SOME RULES ABOUT SLEEPING ^ 55 



By using this table you ought to be able to decide for 

 yourself how many hours of sleep you need each night. 

 Notice whether you are wide-awake or sleepy when it is 

 time for you to get up in the morning. If you are 

 sleepy, you must go to bed earlier; you need more 

 sleep, and the time to get it is in the evening, not in 

 the morning. 



Probably you are nine or ten years old. In this case 

 you ought to sleep ten hours or more every night. 



If you are healthy and strong, and if you are wide- 

 awake in the morning so that nobody has to waken you 

 for breakfast, then perhaps ten hours will be enough. 

 Let your father decide about that. 



I know three children who go to the grammar school. 

 They are about the best scholars in their classes, but 

 they never have any " home work " to do. They do all 

 their studying in the schoolroom. When they are not 

 in school they are generally playing out of doors in the 

 pure air. One reason why they get along so well with- 

 out doing " home work " is because they sleep so much. 



Elizabeth is nine years old. She sleeps ten and a half 

 hours almost every night. James is eleven, but he is 

 strong, and after he has slept nine and a half hours he 

 is wide-awake. He cannot sleep any more and his 

 father lets him get up. Fred is thirteen. He is not 

 quite so strong as James, so he sleeps ten hours and he 

 is getting stronger every month. 



