Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-09-09

OK SLEEP LIGur-Sleep is the most power
full restorative of the system 1t renews the daily
ebb of life, and arrests its happy how recruiting the
exhaustion produced by it's drains and tolls and
and tear. There is nvariabe rule for all persons
with the respect to the amount OF time spent in sleep
1t is regulated by the age, constitution and habits Of
the individual During the entire period Of the
growth of the body, the more sleep the food it
requires to repair the wants OF the structures and
restore their sensibility and irrtabty, exhausted
by the incessant activity of the waking period.
Hence those who use much eXertOn sleep soundest.
In the prime Of life waste is not so great and
less supply is necessary In old age, when the waste
of the vital powers is least Of ALL there is the small
est necessity for sleep. But the very extremes of
life unite in sleeping away most of the time. Too
little sleep, relatively to the activity of the BODY
hausts the irrtablitv of the system, inducing dull
ness, unwiedine>s and compliance. Eight hours for
youths and six hours for adults is about average
Cor sleep.
For sleep to be speedy and perfect, all cares, emo
TONS and thoughts should be laid aside with ones
clothes. And every external excitement of the
nerves, as by sounds, lights, ETC. Withdrawn as far
possible. Nishtcaps had better be dispensed with
and people should accustom themselves sleep with
part of the window open. Early rising, and the
habits it incuicateS, conducive to health and
longevity. Neccs>i:ating early retirement rest,
induces regularity of hours and Observation-Disclosures
from many temptations to baneful conviviai,y and
excuses. and facilitates the advantageous employ
for the night full meal two or three hours after
supper is the best time; the body rises lighter and
more refreshed the next morning. During the mid
die OF the hot days of summer hours sleep after
dinner is often necessary indulgence, especially to
those engaged in laborious pursuits, and cannot BE-
otherwise than beneficial to health.
few hours taken from the usual morning rest
will be replaced by hours sleep in the afternoon.
This was the practice of John Hunter, and is the
custom of the inhabitants of the south of Europe.
horse hair mattress is in every way preferable to
feather bed. Overload or deficiency of bed.clothes
is equally be avoided During the day they should
be taken off and left to air the back of chairs,
&c., is the usage in Italy. Light is an agent in
dispcnsable to health. Vegetable, as well as human
beings deprived Of its influence ary blanched. The
former also changed in their taste and other prop
/ er ties.
The flesh of the latter is rendered soft, 1abby,
pasty and swallow. The tissues are infitrated with
pale liquids; the blood abounds unduy in serum,
the tibrine and colorng matters are in defect This
is observed in persons who work under ground in
prisoners mnured in dungeons, in the habitants of
narrow dark streets and lanes in the cretns of the
deep shaded Alpine valleys-and in the natives of
the polar regions, who are for more than half the
year, without the light of the sun.
Those on the other hand, who are constantly ex-
posed to the rays of the sun, or who 90 entirely
naked, the New Zeaanders, the Mexicans, the
Peruvians, the North American Indians, have thick.
rough, freckled, deep red, tawny skins-hord blood
muscular bodies, perfect FORMS These are the uni
ted results OF constant insulation and exercise The
application of these facts to the physical education
of youth, must not be lost. Lympathic scrofuous
children cannot be too much in the open air Too
much exposure to the sun, however, especially of
the naked head produces headache apopexy. in
tiammation of the membranes of the brain. insanity
&c.-PhiLosophy Of Mineral Waters by DR.. Bilrins.