The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-12-01
WE SLEEP TOO LITTLE.

But if night, and day, is the time to
sleep, then 1t may be said that the general
principle prevails that the amount of sleep
should bs- regulated BY the alVIdlng line be
tween hight and darkness an" that ilIle view
may be accepted as the corfect one, deter
mInaole from analogy 1T being true that
animals accept 1t and act upon 1t rn-Ifr emp
crate attitudes, which are suppo L. be
the most favorable for the development of
I'll. human organism IN IT. hi9hesi proper
lions. Take The year together, ia, and
night about equal and We're man kind
within hest latltudrt, 10 live according to the
laws al life and health in other directions,
tiiey wculd sleep while darkness is on the
lace q! he earth, aud b. active only duriAg
the period III which hight was sbundant.
As habit and fashion with our people, we
sleep too little. Il is admitted by all those
VIII" are competent 10 speak on the subject,
that the people OF The United S,at9s. from
day TO day, not only DO not get sufficient
sleep, but they do not get sufficient rest.
By the preponderanee of the nervous
the vital temperament, they need all the re-
Operating benefits which sleep can offer
during each night as il passes. A far BIT
ter rule would be t. get at least eight hours
sleep. and including sleep ten hours of in
cumbent rest. It rs sad mistake that some
make, who suppose themselves qualified TO
speak on the subject, in affirming that per-
sons OF highly wrought nervous Iempera-
ment, need-as compared with those oi
more lymphatic, or stoiled organization
less sleep. The truth. is. that The power is
expended with great rapidity, by cousti
tuuonal law, ii is regarded slowly the re-
actions after while demanding much more
time for the gathering up of new force, than
the direct effort demands in expanding that
force. Thus man of nervous Iempera-
ment, after he has established a habit of
OVERRIDING, RECEIVERS from the effect of such
oreractisn much more slowly than man
of ditferment temperament would, II the bal
ance between his power TO do and his power
TO rest, is destroyed. As between the ner
vous and the Emphatic temperamenls, there
fore, where excess of work is demanded, il
will always be seen that at the close of the
iay : lab.r. whether il has been Of muscle
ar thaught, tiFe nan "f nervous temperament
WHO Is tired, fluids IL official 10 TALL to sleep
sleeps psriurbediy, wakes up exactly, and is
moe apt than otherwise Ia resort To stimu
Iants 10 place himself IN conditions of pleas
u able activity. While the man of lymphatic
temperament, when tired. falls asleep, sleeps
soundly and unnterrup'edly, and wakes up
III tue morning new man. The facts are
against the theory that nervous tempera
ments recuperate quickly from the fatigues TO
which their possessors are subjected. Three
fourths of our drunkards are from the ranks
of the men Of nervous temperament. AL
most all opium-eaters in our country--and
their name is Legion--are persons Of the
nervous or nervous sanguine temperaments
Amos all the men in the country WHO be-
come the victims of narcotic drug medita-
ton, are the nervous sanguine temperaments.
That tie very general habit of dependence
upon stimuants, or stimulo- narcotics, is
almost entirely confined TO persons of the
nervous temperament. shows that the tax
atoms to which they subject themselves. are
not readily reacted from /; and that under
their methods of living, they find it difficult
to depend upon the natural force to make
good their losses within the time they al'ot
for that purpose. The rule therefore,
should be the other way from that which
is supposed to be namely. that persons OF
highly wrought nervous organization. need
but little sleep. Itshouid be the habit whit
such persons to sleep largely. and TO insist
upon such freedom from exercise, both of
BODY and mind, and such external condi- /!
tons Of papose. as gradually to bring the
brain to acknoWledg such relations to the
general structure, as viii enable its various
organs to become 50 refreshed, that they i
may when doiy IS resumed. perform II
With accustomed jet healthy vigor.--OF-s
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