Sleep

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 31, 28 February 1913, Page 3

Sleep

I 'Civilisation, like statutory low i--1 j always accompanied by penalies. * | and the punishment that follows ; ; ! progress in these days takes i the form of the nervous com- j ' i plaints and disorders which in j ‘ I our grandfathers’ tint? were j ' i exceedingly rare, if not altogether ■ j unknown. The hustle of modern - life makes inroads on the hours ; I | for sleep, and nof even the I I children arc exempt from the ; cares that banish “Nature’s soft j i nurse," the twin brother of j r ! Death. Sir James Crichton- [ 5 Brown, one of our great authori- ; 1 j ties on health, has been asking,! s this question: “Do children | ■ ! sleep long enough?" It is e j quit ■ a mistake, he muk ■ - out, t > 1 i believe that a child wearied with i | brain work can improve his con- j t I dition by physical exercise. It I il ! i s rest alone that can re-invigor-t .. i . the tired brain. Sir James B ' Inis compiled the following ] 1 | interesting table which gives the ‘ | minimum time required for n ! sleep: - j years old. Hours. d 4 t ■ 6 ... 13 g| 7 to 9 ... H - ! 9 to 14 ... 10* 2 ej 14 to 17 ... 10 >’ 17 to 21 ... 9* 2 d 21 to 27 ... 9 e ! Later ages ... 8 r j According to this authority a | much of the ill-health of highly it i strung children at school is due i- | to lack of sleep, and he sounds a y i warning that the next generation ir | w i|| .suffer severely from " nerve W : storms " unless more attention is a j paid to the matter. The " rest is | ,-ures. ” which so many people t. ! have now to undergo, are simply I- the results of sleep lost in cliildhood; for unless children sleep | well, there is no nourishment foils | the brain, and then both mind r- : and body must suffer. Sir James’ cure for neurotics is iB I simple, easy, and inexpensive, T i qualities that do not usually ic ! characterise the prescriptions of ■y : the medical fraternity, and so at | pleasant that it carries with it L- its own recommendation. Did tb the efficacy of sleep, we wonder. originate the German good night IP wish Srh/afon sit- tv,hl (sleep at well)? If not," it ought to have