Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-04-12

white handkerchief; that beside looking up his
or take pinch from anybody else, will cure him
in day. In week he will forget he ever took
snuff
Late hours.--To give a reason for every asser-
ton in this little volume would render half dozen
keys necessary which it is MY intention to do.
must therefore rely upon the conimon.sense ma
ture of my assertions, and leave the reader, who,
perceiving state that late hours are unwhole-
some" Ito be understood dramatically naturally
in his own mind says" Why, what signifies when
we sleep, so long as we get it!'-to solve the
enigma by his experience. assert the fact
late hours are unoholesome. g | thought once,
but now know it,
"The body, by the tolls
OF wakefu day exhausted and unStrung,
Weakly resists the nights UNIV holesome breath"
All nature sleeps at night. and why should not
mani The great globe and winds. and waves,
move on, Ills true, and the heart of man beats, and
he himself respires, but these things are necessa-
ry to keep up the general order. The darkness
ofnight is simple proof that rest and sleep should
be encouraged at that time. OF its necessity man
is well aware he could rot, if he would, do with
out it, AS it is, society could not well exist as it
does, did it not encroach upon the hours set aside
for repose but as 1t was, our forefathers were
wiser, and, rising with the lark retired with the
sun. truce to this philosophizng. Invalids
have little to do with balls and routes and even
ing parties, and persons who value their health
will not turn night into day. Ten or eleven O'Clock
at night should never find delicate persons unpre-
pared to GO to bed. 1t is proverbaf, because GER
titled by actual knowledge, that the rest obtained
in the early part Of the night is more refreshing
than that cotton in the morning Rest is as es-
sential as exercise. The vital energies become
exhausted after their due performance, and require
repose regain their strength for the ensuing day.
This is physiological truth; and if that rest be
denied, it becomes an Infringement on law ofna
ture, and that is sure to bring down speedy ven-
geance. What are the feelings after being up all
night! How doubly heavy is the sleep the next
night which, if not taken, the exhaustion be-
| comes an illness Evils are of two kinds-too
much is as bad as too little, and he who retires
early should rise early.
1t becomes disease where sleepiness prevails
at time when we ought to be getting up, instead
of when going to bed ; but one of the best RENE
dies is to retire early, other things being attended
to, and nature will do the rest
Sleeping apartments ought always to be capa
cious dry, and we-ven,lated. The bed should
not be too soft, and the bed clothes should be as
light as may be consistent with necessary warmth
The inordinate quantity Of bed-covering some
times used has a most relaxing tendency, by pro
noting excessive perspiraton, and by rendering
the BODY over-susceptible to external injurious inn
pressions Many persons are prone 10 the per
nicious habit of closing the bed dcurtains wholly
around them, or else burying their heads under the
clolhes and thus
i "Cabined, crbbed confned,"
they continue to breathe, during the greater por
tion of the night, the enclosed atmosphere vita
4 ted by their own respiration this is certainly
most unwholesome CUSTOM If the head be wei
night-capped, no curtains are at all necessary.
4 The excellence of early rising, and its inspiring
influence on both body and mind, have been theme:
for the poets song and the sage's sermon. Earl,
rising promotes cheerfulness of temper, opens vi
new capacities of enjoyment and channels of de
light to which the sluggard must be insensible =
The bamy breath of morn, the bracing arr
he tWittering songSer'S carol III the sky,
The blooming pleasures that await Without
i To bless the wildly devious mornings walk
It increases the sum of human existence, b.
stealing from Incidence hours that would else b.
utterly wasted, and, better still, unquestionabl
conduces to longevity. All long have beel
early risers, and--to descend from the poetry o
the affair to mere matter of fact-it is remarked
by the acluates Of life assurance companies (al
exceedingly shrewd people in all that concerns
mattets of mortality that early rising almost in
! yariably leads to length o! days. Nov, as th
habit of retiring to bed at late hours will hardly
admit of early rising, therefore the necessity o
re(raining from the one in order TO secure the ad
vantaoes of the other. From six TO eight hours
sleep are generally held to be sufficient, and NJ
doubt on the average So Our sleep is regu
lated much by the season. In winter people lIt
longer, on account they say, of its being too darl
to get up before eight or nine. There is some
plausibility in the reason, but the system IN coit
and dark weather is more prone to sleep than II
Hight and sunny times. lnyallds need generally