SLEEP.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1502, 24 October 1885, Page 3

SLEEP.

Men, women, and children require just so much sleep, and if they do not have it, ftuffer in consequence. Ido not think a person should be waked in the morning, and for this reason, when a mau falls asleep he is in the shop for repairs, as the railroad men say. His frame and all its inticatc machinery, is being overhauled and made ready for the next day's work. The wear of the previous day is being repaired. Nature is doing that herself. She knows what the tired fram9 needs, just as she knows bow to make the heart throb, and send the blood coursing through the veins. Then she takes that tired frame, lays it down on a bed, surrounds it with the refreshing air of night, c >vered with the soft darkness, and lets the man rest. ,( Tirod nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep," visits him, and as the hours wear by his euergies are renewed, his strength comes back, and iiua ly, when morning breaks and the sun steals through the lattice, he opens his eyes and is himself again ; or if he is early to bed, he wakes with tne cock's crowing. Now, who shall go to that man's side an hour before he openß his eyes and say to nature, " Stand aside and let me get hiua; he has had enough rest." " Well," nature will say, "you can take him if you will, but i will charge him with an hour's loss of sleep, aud I'll collect ii oui of his bones and nerves, and his hair and eye-sight. You can't cheat me. I'll find property to levy on."