The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. IOI ciently nourished, and thus became devitalized ; the brain was involved, and on the day of trial was unable to serve him in the schools to the extent that itwould have done had he abstained from prolonged and un­ natural midnight study. Rest when tired is as much a necessity as food ; in fact, food cannot assimilate without periodic repose, but sleep alonecan recuperate to that degree which establishes good health, there­ fore after steady exercise sleep as usual previously to training, and if your work during the day has been severe proportion your sleep according to the amount of exercise taken. These remarks are equally ap­ plicable to activity of mind and body. The studious and the athletic man both require more sleep than the idle and inactive. It is considered by many to be almost a crime to sleep after the midday meal ; old people seem to be predisposed to take a nap at this period, and to them it is beneficial ; the forces of life with them are sooner exhausted than with the young, but even to adolescence a short sleep after a heavy meal assists digestion, causes the storage, as it were, of electricity, and renovates the body for future labour. Of course an after-meal nap should not be indulged in unless positively "too sleepy tokeep the eyes open," and must not be taken for mere idle­ ness sake—such repose would induce lethargy, and tend more to enervate than to refresh the sleeper; but sleep is demanded when exhaustion, fromwhatever source obtained,indicates tothe brain thenecessity that the system should be renovated. And always pro-