Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1904 — Sleep. [ARTICLE]

Sleep.

Up to the fifteenth year most young people require ten hours’ sleep and till the twentieth year nine hours. After that age every one finds out how much he or she requires, though, as a general rule, at least six to eight hours are necessary. Eight hours’ sleep will prevent more nervous derangements in women than any medicine can cure. During growth there must be ample sleep if the brain is to develop to its fullest extent, and the more nervous, excitable or precocious a child is the longer sleep it should get if its intellectual progress is not to come to a premature standstill or its life cut short at an early age.