The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

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aid, he comes in sight of his hut—his heart warms
rnforts he knows lie will meet, and the light
,ut through the crevices in the door, walls, and

and he feels happy that she
nd crown of all this additional happiness
iting to receive him. When he opens
are wanted where there are no
his clean hut and smoking sup-
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lie auou.o Ue so uniortunate as to iose his present help-
mate, he must either break his heart at once, or get mar-
ried again directly. Equal inducements exist for the rich
man to marry as for the poor. Though wealthy as Croesus,
what would he be in the Bush without a wife to cheer
him in his misfortunes and troubles, and double his joys'
by sharing them ! In either case a bachelor in those
wilds is an object of pity. No place under the sun is bet-
ter than Australia for observing the genuine bachelor ;
there he sits in his lonely hut, with his little " notions,"
as the Yankees call them, ranged about ; and, if you pop
upon him unexpectedly, you find him, unless he keeps a
servant, washing, mending, and ironing his own linen ;
making and baking his bread, from which he hospitably
turns to broil a chop for you with all the gravity of a
cook ; everything about him looking as if it wanted a few
children and n wife to rummage it about, and rub and
round him into a social and " happy man."—South Aus-
tralia ; its Advantages and Resources.
NECESSITY OF A DUE ALLOWANCE OF SLEEP.—Habit
influences in some degree the amount of sleep that is re-
quired. It should be said, however, that it is never well
to withhold any of the revenue that is justly due to the
drowsy god. A man may accustom himself to take so lit-
tle sleep, as to be greatly the loser thereby in his waking
moments. It may be commonly observed, that those
persons who spend less time in sleep, than is usually found
needful by others of the same age and strength and occu-
pation, consume a much larger portion of their days than
others do, in a kind of dreamy vacancy, a virtual inactivity
of mind and body. The hours expended in sleep are not
the only hours that might be justifiably deducted from the
sum total of the life, as having been lost to it : numbers
of moments hre daily spent in an absolute inaction of mind
and body ; and sleep cannot be robbed of its dues, with-
out adding largely, and in greater proportion than the
time habitually stolen from the sleep, to that which is
wasted in such waking reveries. In order that the mind
may have the power of undergoing trying and exhausting
labour, that it may continue in the full possession of its
capitalists, that it may continue to be undulled and un-
blunted by such wear and such use, an amount of sleep
must be allowed, which is proportionate to the severity of
such work, to the engrossing and expending nature of the
mind's employment. The nights may be robbed of the
hours of sleep ; and the time so stolen may be devoted to
toil of mind or of body ; but the endurance by the system
of the undue waste and imperfectly restored balance of the
vital force, even if somewhat protracted by the strength of
the constitution, or if prolonged somewhat by the energy
of a determined will, or by the spur of a great necessity,
or by the desired goal of a great ambition or darling hope,
must be short-lived. The system cannot be robbed of its
sleep without a corresponding disturbance and derange-
ment of the functions; the power and the equilibrium of
the vital forces will become so far affected, as to involve
disordered action; and thus indirectly by forming part of
the common organism, and directly by the diminished
tension of the vital forces which supply the sensorium it-
self, the mind will become unable to continue its exer-
tions. Many an, ardent and hopeful aspirant for collegiate
distinctions, many an anxious labourer for professional
eminence, has thrown away his hopes in thus vainly
struggling to cheat the system of this great requirement.
—Dr. Robertson on Diet and Regimen.