The Pedestrian's Record

IOO the pedestrian's record. keeps the body awake. A restless sleeper may, by not indulging in too prolonged slumber, if he be in the habit of sleeping seven hours, reduce the period to six, and it is most likely he will sleep more intensely during the six than he did with the seven ; and if this plan fails try five hours, for five hours of sound sleep is more refreshing than ten of restlessness. The ath­ lete should do all in his power to cultivate sound sleep ; dietary must be studied to this end, and if suppers interfere,discontinue them;for,depend upon it, a healthy man can sleep, and soundly too, unless some depressing influence either of mind or body induces restlessness, and causes a man to pass "horrid nights.' We hope from the foregoing sufficient remarks have been made, which will lead the reader to arrange matters regarding sleep to his own advantage. Sleep when tired until refreshed ; never arise when you feel too sleepy to do so ; rest a little longer, but not in an indolent spirit. " Get up when you awake " was the advice of an eminent physician, but this may be carried too far. We remember an Oxford under­ graduate whowould, when he awoke in the middle of the night, get up and work out some mathematical pro­ blem, and this was so constantly the case that at last his health gave way, and the result was that insteadof taking a first-class,which he anticipated, he succeeded only in securing a second. We always attributed his failure to this midnight study. The course he adopted never allowed the constructive forces their full play, and, consequently, the body was never suffi-