Show NIGHT NOT BEST TIME FOR STUDY SAYS EDUCATOR The TIle proverb that one hours hour's slee sleep before midnight Is worth t two 0 hours afterward usually Is la ridiculed by Most of them that while eight hours houra sleep Is necessary at some time during tho the twenty four It makes little difference when hen It Is ob tamed A recent German investigation ten tends s however to cist st doubt on thIs medical opinion and to confirm the ancient proverb s 81 si lys s 9 Dr E U U B free In his 11 eeL eek s Science r ew 1 ode ork Dr Dr Theodor principal pa pal of a school In Duisburg noticed that one of his pupils was falling be- be behind be behind hind In school work nn and was becom lag more and more lazy and sleepy Inquiring Into this young man mans s sleep habits Doctor found that he was studying late at night and sleeping late Inte in the morn mornIng morning morning Ing Change of ot this tills habit so that the pupil slept before midnight and woke very cry early In the th morning to study caused remarkable Improve Improve- Irr Improvement pro e ment went In school work and In health Doctor then tested the same ame on seventeen se seen en teen other oilier pupils about nineteen years old 11 turned out to be bo In better health and to do better school work where when they got four tour or 11 e hours sleep Bleep before midnight and got up at three or four ir o 0 clock dock In the morning to do O their studying JD Two pupils who wor worl wort cd ed put pirt of time the day also found themselves es in bet better better better ter health and more successful In theIr studies when they went ent to bed after supper and did didt t their heir school work bet between een midnight and Ills His observations also suggest Doctor reports to the German medical profession that less than eight hours sleep may maybe ma be enough at nt least for young oun people pro all of it Is obtained before beCore Literary Literary Digest |