NECESSITY OF SLEEP. It is Better Than Stimulent To Invigorate the Body.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 425, 4 December 1889, Page 3

NECESSITY OF SLEEP. It is Better Than Stimulent To Invigorate the Body.

Sj^eep more and you will , have less dyspepsia. Want of sleep, and conse* quently want of. rest, is" the cause of half the ailments of people of this country-. The man of business wants to crowd ,}n the whole day attending to his business, and during the whole of the night, or best" part of the night, in the fashionable season, he is attending to Bocial duties. How many of the society women of this city, and in fact of other cities, boc, manage to get a'ong with the little sleep that they take, is a mystery to nearly all doctors in the country. They are not surprised that society women are glad when the Lenten season comes along and gives them .a rest from their gayety. Several doctors who have been talked to recently on .the subject of sleep agree that this question is not given enough consideration ; that people think too little of sleep, and are too ready to cut short their proper allowance. If they wish to go to some fashionable entertainment in the evening that will keep them out until the early hours of the morning, they never think of paying back the few hours of sleep dhat they have borrowed in order to bo' able to attend to these social festivities. Dr. Sara E«. Chase, of New York, is a great advocate of sleep. She advises all her patients to sleep more. She prescribes sleep for almost every ailment, and she at' tributes, in a great measure, her health and strength to the amount of sleep she takes. Talking recently on the subject, she said : Some people require more sleep than others. The more nervous the temperament, the more sleep is required. Sleep is better than any stimulant. If all those who work, mentally would take time in the middle of the day, cay for half an hour, and would accustom themselves to go to sleep, they would find that they would wear better, last longer and do their work much easier. Sleep is a remedial agent. Brain workers require more sleep than physical workers. They fehould go to sleep at 10 o'clock at night and should have their breakfast at a" o'clock. I don't know why women should require more sleep than men. It would depend n great deal upon the temperament of the man and woman. Men and women of equal temperament) should, I think, be satisfied with an equal amount of sleep. I think there is a great deal of benefit derived in sleep obtained before midnight, very often called beauty sleep. I think that one hour before midnight is equal to two hours after midnight. It seems more natural to sleep from 10 o'clock at hight than it does from 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning ; and, as far as I have been able to discover, the sleep taken befote midnight is much more beneficial and refre^hin? than sleep taken from say 3 o'clock until 11 or 12 at noon. Sleep taken sitting down is better than no sleep at till, but if possible sleep should always be taken with the body in a reclining position. The room should be kepfc at the tempeiature of from 60 to 65 degrees at night. I think a cold room* is injurious, and I think a hot room is injurious alao. , During the daytime 65 to 70 decrees is a proper hoat to keep the room. Sleep taken immediately after eating', in my opinion, is beneficial. The digestive organs seem to do their work better when' perfectly at rest. We see this illustrated by studying the animal.". They always sleep after eating. — ' Pittsburg Dispatch.'