The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1866-06-27
Early Rising.
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Health and long life are almost uni.
versolly associated With eorly rising; and
countless old people nie pointed out as
evidence of its good effect on the general
system. Can any ono:of. our readers, on
tho spur of the moment, give good and
conclusive ronson vhy'health should DO
attributed to this habit?,, We know that
old people get up carly, but it is simply
because thcy cant sleep. Moderate old
ago does not require much sleep; hcucc
10 tho agod, early rising is:a necessity or
o convenience, and. is~ not cause OF
health in itself. Early rising, to bo bon.
cficial, must have two concomitants - to
retire early, and, on rising, to bc prop.
erly employed. An important advantage
Of early rising is, that the intense still.
ness Of midnight and the early morning
hours favor that unbroken repose which
is the all. powerful rouovator Of the tired
system. Without, then, the accompani.
mcnt of retiring early early rising is
worse than useless, and is positively
mischicvous. Every person should DO al.
lowed to have his sleep out; otherwise
the duties of the day can not bc proper
ly pcrformed-will DO necessarily slight.
cd, evcn by tho most conscientious. TO
all young persons, to students, to the
scdcntary, and to invulids, the fullest
sleep that the system can take without
artificial means, is tho balm oflife-wlth.
out it, there can DO no restoration to
health and activity uguin. Never wake up
the sick, or inGrm, or young children OF
morning - it is barbarity; let them
wake themselves; let tho care rather be
to establish an hour for retiring 30 carly
that their fullest sleep may be out by the
morning. Another item Of great import.
anco: DO not hurry up the young and
weakly. It is no advantage to pull them
out Of bed ns soon as their eyes arc open
nor is it best for tho studious, or even
for those in health who have passed an
unusually fatiguing duy, to jump out Of
bed the momont they wake up; ! ct them
remain, without going to slcep again,
until tho sense Of weariness passes away.
Nature abhors two things-yiolencc and
vacuum. The sun docs not break out
at once into tho garo of tho meridian.
Tho diurnul flowers unfold themselves
by degrees; nor Acctest beast nor
sprishtlicst bird leap at onco from its
resting place. BY oil Of which VIC mean
to say, that as no physiological truth is
morc dcmonstrable than that the brain,
and with it tho whole nervous system, is
recuperatcd by sleep, it is of the first
importance, as the wcll-beinS Of tho hu'
man system, that it have its fullest
measure Of it; and to that end tho habit
of retiring to bed carly should be imper-
ative on all children, and no ordinary
evcnt should DO allowed to interfere with
it. At ten o'clock at night, where posi-
bic, the year round, tho old, tho middle
aged, and the young should be in bed
and then the curly rising will tako caro- OF
itself, with tho incalculuble accompaui'
mcut of fully rested body and reno
vntcd brain. Wa rcpeatit, there is neither
wisdom, nor safcty, nor health in early
rising itself; but there is all Of them 10
the persistent practice of retiring to bed
at on early hour, winter and summer.-
Dr. Hall.