How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The president of one of the largest banks in this country told the writer that, disappointed one summer in not getting a run to Europe, reflection told him that one marked benefit such jaunts had brought him was from the increased sleep he was enabled to get, that thei’eupon he determined on longer sleeps at home. He got them, and found, as he well put it, that he could “ fight better.^* Beset all day long with men wanting heavy loans, that fighting tone, that ability to say no ” at the right time and in a way which showed he meant it, must have not only added to his own well- being, but to the bank’s protection as well. Again, many men are liable to occasionally have sudden and very proti’acted spells of head-work, where sleep and almost everything else must give wmy, so that the business in hand may be gotten through with. “ Tom Brown told the writer that, when in Parliament, he could work through a whole week together on but four hours of sleep a night, and be none the w'orse for it, provided he could have all he wanted the next week, and that since he wms twenty-five he had hardly known a sick day. A father, tired from his day of busy toil, may have a sick child, who for much of the night will not let him sleep. Such taxes as this, coming to one already run down and weak, cannot be braved
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