Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Hours for Sleep. [ARTICLE]

Hours for Sleep.

The truth of the old adage tha,t one hour of sleep before midnight is worth two'hours after, midnight is questioned by Dr. E. P. Colby, who states that he lias made some study of the subject while in naval service during the rebellion. The ship's company on shipboard —officers and men alike—stand four hour watches day and night, with the interpolation of a dog watch of two hours to change the time of each set of mep on successive days. These men are therefore obliged to get their required sleep very irregularly.- but in more than two years’ observation Dr. Colby could never discover that the watch officers and men were not as fulJyjcefreshed by their sleep as were the officers of the ship who were required to stand no watch at all.