Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — How Long to Sleep. [ARTICLE]

How Long to Sleep.

Probably no better division of time has ever been made than that into thret equal periods of eight hours eacheight hours given to business, eight tc reading and improvement, and the remaining eight to sleep. For myself, 1 find that nine or ten hours’ sleep in a single night will cure me of all trifling maladies witji which, from time to time, 1 may be afflicted. Some extraordinary advice has been given by certain distinguished persons with reference tc the time devoted to sleep, but each writer falls into the common blunder oi applying a rule to all which he find* good in his own case. Bishop Tayloi advises three hours. Wesley suggests six as the least time that will answer. Be declares that during his life hs never knew any one to retain vigorous health, even for a year, with a less quantity than six hours, and he thought that women required more than men. Excess of sleep is very bad in its influence; produces dullness of mind and body, corpulency and disposition to apoplexy; hence Galen calls sleep ths brother of death, and says that nothing is more pernicious when carried to excess. The Americans should go to bed at 9 o’clock and rise between 5 and 6. I do not mean to say that circumstances may never justify their sitting up until midnight, or later, but I am simply interpreting the voice of physiology. If the average American, with the narrow chest and small vitality, would retire at 9 o’clock he would live some years longer, and each year would afford him more happiness and ability to work.— Dio Lewis' Monthly. A eeport prepared under Government auspices says that the area of land in Manitoba broken for the first time is 99,911 acres.