SAILORS' FRIEND SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2962, 28 December 1916, Page 3

SAILORS' FRIEND SOCIETY

CHRISTMAS PLEASURES. Christmas was celebrated in a seafonable way a't the Sailors' Friend Society's Church and Institute.- On. Sun- . Hay .bright senrices .werelheld. when Mr. Moore, Missioner, preached 'on "Christmas Hope" and "The Manger, Bud To-day." The lessons were taken by Messrs. R. C. Renner and Oram. Tea was prbvidod ; for the men .by ■ friends of the'work. At the song-ser-vice,' carols jwer'e rendered':, by Mr. T. E. Jones and family. ■The Christmas Morning-service was very helpful. At 3' p.m. a merry party from the G.T.S. Amolrara and ships in port met in tho Institute for games, for which well-wishers had contributed prizes. As the day wore .on tho party increased, until when closing timo/came all were sorry'. I A knife-and-fork tea was provided in tho spacious Institute,' and was milch .'enjoyed. _ Then, again, tho big family lentored into singing, recitt\ls_,(by Miss Collins), .music (by Miss Bo!foil?,"lite., und competitions. . On Boxing .Day . a happy party left bv special tram for tho scenic reserve, .where a picnic was held. Lunch and tea were taken in the bush, and afterwards! followed more sports, and then .the party wended its way to "tho Institute, where they were entertained at' a concert hv Miss Violet Mueller and tiarty. The prizes donated by friends were handed to the men ..by .Madame Mueller.- The recipients were: Messrs/Worth, Parker, Luckie, iWigmore, Sollitt, Mackin, Matthewson, Rixon, King. Young, Waterman, Mason, Waldi'e,- Robertson, Holloway, Glenthrori Freeman, Barclay, Wilson, and . Carter; ' The-following were enoored for their items: The Missis St. John, Gawler, and V. Mueller, and Messrs. Bryant,' W. Wood, Glenthron, Gannon, and Waterman. The men cheered ■ all who had given them such a bright Christmas.

' SLEEP How little is known about us is revealed by the theories of sleep, says a writer in the ''Daily Mail." Indeed/ if it could bo explained, beyond a doubt, ivhat happens when we lose consciousness in sloop, as engineers exi plain how a locomotive runs on rails, wo should have an exact science of psychology. As it is, all explanations of sleep are shrewd guesses. Hence, we are told that sleep is the result of mysterious chemical factions, of illunderstood mechanical effects, of vague physiological processes—each guess depending on the'character of the investigation conducted. ' ■ Nevertheless, experiments have' shown conclusively that sleep is necessary to recuperate from mental and physical fatigue, and that there is some relation between Bleep and the amount of blood supplied to the brain. If your brain is gorged with blood, you are awake; if your brain is bloodless, you sleep. So, too, experiments have proved that the first hours of sleep are profounder than the last, and that you are apt to dream after the first period is over. Dreams are influenced by external impressions. Hence, when tqu dream, you are not completely asleep, and hence you stay where you are all the time..