Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1911 — DIVIDE THE HOURS OF REST [ARTICLE]

DIVIDE THE HOURS OF REST

Better to Take Sleep in Installments Rather Than In One Long Session. If you wish to be perfectly fit and healthy don’t take your sleep in “one long dose.” Instead of, say, always going to bed at 11 p. m. and rising at 7 a. in., divide your sleeping hours into two portions, as, for instance, from 6 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. (first sleep) and from 2 a. m. to 6:30 a. m. in the second sleep. This method of sleeping in “watches” gives the brain —for all those who do mental work—just stimulus needed, and promotes fresh energy and vigor to both mind and body. A doctor who is a serious advocate of sleeping in watches gave the above interesting theory. “Every man and woman whose work requires a large expenditure of mental energy should divide his or her sleeping hours Into two,” he said. “I am acquainted with many people who now always take their sleep In two ‘doses,’ and they will tell you what a vast improvement it is on the usual rule of one long sleep In the 24 hours. “The Ideal times of sleep for the brain worker are the afternoon and the early horn's of the morning. Of course this program could only be carried out by the woman whose time is her own.”