Show NIGHT NOT BEST TIME FOR STUDY STUDY SAYS EDUCATOR tiie the proverb that one hours sleep befaro midnight Is worth two hours afterward 11 usually Is ridiculed by mot most of them maintain that while eight hours sleep Is necessary at solve time during tho the twenty tour four it makes little difference when tt it la Is obtained A recent german investigation tends however to cast doubt on this medical opinion and to confirm the ancient proverb says dr E E free la in ills weeks science new york ar theodor principal of a school in Du guisburg duisburg Duls burg isburg noticed that one of his pupils was falling behind in school work and was becoming more and more lazy and sleepy inquiring into tills this young mans sleep habits doctor Stee kinann found that he was studying late at night and sleeping late in the moi morning change of oc this habit so that the pupil slept before midnight t and woke very early inthe morning to study caused remarkable improvement tn in school work and in health doctor tiann then tested the same samo idea Adea on seventeen other pupils averit averaging ing about nineteen years old all turned out to tn be in it better health and to do better school work when they habitually got four or five hours sleep before midnight and got up at three or four in the morning to do their studying two pupils who worked part of the day also found themselves in better health and more successful in their studies when they went to bed immediately after supper and did their school work between midnight and dawn ills observations also suggest doctor reports to the ge german geman man medical profession that less than eight hours sleep may be enough at least for young people provided all of it Is obtained before midnight literary digest |