Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-08-14
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Early Breakfast.

Breakfast should be eaten in the morning:
before leaving the house for exercise, or labor
Of any description those who do II will De
able to perform more work, and with greater
comfort ard alacrity, thanthose wis work IA
hour or two before breakfast. Besides this,
he average duration of the life OF those who
take breakfast before exercise or work, will
be number Of years greater than those wro
do otherwise. Most persons begin to feel
weak after having been engaged five or six
hours in their ordinary arocations; goo'!
meal re-inyigorates, but from the last meal
of the day until next morning, there j,
an interval of some twelve hours hence the
body in sense is weak, and in proportion
can not resist deleterious agencies, whether
OF the fierce cold of mid winter, or Of the
poisonous masm which rests upon the surface
of the earth, wherever the sun shines OF q
blade of vegetation or heap of oifal. This
miasm is more solid, more concentrated, and
hence more malignant, about sunrise and sun
set than at any other hour of the twenty-four:
because the cold of the night condenscs it.,
and it is on the first few inches above the soil
in its most solid form; but as the sun rises, it
warns and expands, and asccnds to point
high enough TO be breathed, and being taken
into the lungs with the air, and swallowed
with the saliva into the stomach, all weak ard
empty as it is, it is greedily drank in, thrown
Immediately into the circulation Of the blood,
and carried directly to every part Of the body.
depositing its poisonous influences at the very
fountain head OF life When in Cuba, many
years ago, we observed that the favorite time
ior travel was midnight; and the old mer-
chants of Charleston may remember that
when deadly ferers prevailed in bot weather,
they dared not ride into town in the cool OF
the evening, but MILDLY was accounted the
safest We know, from many years living
in New Orleans, that it Was when the eve
nings and mornings were unusually Geo,
balmy ard delightful, the citizens prepncd
themselves for still greater ravages OF the
deadly epidemic for the first few days fol.
lowing.
If early breakfast was taken in regions
where chill and fever. and fever aud agGe
prevail, and il in addiiion, a brisk fire were
kindcd in the family room, for the hour il,-
Guiding sunset and sunrise: these troublesome
maladics would diminish in any one Year: not
tenfold. but a1hvusand-told, because the heat
Of the fire would rarely the m:aslnatic air
instantly, and send it above the breathing
point. Bu, It is troublesome to be building
fires nigh, and morniny all summer, and not
one in thousand who reads this will put the
suggestion into pracllcc it being so "trouble
somc,' requiring no effort 10 shiycr and Shake
by the hour, dai!y, ior weeks ANA months
together; such IS the stupidity Of The animal
7nan-IIalPs journal.
SHORT METRE PHAYEE.-Re Mr.. Deywell.
81 pons and curious old Methodist Minister
wen. from Tennessee to kentucky, in !%i2
10 visit lis relative, Hon. Wm. Bolton. The
man was no, a religious man, but was 4 :cn-
;lemun, and invited the minister to have fam
lily worship every evening While he was
whiting there, Judge Cone and his wife, from
Nashville, arrived there to pass the night and
Mr.. Bolton, being a little embarrassed, said to
the old minister, as lie brought out the Bible,
that he had better be short as the Judge was
probably not accustomed to such things.
avery WELL said he, and reading single
20 Sc, he knelt down and prayed:
30 Lord, we are very poor aud needy crea-
lures, and We know that Thou art able to snp.
Dly all our wants, but Cousin William says
that Judge Cone and his wife from Nashville
are hcre, and ale not usel 70 family worship;
and however needy We are, there is 10 time