The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-17
SLEEP AND
EATING AFFECT
THE WRITER'S

what other profession or occupation might
bee hers on tho outside and believe
an Intelligent. capable woman can DO more
than one thing we'll. have always lei
certain insistert demands In my homo
life take nr~t place IN the days doinss
But OF late ! have realized that It would
be neither wicked nor wast"fu II ! helped
myself To- fcw hours a day for few
months iu the year. and out OF this
realization has grown the only working
habit | possess.
When a new hool, Is OF the ways now
write from ten o'clock until two during
fivc mornings In tho week.. and tho weeks
iu which I write are usually winter
weeks. During these hours ! see no
one, that Is, au supposed TO sec M
one. N you luN, IN, don't como TO sec
me don't cali me up on the telephone.
don't send me u message IN tho morn
ing | tell my friends when AZ work
I an now story. and those who love M"
don't disturb me Rut ail of my friends
do no, loy" me. and their delight 10 In
apologize Interruptions
never. or practically never, write In
the afternoons or evenings, or on Sat
urdaNs or sundays. Before going to my
desk in the morning, all orders for the
day are gwen, all meals planned. and
dozen and one other things done. Tho
afternoons are used for outside obliga-
| lions. and nnumorihlc are the demands
.
I even the germ of 81 conscience or the
! remains OF an up-keepug shat neccssl-
tatrs the performance of social dneni-
ties The evenings / keep free FOR my
/ husband II ! were man I'd hate a
/ woman who was always doing something
that kept her from doing something else.
and when engagements do not take us
! GU; We read together other peoples books,
and speculate concerning their contents.
; which frequently offer remarkable con
/ trasts Of objectionable truck ana won
d,rfu work.
Just what effect the amount ~ sleep
has upon what - called literary OUTPUT
Is question with answers too widely
| apart, | imagine. TO permit OF authoriu-
tN" cor nuil conclusions. Types ana tent
/ peramcn,s vary so widely. what IL cs-
/ srntial t. one il uueSseutial 20 another,
ana what one may desire or be depend
cut upon Is 50 unnecessary to another
that IL = doubtful whether a valuable d.
o. sion can ever be reached t.nCcruiug
the effect OF much or little sleep upon
that division OF the human family called
writer's. Personally | have no theori, :
on the subject. SO far as my own WoIi;
is concerned ! have never noticed the
/ effect Of q greater or less amount OF
sleep. Unlike NJ. Johnson, ! never re
solve 10 rise as carly ~ ! can Rarely,
mos. rarely. do feel sleepy at
night and | object to going to he'd oniy
I getting up In the morning. IF my writ
ing had to be done in tho early dawn A;
! would no. he done. Since childhood
have put myself 20 sleep telling myself
stories. hut In the morning | tell nothing
and I want To b. told nothing. | want
only 20 be let alone am firmly con
WINGED iu the morning ;hat | need sleep
, much sleep
r The writing that do - done because
d love to do 1t, and not finding II =
nerve rRcking or soul wearing or bod,
breaking occupation I got out Of 1t jo.
, and iu IL find Gladness and give o.
/ | thought to public or publisher until the
work Is done. My cold splash cour.
, whcntI realize II t. ou' of my bands
ana all the usual Why's a. 10 what
, did 4 for rise M ana sQuiut ~ rrc
: and for tim" am In detection COR m,
: foolishncss and folly However. the o..
, lection ia It's turn Yields to qul,t PEE
joiC.nE that hav" never imagined
had anything 10 say which niece estate,
= IA" sub1rdinat!on OF the daily doing
~ busy life to fixed habits whicl
, dominated and controlled rather thai
- regulated and directed, tho creation a
. nay Pen and ink children who come whci
y, | call. and do not sulk or get angry /
=, IL do not call on time.