Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-11-25


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* EARLY RISINls.
! And here is wise word from wise DIR
Hall, on the subject of getting SLEEP
enough -
Health and long life are almost univer.
sally associated with early rising; and we
are pointed to countless old people, as evi-
dence of its good effects on the general sys-
tenn. Can any of our readers, on the spur
fof the moment, give good and conclusive
reason why health should be attributed to
this habit? We know that old people get
up early but it is simply because they cant
lsleep. Moderate old age does not require
much sleep; hence, in the aged, early rising
is necessity, or convenience, and is moi
cause Of health in itself. There is a
large class Of early risers, very early risers,
who may be truly said not to have days
health in year--the thirsty folk. for ex-
ample. who drink liquor until midnight,
and rise early to get more One Of our
earliest recollections is, that Of old soakers
making their devious way to the grog-shop
or to the tavern bar-room, before sunrise,
for their morning grog. Early rising to be
beneficial, must have two concomitants to
retire early, and on rising, to be properly
employed. One of the most eminent d.
vines in this country rose by daylight for
many years, and at the end of that time be-
came an invalid has travelled the world
over for health, has never regained it nor
never will. It is rather an early retiring
that does the good. by keeping people out
Of those mischievous practices which dark
ness fayors, and which need not here be
more particularly referred to.
Another important advantage ofretiring
early is, that the intense stiffness of mid
night and early morning hours favor that
unbroken repose which is the lall-powerful
renovator Of the tired system. Without,
then, the accompaniment Of retiring early,
early rising is worse than useless, and is po-
sitiyely mischievous Every person should
be allowed to have his sleep out; otherwise,
the duties Of the day cannot be properly
performed and will be necessarily slighted,
even by the most stconscientious.
l2Aaas.ssT o all young persons. to- students to.
Tue seuencafy, and TO .1nvallds,' the fullest
sleep that the system will take, without ar.
tlfcial means, is the balm of ife-without
it there can be no restoration to health and
activity again. Never wake up the sick
or infirm, or young children, of a morn
ing-it is a barbarity; bet them wake of
themselves, let the care rather be to estab-
lish an hour for retiring, so early. that
their fullest sleep may be out.before sunrise.
Another item of very great Importance
is: Do not hurry up the young and weakly.
1t is no advantage to pull them out of bed
as soon as their eyes are open, nor is it best
for the studious, or even for the we'll, who
have passed an unusually fatigued day, to-
jump out Of bed the moment they wake up;
let them remain without going to sleep a.
gain, until the sense of weariness passes
from the limbs. Nature abhors two things;
violence and vacuum. The sun does not
break out at once into the glare of the me-
redian. The diurnal flowers unfold them
selves by slow degrees nor feetest beast,
nor sprig ghtlies bird, leaps at once from its
resting-place. By all Of which we mean
to say, that as no physiological truth is
more demonstrable, than that the brain and
with it the whole nervous system, is recup-
Grated by sleep, it is of the first Importance,
as to the well being of the human system,
that it have it's fullest measure of it; and to
that end the habit of 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 it's physical.-
Many young man, many a ayoung woman,
has made the first step towards degradation,
and crime, and disease, after ten o'clock 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 accom-
paniment Of a fully-rested body and renova-
ted brain. We repeat it, there is neither
wisdom, nor safety, nor health, in early ris-
ing in itself; but there is all of them in the
persistent practice of retiring to bed at an
early hour, winter and summer
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The BEAUTIFUL PRAYER.-We lately
read of a little girl who used to say the
Lords Prayer, and say it in solemn man
ner. When six years old, she exclaimed
one night after having said her prayers
''What a beautiful prayer that is! We
can say it any time, in any place, in the
closet, in the street, in the church and every
where, and God hears it at all times. We
can pray it also when we are at work."
She was then asked if she did so.
'Oh yes," she replied, ''often, sometimes
[ go away alone and say it, sometimes in
the midst of plays [ think it all over"
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Gy-It may seem strange, but it is a fact,
that men are much more afraid of women,
than women are of men ) and fearing to
"break the ice'' is a fruitful cause Of old
bachelorism