SLEEP.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2481, 17 May 1909, Page 3

SLEEP.

Boucicault was so anxious to get as much out of life as possible that during the last four or five years of his career he denied himself proper sleep, going to bed at two and rising at six. The time passed in slumber he considered wasted. More rest than this he did not seem to require. The other day wc heard of a man who never sleeps, as we understand the word. He is the caretaker of a large building to which people resort At all hours of the twenty-four. This Cerberus volunteered for a double salary to do the watching day and night, and so he does, sitting in a chair and opening a gate every time the bell rings. TJiere is never a longer interval than fifteen minutes, and yet he contrives to snatch sufficient sleep to serve him. His health is good and his happiness apparently complcle. > He looks upon himself as fortunate in having this exacting place, which most other people would not accept at any price. 1 he amount of sleep is to a considerable degree a matter of temperament. Napoleon, according to the life of Joscp’hine, recently published, was a prodigious sleeper, taking nine hours when he could get it. His active brain required this amount of rest. On the other hand, Emile Lettrc, the Author of the dictionary, needed only four hours. He went to bed at four a.m. and got up at eight. All the rest of the time, except a few minutes at his meals, he spent .ii his desk. He lived to eighty-five, and enjoyed perfect health.