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Show I CUTS THE NIGHT IN TWO. French Savant Advocates New Arrangement Ar-rangement of Working Hours. Paris. Prof. Iliillopt-au of tho Academy Acad-emy of Medicine, says: "Tho true secret of long-continued, valuablo brain work Is to cut tho night In two. Tho scholar, tho Inventor, In-ventor, the flnnncler, tho literary creator, cre-ator, should bo!iBleep every night by 10 o'clock, to wake again at. say, two in the morning. Three hours' work from two to live In the absolute tranquility of the silent hours should menn the rovoallng of new powers, new possibilities, n wealth of Ideas undreamed ot under tho prevailing system. "Front live to eight or eight-thirty sleep inln. Taking up then the dny's work tho brain will bo still saturated with pie mental fruits of the midnight vigil, there will bo no effort In putting put-ting Into practice or carrying further what was planned or begun those few hours before. "The habit may ho hard to acquire, but mechanical menns ot waking at first will Induce the predisposition." Lot! has long had tho habit of so working and declares that his best thoughts, his clearest Intellectual vision, vis-ion, his choicest phrases, como to him when ho works fresh from sleen. with nil tho world still In dreamland about him. l'rofesso: Ilallopeau cites also Napoleon Na-poleon nnd Cavour as brilliantly proving prov-ing tho merits of tho system ho ad-vocatcs. |