Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — About Sleep. [ARTICLE]

About Sleep.

The London 'Lancet discusses the subject of rising at the end of sleep. Dozing it declares is not admissible from any reasonable or health point of view. The brain is the first to fall asleep, and is followed by the active organs, and it is only perfect and natural when shared by all the several parts of the organism. All the parts of the system are not equally exhausted, and those least fatigued soonest wake, while those moat exhausted are aroused with the greatest difficulty. The several parts of the organism should need rest at the same time. To bring this about a person should “wake early and feel able to rise; this fair and equal start of the sleepers should be secured, and a wise self-manager should not allow a drowsy feeling of the consciousness or weary senses of an. exhausted system to beguile him into the folly of going to sleep again when once his consciousness has been aroused. ” The writer declares that a mnn*wlio will not allow himself to doze, will, in a few days, find himself almost unconsciously “an early riser.”