The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-03-28
SLEEP.

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Il Doctors Of medicine are either CROWN
complacent or sensible. One of them, Dl
| Hall, has had the good sense to tell the worl
1 that children until the cage of eighteen. an
/ old and fseble people land hemight as we
have said everybody, 1need ter, hours sleep
and that bouncing suddenly out of bed IN til
Imorning is as hurtful az it is disagreeable
s| that fifteen or twenty minutes spent In grad
ually waking up, stretching the limbs, an,
letting the blood slowly resume its Nontet
circulation, is time well spent. For the sud
den sending Of the blood to the heart is Sc
we're sheck, and the person who gets up il
this hasty and reckless manner is sure to b,
drowsy before midday, unless he or she sar
editor or belle, and does not get up till af
ternoon. Iconcur in this--In fact. always
knew that 1t was true; and think, further
that. pulling anybody out of bed ought to be
| State prison offense. and doubt not thai
conviction for,it could be had before any ol
oursleepy juries--if they were awake enough
to hear the evidence. The world is all astray
In regard to this matter oi sleep, led away
by nursery couplets about early torise and
the examples of Napoleon. Peter the Great,
and other military heroes, who are.reported
to have been satisfied with an hour or two of
sleep snatehed from the twenty four. taken
on plank, while their half a dozen scrib-
bling secretaries were not allowed to sleep at
all. We all know what became of Napoleon.
Even Mr. Abbott cannot make it appear that
he had much more than respect for the
Ruler of ths Universe. These sleepless peo-
plethaye made most of the mischief in the
world. Catherine de Medieis was, we believe,
light sleeper. George Washington, on the
contrary, took his tiine walked up the Father
OF his Country by degrees, got out OF bed
with deilberalien, aud dressed himself with
thoughtful siowness. What a ridiculous
ldfa 1t would hesto think of chat great man
~ bouncing oHtof asd at the first bell. aud
dressing hIalself as though there was Il fire
aest door!a The instinct of children against
early and especial Y sudden rising is well
founded, and tispleasant to have tue letfued
faculty e9aiirRi a bong and growing convie-
tlon That it Is not a sui4Bo lie aDeat until the
second bell tgings. It is the experience of
the noaiority Of people That THE uost deliti-
Gus moHaeats OF the whole day are fIfose
when they ought To get up. and do not.
Hereafter lou them iinger II this delightful
border land with qaiet conscience. Nattlre
il about to be vindicated by the seteatist-
Il the Nilose.ot lite, aHald be BIKE that brief
QteFgai between Aalt. awakening and getting
eot3 into. the cold WoTld-7thal care space Of
Ime when daty calls SO iainsly ttGt there is
sweet delight in, ,letHng IT. call before con
science u aroused al sil--ene might like to
,agige the hytan. books, and live always. We
aaYe fbssn now iar several sllsusand years
solagfto thegAatI aaa gaf ig.aaaY from the |
iuggara to chat degree that Ne have devel- |
,ped q very nervous condItion.a To say
lothing Of being defrauded oi.t ofour rights, I
nd OF the legitimate aud healthy luxury Of
leeping long and waking up slowly, rs
'lants do, no doubt many of the neryous dis
ases that are attributed to stock gambling,
obacco, and unrequited love are due to want I
1 sufficient sleep i'll childhoo Charles
dudley Wa'7ssr. rtg asa sai /