SLEEP.

Kumara Times, Issue 1134, 24 May 1880, Page 3

SLEEP.

Dr Kichardson, lecturing on " Golden Laws of Health," at Croydon recently, speaking of sleep says :—" The fewer hours that are spent in artificial light ■the bettor, and the sooner (hey went to rest after dark the better* They required in the cold season of winter, when the nights were long, much more sleep than they did in the summer. On the longest day in the year seven hours of sleep were sufficient for most men and women in the prime of life ; on the shortest day nine hours was not over much, and for persons who are weakly 10 or 12 hours might be taken with much advantage. In winter children should all have 10 or 12 hours' sleep. It was not idleness to indulge to that extent, but an actual saving, a storage up of invigorated existence for the future. Such result could be obtained by going to bed very early— say at half-past Bor 9. It was wrong at the present season that they should be at that meeting robbing themselves of sleep. It was wrong as ever it could be that our Legislature should often be sitting up as they did, night after night, trying against life to legislate for life. It was foolish, too, that public writers and editors should be called on to exercise their craft at a time when all their- nature was calling out to them, 'Rest!' He might be accused of folly in saying these things, bnt he was standing by Nature, and speaking under her direction."

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