Notes On Sleep

To liv'uary men, preachurs, teachers awyers, doctors, journalists, and brainworkers in general, the following hints ire exceeingly worth attention : The fact is, that as lito becomes concentrated, and its pursuits more eager, hort sleep and earjy rising becomo im)ossible. We take more sleep lliau. om mcestors, and we take more because we want inore. Six honrs' sleep will do very veil for a plowman or bricklayer, or any other man who has no exhaustiun but hat produced by manual labor, and the ooner he takes it after the labor the beter. But for a man whose labor is mcntil, the stress of work is on bis brain and nervous systeiu, and for bim wiio is tired n tbe evening with a day of mental ip)lieatiou, neither early to bed nor early ,o rise is wb'olosome. He needs letting own to the levol of repose. The longor he interval between the active use of the )rain and the retirement to bed, the beter his chanco of sleep and refroshment. 'o him an hour after niidnight is proba)ly as good as two hours before it, and ven then his sleep will not so coinpletey and quickly restore hiin as it will his neighbor who is physically tired. He must not only go to bed later, but lie onger. His best sleep probably lies in he early moruing hours, when all the nervous excitement bas passed away, and ie is in absolute rest.