CHAPTER XII 

 SOME RULES ABOUT SLEEPING 



Sleep is so important that when a man is ill the doctor 

 often tells the nurse not to waken him even for his 

 medicine or his food. He says that sleep will do him 

 more good than anything else. 



A doctor in Stockholm, Sweden, studied the health of 

 children and found that those who did not sleep enough 

 were ill the oftenest, while those who slept the most were 

 generally the healthiest. It is the same with children in 

 other countries. 



Ask the members of your class about it, and I think 

 you will find that the ones who read and spell and 

 learn their lessons best are the ones who sleep the most. 

 You might see what they say about it. Perhaps you 

 have noticed that you yourself are always happiest and 

 bravest and kindest, that you learn your lessons the 

 easiest and recite them the best, and that you have the 

 most fun with games of all kinds after you have slept 

 well. It is so with everybody; we do everything best 

 after we have slept best. 



But there are some people in every town and city who 

 cannot sleep much, no matter how hard they try. 



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