The Parker post., 1913-10-11
BEST TIME FOR WORK
TO ALL OF US 1T Is BY NO MEANS
THE SAME.
However, Authorities Agree That Fs"
Are at Their Zenith in the Early
MornIhg-Better When the
Sun Sets.

Doctor Troemner of Hamburg, Ger
many, through an interesting puphca'
ton entitled 'Das Problem des
Schlafs," has started discussion con-
cerning the time hen man does MS
best work.
Both Troemner and Weygaldt have
shown that the mind, under the lnf1u-
ence OF sleep, does not recover its ca
pacity for every kind Of work uniform
ly. Weygandt produced i'll himself by
hard work throughout the day condl-
ton of great mental WEAKNESS ana
bodily fatigue, so that at the hour
when he went to bed he was unable TO
perform the simplest tasks without
great difficulty. Before going to sleep
ne endeavored to add up a column OF
figures and to commit to memory some
lines of poetry in given time, Dut
failed to do So After half an hours
sleep he was reused and set to per
form the tasks given. He now added
up the column Of figures with perfect
ease, but experienced the same difIl'
Guilty in learning the poetry by heart
as before sleep.
When do you think your brain works
best? When is thought rich in asso-
citation, ideas rapid, conversation easy
aud perception keenest? Few OF us
could claim this in early morning. The
breakfast table group is not usually
very sparkling or lively. More are
agreed that evening time or night
time is more productive in creative
work that involves the summonfng OF
ideas or the marshaling OF thought
Fancy plays more freely from tea-tlme
onward The best conversations, as
most people will admit, are heard after
dinner, and are of a different stam)
from luncheon conversations. Anec
dote telling, and quicker play o.
imagination, that give a brilliancy IL
dinner conversations, are hardly pos
sible at breakfast.
The reason of this must be somt
change that we are not conscious O.
that steals over us gradually as the
day progresses. We are certainly more
emotional after midday than before
and sentiment wanes under the morn
ing sun. We are much like little me
chanical machines early In the day
The pure intellect and reason are il
their fullest vigor. We can add anC
subtract better. Plans appear easier
Difficulties seem less. AS the hours
pass, pure intellect and reason grow
tired and emotion rises and broadens
out the field of consciousness, making
it DINNER and less efficient; and with
emotion comes a greater flow of alb
stract ideas and suggestions.
Vastly interesting things resulted
from further experiments conducted
along the same lines. The power for
simple mathematical calculations, i'll
volving little strain upon the memory.
was recovered after few minutes
sleep, while the power to learn by
heart required four hours sleep to i'm
prove markedly, and eight hours SLEEP
10 regain it's full vigor. Doctor Troem-
ner states that the capacity for learn.
ing by heart is at its best early in the
morning. and decreases steadily
throughout the day. This scientist de-
piores the habit of making children
learn work by heart at night time in
preparation for the next days school,
which, he points out, is very harmful
because the exhausted memory has to
be stimulated unduly to retain it's i'm
pressiOns at that time.