A friend asked me for a cure for sleeplessness the
other day, here it is. As soon as you wake up, turn on the light and start reading some bedside book such as Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen or Trollope. After reading for half an hour, turn out the light and start deep breathing for as long as you can. If this does not bring the desired result, try, to remember every place you stayed at and what you did on some journey which you made twenty years ago. It has to be a very bad bout of sleeplessness that will not respond to this treatment. The essential thing is to start reading as soon as you wake up, before the worries of the preeeeding day's work dawn upon you. In the past year I have read right through the Barchester novels in the small hours of the night. To Mrs. Proudie and hei ftiendi and foes I owe a great debt Of gratitude, TAN TOM.
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