Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — How Long to Sleep. [ARTICLE]

How Long to Sleep.

Up to the 15th year most young people require ten hours, and till the 20th year nine hours. After that age everyone finds out how much he or she requires, though, as a general rule, at least six or eight hours are necessary. Eight hours’ sleep will prevent more nervous derangements in women th: n any medicine will ever cure. During growth there must be ample sleep if the brain is to develop to its full extent, and the more nervous, excitable, or precocious a child is, the longer sleep should it get if its intellectual progress is not to come to a- premature standstill or its life cut short at an early age.