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Show SHOULD HAVE SLEEP OUT. Writer Objects to Custom of Arousing Children Early. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, writing of Sloop In tho American Magazine, criticizes criti-cizes boarding schools sharply tor get ting young peoplo up too early In the morning. Ho Bays: "A baby or young child should hnvo absolutely ovory minute of sloop that It can bo Induced to tako, and slcoplessnoss Is oven more emphatically a sign of dlseaso In children than lu adults. Tho necessity and capacity for largo amounts of refreshing re-freshing sleep persists up to adult llfo and tho amount required seldom falls below ten hours beforo tho eighteenth or twentieth year. To mako children or rapidly growing young ndults get up beforo thoy havo had their sleep out, nnd feel thoroughly rested, Is not merely Irrational but cruel, and when It is done as a routlno practice at boarding schools, or other Institutions, by thoso who pretend to ho lifted to havo tho caro of children I'. Is little short of criminal." |