The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-01-23
EARLY RISING.

Health and long life are almost univer.
sally associated with early rising; and we
arc pointed 70 countless old people. as evi.
dence OF its good effects on the general
system But can any one, on the spur oi
.he moment, give gooI and conclusive
reason why health shonld be attributed
to this habit? We know that old pecnle
get up early; hut it is simply because
they can't sleep. Moderate old age does
not require muck sleep; hence, in the
aged, early rising is necessity or con.
venience, and is not 4 cause of health in
itself. There is a large class of early
rlsers, very early Tiscrs, who may be tru-
y said not tOAhave days health in a
year-the thirsty folk, for example. who
drink liquor until midnight and rise early
10 get more /! One Of our earliest reeol.
ections is that of '.old soakers" making
their ''dcv;ons way" to the grog-shops or
the tavern bar-rcom before sunrise. for
their morning grog. Early rising, to be
beneficial, must have two concomitants.
viz: TO retire early, and on rising to be
properly employed. One of the most
eminent divines Of this continent rose by
daylight for many years, and at the end
of that time became an invalid-traveled
the world over FOR health, but has never
regained it, nor ever viii.
IL is rather the early retiring tEat does
the good, by keeping the people out of
those nischi5yous practices which dark-
ness fayors, and which need not here be
particularly referred to.
Another important advantage of retir-
ing early is, that the intense stiffness of
midnight and the early morning hours "a.
vor that unbroken repose which is the all
powerful renoyator of the tired system.
Without, then, the accompaniment of
retiring early, early rising" is worse
than useless, and is positively mischicv-
Gus. Every person should be allowed
"to have his sleep out" Otherwise the
duties 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 invahds, the fullest
sleep that the system will take, without
artificial means, is the balm Of life; with
out it there can be no restoration of
health and activity again. Never wake
up the sick or infrm, or young children,
OF morning--it is barbarity; letthem
wake of themselves; let the care rather
be to establish an hour of retiring SO ear
ly that their. fullest sleep may be out be-
fore sunrise.
Another item of very great importance
is: Do not hurry up the young and
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 unusu-
ally fatiguing day previously, 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 fow-
ers unfold themselves by slow degrees -
nor feetest beast, nor sprightliest bird,
leaps at once from its resting place, BY
all of which we mean to say that, as no
physiological truth is more demonstrable
than that, the brain, and with it the whole
nervous system, is recuperatod by sleep,
it is therefore of the first importance, as
to the well being OF the human system,
that it have its fullest measure of IL
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. It's NOR
al heslthfulness is not less important than
its physical. Many a young man, many
a young woman, has made the first step
towards degradation and crime and dis
ease, 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 then the early rising will take care
of itself, with the incalculable aceompa-
niment Of afully-rested body and reno
vated brain. Werepeat il, there is Meth