To Sleep When Sleepy

Most people are wise enough to eat when the}' are hungry, but niaiiy fail to attain the higher reách of wisdom, and sleep when they are sleepy. Any reason serves for shortening their hours of rest; and they thus bring upon themselves that dreaded disease insotnnia. There are scientific writers on this subject who claim that the best remedy for this is to learn to sleep in the daytime. This is'very well wbere from some cause - work, or watching, or pleasure - you may have failed to get your needed sleep for a night or two. There is undoubtedly a great virtue in naps, even short ones ; the art of napping in the daytime, for those who can acquire and have the leisure to indulge in it, is a desirable oue, and, like most arts, a matter of practice. Still, it is a bad plan to get into the habit of turning night into day ; and, if you are not kept awake by care or illness,.but merely have lain awake because you could not sleep, I should recommend you to fight the conseauent drovvsiness of the next day, in order that you may, if possible, resume your natural rest at night. Sleeplessness is generally the result of an unfortunate habit of "thinking," generally on unpleasant subjects, after one has retired for the night. A wise physician once aaid, "Glooniy thoughts prevent sleep. The poor and unfortunate magnify and increase their misfortune by too much thinking, 'Blessed be he who invented sleep,' but thrice blessed be the man who shall invent a cure for thinking.