The Neglect of Rest.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 3

The Neglect of Rest.

How to Get the Best Kind of Sleep. “ The cardinal popular error in regard to sleep,” says a writer in “McCall’s Magazine,” “ is the error of assuming that I all sleep is one and the same, and that, therefore, the only possible estimate of sleep is quantitative. According to this reasoning, if one man sleeps for eight hours and another for nine, the second had the better L night; but this by no means follows. Of far greater impor--1 WBWm afnfgiven case is the ' k2 ua % °f sep. The question ■s not ■ Uonong did you sleep?’ ■>ut ‘ Whatort of sleep did you f lave? ’ “ The iost refreshing sleep j Bis the de?est, and the deepest t Bs the mft continuous. | I “ However we are to inter■,yret tb fact of dreaming, we ■ .loust qiree that the ideal sleep WIS a s/ite of unconsciousness, land tbit some kind of consciousness s involved in any dream, 'before, it is quite plain that i pEfdeal sleep is dreamless. |JT MIY WE ALL SLEEP WELL ? • “If people thought the mat■v worth their while, they Wviuld very greatly improve the ■ Quality of their sleep, thereby reing able to reduce its quantity t and increase the number of hours during which they live. A tiny modification in diet or in after-dinner habits, a little change in the matter of coffee or tobacco, - or bedroom ventilation or night-wear, the complete exclusion of the early morning light in summer time—all these are matters to which those folk should attend who realise the value of perfect sleep. (HOW MUCH OUGHT WE TO SLEEP ? If “ Now how much sleep should k young people have ? For chil- ' dren between the ages of twelve and seventeen expert opinion /varies within only small limits. j We may take it that nine and a j half hours is the irreducible / ,