Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — Sleep. [ARTICLE]

Sleep.

There is no danger of wearing thi subject threadbare, for people are be ginning to wake up to the fact that plenty of sleep is requisite to health, particularly in the case of brain-workers. The more sleep the brain gets the better it does the brain work. All great brainworkers have been great sleepers. Sir Walter Scott could never do with less than ten hours. A fool may want eight hours, as George HL said, but a philosopher wants nine. The men who have been the greatest generals are the men who could sleep at will. Thus it was with both Wellington and Napoleon. The greatest speakers in the House of Commons have been the men who go to sleep there as much as they like. This explained the juvenility of she aged Palmerston. Sleep is in many cases the best of medicines. A friend told me that he treated himself for a fever. He went to bed with a large pitcher of

lemonade by his side. He drank and slept, slept and drank, till he drank and slept himself well again. When you take to your bed get all the sleep you can out of your bedstead, even although, to quote Dick Swiveller’s saying, you have to pay for a double-bedded room, confessing that yon have taken a most unreasonable amount of sleep out of a single bed. Yon will be banking a whole store of recuperative energy. It is safe to say of any man that if he sleeps well he will do well.