EARLY RISING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 18 June 1884, Page 3

EARLY RISING.

According to the" Lancet" the pro per time to rise is when sleep, properly so-called, ends, Dozing is nob admissible from any reasonable or health point of viow. Tho brain falls into the state we call sleep, and the other organs of tho body follow it. True sleep is the aggregate of sleep; in other words, sleep, which must be a natural function—i.e. physiological instead of pathological, or'induced by disease or drugs—is a state which consists in the sleeping or rest of all tho several parts of the organism. Sometimes one end, and at other times another part of tho

body as a wholo may to the least

fatigued, and so the first to awake, or 4 the most exhausted, and therefore the most difficult to arouse. The secret of good sleop is (tho physiological conditions of rest being established) to so work and weary the several parts of the organism as to give them a proportionally equal need of rest at tho same moment. The cerebrum or mind organ, the sense organs, the muscular system, and the viscera, should be all ready to sleep together, and, so far as may bo possiblo, thoy should bo equally tired. To wake early and feel ready to rise, this fair and equal start of the sleepers should bo secured; and this wise self-manager should not allow a drowsy feeling of the consciousness or weary senses, or an exhausted muscular system, to beguile him into the folly of going to sleep again when once his

consciousness hiu been aroused. After j a very few days of self-discipline the man who resolves not to" doze," 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 how, "an early riser."