SHORT SLEEPERS
Proessor Max Aluller baa reoorded a conversation he had with Alexander Von Humboldt on the subject of sleep. " As I get old," said Humboldt, " 1 want more sleep—four flours at least. When 1 was young two houis were quite enough for me." Humboldt lived to bo 89, and said it was quite a mistake to think we need seven or eight hours of sleep. Professor Legge, the Chinese scholar at Oxford, rose habitually at 3 a.m. and allowed himself only live hours' sleep. He (lied at the age of 82. Brunei, the engiueer, used to work habitually twenty hours a day, and after a few houre sleep in aa armchair wan always bright and fresh. These examples, Bays " Science Siftings," indicate nothing except that certain constitutions can content themselves with very little sleep.thriving well mentally and physically. Short, sleep doe* not suit all people.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2570, 26 May 1905, Page 3
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