Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1836-05-19
MISCELLANY.
EARLY RISING.

The most beautiful season of the year
is now a, hand. II is really worth ones
pains 10 steal an hour from the morning
slumber to look abroad over the earth
and breathe the charming air. Ourtrees
are IN full blossom. and flowers are scat
tered about our path. The morning is
the proper time for exercise. study, or
pleasure. 1t ought to be the season Of
visiting, and assuredly the time for the
fashionable promenade. How much
more healthy and wise would it be for
our young folks-girls as well as boys,
ladies as well as gentlemen, to rise be-
tunes and devote to society the earliest
part Of the day. when the feelings are
fresh as the air of heaven-than the
evening. after the toll and strifes Of the
day, and when the fatal dew is ever
ready TO fall on its victim; Fashion
ruleth the hour, and its reign has no
thing republican about it, but is impe-
rial IN the harShest sense of the term.
Ask the idler, who uses the sun as if il
were made to sleep by, why it is that
he rises at s, at the finest season Of the
year. breakfasts at 9, rushes into mid
day instead Of morning, dimes at 3 OF
4, loses the afternoon, eats hearty sup
per at z. and wastes the evening in
vain society or in listless Incidence
ask him why are these things so, and
he will tell you that he only does what
others do--he bows his neck to the
yoke Of fashion. Ask the reason why
the girl, whose beautiful form but yes
terday was fit model for Appelles, and
We'd in symmetry with the Venus de
Medicis-the incarnation Of an angel
il to-day botched and twaddling con-
cern-and you will hear Of the corset,
the busk, aud the bishop-the letters
which fashion has flung over the fairest
Of mankind. Ask, too, for the roses
that were wont to decorate the cheek
Of beauty, and were withal so eloquent,
and you will learn that il is unfashion-
able for young ladies TO move abroad
that il is unpolite to be seen IN the
streetS-ihat, in fine, they have no time
to take exercise! And thus the roses OF
health and beauty wither away beneath
the blight Of fashion. Surely the old
mothers Of our "unterri6ed colony" or
commonwealth, would have spurned
the thraldom Of such a tyrant. What
Of our young men, Are they so many
samples Of the young men HON Pauld.
ing has just shown us IN the youthful
Washingion--actiye IN all the sports OF
the feld-attentiye studious, aud in
MISUNDERSTANDING not to the syren
song Of pleasure, but facing every foe
with the flush Of triumph and almost
miraculous success, commanding others,
but especially thcmselyes-intent on
all that IS useful great. and good Or.
is the reverse 81 the picture true' DO
they avoid the country with IS bracing
AR, and generous ports, and cling to
the well-worn cushion IN the ancient
back room Or, II they seek the verge
Of some neighboring wood, and per-
chance "cut a stick" 10 support their
feeble step. do they 40, blow with the
effort a. If they had felled the loniest
tree Of the Forest But what Of the in.
teIlectual man, WHY, We will not say
that the intellectual Is in proportion ~
the physical man. but We are warrant
ed IN saying. that there j. strong con-
nexion between them, and that most
assuredly the mems saaa IN eoypors saao
the sound mind in the sound body y
necessary TO all who bear q prominent
part in the practical affairs Of life. And
when we ask Why il Is that we hear Of
90 many young men being afflicted
with dyspepsia, headache, want Of ap-
petite, and thousand like things. we
are told that they do not az their heal
lhy fathers did--shui they sleep by that
sun. whose early rays were wcat 70
shine ca their fathers, and that while