HOW MUCH SLEEP?

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3270, 10 March 1931, Page 7

HOW MUCH SLEEP?

Famous Men vary in the hours of sleep they require. Mr Lloyd George is a heavy sleeper, and admits that he can "drop off" in any circumstances in two or three minutes. Sir John Simon and Mr Arnold Bennett are " six-hour " men, but Sir William Orpen, the artist, finds 12 hours only just'sufficient. Sir Eric Geddes never varies in his precise 8 hours 30 minutes. Here are some sayings of the famous on the subject, gathered by a medical specialist of the Sunday Dispatch:— I go to bed at 9 o'clock every night, and get up at 6in the morning. I sleep about six hours, although I am in bed for nine hours. —Henry Ford. I want eight hours of dreamless, motoinless sleep, and I cannot do without it.—H. G. Wells. Six hours' sleep is more than enough for any man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.—Napoleon. I am compelled by my wife to sleep six hofurs a day. I take it in two sections; first, four hours, then take two more.—Edison. Sleep inspires me. Active brains need plenty of sleep, and its quality is as important as its quantity. Above all, sleep should be restful.—Marconi.