EARLY RISING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4416, 19 May 1922, Page 3

EARLY RISING.

EXPERT ADVICE. The proper time to rise—if we could only make’up our minds .to lo it—is when sleep properly so-called ends. Dosing is not-admissible from any reasonable dr health- point of view. The brain falls into the state wo call sleep, and the other organs .of the body follow it. True sleep is the aggregate of sleeps- In other words sleep, which must be a natural function, is a state which consists in the sleeping or rest ojE all the 'several parts of the organism. Sometimes onej and at other times another, part of the body as a whole may be the least fatigued, and so the first to wake; or the most exhausted, and therefore the most difficult to arouse. The secret of good sleep is—the physiological conditions of rest being established—to so work and weary the several parts of the organism as to give .them a proportionately equal need of rest at the same moment. The cerebrum or mfhd organ, the sense organs, the muscular system, and. the viscera should be all ready to sleep together, and, so far as may be possible, they should be equally tired. To wake early and feel ready to rise is a point gained, and the wise selfmanager should not allow a drowsy feeling of the consciousness, or weary senses, or an exhausted muscular system to beguile him into the folly of going to sleep again whe.i once consciousness has been aroused. After a very few days of self-disci-pline the man who resolves not to dose —that is, to allow some still sleepy part of his body to keep him in bed after his brain has once awakened —will find himself, without knowing it, an “early riser.”