Show necessary hours of sleep the belief that the hours of steep sleep should be artificially restricted is prevalent lyet it is contrary to ordinary good sense it if the human body does not need sleep for the up building of its tissues it will not call for it L A rule of health which can not ie be wrong la is to sleep it if possible as long as any inclination for it exists the erroneous view on this subject is undoubtedly due to tho the fact act that w when hen the mind and body are thoroughly rested it Is often difficult to arouse the mind from its comfortable lethargy on the other hand the man who is under a mental strain and sleeps only five or six hours at night is keen and alert soon after awa awakening kenina but it is an unhealthy activity his nerves are at a high tension he is on edge so to speak such a strain long continued results inevitably la in a nervous breakdown |