The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1873-01-30
KERRY WARD EEsCEHEEk GoT-
CEcSsgcs SLEEP.

We clip the following from one of our
New York exchanges for its practical
teachings, with the hope that it may be
read and remembered by all the patrons of
the flLoT.
"Therc are thousands Of busy people
who die every year for want Of Sleep. 1t
may be that too much sleep INJURIES some;
bat in an cxcitabc people, AMI in others Of
business habits, there Is FAR more mischief
for want Of sleep than from too much of
it Sleeplessness becomes a disease. It is
the precursor of insanity. When it dl es
not reach that 81 result, it is iull of peril,
AS we'll as % suffering. Thousands of men
have been Indebted for bad bargains, fol
lack of courage, iLeffectile,,e IS, to loss OF
sleep.
1t is curious that all the popular poeti-
ca! representations Of sleeping and waking
sleep as the iroa re of death and our wax
ing hours rs the image Of life. Bat the ac-
tiyty is the result of some form Of decom
position in the body. Every thought, still
more every motion, any volition wastes some
part of the nervous substance, precisely as
flame is produced ly wasting the fuel. 1t
is the death of some part of the physica
substance that produce the phenomena OIL
intelligent and voluntary life.
On the other hand, sleep is not like
death; for it is the period which the waste
of the system ceases, or is reduced to it:
minimum. Sleep repairs the wastes which
the waking hours have made. 1t rebuildS
the system. The night is the repair shop
of the body. Every part of the system j.
silently overhausd and all tue organs, It's.
sues and substances are rep!ensbed. Wax.
ing consumes, SLEEP replaces; waking ex
hausts, sleep repairs; waking is death
sleep is LIE.
The man who sleeps little, repairs little
if he sleeps poorly, he repairs poorly. !
he uses up in day less than he aecumula
ties at night, he viii gain IN health ant
vigor. II lie uses up all he gains at nigh
he viii Just hold his own. If he uses NOR
by day than he gathers at night he vi
l sc. And if this last process he long cen
tinued he must succom5. a man VIII
would be a good worker must see to
that he is a good sleeper. Human life i
like mill; sometimes the stream is s.
coplous that one needs care but little abou
his supply. Now, often, the streams tina
turns the mill needs to be economical.
dam is built to hold larger supply. TIL
mil runs the pad pretty low through tn
day, but b. shutting down the gate, tn,
dam redlls the pond, and the wheels 8
merrily round again the next day Ono
in a while, When the spring rains are co
pious, freshets overflow the mill may ru
night and day; but this IS rare. 0rdinari
ly the mill should be run By day and tn
pond FIJI mp by night
A man has as much force in him as h
has provided for by sleep The quality 0
action, especially mental activity, depend
upon the quality of sleep. If daytime
the loom in which men weave their PM
poses, night Is the time when the thread
are laid in and the filling prepared.
Men need on an average eight hours {
sleep day, or ons.third of their whol
time. A man of nervous temperance
may require but six or seven, and instance
have been known in which four hours hay
been enough. The reason is plain.
Emphatic man is slugsish in all his fun
tons, He moves slowly, thinks slowl
eats slowly, digests slowly, and sleei
slowly, that is, all the restorative acts
his system 60 on slowly,in analogy with h
temperament. But nervous man &C
quickly in everything, by night or by da
When awake, he does more in an hour tn;
a sluggish man in two hours; and so in b