Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1897 — Advantage of Sleep. [ARTICLE]

Advantage of Sleep.

In reply to the question, Is It wise for a man to deny himself and get along with a few hours’ sleep a day, to do more work? Tesla, the great electrician, is said to have replied: “That is a great mistake, lam convinced. A man has just so many hours to be awake, and the fewer of these he uses up each day, the more days they will last; that is, the longer he will live. I believe that a man might live two hundred years if he would sleep most of the time. That is why negroes often live to advanced old age, because they sleep so much. It is said that Gladstone sleeps seventeen hours every day; that is why his faculties are still unimpaired in spite of his great age. The proper way to economize life Is to sleep every moment that is not necessary or desirable that you should be awake.”