Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-07-18
MOST OF Us MAKEUP
every MORNING WITH
THAT TIRED FEELING
People Do Not Get Enough
Sleep, One Health Expert
Declares.
He SUBMITS HIS REMEDY
Once Each Week Man Should spsna
e Consecutive Hours In Bed
to Recupsrats, He
IL Says.
He SUBMITS HIS REMEDY
From London Answers.

Two thousand year ago, when b.
ain was peopled with a strong, rOla0A
race of men n women, sleep was -
ken as seriously as hunting the fege
ests for food, and the Briton awoAe
from his deep slumbers with q splens
did stretch, as the red sun rose Ovuo
hills!
But today 1t is a very different storYA
Most OF us wake up with that tir1
feeling rebelling against the corE
very often that we would give all our
small change for just one little extra
half hour between the sheets.
The reason Is not far to seek. We do
not get Sufficient sleep. Eight hours
10 generally regarded as the utmost
meager portion Is often. through the
necessities of work, cut down to seven
hours, which reduces our annual per-
iod of rest by an average clerks sum-
mer holiday. n hour a day for 1896
days equals more than a fortnight.
This Is why we are not able to watch
the sur rise In summer without paying
dearly for 1t In yawns later on. And
TINS, also, Is why. In order to get even
with nature, We have to resOrt to doc
tors medicines. special physical exer-
cises and dogged "smile cures" All.
all quite unnecessary.
oissp For q Hours.
Once a week" a health expert re-
Gently declared, every man should
spend "a consecutive hours in bed"
Whether we agree with this state
ment or not, 1t is evident that we were
never intended OF built to live such
e~xistences as h average
person lives today. We have only to
glance around at the examples which
many animals set us to zee how very
far away from original nature our CIV
tlixa ton Is leading. A marmot sleeps
for q whole month at q time without
having to worry about losing Its berth
or place in the world when It wakes
up again.
The grizzly bear practically shores
through an entire winter, because he
knows that while he can keep his
health and strength he can always OBJ
tain his food when he requires It. Ris-
Ing and falling shares don't affect him.
In the same way the caterpillar takes
q 10 ngbeauty sleep in It's chrysalls
during the period OF it's life which cor
responds more or less to the cramming
schooldays of the human boy.
Tack on I Few Hours.
What would the human being he
called by his associates IL he allowed
himself to relax to this extent?
The writer Ices not suggest that.
from this day onward, you should en-
deavor to emulate the marmot or the
bear 0r the caterpillar. But II your
condition In life allows you to tack on
your usual allowance an extra seven
or Ia hour of sleep q week-that Is to
a a fortnight to q month a year-bet-
ter health is bound to follow.
OF course. the rest student" must
be guided largely by his special char
ecteristics. He cannot disregard his
age and sex, any more than he q at.
tempt to copy the bird, which divides
it's 24-hOur day Into four alternate
periods of rest and activity. The ex-
tremes of youth and age, for ~instance.
require more sleep than IL necessary
to persons in their prime. Individuals
considerations and characteristics must
always be k into account and
weighed in the balance.
The best test by which one can ~
certain whether enough sleep il being
obtained Or not is the test OF energy.
Energy the Best Test. 4
II you can spring from your bed with
h freshness which most of us only
gain fully after q cold morning tub
and rub. h e you have slept your ma.
II you feel tired n sluggish. you may
be nearly sure that you do o spend.
sufficient OF your life in bed, and the
sooner you set about repairing the evil
the better. Remember, too. that your
revised sleeping hours will have to get
INTO good running order before they
show h real benefit they are pro-
viding People are too apt to give up
a good thing through being over-im-
patient to see the beneficial effects.