Show EARLY RISING I 1 health and iong life are almost uni ver verbally sally saily associated with early rising and we are pointed to countless old people as evidence of its good effect on the general system can any of our readers on the spur of the moment give a good conclusive reason why health should be attributed to this habit wo we know that old people get up early but it is simply because they cant sleep moderate old age does not require much sleep hencin the aged early earns rising is a necessity or convenience and la Is not a causo of health in itself there is a larger class of early risers who may bo be truly said not to have a days health in a ayen ayea tho the thirsty folks for example who drink r until midnight and id rise early to get more one of our earliest recollections is that of old so akers making their devious way I 1 to the grog shop or the tavern barroom bar room before sunrise arse for their morning grog rog early rising to be beneficial must midst have two concomitants c I 1 to retiree retire early ariy and on rising to be properly employed empio one of tiie file he eminent divines in t this ged is country rose by daylight for many years and at the end of that time became an invalid has traveled the tile world over ov or for fjor health health and has never regained it nor ever will it is rather an early eady retiring that does thu the good by keeping people 0 out ut of those mischievous practices ees res which darkness favors aud and which need not hrc be more particularly referred to another important advantage of re tiring early eanls Is that the intense stillness of midnight and the early earny morning hours favor that unbroken repose which is the all powerful ro novator of f the tired system without then tho accompaniment of retiring early early rising is worse than useless and is positively mischievous every person should be allowed to have his sleep out otherwise the tho duties of the tho day cannot he properly performed ind and will be necessarily slighted even by the most conscientious to all persons to students to the sedentary and invalids the fullest sleep that the system will wiil take wit without libut artificial means is the balm of out dut it there can be no restoration to health and dud activity again 0 o never wake up the sick or inai infirm ani or young chil ehll children dren of ora a morning it is barbarity lot let them wake of themselves let the care rather be to establish an hour for retiring so early that their fallest fullest sleep may be out before sunrise another item of very great Import importance aliee allee is d do not hurry u up p the young youri r and the tile weakly it is n no 0 advantage C to pull them out of bed as soon as the their thein ir eyes ees are open nor is it best for the stud studious 10 us or even for the well who have passed an fatiguing ati guing day to jump out of bed the moment they wake up let them remain malti re without going going to sleep again a n until the kne sene acne of nf weariness pases passes ki from m the limbs nature abhors two thin things gs violence and vacuum the sun does d oes not break out at once into in to the glare of the meridian the diurnal flowers unfold themselves by slow degrees nor fleetest beast nor sprightliest spright liest bird leaps at once from its resting place by all ail al of which we mean to say sa y that as no physiological truth troth Is mo more re demonstrable than thau that as the brain and with the whole nervous system is recuperated by sleep it is of the first importance tance as to the well being of the human n system that it have the fullest measure of it and to that end the habit of retiring retiring to bed early should be made imperative on all children and no ordinary event should be allowed to interfere with it its moral healthfulness is not less important than its physical many manx a young man ma many nya a young woman has taken the first steps towards degrada debrada nation and anA erime crime and disease after ten at night at which hour the year round the old the middle aged and the young should be in bed and then early rising will take care of itself with the incalculable accompaniment of a fully rested body and a renovated brain we repeat it there is neither wisdom nor s safety a fety nor health healthy 1 in n early rising of itself but there is all 0 of f them in the persistent practice of retiring to bed atan at an early hour winter and summer nas tas journal of jl health eaith |