Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-07
TAKE ENOUGH SLEEP.
Insomnia Produced by Shortening Hours
 frr Glean.

Insomnia Produced bY Shortening Hours
 for Sleep.
 Adages are not always to b. depend ed upon for good advice. Do not be de- tered from taking all the rest neces- sary for your particular case by the saying Nine hours are enough Tor fool To take enough sleep betokens wisdom, but to sleep does not mean to lie lazilY in bed when once you are awake Nature takes five, custom seven, lsziness nine and wickedness eleven Is wrong in at least two of it's assertions There are very few in stances in which nature does not de Tnand more than five hours sleep. lt is true that sleeping, like eating is very much a matter of habit. and you may train yourself to dispense with more than i've hours sleep as you may to omit the third meal of the day How long you will flourish under such a regime will depend upon the strength of your constitution. You may fare like the mans horse, who, when it had been reduced to diet of one straw day, in the most ungratetul manner, died on his hands.
 A person may need nine hours sleep out of the twenty-four without being either lazy or foolish fneed, he is wise man if, feeling that he requires them, he is sensible enough to take them Goethe, when performing his great literary feats, took nine hours sleep 4 full-grown adult, in healthy condition, will seldom require more AL ! lta that he is not sufficiently refreshed by eight hours he should take more 1t Is a pretty safe rule to sleep as long as yon are sleepy. There are people, :" says q writer. "who are wise enough to eat when they are hungry, but who have never attained that higher reach of wisdom to sleep when they are sleepy Unless you are very lazy person. indeed you are not likely to l take more sleep than your eonstitution requires. for, of course lying in bed is not sleeping.
 By shortening the necessary hours i for sleep you may bring upon yourself 1 the dreaded disease insomnia. There are scientific wriiers CD this subject who claim that the beet remedy for this is to learn to sleep in the daytime.
 This is very well where from some cause work, or watching or pleasure you may have failed to get your needed sleep for a night or two There is un- doubtedly a great virtue in maps. even short ones. and Che art of mapping in l the daytirle although could never ac- ouire it. k d desirable one. and, like most arts, is a matter of practice. Still, it is q bad practice to get into the habit 0f turning night into day, and if you are not kept awake by care or illness, but merely have lain awake because you could not sleep. l should feeom- mend Eon to fight the consequent drowsiness of the next day. in ordeT that you may. if possible, resume your natural rest at night. sleeplessness ia generally the result of an unfortunate habit of thinking, generally 9n Hg- pleasant subjects. after one has retired i for the night Dr. Frank Hamilton, a great physician and wise man. said: i Gloomy thoughts prevent sleep The poor and unfortunate magnify and in- crease their misfortune by loo much thinking. Blessed be he who invented sleep, but thrice blessed be the man 1 who shall invent a cure for thinking. J
 Detroit Free Press