Evening journal., 1919-04-09
OYSTER THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT SLEEPS ALL
TIE TIME,

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1rHE strange sleeping sickness which doctors report
as an afer-eHeel Of 1u. Is than sleep
Itself, that greatest mystery Of life.
on March A. 1900 the London Daily Chronicle printed
tho following despatch from Venna "Ssycral cases OF
a new dseasa which recently appeared In Manua I'M
nedlaoy after The subsdonco Of tho influenza epidemic
have occurred IN Tho comltat OF Pressburg. Persons
suffering from this complaint fall into doatliks trance,
lasting about four days out Of which tho patient wales
IN state OF Intense exhaustion Recovery IL very slow,
but, no far, no fatal has been reported"
Tweny-nlno years have passed. since then, but tho
doctors are still IN the dark.
What Is thls strange process called seopf
Why must spend third Of our only too short llfo
IN bed dead 10 the world, motloness, uncQnsclousf
Sleep continues banllng a mystery in tho days
when Eve created IN the sleep Of man.
You, reader. few hours from now viii slip into bed
and mentally vanish from this world.
What happens then1 Docs your soul live in another
world at nghtg
Tho Corat school Of doctors believe that sleep is the
necessary to rid the system OF posons that huvo
lated during wde-awake hours
Caperedos theory was that sleep is Natures proteo
tion to prevent killing ourselves by exhaustion
DR.. Boris sdls decided that monotony is the OF
seep-that we sumber when there are no longer inter-
estng stimulating sensations 10 keep awake. II we
believe sds sleep because we bored For instance
The sleeping in church when not fatigued
Eight hours is ths average sleep required though
there are unusual such William Depue. who
wakened January 49, 1896 Bushk Pa. after sleeping
steadily for years. Depue insisted that he slept
only night that iokers had shifted calendars him.
Edison says all sleep too much, lie gets along with
four hours sumber nightly So did Napolean Frederick
the Great Mirabeau and John Hunter. the English
geon.
Edlson's theory is that are approaching the time
when the human being viii require practically sleep.
An oyster Of the lowest forms OF lfe lacks the
power Of moyement-t sleeps always.
child sleeps most Of the tlme-"slept like babe"
As 10 natures the need Of sleep less. Old folks
need fewer hours Of sloep-and easily awakened by
slight sounds
This tendency in the maturing Of the individual Is
true Of the maturing Of civilized The ciy-dweer
OF today requires much less sleep hah his prehistoric
ancestors-or the lower forms Of present human
life such the dog-eating Igorrotes.
As man develops further. will sleep become less and
less necessary?
Though II wastes third OF your time would you do
away with the bliss Of blankets and absolute for
getfulness If you could?
Iambichus, that great philosopher. wrote that the
nighttime Of the body is the daytime Of the soula
beautiful theory that hamonizes with the idea Of the
eventual sleep that knows waking
We are closest TO the Creator when aseep-apart
from evil Under its spell the worst criminal is as in
nocent a babe in Sleep may be the real life. and
our waking period but dream nightmare. The weird
est mystery OF lfe It onehird OF valuable
earthly time and eventually clutches in the Sleep
the great adventure In which all drafted equal
footing.