THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1935.
SL
SLEEP A GREAT HEALER
SUREST WAY TO HEALTH
GUARDING
CHILD
By A SPECIALIST
LEEP is the great physical and
montal restorative of man: ho cannot do without it.
During alcop many things hap pen: the breathing becomes aulet and regular; physical and mental activity cease and the body, and mind sink into a state of calm und quiet relaxation, The blood-pres- suro falls, and it is during alcop that the great repair to the tissues and cells of the brain and the body takes place,
A night of calm and undisturbed sleep and we awake refreshed and repaired: the lost vitality of the
Noted for his high play at the sporting clubs of Monte Carlo, the Duke of Westminster is semn hero us ho arrived at the famous gambling and winter resort.
ICHERASALEN
This unusual picture shows a bunt, hounds and all, in the market place of Melton Mowbray, England, ready for the chair. Both hunte- me nad hounda seem to be enjoying the exceptional setting for the start of the bust.
fed: the necessary "repair" has not
had time to be carried out,
OVER-TIREDNESS
niyll's sleep before a big event, this minority tend to the putting The nervously, exhausted will fit and in harmony and conjunc-weight comes more lethargy; and Hand and eye must be steady and Jon of more weight; with greater This deficiency, carried out over always sleep better at night if they tion; and this cannot be after a long period of time, runs the have had a short nap in the afternight of little sleep.. victim down and keeps him or her noon. Many people sleep badly at
MISERABLE MORNINGS
in a state of being ever below night because they have gone to Ipar.
bed overtired; this may often be The cause
for this state-in-avoided if time can be found for! suficient sleep-is rarely guessed Ricep earlier in the day. at. But it is a most potent source Active brain workers require of having
and no unsuspected. Occasional lenger sleep than those whore work late nights do no hurm; it is the does not lie this way intercus regulne nightly shortage that Inwear and tear and the time must and does tell. It results energy spent is greater by far, and in fatigue by day, in disinclination the repair required is greater for work, and often in irritability also.
with more lethargy the desire for increasing hours of sleep.
A vicious elrele. Is produced. Those of this type are often the If one wakes up in the morning victims of unsuspected indifferent fit und fresh, and with the feeling health. They are the "self- thoroughly slept, the poisoned" Individuals whose auto. amount of sleep has doubtless been intoxication makes them unduly The first hour or two in the mornmostly sedentary and ent too much. aleguate. But how many of this? heavy and lethargic. They are ing is a misery to many people: Let them cut down, their intake for the simple reason that they have and take regular exercise and the not had suficient sleep.
call for unduly long hours of sleep fand depression. Teo, it produces Many late nights on end-except There is probably a good deal of will pass away. finelelent work.
for the fortunato few who can stop truth In the old inasim that an Very few people are really bors in bed til midday must prove inkuar before midnight is worth two lazy. They are mostly the victims furlous in the long run. Apart fier, For those who got In-of the unsuspected indifferent from interfering with the work of sufficient sleep during the working health I have mentioned. Mind best restorative is to and body are clogged with their the day. It tends to slow but steady week, the exhaustion of the nervous system. spend Sunilay morning in bed--and own anburned-up waste products. Many cases of "nerves" can be asleep.
Elimination of these by the cor- directly attributed to this habit. Do some people sleep too much?rection of faulty habits will replace No great golfer, tennis player, or | A few do, Those who are lethargic the engendered physical and mental expert in any other sport ever and obese are the ones inclined this sluggishness with an alertness pre- dreams of anything but a long way. The long hours of sleep with viously unknown.
Innumerable people make the day too long and as a result never feel fit. I find one of my most success ful prescriptions is, "Go to bed an It rarely fails to hour earlier." hring benefit to the health and an increase in general fitness, together with greater capacity for, and better, work.
In the case of children the matter is infinitely more important. It is lamentable to see young children dragged about, often half asleep. quite late at night. It should be made criminal; it is asking for disaster. For these young children become quickly devitalised that way and then, through lowered resist- Lance, fall an ensy prey to childish illnesses, such is the dangerous measles. Every mother who does this gravely wrongs her child- perhaps quite ignorantly.
MAXIMUM OF SLEEP- Infants and pupples and kittens and all baby animals-require the maximum of sleep; here Nature secs to this. Children of from four to seven require twelve hours of sleep, and from eight to twelve ten hours as a minimum; older children require nearly as much. A child
day before has been silently re who has insufficient sleep cannot, placed in the great laboratory of and does not, do its school work as Nature.
One is often asked for how long efficiently as the child who has we ought to sleep. Regarding this thoroughly slept.
ever
no hard and fast Ines 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 nfl to realise sleep and then make up for it with this.
asleep of 24 hours duration. How much sloep then, does the Lord Haldano sail, I belleve, that adult requiro? Generally speaking, he never slept for more than I should say, eight hours. There hours. But these are the excep-fare, of course, exceptions to this: tions, and such people may do with some may do satisfactorily on six short hours of sleep; bust, the or aeven; some may require even average Individual cannot, without ton. As people get old they gen- physical and montal detriment,
NOT ENOUGH SLEEP
erally require less. But, though they may do with fewer hours of actual sleep, it is imperative that As to whether we sleep enough-they should have longer hours of generally speaking, I should say the rest in bed.
anawer 18, No. There are дру 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 is parti getting up in the morning is a cularly valuable to the elderly, and struggle and they awake unrefresh-In cases of nauraathenin.
The Duke of Marlborough (son of the farmer Consuela Vanderbilt), his wife, the Duchess, and their children, Lady Carolino, Lady Sarah and the Marquis of Blandford, are seen here arriving in New 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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