SLEEP.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5203, 19 September 1885, Page 4

SLEEP.

Men, women, and children require just so much sleep, and, if they do not bare it they suffer in consequence. Ido not think a person should be awakened in the morning and for this reason : When a man falls "■""*" asleep he is in the shop for repairs, as the railroad men say. His frame and all bis intricate machinery is being overhauled and made ready for tbe next day's work. The wear of the previous day is being repaired. Nature is doing that herself. She knows what the tired frame needs, just as she knows how to make the heart throb and send the blood coursing through the reins. Then she takes that tired frame, lays it down on a bed, surrounds it with the refreshing air of night, covered with the soft darkness, and lets the man rest. "Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep," visits him, and as the hours wear by his energies renew, his strength comes back, and finally, when morning t -■ breaks and the sun steals through the j lattice he opens bis eyes, and is himself ; again; or if he is early to bed he wakes with the cook's crowing. Now, who shall go to that man's side an hour before he opens his eyes and say to Nature, "Stand aside and Jet me get him; he has had enough rest." " Well," Nature will say, " you can take him if you will, but I will

charge him with an boar's loss of sleep, and I' 11 collect it out of bis bones and — nerves and his hair and eyesight. Ton cant'cheat me. I'll find property to levy on."—Exchange.