Show benefit in short naps the majority 0 people take a meal of some kind between the ho ITS ot 12 and 2 dally says the london chron icle with a number ot persons this meal assumes the form of a aal yal dinner while with others jt amounts to nothing more than a light luncheon in either case however the repast requires to be digested and this necessitates some modification 0 the activities ot the brain since belth er that organ nor those concerned in the processes ot digestion are capable ot good work when an attempt Is made to put forth their energies simul A tendency to drowsiness contusion ot thought and inability to make any great mental effort are among the re suits of a diminished cerebral arcu lation these feelings are therefore experienced by most persons after a meal and they are the more pro bounced in proportion to the greater amount of digestive energy expended since brain work of good qualley cannot bo produced while the pro besses of digestion are in active opera tion it Is wise not to attempt it it Is never prudent to thwart the beneficent intentions of matuie many per sons struggle against the mental and physical lethargy that accompanies the earlier stages of the digestive act apparently under the delusion that all time given to the important business of building up and repairing by their tissues Is time wasted so ar from this being the case a well spent post interval tends to the breser and prolongation of life it a tendency to drowsiness Is felt sleep should be allowed to prevail tor the proverbial forty winks Is justified of science A ten or fifteen minutes nap itter a meal curiously enough will enable many a brainworker to arise refreshed who might have spent an hour or two in a vain and mentally contused struggle against the dropsy god |