The Proper Time to Rise.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 2

The Proper Time to Rise.

1 The proper time to rise—if we could only make up our minds to, it —is when sleep properly ends. Dozing is not admissible from any reasonable or health point of view. The brain falls into the state we call sleep, and the other organs of i the body follow it. True sleep is ' the aggregate of sleeps. In other ; words, sleep, which must be a nai tural function, is a state which | consists in the sleeping or rest of ; all the several parts of the or- : ganism. Sometimes one, and at , other times another, part of the ■ body as a whole may be fatigued, : and so the last to awake, or the | most exhausted and therefore the most dillicult to arouse. Discourage that drowsy feeling. The secret of good sleep is the physiological conditions of rest being established so to work, and weary the several parts of the organism as 'to give them proportionately equal need of rest at the same moment. The cerebrum, or mind organ, the sense organs, the muscular system, and the internal organs—all should be ready Ito sl-'ep together, and they should be equally tired. To awake early anil feel ready to rise, is a point gained ; and the wise self-manager should not allow a drowsy feeling of the consciousness, or weary sensses, or an exhausted muscular system, to tempt, him into the- folly of going to sleep again when once consciousness has been aroused. After a few days of self-discipline, 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."