The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-24
EARLY RISING.

Health and long life are almost uni.
versally associated with early rising ,
and we are pointed to countless old PEG
pie, as evidence of its good effect on
the general system. Can any one of
our readers on the spur of the moment,
give a good conclusive reason why
health should be attributed to this hab-
it We know that old people get up
early, but it is simply because they
can't sleep. Moderate old age does
not require much sleep hence, in the
aged, early rising is necessity, or con-
venience, and is not course of health
in itself. There is larger class of early
rsers, very early risers, who may be
truly said not to have days health in
a year-the thirsty folks, for example,
who drink liquor Until midnight and
rise early to get more! One Of our
earliest recollections is that of " old soa-
kers'' making their "devious way'' to
the grog-shop or tavern bar room, be-
fore sunrise, for their morning grog.
Early rising, to be beneficial, must have
two concomitants to retire early, and
on rising to be properly employed.
One of the most eminent divines in this
country rose by daylight for many
years, and at the end of that time be-
came all invalid, has travelled the world
over for health, and has never regained
it, nor ever will. 1t is rather an early
retiring that does the good, by keeping
people out of those mischievous practi-
ces which darkness favors, and which
need not here be more particularly re-
ferred to.
Another important advantage of re-
firing early is, that the intense stiffness
of midnight and the early morning
hours tavors that unbroken repose which
is the all-powerful renovator Of the tired
system. Without, then, the accompani-
ment of retiring early, early rising is
worse than useless, and is positively
mischievous. Every person should be
allowed to &c have his sleep out - other
wise, the duties of the day cannot be
properly performed, and will be neces-
sarily sighted, even by the most con-
scientious.
10 all young persons, to students, to
to the sedenJary, and to invalids, the
fullest sleep that the system will take,
without artificial means, it is the balm
of hfe-without it there can be no res
toratlon to health and activity again.
Never wake up the sick or infrm, or
young children, of a morning-it is a
barbarity let them wake of themselves,
let the care rather be to establish an
hour for retiring, so early that their
fullest sleep may be out before sunrise.
Another item of very great impor-
lance is, do not hurry up the young and
the weakly. 1t is no advantage to pull
them out of bed as soon as their ewes
n hacf r o
or even for the well who have passed
an unusually fatiguing day, to jump
out OF bed the moment they wake up:
let them remain without going to sleep
again until the sense of WEAKNESS passes
from their limbs. Nature abhors two
things: violence and vacuum. The
sun does not break out at once into the
glare of the meridian. The diurnal
flowers unfold themselves by slow de-
gree; nor fleetest beast, nor sprightest
bird, leaps at once from his resting
place. By all which we mean to say,
that as no physiological truth is more
demonstrable, than that as the brain,
and with 1t 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 1t; and to that end, the hab-
it of retiring to bed early should be
made imperative on all children, and
no ordinary event should be allowed
70 Interfere with it. Its moral health
iuihess Is not less important than its
physical. Many a young man, many
young;woman, has taken the first step
towards degradation, and crime, and
dlsease, aatef 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 incalcuable &C
compartment of fully rested BODY and
a renovated brain. We repeat it there
is neither wisdom, nor safety, nor health,
IN early rising in itself but there is ali
OF them in the persistent practice of re-
tlrlng to bed at an early hour, winter
and summer.-HaIps Journal of
Health,