The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-07-09
miscellaneous.
H0u 10 Ma,a ia ,ho Morniug.

Getting up early is venerable. Since |
there has been a literature or a history, |
the habit Of early rising has been recon-
mended for health, for pleasure, and for
business. Tho ancients are held up to US
for examples. But they lived so far to
the east and so near to the sun, that 1t
was much easier for them than for us.
People in Europe always get up several
hours before we do; people in Asia, sew
eral hours before the Europeans do, aud,
we suppose, as men go toward the sun, 1t
gets easier and easier, until somewhere
in the Orient, probably, they step out of
bed involnntarily, or, ike a flower BIOS
sorning, they fiud their bed clothes gently
opening and turning back, by the mere
attraction of light.
But as far toward shutdown as we are,
the matter becomes more difficult. Ex-
pedients Of every kind are resorted to.
Some men have heads with the organ of
Time so largely developed that they have
only to select the hour, fix attention upon
il, and then, as it were, wind up their
minds, and sure enough, off they go at the
appointed time. We have tried this with
success ourselves. But it induces habit
of waking up every half hour through the
night to see whether it is time to wake
up finally.
alarm elocEs are very good-provided
they do not stop, and do go of. But, if
there is one day in the year Oh which the
machine fails, it viii be that very day
that of ell others, il was necessary for
you to start early!
Servants are much relied upon for wax
ing you up in hotels and at friends houses.
But of course they oversleep on that very
morning when you must get the early
train or lose all the connections and half
dozen appointments. And, of course,
too, everybody says, how surprising that
the servant did not wake Was never
known to miss before. Always had been
reliable !!
We have found one plan of waking TO
be very effective. Let one preach rous-
ing sermon overnight, become thorough
ly excited, and he will wake early enough
the next morning. We never miss Mon
day mornings, whatever may be the fate
Of other days.
The indefatigable E. M.-whose OBJ
servations of weather have made him re-
nowned, and whose reports have given TO
newspapers quite set of weather phrases
has been in the habit, for years, OF
making hourly observations of the Their
mometer, day and night. Of course, The
waking at night was an important part OF
the business. He was the lucky owner of
dog that sympathized with his master,
and divided the labor with him. For the
intelligent little fellow, every time the
clock struck at night, would spring up
and scratch at his masters door till f NJ.
came forth. Such nocturnal labors at
length wore out his constitution, and sci
ence nouns the departed martyr of Their
mome:ric zeal and broken rest
Good healthy children, that are put to
bed at night when birds and chickens re-
tire, are admirable wakeners in the morn
ing. When they have slept their sleep
full, there is no help for You. Wake they
will, coo and frolic they will. All your
hushing and humming are vain. Your
efforts to put them to sleep only serve to
wake you upi A bouncing boy, year
old, creeping out of his crib slyly, and
bouncing upon his fathers face, with chirp
and chuckle, is better than any alarm
clock. A clock will soon run out its caco-
phonous rattle, but child never runs
down, or ends his fun.
But we have discovered a new method
of waking early. Perched up upon oul
green hill slope beyond Peekskill, we
have found it difficult 10 sleep after about
four O'Clock of summer mornings. For q
countless multitude of birds, In all the
trees and shrubbery, aim their notes at Us
with such sweet archery that we are
pierced through and through with the sill
yer arrows of music. 1t is in vain that
you wrap the pillows about your ears Ii
is in vain for you to reflect that you need
sleep, and will not get up. Every one
knows that an effort Of will sufficient to
resist the annoying or attractive sound
is itself the end of sleep While we are
resisting, we are Weakening Thus, this
very morning all the trees about our little
old house were belfries, and rang out more
chimes than were ever heard at Cologne
or Antwerp And, after the first recogni-
ton, We turned restlessly to the wall, de-
termined to sleep On. But, chats rob.
in" said our ears, and "thats bobolink,'
"there goes wreu," and sparrows, larks
phebes, eat.birds, and many of their
cousins. in the orchards and woods, all
Joined to laugh us out of theidea of sleep
ing. Now, if any one wishes to get up
early, we will tell him. Go out of the
city early in the day. Seek some tranquil
place in the country, where guns are new
er heard, where fruit trees and shade
trees abound, aud where the shaking OF
the leaf or the distant crow of chanticleer
is the loudest sound ever heard, except
of birds. Aud, then, after walking all
day among the fields, aud hills, and for
ests, and supping upon milk that never
dreamed of city milkman, go to bed by
nine O'Clock. If you do not wake before
five the next morning, report your case to
US, and we will make fresh prescription.
Henry Hard Bsocler.