Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-10
Matutinal Repose.

The London AthenGuna says that the
philosophy which urges the excellence
of early rising has been very rudely and
successfully shaken. Charles Lamb
has shown that there is as much excess
in rising with the lark and lying down
with the lamb as in the practice referred
to in Moore's song, which recommends
lengthening of our days by taking
"a few hours of the night, my dear y
That philosophy was shaken in the early
days Of the world by two sleepy children
who came under the rebuke of vigilart
fathers. --.. f..
my son." remarked one sire, "I
once found piece of gold by rising
early" r.. ...H -. 49,.
"Ay" reioined young hopeful, "but
the man who lost it was up before you. 3"
my son." said the other worthy
parent, "observe that its the early bird
that catches the worm"
'I do, o my father" replied the e1-
cellent boy; "also that the worm was
caught by getting up earlier than the
bird"
1t has been considered not beneath
the dignity of Field Marshal tine Duke
of Wellington to hold rank among the
philosophers of the bed and, as nobody
ever knew that he had delivered himself
of an axiom or maxim illustrating bed
doctrine, one has been stolen for him,
and his grace has been made to wear it
as If it we're his own. "When q man
turns in bed, It is time for him to turn
out, as the Duke of Wellington used
TO sayw So We are told, as if the Field
Marshal were always saying it. Now,
the phrase was farorite with our early
archbishops, and it was probably not
original even ON the lips of the very
earliest of the prelates to whom it has
been assigned by the Dean of Chiches-
ter.
The earliest illustrations of the evils
of lying late in bed, which some of our
older people used to receive when they
were children, came to them from DIR.
Watts. Who has not heard of the
famous lines with their halting philo-
sophy?-
"'Tis the voice OF the slusgard; heard him com
You have walked me too soon, must slumber
As the door on its hinges. so he on his bed
Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy
The door that hangs on its hinges is
doing its duty as door, let Solomon
and DR.. Watts say what they will /; and
the wild brier, the thorn, and the thistle,
which grew broader and higher in his
garden, were at least acting busily
according to the nature implanted in
them. And, after all, the so-called
sluggard seems to have been more harm
less in bed than his censurer, who left
him after an impertinent missionary
visit with such an outburst of pharisaical
pride as this: I.l.
"Said then to my heart, Here's a lesson for mel
That man Is but a picture Of what might be;
But thanks to my friends for their care In my breed
Who have taught me. by times. to love working and
Perhaps if the sluggard had had such
friends, and they had found him "work
to do, he would have risen to do it.
There was some resson in the young
fellow who, on being asked why he did
not get up, replied that he had nothing
to get up forl We are not even sure
that Quinn is to be severely censured
on the part he took in the morning
dialogue with his valet:
"John, what's o'clock?"
"Nine o'clock, SIR"
SIS there any mullet in the market
to-day. John ?"
''No. sir" ,.. -..
Then call me at nine tomorrow.
John"
Moreover, it does not follow that,
because a man is in bed. his mind is
idle, or that he is careless of the welfare
of his fellow-creatures who are up and
abroad. .... ...
"Herodotus wrote most In bed;
And Richerand, learned physician.
Declares the clockvork Of the head
Goes best in that fecliued position"