, add the .cabbage and onion. Separate thoroughly two packages of seedless raisins and put them into the boiling cabbage -and -onion mixture. Let all boil ten or fir£: teen minutes; then take up and put' in jars. The pickle will be ready to eat -when it becomes cold. ' The cab- bage when put into the vinegar will immediatelyturn a pink color, which adds to the attractiveness �. the' pickle. Spinach for Winter Use.—To can spinach; remove all .the, stalks and stringy fibres. Wash it -in several Waters, pain while very wet into a saucepan with one tablespoonful of salt; but add no other water. Boil quickly for eight :minutes -and cool. Drain and pack into the jars. Fill the jars with cold water, adjust the rubbers, put the tops on loosely' and stand the jars in a boiler, the bot- tom of Which is protected by a rack,. Surround the jars partly with cold water, cover the boiler and boil contiriutw'asly for one ]tour. Lift one jar at a time, screw down the lid, cover the boiler and boil, for another hour, You cannot lift the lids from any 7 O GUARD AGAINST ALUM IN BAKING POWDER S•EE THAT ALL ING tEDJENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE'LABEL.ANDTHAT ALUM OR SULPHATE OF ALUMINA QR SODIC ALUMINIC SUL- PHATE IS NOT 'ONE, of THEM. THE WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE 1N- GREDIENTS IS NOT SUFFI- CIENT. MAGIC BAKING POWDER COSTS No MORE• THAN THE; ORDINARY KJNpg."FOR ECONOMY, BUY THE ONE POUND TINS, GILLETT COMPANY LI TORONTO, ONT. !1lt111�#►'[lrID11,i1F1lrllltill:111111Ii�AlIlI1I '"A a BIseurr,c , nrrteGtirra 16 seeeses sist J. "Gtd liC XINa D00fDR THE PO(LOW'INO IMAM ENT3 D NONE OTIIIN PI *HATE BHSARB- ONAYf Of 30OAA a 3TMCII, 'WUUNTioNPANYYUNIIIR -TOWONTO O. COOtTAINS NG AIA MITED MONTREAL mlrllgf;�[fI1fln1Ovfl uzjIill c[I. tfFtl! of the jars and lay them• on the table, and then put them back on the jars and have the contents keep. The lids must be screwed. down without taking them from the jars, The lids should be solid, either glass or other material, without•lin- ing. All jars, caps and rubbers ought to be boiled and kept hot un- til used. Alwaysuse new rubbers. Canned Beets. Only tender young' beets, about an inch and a half in diameter, can be canned successfully at home. f;crub • the young beets, being careful not tb bruise the skin, first cutting off the leaves,, leaving at least an inch of stem,,. Cook: until tender in boiling water, drain, cover with cold wa- ter, and with the hands push off the skins. Put them into hot sterilized fruit jars and set them on a rack in a steam kettle or boiler. Add a tablespoonful of salt: and two table- spoonfuls of sugar 'to each quart and `fill the jars with lukewarm wa- ter. Pour water " into . the boiler until it domes half -way to the top of the jars,; Put the covers in the water beside thejars, cover the kettle and let the beets steam an hour; adjust new rubbers and the• covers and 000k another fifteen min- utes, and then set aside to cool. Useful Hints. A. cut lemon rubbed on the fore- head will cure a severe headache. Window plants can be strength- ened by your putting a rusty nail in the soil. -Onion stains can be quickly re- moved from the fingers by applying dry salt to them. If sausages are dipped in boiling water before being fried :they will remain whole. New potatoes put in salt water, or water with soda dissolved in it, will `'scrape clean"- quite_ easily. Lace can be both "creamed" and "starched" by rinsing it in water to which a well: beaten egg has been added. French ohal`k applied to grease spots on flannel suits brigns out the grease if .the garment is held near t o the fire. When a pillow case begins to wear it should be unstitched at the 'bottom. and folded so that the old side seam goes down the middle. Buckskin shoes can be cleaned by. making a lather of good scouring soap. Take a small brush and rub -the lather thoroughly into the shoes. When dry brush-off again. People who keep houses dark for fear of the sunlight spoiling their carpets or furniture have no idea of the disease -destroying influence of sunlightand air. A veil can be made crisp if dip- ped in alcohol and hung up iuside to dry. Green peppers stuffed with fresh green corn and baked make a deli- cious dish. Tablecloths . should be slightly starched. They keep clean longer and look better. Cotton- sheets .are more economi- cal than linen; they last longer and are much more healthful. In sleeping, keep the head as low as possible, so that the blood may haveunimpeded circulation. `The stove polish will be blacker, glassier ' and more durable if you mix it with turpentine instead of water. Tomatoes for.. sauce cannot be cooked in a hurry. .If you cannot give them two or three hours, do without' them. Spare linen 'should be used occa- sionally, or cca-sionally,'or it will yellow, and when brought into full service will go Very . quickly. ' If 'you 'dampen your • brush and. pass it through your hair two or three times a week, it will prevent superfluous greasiness:. Irwashing for. repainting, use no soap, bub wash with soda and wa- ter. 'If soap is used, the new plant will not dry so quickly. Sastor oil rubbed thoroughly into boots and shoes will make them soft,. When curtains are hung up to dry they should be hung double over the line: Cold slaw served in green pepper shells is a dainty bit for luncheon. The old-fashioned Shetland shawl should be washed, in bran and warm water—no soap. If a piece of sugar is put into the water that flowers stand in, t':ey will keep fresh quite a long time, Wet shoes should be stuffed w'th paper before they are put away ; they will dry more quickly and not be so hard. Finger marks en the doors v ill clean off easily if the cloth is first dipped in kerosene then wash in the usual way. In preparing eggplant press it under water instead of just salting it. This prevents the vegetable from tur: ing blank. Wall paper can be cleaned by making a paste of whitening. Lay it thick on the marks, allow it to dry, then brush off. - Half a lemon squeezed into a glass of warm' water and drank be- fore breakfast -ds said to begood fox the'cornplexion, Linen can be rendered non -in- flammable by washing it in a solu- tion of twoounces of alum dissolv- ed in a gallon of water. It is best to iron underwear' on the wrong side. •This makes the sur- face smooth, and it will not be apt to irritate the skin. After washing a'china silk dress do not hang it out to dry; but roll it up in a towel for half an hour; then iron on the wrong side. - To ide.To' test linen, moisten the goods with the tip of the tongue. If it is linen the web spot will immediately show through the other side.: Discolored bronze: should be tiler- "I bughl' cleaned of dust; then apply a mixture of two parts warm wa ter and one part muriatic acid. Wipe dry with a chamois skin. Apples cut in irregular pieces will cook more quickly in a pie than=tip, if sliced, for they do not pack close-' .. ly as slices do, and so the hot air comesmore easily in contact with the fruit and cooking is facilitated. Cleaeing the windows with a lit- tle paraffin and hot water makes them shine and keep longer clean. If you have not paraffin at hand a little vinegar •and a squeeze of the blue bag will also make window or any glassware beautiful and clean. For the making of custard 'sauce beat one egg with . a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful of sugar, pouring • over them a :teacupful of boiling milk. Stir in a small saucepan un- til the sauce slightly thickens and. reaches boiling point. , Flavor with a drop of vanilla. The custard should be served in a heated sauce- boat. Koplik on Infant Alortality. Prof. Henry Koplik, M.D., of New York, read a paper at the re- cent Medicine Congress in London on infant mortality in the first four weeks of life, in the course of which he said there were many conditions of both father and mother which resulted in the production of an in - fent unfitted to resist the physical influence of post -natal existence, with the .consequence that many of such died. Among the, working and absolutely poor classes lack of proper food, rest and habits con- tributed to this '.premature death. The social position of the parents had match to do with infant nior tality, . the percentage aanong the well-to-do or conifiortable :classes being in same cases reduced 50 per - eent. Egg -shells are excellent for clean- ing water bottles.