Show How Much Sleep Do We Require I II I It is said s. tid that in the recent presidential campaign particularly when tho the candidates were stumping Now York ork state neither of them moro more than six hours hour in a night during the critical p TX of the contest On October 26 26 27 97 27 23 28 and 29 Mr r. r Bryan had to content his lis body and soul w with th only four hours and Mr Taft was seen at some of tho great Ireat meet meetings to be almost on the vergo verge of the tho yawning yawning- stage e. e Napoleon it i is well known could do with less les sleep than probably any other man who over lived On the evenin evening of tho the battle of ef Eylan after a hard won victory he ho declared he be had not slept for forty forty-el forty eight ht hours hour previously Certain it is that when ho retired to his couch ho he slept for nearl nearly thirty thirty six ix hours continuous con con- r. r His valet dared not wake him nor was waB waBen even en his chief on staff venturesome ome enough to do so o. o I It was subsequently said that this his lon longest est sleep was more in tho the nature of ofa a n. narcoleptic trance than a a. really natural natural nat I ural sleep even considering his previous I fort fort-ei forty eight ht hours of waking A similar I disposition to evinced 3 itself in the t two o preceding Waterloo As to ho how lon long a 3 busy man should I sleep authorities the authorities tho busy men themselves them them- selves solves ol differ widely M. M 1 Mazade them them-I a a. French newspaper man has recently inquired amon among a score or more of the busiest men of or the French metropolis I and received replies of considerable interest interest in in- terest from many man of them They The were all brain workers Prince Princ Roland Rolan d Bonaparte Bon Boa aparte aport the scientist finds some difficult difficulty ditl- ditl cult culty in in putting a fi figure ure on th the tho amount of sl sleep ep he requires Ho lie cannot he ho says 3 perform an any intellectual work york un un- un- un less ho has slept w well lL Tul Jules Tules C aret c tells the World that ho must hay hava A at least east seven Beven hours but hut that he can ean work with equal pleasure whether ho he has slept well wen or badly badh Baron de Constant Con tho diplomatist diplomat st requires eight hours if he hs gets ets less les he performs less work He Ho advices every man who has a a. bi big or important important important im im- im- im days day's work before him to sleep to-sleep sleep well and as lon long as as- ashe he can Armand ArmandI I Gautier of the academy of ci deI declares de de- de- de I clare clares dares that about ci eight fit hours hours' is the proper allowance He lie says with ith much truth that to sleep too long is enervate ing in and Ind physically and mentally weakening weakening weak weak- ening HO Houssaye 1 the academician will not consider fewer fever than thau nine hours His colleague Lamy wants seven eyon for his bodily and amI mental satisfaction Maurice goes olo t to h bed d at ut t 10 riE rises a at Rt 7 Ribot the tho literary literary liter liter- ary aD- aDman man asks pi eight ht and this allowance seems to be tho minimum with which tho the of of mankind is satisfied Mark ark Twain Twain it i is said spends from twelve P to fifteen hours bours a day da- dain in bed In tho course O of this long Knell however how- how over ever tho the humorist accomplishes much work or reading Mr rr Edison on tho the contrary works well won on an au allowance of throe or or or four hour hours hours' sleep Mr 01 Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt i is saul said to he be a believer in the seven hour re regime regimo imf |