RESTING LONG AT NOON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 17 March 1883, Page 4

RESTING LONG AT NOON.

Farmers, mechanics; and those who labour out of doors in warm weather should take long rests at noon. We believe that people of no other, country do more work in the sun than do those of North New Zealand, except perhaps America. Among the Spaniards the practice of sleeping at noon is almost as common as that, of sleeping at night. In Northern Europe a shorter time is given to rest: at noon, because the temperatnro is lower, and the. rays of the sunlight fall so as to produce a less injurious effect upon labourers. Still, the time for rest isilonger in this part of Europe than here or in the United States. With us there is no stopping work for the sake of taking rest at noon. Labor is suspended only to allow men and animals to take food and water. As soon, as eating and drinking are i finished, work in the open sun is I resumed, Without doubt we should be gainers, both in the matter of health and wealth, if we gave a considerable time during the middle of the day to rest. More sickness occurs among .farmers, immediately after hay-: ing and harvesthg thanat any other season' of the year, and the cause of it j may be attributed, -in a great majority of cases, to exposure to the heat of the' 'sim when, it is almost directly wer the heads of workmen engaged in the fields. The number of eases, of sunstroke mcreases every; year.-'.Many who are not prostrated by the heat are greatly injured by it. * What is true of men in this respect is also true of animals. A good long rest at noon would prevent exposure to the sun at the time when injurious effects'are'most likely to follow. It would also put both men and animals in a condition to do more work during the cooler portions of the afternoon,. , ,■ . .■ - - -,.

The London Missionary. Socioty has been reinforcing its stations* abroad. There was a crowded gathering in the Weigh-house Chapel' on the occasion of, bidding farewell to 17 '. inissionaaies, some leaving to resume.old; spheres of laboinyand others to'begin thejwork : for-thefirs't'tim'ei l '.""'',* ! ij] : '/;' i.■'.

For the; lighting !of Hell Gates by ; electricity, the U nit«d States Lighthouse Boardihave/leoided' thai an electric i tower, shall be constructed at Hallett'sPoint.with a.hight of ,to 'contain.lights of-20,000 candlepower; to be.displayed from sundown to suntiso. • .-