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HERE THERE
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The Bill for the registration and regulation of osteopaths which the British Medical Association · Com- mittee is investigating has very| little chance of passing into law; this session.S
It has been given a Second Read- ing in the House of Lords, who sent
WE DO NOT TAKE ENOUGH SLEEP NATURE'S BENEFICENT
RESTORER
WEARING EFFECT OF MANY
LATE NIGHTS
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(By a Harley Street Physician)
It to a Select Committee. A similar LEEP is the great physical and cularly valuable to the elderly and
mental restorative of man: he in cases of neurasthenis. cannot do without it.
The nervously exhausted will
Active brain workers' require
Bill in the Commoits last sessioni had to be dropped.
The present Bill may pass the During sleep many things han always sleep better at night if thes Lords (where it is opposed by Pen; the breathing becomes quiet have had a short hap in the after medical peers and others), but the and regular; physical and mental noon. Many people sleep badly at Commons programme is already activity ceass and the body and night because they have gone to bed overweighted. The only hope for mind, sink into a state of calm and overtired; this may often be avoid the Bill is for it to become non- quiet relaxation. The blood-pres-ed if time can be found for sleep controversial (which is impossible) sure falla, and it is during sleep earlier in the day, 10 or for the Government to adopt it that the great repair to the tissues (which is unlikely).
and cells of the brain and the body longer sleep than those whose work "Short
takes place. cuts and wonderful
does not lie this way; in them the. A night of calm and undisturbed wear and tear and the nervous. cures,"
says the B.M.A., "have proved to, be inaccurate and mis-sleep and we airake refreshed and energy spent is greater by far, and leading, even if the cures were of repaired: the lost vitality of the the repair required is greater als members of the House of Lords."day before has been silently re-
Many late nights on...end- There is no short cut to the placed in the great laboratory of except for the fortunate few who statute-book.
can stop in bed till midday must How Long Should We Sleep? prove injurious in the long run. One is often asked for how long work of the day, it tends to slow, Apart from interfering with the we ought to sleep. Regarding this but steady exhaustion
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Many cases of
had time to be curried out... where people are in the ed: the necessary "repair" has nothing is a misery to many people
a state of being ever below par. before midnight is worth two after: The cause for this state-insuf For those, who get insufficient sleep ficient sleep is rarely guessed at. during the working week, the beet But it is a most potent source and restorative is to spend Sunday so unsuspected. Occasional late morning in bed and asleep. nights do not harm; It is the re-
Too Much Sleep gular nightly shortage that in time must and does tell. It results in A few do. Those who are lethar
Do some people sleep too much? fatigue by day, in disinclination gic and obese are the ones inclined how pleasant to see you again! And for work, and often in irritability this way. The long hours of sleep: Is this your most charming wife?" and depression. Too, it preduces with this ninority tend to the put dignity, is my only wife.
"This," said his former curate with inefficient work,
Your Daily Smile!
"Ah, boomed the vicar genially,
A new idea in railway comfort no hard and fast lines can be laid nervous system. adopted in Japan is shortly to be down. It is said that Napeolconerves can be directly attributed Introduced into London.
was able to go for days without In every station blackboards are sleep and then make up for it with to this habit. provided on which an inseription a sleep of 24 hours' duration Lord Sleep And Vitality states: "Passengers desiring to Haldane said, I believe, that hel No great golfer, tennis player, communicate with friends expect-never slept for more than 4 hours. or expert in any other sport over ed later are invited to write mos-But these are the exceptions, and dreams of anything but a long Ruch people may do with short night's sleep before a big event. Here are some of the messages: hours of sleep; but the average in-Hand and eye must be steady an waited half an hour, then took dividual cannot, without physical fit and in harmony and conjunc the 10.50 to Kyoto," "Can't go to- and mental detriment.
tion; and this cannot be after a day; please don't be angry." "Have As to whether we'sleep enough-night of little sleep. gone to restaurant, second floor." generally speaking, I should say If one wakes up in the morning Trouble Is suggested by, this the answer is, No. There are any fit and fresh, and with the feeling Antarctic Mysteries note: "My husband returned. Come number of people who do not get of having thoroughly slept, the
next week."
or take, enough sleap. With them amount of sleep has doubtless been Through
Machines are to be installed in getting up in the morning is adequate. But how many do think Admiral Byrd's fascinating story of his explore various public places in London struggle and they awake unrefresh- The first hour or two in the morn In the new return of the tions of the Antarctic there runs habit of meeting and may wish to amount of British shipping lald
a double theme, the magic of
for the simple reason that they up in British ports there are science and the mystery of the
leave messages.
This deficiency, carried out over have not had sufficient sleep... figures which, carelessly read, world... might excite both optimism and power with which his equip which a message can be written.
When twopence is placed in the long period of time, runs the vie- There is probably a good deal of When we read of the slot a piece of paper comes up on tim down and keeps him or her is truth in the old maxim that an hour pessimism. When they are ment of autogyro and aeroplane examined it will be seen that and tractor and wireless invested
When the slot is closed the paper the right conclusion is well-his daring and endurance, the moves into a glass panel, where it founded hope of the future desperate efforts of Scott seem remains visible for about two During 1984 there was a great to belong to a distant age. hours. reduction of this idle tonnage that thousands of years of human When the year began 477 ships, invention could do for Scott and making 1.226,818 net tons, were Amundsen left them to force laid up. When it ended the their painful way through the figures were 318 and 364.922. Polar blizzards by sheer muscle we look further back the de-of man and beast. A few years erease is even more striking. In later Admiral Byrd "strikes at July, 1938, the totals were 788 the heart of the white space" by
ting on of more weight; with Making Day Too Long greater weight comes.".more ships and 1,945,709 tons. But flights of a thousand miles. this vast diminution unfortunate. From the air he destroyed the
Innumerable people make the day lethargy; and with more lethargy" Curate's small daughter (with ex- too long and as a result never feel the desire for increasing hours of ly was not brought about by the hypothesis of return of ships to employment where the ocean is unbroken. By then has laid lots and lots of exge.
an archipelago citement): "My hen's laid an egg" Jft. I and one of my most success sleep.
Vicar's small daughter: "Well, my ful prescriptions is, "Go to bed a1: 1984 saw an improvement in air observation he proved "the
A vicious circle is produced. world trade, but not of such structural integrity" of the An-nothing, my father laid a corner stone increase in general fitness, together health. They are the "self-poison hour earlier. It rarely falls to Those of this type are often the Bishop's small daughter: "That's bring benefit to the health and an victims of unsuspected indifferent dimensions as to create a large tarctic Continent, the absence of demand for shipping. The main any intruding arm of the sea.
All in the Saying
with greater capoelty for, and bet-ed" individuals whose auto-introxi- cause of the reduction in idle It, was not the first time that "Well, George, how do you like myter, work.
cation makes them unduly heavy tonnage was the crease in the he had employed air power for new house?"
In the case of children the matter and lethargic. They are mostly. amount scrapped.
Tolar exploration, but the or-what a queer same you have etager lamentable to see young children them cut down their intake and "I like the house 'very much, bot is infinitely more important. It is sedentary and eat too much. Lab. The figures at least show that ganisation and the achievements for it-Thistledome." last year effective preparations of this were made for better days in a new scale.
expedition were on "That's not the way to pronounce dragged about, often half asleep, take regular exercise and the call
Yet when we readjft, It's "This'll do me."
quite late at night. It should be for unduly long hours of sleep will The first problem of of the splendid results we see future.
made criminal; it is asking for pass away, shipping all the world over is the further mysteries lying dark and
disaster. elimination of surplus tonnage as yet insoluble beyond."
Very few people are really born. The Since the war nearly every mari-structure of Antarctica is de
For these young children become lazy. They are mostly the victims.. time country except Britain has termined. How it came to be
quickly devitalised that way and of the unsuspected indifferent been zealously and by more
then, through lowered resistance, health. I have mentioned. Mind or the icy desolation which now it Jess direct subsidies increasing is has become more baffling. Ad- **
fall an easy prey to childish ill- and body are clogged with their own nesses, such as the dangerous unburned-up waste products, ita merchant navy. In 1914 miral Byrd's expedition found some 49,000,000 tons sufficed for numerous beds of coal and plant Several Cases Occur On
measles. Every mother who does. Elimination of these by the core the world. By 1931 that total fossils within 200 miles of the
Somersetshire : had been forced up to 71,000,- Pole. Some of this coal was
place, the engendered physical and 000. Since then 8-borne, trade still in the form of tree trunks.
Sleep For The Young Imantal sluggishness with an alert-- has fallen by more than 30 per Either the South Pole has mar-
SPREAD OF INFECTION Infants--and puppies and kittena ness previously unknown. lcent The subsidy system has vellously changed its climate or
CHECKED
and all baby animals-require the interfered with the normal and the Continent which now is there The troopship Somersetshire ar-sees to this. Children of from maximum of sleep here Naturo necessary economic process of was once somewhere else on the rived-in the harbour yesterday four to seven require twelve hours adjusting supply Redundant shipping must go, ternative is not yet orthodox that a number of cases of meas- ten hours as
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MEASLES ABOARD TROOPSHIP
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this gravely wrongs her child-rection, of faulty habits will re
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to demand. globe. The latter strange al-from England. It was reported, of sleep, and from sight to twelve of Dancing gave a rehearsal at the dead wood must be cut out geology, but it has strong and tes among the children on board children require nearly as much the show which they will stage on a minimum; older the King's Theatre yesterday of of the industry, if there is to be perhaps increasing support. An- had caused considerable anxiety A child who has insufficient sleep
Wednesday anything.
like remunerative tarctica may have sailed south during the ship's voyage, do employment for the ships which from Australia. the world requires. Britain "has] given a lead in scrapping and to day...owns much less tonnago than she did in 1914,-while-the] rest of the world has increased
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It is believed that the infection work as efficiently as the child who weeks out from Home, and owing In the child nothing can ever broke out among the children two has thoroughly slept. to the rapidity with which it take the place of adequate hours spread, special nurses are under- of sleep; many parents · fail to
Colombo to prevent the infection How much sleep then, does, the reaching the troops.
adult require? 'Generally „speak- Enquiries made yesterday re-
ing, should say, "eight hours.
Its shipping enormously Fore: Garrison Entertainment stood to have been taken on at realise this.
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the Government and shipowners alike take the subsidy as a bar-
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