MEN—THE SLEEPERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18943, 14 February 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)

MEN—THE SLEEPERS.

Do wen requrc more sleep .than women Certainly they snatch their forty winks in public with greater complacency, -ays a contemporary ftnglish journalist. To sleep," perchance to snore, in omnibus or tube is regauied by -omen as lug's misdemeanour.. Their eyelids may droup. but not in.slumber. At the suggestion of any uncommon incident they are alert. Who beguiles tire family at dinner with tales of thq comedies and tragedies of the ■journey home-' The..women. Men do not relate these things because; they havo not seen them, and they have not seen Litem because they were asleep. Who, forgetting plans for work or amusement, lapses into oblivion beiore the fire on winter evenings'; Not women. The close of the. day is eminently their hour. For it they trim their brightest lamps and concoct their sweetest conspiracies. They would make each moment fragrant with interesting companionship, and as they see the one on whom they had Imikied their hopes for a, happy evening sinking into lethargy their hearth beeome dour. ' But, though disillusioned, they are forgiving and invent excuses for the sleeper as readily as ihev had invented plans for his pleasure. Probably no woman ever slept, in church. The deep sighings, the rumblings, the astonished gasps proceed from male parishioners. Take social clubs. Those for men are understood to be temples of slumber; in women's clubs the God of Sleep is perpetually blackballed.

In theatres and cinemas sleepers are not easily identified, but. during tin intervals their air of having just returned from a far country, their exaggerated interest, in the play, their misplaced criticism, betray them. These signs are seldom exhibited by women.