Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1917 — WAKEFUL HOURS SEEM LONG [ARTICLE]

WAKEFUL HOURS SEEM LONG

One Thinks He Has Slept Little If He Is Aroused Several Times During the Night. It Is surprising what little sleep men can get on with, and then, not a few men who think they are getting only an hour or two of sleep a night, are really getting much more; but because they awake or are awakened five or six times during the night they think they sleep very little in between, says a writer in the American Magazine. Nothing is so fallacious as our estimate of how 1 long we have been asleep. Usually when we wake, feeling quite rested, we were scarcely more than an hour or two asleep. If we wake feeling so tired that we hope it Is before midnight, it is probably nearly time to get up. Only too often, indeed, it is after the time. Feeling rested is very largely a matter of how much our wills are awakened, how firmly we have got hold of ourselves and then how interesting is the work ahead of' us and how anxious we are to get up and get at'it, while feeling fatigued is very much a matter of not wanting' to get up, because the w r ork ahead of us is annoying and full- of complications, and is not promising at best, and perhaps, been put off for three or four days because we do not care" to get at it ■XW X'