Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — Sleep for School Children. [ARTICLE]

Sleep for School Children.

We all know how .much greater Is the need of sleep for chlldron than for grown persons, and how nocessary for their good it Is tybe fible fully to satisfy this need; but Bow great lb is generally at any particular age of tho child is very hard to define exactly. The amount varies under different climatic conditions. In Sweden \ye consider % sleep of eleven or twelve hours necessary for the younger school chtMreo, ?s*d of at least eight er nine for the older ones. Yet the investigations have shown that this requirement lacks much of being met in all the classes through the whole'fchool. Boys in the higher olassdt get little more than seven* hours in bed, and this is the average, ft Is easy tp. pprcelv'e that m&ug of them must content themselves with still less sleep. It is also evident from investigations that the sleeping timo is diminished with tho increase of the working hours from class to class, so that the pupils of the same age enjoy less, according as they are higher in their classes. It thus appears constantly that in schools of relatlve’y longer hours of work the sleeping time of the pupils is correspondingly shorter. In short, the prolongation of the working hours takes place at tho cost of the time for sleep. —Science Monthly.