HOW MUCH SLEEP IS NECESSARY?
' The character and amount of sleep roquifed vary with age,' sex, temperament, and vary possibly with race and climate. In- ' fants and young children sleep a. great deal. Someono has said: "In sleep wo live, we breathe, we grow; how good a thing it is to Iivo!" . : : Old people- can do with less sleep than young people the former six or seVen hours of tho twenty-four will generally be found sufficient, while for the latter about eight hours will bo necessary. I 'In, about quo hour or an hour and a half from its beginning-sleep is considered to be at its most profound state; and from that "qmynrd to tho waking condition it becomes lighter.":'"; --■■• : '•' ' ; During sleep the body is in a position of repose, and the sensorium is unconscious. ■This' allows tho cell lifo in the sleeper, which has, boon ifatigued through work—cithor physical or mental—to bo renewed with vitsjforce; and rendered capable of • performing, thff work'they (tho cells) are called iipon to do till .the next sleeping period.— J. Osborse Closa,- jirtfio- "Young' Man."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 9
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181HOW MUCH SLEEP IS NECESSARY? Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 9
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