The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
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sleep is not easily given. Poets have
likened it to death. The latter is the
permanent cessation of all the functions
sleep is the temporary suspension and
cessation of all the faculties. Notice
that q total suspension of all the facu-
ties is not necessary. 1t has been said
that the mind never rests. Dreams are
frequentin sleep. Portions of the body,
when a person begins to go to sleep,
suspend action one by one, and then
the brain is effected. First the vision
begins to become dimmed, and then the
senses q one after another! In sleep,
the forces of the body are not wasted;
they are recuperated.
Persons often sleep regardless of eff
fort; they sink down from sheer eX-
hanstion. The speaker cited a number
of historical instances when men in re-
spohSible positions, as a gunner at his
post, have been known to drop down
from exhaustion and serenely sleep,
amid the roar of battle and the carnage
going on about them.
Sleep is for the mind what rest is for
the body. Sleeplessness is an indica-
ton of the need of sleep and the warn
ing Of the heavy closing of the eyelids
should not be neglected.
Sleep is a matter of habit. To a per
son in the habit of sleeping in the day
il is with difficulty that sleep is obtained
at night. There isno doubt that night
is the proper time for sleep. Darkness
and quiet all tend to make this the pc
riod of rest. In regard to time for sleep
at night, an old proverb has said that
one hour before midnight is worth two
hours afterward. The habit of chang
ing night into day, as is the increasing
custom so much among certain classes
in our large cities, is to be regretted.
In regard to the amount of sleep
necessary, it differs according to age
and constitutional condition of the per
son. The infant sleepsthe greater part
of the time. Sleeping and nursing are
the principal occupations of the normal
and healthy babe. The more they
sleep the better they thrive.
In middle life, when constitutional
yigor is the greatest, the need of sleep
is at its minimum. To a great extent
the amount of sleep is q matter of habit.
The strong and healthy need less than
the delicate. For students celebrated
professor recommended nine hours
sleep. Brain-workers require more
than others.
In contrast to these are the historic
records of the lives of Napoleon,
Frederick the great and Jeremy Taylor.
Ot1he Arst-named it was related that
he Slept when lie pleased, and the last
slept more than three hours at a
stretch. Lord Brougham used TO go to
bed On Saturday, after IN intellectual
siege in parliament, and not get up
again until the following Monday. An
old poem recommended in rhyme seven
hours for books and studies, seven for
sleep, ten for the world, and all for
heaHe
Experiments Of great scientists have
proved that during sleep the blood sup
pIy of the braiDis diminished. Some
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