The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-06-30
Rest for the Weary.
From HAIRS Journal of Health.

From Halls Journal of Health
One of the greatest physiological crimes OF
our country is that its people GO not get
enough, do not sleep enough. saw man
yesterday, or rather the skeleton OF man,
for he was at deaths door, yet In the prime
of life most of his time was spent In bed.
Said he, g When was young man was
full of life engaged in pleasure anosln run
of every form. ] delighted IN parties was
often invited out several times a week, al
most every night. Sometimes at these 1
would remain long past midnight, and, after
two or three hours sleep would go TO my
business as if nothing had ever happened,
then when almost worn out would take my
Yacht as a recreation this was very exciting,
and il seemed to me that l couldn't sleep, did
not want to sleep. At last my constitution
broke down. travelled over half the world,
went to sea for several years, was always
temperate, had no bad habits, and here L
am
Every one, of even slight observation, must
have noticed that if the usual sleep at night
has been disturbed or curtailed, there Is a
general lassitude of body and mind the next
day; there is feeling of tiredness OF BODY
and want of mental elasticity. Thls condl-
ton of things keeps persons liable to take
cold from slight causes, to imbibe disease
from every source, and, before aware OF 1t,
some settled malady has fixed itself in the
system. which is but the beginning of the
end.
All outdoor ldDOTSTS, all p6fbOuS VIII
study hard, should get all the sleep the body
can possibly take, for sleep is the perfection
of rest man who gets seven or eight
hours of good, sound, refreshing sleep Will
do three times the work of one who sleeps
but four hours, whether the work be OF BODY
or brain Our wives are old at thirty, main
ly because they are deprived of necessary
sleep in connection with the Nursing and care
of children and the premature oldness or de-
bility is reflected to the children born to- her,
and they grow up sickly, puny and dlseas-
ed.
1t is nothing short of a cruelty and MUIR
der to allow school children to sit up late at
night. or to hurry them from their beds In
the morning The foundation of Inflammation
of the brain, Or water on the brain, OF Varl-
GUS forms of commissions ard fits and other
alarming maladies, are very OF en- laid IN the
oyer-stimulus of the brain in preparing tor
school examinations, and in performing feats
of memory in committing to memory hymns,
Scripture verses, and speeches Tor the pur-
poses of defamation.
The rule for every worker, Tor every SUI
dent, is imperative, is OF universal appilca-
tion and appropriateness. Get all the sleep
your body will take, 90 to bed at regular
hour. and never allow being walked up IN the
morning as a habit. When the system has
got sleep enough to repair the draughts made
on 1t by p.evious labor, it Will wake Itself
up lust as when in eating we have taken
enough food to repair the wants OF the sys-
tenn, and to lay in stock for the next few
hours use, the further appetite for food ceas-
es.
It will be nc loss of time in the long run,
especially 10 those who have passed the fifth
eth year, toremalnin bed OF mornings, after
waking up. until the tiredndss has passed
from the limbs All, know what an effort it
is to get out of bed the moment we wake.
Notice how hard is to get our children to
leave their beds, even after we have walked
them up it is because a wise instinct die
tates another kind of rest, different from
sleep, kind of waking sleep as imperatlvely
necessary TO the other. But parents should
see to it, that the children are put TO bed ear
ly enough to give them full time for both OF
these sleeps one rest for the brain, the
other rest for the body.
Let the observant reader put these things
to practical test for himself, and let the re-
suit Shape his future habits, by getting up
one morning the moment he wakes up, and
on the next remain in bed without going to
sleep a second time, until there is desire to
get up until the feeling of tiredness has pass
ed from the limbs.