$10,000 for Sleep

Not having slept for two years, Calcutta's insomniac rich merchant Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, 65, advertised extensively that to anyone who can restore him to normal sleeping powers he would pay $10,000.

By last week this luckless Hindu found himself inundated in Calcutta by an avalanche of suggested cures, but his offer was still open. Further suggestions may be addressed in care of Calcutta's great native newsorgan The Star Of India.

"I am unable to stand the strain much longer!" wailed the haggard plutocrat. "I have had three cables from the United States one of which suggested a lettuce diet. I have had more than 1,000 letters from the United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Many noble women have written me saying that they are only sympathetic and interested in getting me to sleep and care nothing for the $10,000."

Whether Insomniac Bajoria had taken any of the Western World's recognized sedatives, the Eastern World as represented by Calcutta reporters seemed not in the least curious. They reported that cures proffered by "astrologers, hypnotists and occultists" have been unavailing.

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