Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-26
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 A year Or two ago people in Sweden became very much interested i'll the h question as to how much sleep school children should have. The doctors had discovered that those young folk who did not have enough sleep were far more liable to different kinds of sick, ness than were the rest. \ regular ill- vestigaton was accordingly held, ana z here is the conclusion at which the A learned men arrived: Children 4 years of age require twelve hours of sleep, 8 children of require eleven hours, children of need ten hours; boys and z girls from 12 to 14 years old should have from nine to tell hours, and, finally. youths and maidens from II to 21 ought to take from eight to nine hours. Less than this average is pret,. A ty sure to result i'll poverty of blood, Y general weakness, etc. And now, as all our young readers know how oiG they are, they can tell just how lons they ought to sleep. Let us add that, l if they are sensible young folk. they will take at least one-third, if not one half. the requisite amount of slumber before midnight.
 What a lot of cowardly mortals there are i'll this world, to be sure. ' Ever since election the As You Like 1t man has been hearing people tell why they voted for Roosevelt ill preference to Parker Tn nearly every case the cry has been, we were q little afraid of Parker. When asked to gtyeia req son for their feeling, they invariably say. we'll one can't tell what he would do, and we know Roosevelt pretty { well. These same people were afraid of Bryan. too, and the republican gen erals will endeavor to make them afraid of every democratic candidate that will be put forward If the people of this country were afraid more than hundred years ago they. would still be struggling for foothold. We imag- inc these afraid people of to-day would never have been of much use when the declaration of independence 1 was being written and put in practice. These people are the first to kick on the price of flour and yet when they get chance to. kick out those who regulate it they are paralyzed and are still afraid that something out of the ordinary might happen
 | \ vision could only hear all that is said about them between 4:30 and midnight each day by the patrons between Poughkeepsie and Hartford they A<Rould feel like asking for protection
 am sure the air between Danbuly
 d this city must be blue and smell
 birthstone from the number of 5cuss
 rds uttered each evening. And it
 all on account of belated trains. The
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 Yeral times of late to visit the sta
 n and travel on the train which is
 bposed to reach here at 7:34 from
 nbury each evening. 1t is inyari-
 V late, and one might as well task
 the man Tn the moon' as to try to
 ak information. This is particularly
 1e of Danbury where nobody knows
 thing Last evening the train was
 oYe than an hour late reaching Wa
 -bury. the night before it was forty
 inutes. the. night before that it was
 ore than an hour, and so 1t goes. Is
 ere no relief, President Mellen, for
 he weary and footsore traveller who
 at times compelled to stay over night 4way from home, and very often put to extra expense before he reaches his own fireside?
 
 4.ow do you account for so many sudden deaths ill Waterbury, and all over the state?' inquired rep1rter oi lady in a position to note such happen. ings. "Oh,v she said, 1T don't know but I suspect most of it is due to the way people live. Everybody appears to be travelling at such a pace that few have a moments time for rest, end those who have don't take advantage of it. The result of this in1petuous haste is the shattering of the nervous system and the complete breakins down of health before folks are aware of it. It is not the actual work thai tells, but the use many make Of then tune after they get through in tho stores offices and factories. Thel A there are worries and cares that no body notices, not even ones closes' friends. Men and women with fam lilies are often overworked and an moved in a thousand ways, but they keep on their feet and manage to con ceal their feelings until they collapse believe most people work and ire too much about their families an6 business affairs and neglect to take liroper care of their health while the, have It. The strenuous life, as Presi T dent Roosevelt says. is what wears otl fhe machinery of the average Amer1 can citizen, and does 1t so quickly ant smoothly that we are not aware of i N until the last thread snaps and w # fall and are laid away, too often witt little more than a passing though from those tor whom we lived and Ia bored and died" There Is a lot of trutl in this. but what is one going to do If hegdoes not keep up with the pro cession nobody has any use for hin and he becomes a burden to himsel and an eyesore to everybody else, a-E<--