Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Recreation Before Bedtime. [ARTICLE]

Recreation Before Bedtime.

Want of sleep is engendered to a great extent by the overactivity of the brain at night. Many people say that night is their best time for work, and thus, spend the early part of the day, when the brain is freshest, in idleness, and at night do their work. Working their brain Until just before retiring to bed is with many utterly fatal to a thorough rest. The overwrought and tiyed brain cannot throw off the thoughts caused by the work, and on laying down in bed they return with what apjA'ars to be greater intensity, and thus sleep is bfinished. It is a very good plan to stop brain work at a fixed hour before retiring, and then to indulge in sopie recreation in the way of games or jfght reading, such as newspapers, periodicals, novels. etc. , The way-to avoid illness in your home is by practicing care, caution and cleanliness. These are the important and necessary factors for successful life. Recollect that there are two words that must be unknown to us, and they are trouble and fatigue. We must hound them out from our vocabulary, , for they are impossible words in a wellregulated household. Of course the mother must not lie in bed of a morning; she must be up and about, quick, active and alert. She should recollect that children are never consulted as to whether they should lie warm or not, so that it is only a debt owing them if we make their lives as healthy and happy as possible, and this desideratum cannot be achieved unless we are content to sacrifice some of our pleasures.