| Show NIGHT NOT BEST TIME FOR STUDY SAYS EDUCATOR the proverb that one hours sleep before midnight Is worth two hours afterward usually Is ridiculed by physicians most of them maintain that while eight hours sleep la Is necessary at some time during the twenty four it makes little difference when it Is obtained A recent german investigation tends however to cast doubt on tills this medical opinion and to confirm the ancient proverb says dr E E free in his weeks science new yolk dr theodor principal of a school in duisburg guisburg Du isburg noticed that one of his pupils was imling falling behind in school work and was becoming ID 1 more and more lazy and sleepy inquiring into this young mans S sleep I 1 cep habits doctor Stock marm found that he was studying late at night and sleeping late in the morning change of this habit so that tha t the pupil slept before midnight and woke very early in the morning to study st u dar caused remarkable lm improvement in school work and in health doctor then tested the same idea on seventeen other pupils averaging about nineteen years old kit all turned out to bo be in 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 german medical profession that less than eight hours sleep may be elou enough b at least for young people provided all of it Is obtained before midnight literary digest to keep clean and healthy take lor dr piercen cen Plen pleasant sant pellets th they e regulate liver bowels and stomach A adv 71 v |
