Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-08-26
Bses, Socially and Politically.


The queens OF the hive, born like the
queens Of earth, no better than her meanes,
sisterhood, like them, issues from the egg
q helpless grub; but the little chamber of
her birth, ss compared with theirs is Of
right roysl Dimensions, viriicai in position,
and Of cylindric, instead OF octsgone form.
Ample room Is thus afforded for all her
nem bers, as she progresses towards matur.
ity; while,. TO hasten and improve sber
growth, the food supplied her by ber as
sduous nurses aud future subjects, Is of the
most nutrieons aud delicate descript ion, not
the simple bee bread, composed Of
common pollon, and considered good
enough for common bee Infancy but far
more curious preparation nicely coucocted
frCn fowery juices. and, os reserved. ex
piessly for royal nutriment, called by bee
farmers royal jelly. Thus spaciously lodg.
ed aud delicately fed, the. favored grnb :,
when il arrives at full growth. spirs within
her cell siken shroud; therein changed
to nymph or pupa; and thence, in due
time, issues forth in oil btr dignity Of M
jestic size, in all the respleudency of her
golden.ridged body suit; the more onspic.
uons for the scantiness of her gauze drap
efy--those flmy wings in which alone her
outward gifts instead Of surprising, are in
ferior to those Of her subjects. Come we now
10 the bus y works Of whom the numerous
sister bood-tbe million ofthe hive is made
up. From these the bee character hss al.
ways been painted justly. ns loyal and
patriotic. laborious, patient. and skilful, TO
which might be added. materially affection.
etc; for, never mothers tbemse Ives, the lat.
ter propensity possesses so strongly
as TO convert their, q flee as nurses 20 tbe
queens progeny--to all in short Of the in
FAINT commnnity-:nto what wouid seem
truly labor Of love. Although their in
stinctive virtue III we may use the term)
are so immeasurably expanded beyond the |
narrow growth OF those appearant in their
royal mistress, compression is one Of the
agents employed to effect this mighty differ
euce between them; add the worker bee is,
1t would seem, made useful member of the |
body polite. by process very similar to |
that which renders the foot Of q Chinese
lady somewhat useless me m Der of her body
natural. 49, ~ -
The baby bee, distined to become bee
laborer, fnds herself, on emer ging from the
egg, an inhabitant of ore of those common
six sides cells which--as it would appear
lis so proportioned as iD some measure TO
limit her foil development TO this out
ward restriction is superadded an inward
check, in the qnality-of food administered
by her nurses. In lien Of the royal jelly.
so Stimulating and nutritious, extracts
prepared only for the queen. her infancy i
supported on the simple fare Of bee bread
which. while it suifices to bring to maturity
every useful endow Dment. o.. f.sctivity, affords
no food for the development of the sensual
and vindictivs passions; and with all these
smothered in the cradle our worker comes
forth mature in all Apian excellence
modest in habits, nun among insects. and
. yery sister Of charity among her follows.
.'t' ..,5 .s's sIspertanss OF sleep. go
There 10 no fact more clearly es'ablished
In tbs pAysioIogy of man than this. that
the brain expands its energies aud itself
daring The hours Of waksfulncss, and that
thess are recuperaied during sleep; il the
reeupers,ion does not equal the expenditure |
che brain withers; this leads to insanity -
Thus il is, that in early history persons
who we're condemned TO death by being |
prevented from sleeping, always died rsving
manises; thus it is, also, that those who
are starved 10 death, 6rst become insane
che brain is not nourished, and they espnoi
sleep. Crazy persons are poor slsspsfs,
while good sleApera seldom become crazy. |
The practical differences are these:
I. Those thisk most, do most brain
work, require most sleep.
. That time saved from necessary sleep
10 isfallibly destructive TO the mind, body
and estate. '' ''' s'~f''N ~
8. Give yourself. your children, your
servsnts--givs all that are under you-the-l
fullest smount ofslesp they will take. by
eompellisg them to go to bed at some re
gnlar hour, and TO rise in the morning al
some stated hour, and within forinighi,
nasure, With almost the regularity of the
risi9g sun, will unloose the bonds of sleep
the moment enough seposs hes been SO
cured for The wants OF the system. This is
tbs only safe ssd tiicisnt rale; aud ss to
the question Of how much sleep any one re.
qsirss. each mnst be . rule for himself;
greet nature will never fsil to meet 1t out
- shs observer asdes the regulations just
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