Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — Something About Sleep. [ARTICLE]

Something About Sleep.

It has been said that when we feel a constant need of sleep, the decay of the mental faculties has set in, and that when we are growing old we may know we are ail right and our powers unimpaired as long as we have the ability to stay awake. It is also declared from the same source that the higher the Intellectual rank, the less sleep a man re-* quires, giving as example Goethe and Humboldt, who got along with only two or three hours of sleep a day. Gases where the health continues with so little sleep are very rare, for it Is a w T ell-known fact that every healthy jdult requires an average of eight hours of sleep out of twenty-four. Of all natural things, sleep is considered the best contributor to a refreshing of the body, to cheerfulness of ltiffed, to nobleness of character and kindliness of spirit, bleep Is so needful, that if any deny themselves of it for any reason, it will finally overtake them In spite of themselves. All nature needs rest, and the human family is no exception, but their rest must be an unconscious state, which we call sleep, no other will suffice. —Weekly Bouquet.