HOW MUCH SLEEP IS NECESSARY.
The character and amount of sleep required vary with age, sex, temperament, and very possibly with race and climate. Infants and young children sleep a great deal. Someone has said—“ln sleep we live, we' breathe, we grow ; how good a thing it is to live !”
Old people can do with less sleep than young peaple. With the former six or seven hours of the twentyfour will generally be found sufficient, while for the latter about eight hours will be found necessary. In about one hour or an hour and a half from its beginning sleep is considered to be at its most profound state ; and from that onward to the waking condition it becomes lighter. During sleep the body is in a position of repose, and the sensorium is unconscious. This allows the cell life in the sleeper, which has been fatigued through work—either physical or mentad—to be renewed with vital force, and rendered capable of performing the work they (the cells) are called upon to do till the next sleeping period.—“ Young Man.”
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 46, 6 July 1908, Page 2
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