THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1935.
A
SLEEP
A GREAT HEALER
SUREST WAY TO HEALTH
GUARDING CHILD
By A SPECIALIST
(LEEP is the great'physscal and
mental rentomtive of man; he cannot do without it..
During nicep many things hap- pen: the breathing becomes · quiet and regular; physical and ment nctivity cease and the body an mind sink into a state of calm and quiet relaxation. The blood-pres- sure fulla, and it is during sleep that the great ropair to the tissues and cells of the bruin and the body takes place.
A night of calm and undisturbed sleep and wo awake refreshed and
repaired: the lost vitality of the
Noted for his high play at the sporting clubs of Monts Carlo, the Duke of Westminster is seen here as he arrived at the famous gambling and winter resort.
JEMELIAS ALPA
This unusual picture shows a hunt, hounds and all, in the market place of Molton Mowbray, England, ready for the chase. Both hunts. me and hounds seem to be enjoying the exceptional setting for the start of the hunt.
ed: the necessary "repair" has not; had time to be carried out.
par. ;
nt.
OVER-TIREDNESS
night's sleep before a big event. this minority tend to the putting
tien; and this cannot be after Hand and eye must be steady and Jon of more weight; with greater fit and in harmony and conjunc-weight comes more lethargy; and night of little sleep.
a with more lethargy the desire for
Increasing hours of sleep.
.
MISERABLE MORNINGS
This deficiency, carried out over always sleep better at night if they The nervously exhausted will a long period of time, runs victim down and keeps him or her noon. Many people sleep badly at the have had a short nap in the after int state of being ever. below night because they haye gere to bed overtired; this may often be
A vicious circle is produced. The cause for this state-In-avoided if time can be found for If one wakes up in the morning victims of unsuspected Indifferent Those of this type are often the sufficient sleep-is rarely guessed sleep earlier in the day.
ft and fresh, and with the feeling health. But it is a most potent source
They are the Active brain workers requirej of having thoroughly slept,
"Belf- and so unsuspected. Ocensional Jonger sleep than those whose work amount of sleep has doubtless been intoxication makes them unduly the poisoned" Individuals whose auto- late nights do no harm; it is the does not lie this way; in them the equate. But how many of this? heavy and lethargic. They are regular nightly shortage that in wear and tear and the nervous The frat hour or two in the morn-mostly sedentary and eat too much. time must and does tell. It results energy spent is greater by far, and in is a misery to many people: Let them in fatigue by day, in disinclination the repair required is greater for the simple reason that they have and take regular exercise and the cut down their intake for work, and often la irritability also.
not had sufficient sleep. and depression. Tco. It produces
call for unduly long hours of sleep Many late nights on end-except There is probably a good deal of will pass away. Inefficient work.
for the fortunate few who can stop truth in the old maxim that an Innumerable people make the day in bed till midday-must prove in-hour before midnight is worth two lazy. They are mostly the victims Very few people are really born ton long and as a result riever feel jurious In the long run. Apart after. For those who get in-of the fit. I find one of my most success- from interfering with the work of suicient sleep during the working health I have mentioned. Mind tinauspected Indifferent ful prescriptions in "Go to led on the day, it tends to slow but stendy week, the best restorative is to and body are clogged with their hour earlier." It rarely fails to exhaustion of the nervous system. spend Sunday morning in bed-andown unburned-up waste products. bring. benefit to the health and an Many cases of "nerves" can be asleep. Increase in general fitness, together directly attributed to this habit.
Elimination of these by the cor- Do some people sleep too much? rection of faulty habits will replace with greater capacity for,
No great golfer, tennis player, or A few do. These who are lethargic the engendered physical and mental better, work.
expert in any other sport ever and obese are the ones Inclined this sluggishness with an alertness pre- "In the case of children the matter (dreams of anything but a long way. The long hours of cup with viously unknown, is infinitely more importunt. It is lamentable to see young children drugged about, often half asleep, quite late at night. It should be made criminal; it is asking for dimaster. For these young children become quickly devitalised that way and then, through lowered resist- unce, fall an easy prey to chiklish illnesses, such as the dangerous measles. Every mother who does this gravely wrongs her child-- perhaps quite ignorantly.
and
MAXIMUM OF SLEEP.
Infante and puppies and kittens and all baby animals-require the maximum of sleep: here Nature Isues to this. Children of from four to neven require twelve hours of | sleep, and from eight to twelve ten hours as a minimum; older children
day before has been silently re-require nearly as much. A child
placed in the great Inborntory of and does not, do its school work as who has insufficient sleep cannot. Nature,
One is often asked for how longcliciently as the child who
we ought to sleep. Regarding this thoroughly slept.
has
ever
no hard and fast ses can be laid In the child nothing can down. It is said that Napoleon take the place of adequate hours of was able to go for days without sleep; many parents fail to realise sleep and then make up for it with this.
How much sleep then, does the
aleep of 24 hours duration. Lord Haldano said, I believe, that adult require? Generally speaking, he never slept for more than I should say, eight hours. There hours. But these are the excep are, of course, exceptions to this: tions, and such people may do with some may do satisfactorily on six short hours of sleep; but the or seven: some may require even average individual cannot, without ten. As people got old they gen physical and mental detriment. erally require less. But, though they may do with fewer hours of actual sleep, it is imperative that As to whether wo sleep enough--they should have longer hours of generally speaking, I should say the rest in bed, answer is, No. There are
For those who have leisure to number of people who do not get, indulge in it, an afternoon nap is or take, enough sleep. With them often very beneficial. It fa parti getting up in the morning is acularly valuable to the elderly and struggle and they awake unrefresh- in cases of neurasthenia,
NOT ENOUGH SLEEP
any
The Duke of Marlborough (son of the former Consueta Vanderbilt), his wife, the Duchess, and their children, Lady Carolina, Lady Sarah and the Marquis of Blandford, are seen here arriving in Now York from their home in England. The duke succeeded to the title only last year. The dukedom was created in 1702.
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