Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-10

oh, the willing ones take it we'll euough-lary
ones %grumble.'
And, among the willing ones, are there any
that study late o'nights besides yourself?'
They have to-many OF them. One of them
will observe, in the morning, 4 studied till one,
last night another will add, and ] till two,
while a third will positively boast of having stud
led, slept, and cried, by turns, till three O'Clock in
the morning. There lie Pauline @, one Of the
brightest pupils in the school, she studied until
daybreak. one night, last week and then she was
unable to master her questions 10 analysis, and
bad to hurry OF to school, at hall. past eight in the
morning without her breakfast, to get aid from the
teacher, which is never rendered during the regu-
lar school hours
'And-how is it2-do those willing midnight
students ever have headaches p
'Headachesi yesl Sick-hcadache, neuralgia
headache, and every description Of headache is as
common in the school as fever in a charity bospi-
tai, during the month Of August There is hard
ly q scholar but has it, more or less. Some of the
girls have the sick-hoadache SO often that they
scarcely mind it, but keep on with their studies.
Indeed, many of them have more or less headache
almost oil the time.'
Studying with the sick headache / mutter-
ed. Cruel criminal | barbarousl And cold
feet is another prevalent symptom, l presume
'Yes-Pd lik. to know how you can guess 80
straight
The ea'iest thing in tho world, child. You
see, there is only just enough blood in the body, as
o general rule, and when there is too much of il
10 the head, there is TOO little in the feet. The
great secret of health, is, to preserve an equal cir
cula'ion of the blood, and just in proportion as
anything disturbs it, it is a cause Of disease
Why, grandpa! you have taught me more
physiology in two minutes than l have learned GU,
Of books in as many years.
We'll, and what DO the teachers think the result
Of such q course will be2'
Il do not know; they never say anything about
it,
DO they never tell you how injurious il is to
force a sleepy brain to labor, when nature is stri-
wing for repose p
Our Physiology tell US that
True. Here Cutter says (pagc 369). The idea
of gathering wisdom by burning the midnight oil
is more %poetical than profitable. The best time to
use the brain is during the day. Again, On page
3I4 be says, AT any time Of life, excessive and
continued mental exertion is hurtful but in in
fancy and early youth, when the structure OF the
brain is still immature and delicate, permanent
mischief is more easily produced by injudicious
treatment than at any subsequent period And
again, on page 800: The close student and the
growing child need more sleep than the idler or
the adult And yet again, on page 372: When
the cerebral organ has been temporarily debilita-
ted by protraCted intellectual efforts, it is i%nefec-
tual to attempt any concentrated mental exercise
Besides a thousand similar things that this and all
other Psychologists have said on the subject. Do
the teachers ever tell you to exercise p
Yes; but I'd like to know how anybody is to
get much time for it. We generally have to be
there at eight, or h%alf-past, so as to get aid from
the teachers; at noon We catch the half hour aE-
ter dinner for the same purpOsej then, if any one
fail. he is compelled to remain after school, to
study and recite; and after oil that, be will have
lessons that will take him the night to get, and
perhaps not get them after ALT but have to 60 to
studying again as coon az they rise in tho NOR
oing, or 60 before school time to get aid. Be-
sides
That's useless, besides being wicked. The pu-
pill will gain more solid Information, such as will
stick by him through life, during the term if he
abstain wholly from night study
"Well, besides that, l was going to say, Mr..
t D, the principal, discourages the idea of
r his pupils working. He says when a child goes
a to school, he should make q business of il; that
3 the pupils should devote their whole time to is,
and not be required to work."
e unused: Go at ~balf-past eight in the morning
e --33 hours in the forenoon; study the half-hour al
j noon-33 hours afternoon-7 hours in school pei
diem. Then an indefinite number Of hours oil
hard. unassistod study. out of school, sometime,
b till one, two, or even three O'Clock, A. N. Then &c
to bed, with head aching with heat, and feet dire
with cold; chase tired natures sweet restorer,
catching two or three hours of troubled slumber
!, and rise in the morning with sick-headache. cold
g hOarseness, sleepy and morose, TO bolt a breakfas
that will hardly stay down, however fast YOU Dol,
it. and 20 through the same mill over and owe,
e again. Is that what you call getting an educa
e ,ion,' nOw-a-days2"
Rather too highly %cOlOred, grandpa; but still
more truth than poetry"
o / bit my lip, heaved a sigh, drummed with m,
fingers on the arm Of my chair, looked off int
It space, and said nothing. l felt my utter inability
to do the subject justice. Truly and we'll ha,
hleS'peou uenomiuo'eu ais prOcess Inc Murder
of the Inaocents!"
Lizzie went to school, as usual. and l had
Il forenOOn's talk with my daughter on the subject
l She admitted oil l could say; and YET, a foolish
D IN warrantable ambition seemed to make her will
y ling to sacrifice the health and mind of her child
Q rather than that she should seem to be benin
the rest" My daughter has as tender o hear, a,
o other mothers. / know she has; but o, the res
u possibility Of those hundreds Of thousands of OAR
ents who are no wiser than she!
u 'Lizzie did not return till shortly before 81,
O'Clock in the evening. She had failed in one 0
0 the recitations in the forenoon, and 10 the after
noon she had sought aid from her teacher, which
was peremptorily refused, il being then in schoo
b hours; and the consequence was another failure
and retention, with "a talking to-" after di,mis