Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — After-Dinner Naps. [ARTICLE]

After-Dinner Naps.

No wonder if half the world knows how pleasant it is to take an after-dinner nap, and what a relief it is to the overburdened brain—or stomach. We used to know a lawyer who took his nap every day after dinner, on three chairs; and that lawyer, if he continues the practice, will die an old man. If there is any one time when a man is forced to exert himself—wLether in muscular or brain labor, to work, it is after the noon-day meal. If all men could only rest, notone hour, but two hours, and could put the extra time on the clot tag hours of the day, what an im?rovement would be made in their health! Whether he be a farmer, or a mechanic, or a professional man, a good rest after dinner leaves the man in a better condition for hard labor than even in the m;ming. It was a sensible farmer who, in harvest, always made an agreement with his workmen to work ten hours a day; and from twelve o’clock to two o’clock no work was done unless in case of emergency, a threatened rain, or something that required extra exertion. The men had glorious times sleeping under trees after dinner. They always used up threequarters of an hour at the table, and then slept one hoar and a quarter daring the heat of the day. The result was, they were never overworked, and the fanner got more labor from his men than did any of his neighbors from theirs, though their men often worked twelve hours a day. When two o’clock came the hands were in good trim, completely rested, and could .do double the work, with more ease than if they had commenced work at one o’clock. A single hour’s rest at the proper time works wonderi.— Rural New Yorker.