HOW MANY HOURS FOR SLEEP.
There is an old saying that has frightened a great many people frcm taking the rest that nature has demanded for them, " Nine hours are enough for a fool." They may be ; and not too many for a wise man who feels that he needs them. Goethe, -when performing his most prodigious literary feats, felt that he needed nine hours; what is better, he took them. We presume it is conceded by all thoughtful persons that the brain in very Tonng children, say three or four years of age, requires all of twelve hours in rest' or sleep. This period is shortened gradually until, at. fourteen years of age, the boy is found to need only ten hours. Whea full grown and in a healthy condition the man. may find a night of eight hours sufficient to repair the exhaustion of the day and new-create him for the morrow. But if he discover that he needs more sleep he should take it. There is surely something wrong about him ; perhaps a forgotten waste must be repaired. His sleep evidently has not been made up, and until it has, and he en spring to his work with an exhilaration for it, he should sensibly conclude to let his instinct control him, and stay in bed .
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 8
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219HOW MANY HOURS FOR SLEEP. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 8
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