Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-10-26
Miscellany.
Early Rising.

sally associated with early rising; and we
are pointed to countless old people, as ev-
idence Of its good effect on the general sys-
TEN. Can any one of our readers, on the
spur OF the moment, give good conclu-
sive reason why health should be attribut-
ed to this habit? We know that old people
get up early, but it is simply because they
cant sleep. Moderate old age does not
require much sleep; hence, in the aged,
early rising is a necessity, or convenience,
and not cause Of health itself There
is large class Of early risers, very early
risers, who may be truly said not TO have
days health in year-,he thirsty folk,
for an example, who drink liquor until
midnight, and rise early 10 get more! One
of our earliest recollections is that of old
soakers" making their " devious way" to
the grog-shop or tavern bar-room, before
sunrise for their morning grog. Early
rising to be beneficial, must have two con-
comitants 10 retire early, and on rising
to be properly employed. One of the
most eminent divines in this country rose
by daybreak for many years, and at the
end Of that time became an invalid, has
travelled the world over for health, and
has never regained ii, nor ever viii. 1t
is rather an early retiring that does the
good, by keeping people out of those mis-
chievous practices which darkness favors,
and which need not here be more partic-
ularly referred to.
Another important advantage of retir-
ing early is, that the immense stiffness of
midnight and the early morning hours fa-
vor that unbroken repose which is the all
powerful renovator of the tired system.
Without, then, the accompaniment of
retiring early, "early rising" is worse
than useless, and it is positively mischiev-
Gus. Every person should be allowed to
" have his sleep out +" otherwise the du-
ties of the day cannot be properly per-
formed, and will be necessarily sighted,
even by the most conscientious.
To all young persons to students, to the
sedentary, and to invalids, the fullest
sleep that the system will take, without
artificial means, is the balm of life-with-
out it there can be no restoration to health
and activity again. Never wake up the
sick or infrm, or young children of morn-
ing-it is barbarity; let them wake them
selves, let the care rather be to establish
| an hour for retiring, so early that their
fullest sleep may be out before sunrise.
Arother item of very great Importance
is, do not hurry up the young and the
weakly. 1t is no advantage to pull them
out Of bed as soon as their eyes are open.
nor is it best for the studious, or even for
the well who have passed an unusually
fatiguing day, to jump out of bed the mo-
ment they wake up; let them remain
without going to sleep again until the
sense of WEAKNESS passes from their
limbs. Nature abhors two things; vio-
lence and vacuum. The sun does not
break out at once into the glare of the
meridian. The diurnal flowers unfold
themselves by slow degrees nor heetest
beast, nor sprigbtliest bird, leap at once
from their resting place. BY all of which
we mean to say that, as no physiological
truth is more demonstrable than that of
the brain, and with it the whole nervous
system, is recuperated by sleep, it is of the
first importance, as TO the well-being of the
human system, that it have its fullest
measure of it and to that end the habit
of retiring TO bed early should be made
imperative on all children, and no ordinary
event should be allowed to interfere with
it. lis moral healthiulness is not less i'm
portant than its physical. Many young
man, many young woman, has taken the
first step toward degradation, and crime,
and disease, after ten o'clock at night; at
which hour, the year round, the old, the
middle-aged, and the young, should be in
bed; and the early rising will take care of
itself, with the incalcuabie accompaniment
of a fully restored body and renovated
brain. We repeat it, there is neither
wisdom nor safety, nor health, in early
rising in itself; but there is all of them in
the persistent practice of retiring to bed
at an early hour, winter and summer
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