When you are asleep, you are not thinking, but you are breathing and other work of the body is going on.
If the thinking part of the brain does not have good quiet sleep, it will soon wear out. A worn-out brain is not easy to repair.
If well cared for, your brain will do the best of work for you for seventy or eighty years without complaining.
The nerves are easily tired out, and they need much rest. They get tired if we do one thing too long at a time; they are rested by a change of work.
IS ALCOHOL GOOD FOR THE NERVES AND THE BRAIN?
Think of the wonderful work the brain is all the time doing for you!
You ought to give it the best of food to keep it in good working order. Any drink that contains alcohol is not a food to make one strong; but is a poison to hurt, and at last to kill.
It injures the brain and nerves so that they can not work well, and send their messages properly. That is why the drunkard does not know what he is about.
Newspapers often tell us about people setting houses on fire; about men who forgot to turn the switch, and so wrecked a railroad train; about men who lay down on the railroad track and were run over by the cars.
Often these stories end with: "The person had been drinking." When the nerves are put to sleep by alcohol, people become careless and do not do their work faithfully; sometimes, they can not even tell the difference between a railroad track and a place of safety. The brain receives no message, or the wrong one, and the person does not know what he is doing.