| Show ON THE ARV ART OF GETTING UP not slotting getting up in the world but getting up into the aie world that is i getting out of bed one of the most d difficult and delicate of arts there are few masters of it but ahot millions of amateurs and bunglers bungle rc and I 1 worst of all there are no rules save one for becoming proficient iu in the art toe tae way to get up is to get up some people seem to be bom for getting up gracefully as poets a are re born born to tosme and poverty it is in them to ayup and doing when the time comes not so with the great mass masa of us we lie and dread the ordeal until procrastination becomes ac taen we imagine that we are getting get up and endure infinite horrors before the event those brief dreams between the rising bell and breakfast ate are wm aim ply purgatorial preliminaries the best that can be said of them is that they muke make the final effort less miserable and so through antechambers ante chambers of torture we come at the very last moment to the absolute necessity of getting up then we get up it is the easiest thing in tue tile world after it is done the only difficulty lies in ift making up the mind to doit do it this to is the secret of the art of getting up the success of the natural riser lies in the simple fact that bibi like his bed is made up beforehand when he falls asleep it liswith is with determination mi wi nation to get up at a certain hour Hel Hell wakes at that hour with the absolute certainty of ef an alarm glock clock and gets get sup up j very al simple m ale very easy for some people everybody knows how hard it is to get the minds attention immediately after waking n the morning it will go woolgathering wool wooi ka gathering erling in spite of us we think we have it fast in our grasp and indeed we have but so last fast that we find we are going with it on some alry pilgrimage we say to it if stop 1 determine to get up breakfast is geta get tin goold cold but ohp dream intoxicate ed mind laughs at us with a fara faraway far a away way sound and presently we find ourselves leering and drift fag away sway away crash nothing but the falling back upon consciousness of that suspended sense gense of duty but it was a terrible shock to the nerves and the heart bea beate wildly wildly for a few minutes the danaj wandel ng g mind comes back all of a tremble frembd 1 l and repentant now then it will decree and the body will get up not so we are not quite insistent enough we do not make the most of aur opportunity A little more folding of the hands and away avay goes the mind mina into inn Jre greamaud dream amaud jaud again oh the delicate aud and difficult art of getling up it is like beating ones way up to the top of the water with th thi seaweed clinging to ones feet 11 1 I 1 id like putting petting away the red rose that nods with all its ita f fragrance auti ric non color and velvet softness in ones very face and yet getting up is an every day necessity strange that we do not become accustomed to do it well and gracefully gracefully three hundred and sixty ave ve times in the year is too often to make a failure of a simple matter like this why we ought to learn to get tip op almost as readily and spontaneously as we breathe and eat but bat we do nut nine out of ten of us never will Inde edit is a wonder to me how bow I 1 ever getup get up at all ail how is it that of finally arrest that elusive mind of mine stop it from leaping ever into dreamland and persuade it to say to my sluggish body getup get up I 1 do not know I 1 am sure A man ought mohave to have some credit forgetting for getting up be it ever so late it requires some will power and some finesse to obtain even a cold breakfast not that I 1 would discourage any who aspire to become getters getter au up p at will we cannot say bay what latent powers some natures possess I 1 have known persons to overcome even a tendency to oe be cheerful but I 1 do admonish all who are ambitious to study and practice the noble art of getting up to do it bunay and with an ample margin for fail failure tire the chambers of life are strewn with those whose motto has been changed from Eel excelsior to dul bior james buckam in X N Y chris tian union |
