Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-11-01

The truth is that the very rapidity O
our life, the wakefulness and wasteful
ness of our times, the strain and driy,
Of all pursuits, make longer periods O
sleep necessary for US than people lIv
ing III more quiet countries and at {
slower rate. We get tired enough if VT
are well, and if we don't get tired
enough to sleep all over and cleal
through, 1t is sign of nervous disorder.
Sleeping is something more than a lux.
ury for Americans, though the very op.
posite would be inferred from our habits.
There is no way by which the wear and
tear, the drain and strain of American
lite can be neutralIzed bat by large
ieasts OF sleep every now and then, and
a generous allowance every Iwenty-four
hours. -Four hours work OF a man who
Is thoroughly awake and yitalized, at
the top of bis facilities, are worth more
for all practical business or literary or
social purpo es than fourteen hours of
weary muscles and iadel nerves and
fiaccId impulses. The man at his best
Is worth loo per cent. more than the
same man fatigued, depressed and de-
noralzet. III he has no vital elec-
tricity playing through him, he Is a
WEAKNESS to others and burden to his
OWN soul. il he is conscious of having
one. And 20 keep at this top condition
OF fibre aud faculty. he must be good
sleeper and sleeping well. When Mr.
Boecher was asked how he managed to
keep his congregation SO wide awake at
second service, he replied: by taking
big dose of sleep in the afternoon.
l. Is MY sleep that keeps my congre-
CATION awake" The time given to
sleep is not so much loss of life, but so
much gained, and at a doubly enban-
ced valuation.
1t Is easy TO say ''sleep much and
well ); but there are many people who
cannot s,eep much, and the little sleep
they do get is disturbed and unrestfu
How to sleep Is question which, i'll
some instances, 1t taxes the skill of ply
slclaus to the utmost to answer. Per-
sons afflicted with Insomnia are often
great sufferers, and their lives are short
ened by the disease. There are persons
who require much less sleep than
otHcIS, anu II - uSe!eSS IOr LteIu 10 WOO
soft slumbers TO their pillow, for they
will not come. A popularity of cOnsti-
tuition Is not disease and should not be
doctored. With the majority of people
sleep Is regulated by habit, convenience,
widm. They make 1t yield to every
consideration. People who would not
omit a meal on any account will throw
away half their allowance of sleep for
the merest trifie. They do not feel the
of giving the system its fill
OF unconscious refreshing, and hire en-
tertainers to clip off two o. three hours
from the needed restorative in the even
ing. and set an alarm clock to cut away
al hour or more at daybreak. They
seem to think they can steal from sleep |
with impunity, when 1t Is pretty much |
tue only thing that Furnishes every pil- !
ferer OF 1t as lie goes along. Others |
destroy the posslbili.y y of sleeping well !
by carrying all their cares and trosO!es |
aud giiefs and ambitions to bed with |
them, and one might as well seek rest |
on a rack rs with such bedfeliogs. The |
ability TO lay off cares aud perplexities,
like ones clothes, and dismiss every
LLilg that can excite the brain or dis |
turb the emotions, may be gained by /
continuous effort even when It IL lest. /