Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1890 — The Long to Sleep. [ARTICLE]

The Long to Sleep.

, popular belief that men o£ ejttfaorpinatpr mental activity are, as a rule, light sleepers - is not jqqtified by fee- facts, fWnaf she just and right allowance of wleepMnay be for the individual "d’oeS riot seem to depend altogether on theyunount of ohvyioal *md is ihitVraiTggd by inheritance and idiosyncrasy. The idler BEtTthe pleasure-lover often seem to sleep longer and more eisilytban the laborious brain-worker, and cases may be traced whpie a tendency to light or|heavy sleep hal win stiongly in families, nrespectn e-l 2y lathe occupation sr fif.Adyrinaitll °r IntiUectual actiiiMJof i|*fr<rmw.|T!he Imt if intellectual efficiency c n be preserved by six hours’ sleep, theie seems no motive for making effo ts, probably destined for failure, to se<yirq.eight hours, R&iM that short sleep has not been <he result of a Mm „W seems normal for it. Hence moderately jpgrlfh-fapppst. find jqaiatH freedom from sources of disturbance are ( b“ Seiemglialut'i) lo ts' Is retlfy'ao: Eight f y i4iak e !t b !W,s, 5 although itfs, perhaps. a Jiiwr&l; allowance ft»f?ikddlts m ..yisprpuehefdtj). youpg.nqcl the ail-. rug may '(Hut aavantage tuke more, and, V*)" Of SO