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How Girls Goto Sleep

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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i' tmd waridered out ander ibe moonlit larchos, and we all talked aud laughed at nothing, in t Lmt .-iily. happy wuy joung people have. Wc told riddiea and sung the ojd ooilege songa lili finally sleep, with bis bright colorid muntle of'dreams, called us, and we retired to wliat we f'nndly supposed wonM be repose. B:tt if you have ever occupicd a room wilh six (iris you wi!l knnw tliat sleep is not ajwaya to be obiaiueJ at once. Onu jsning lady was an hour and a half' l.y ti.e doek in brushing and bnidiug lierbuir, in putting up lier crinips, in ctaning and polishing her finger-tiails, in running a piece of' silk floss bctween t'ncli pair "f lier thirty-two teetli, in bollshiig each one witt a little stick uní some powder, in jnving theui a vigorous hrushing witli soap and water, in wa.-hing her hands and applyins glyeerinc to thfin, in putting on n wush grod forlhe complexión, in ri'ading her bible, in ki-.-inc everybody g io 1 nilit, and getting into herluunmock, wliich everybody who has tried it knows is a work of time. Just as we thought we wore almost asleep, she recollected tnatshe hud not taken lirr mix vómica, and she argued a loog time with anotlier young lady to try to get her to take nu.r romica, quoting at gre:it ltiigth f'roui Dr. Puite and other eminent homeopathie physicians to prove that she and eerybody -needud nu.r vómica occasionally. When, to get peace, the poor girl twallowed the globules, we thought we had earned repose, but then another young woman remarked inacbeerf ui toue that she was cold," and one of the windows must come down. This occasioned what seemed to the sleepy ones an endIcss controveny, aa somebody else was " liurning up with heat" and wtnted another opened. This waa finally settled. Kverything ws quiit for at least five minutes, and we were all at length giving up to " tired nature's sweet restorer " when huddcnly an awful sound was heard. A greai weight feil violently upon the bare floor, the sbriek of a woman leaped upon the midnight air, quick questions and exelamations were heard. A light was struck, uud it was disc ivered, not that robbers and murderers were upun us, but that somebody's hamniock had broken down. This was recomstructed, and ogain we addressed ou el vos to persuading Morpheusto kuit up our slcevo of c:ire, whicli, by this time, was very niuch raveltd indeed. Ten minutes of utter quiet passed away ; nothing was heard but the gentle breathing of' the sleepers, when one affectionate girl, turniug over, called out: " WV1I, L'ni going to