Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-18

DON'T Get Up, ana He Vf5n'f Catch
Ysu-A Few Words i'm Behalf Of Ls.

ing in Bed
The London -Atlsenoslua says that th
philosophy which urges the excellence of
early rising has been very r1dely and sue
cessfltlly sEakerl 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 M0ore's song.
which recommends frightening of our
days by taking "a few hours of the night,
my deaTl" That philosophy was shaken in
the early days of the world by two sleepy
Children wIs came under the rebpke of Wig
liant fathers
ssMy son." remarked one sire, II once
found piece of gold by rising early.''
'sAy,7 rejoined young hopeful, s'but the
man who lost it was up before YOU
ssMy son, said the other worthy parent,
''obserye that it's the early birdthat catches
tla worm."
II do, 0 my father" replied the excellent
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, the Duke of Well
lington, TO hold rank among the philoso-
pliers of the bed; and, as nobody knew
that he had ever 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 were his
own. "When a man turns in bed it is
time for him to turn cut, , IS the Duke of
Wellington used to say! So we are told, as
if the Field-Marshal were always saying
it, Now, the phrase was favorite one
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 Chi
chester.
The earliest illustration of the evils Of
lying late in bed, which some of our older
people used to receive when they were chill
dren, came to them from Dr. Watts. Who
has not heard of the famous lines, with their
halting philosophy?
'''Tis the voice of the sluggard. heard him
You have walked me too soonl 1 must slumber
againl'
As the door on its hinges, so he on his BED
Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy
head"
The door that hangs on its hinges, is
doing its duty as door, let Solomon and
DIR. Watts say what they will; and the wild
brier, the thorn, and the thistle, which
grew broader and higher in his garden,
We're at least acting buSily according to the
nature implanted in them. And, after all,
the so-called sluggard seems TO have been
more harmless in bed than his censurer,
who left him, after an impairment mission
airy visit, with such an outburst of phari-
saical pride as this:
"Said then to my heart, Here's lesson for
mel
Thatman's but picture Of what might be;
But thanks to my friends for their care in my
breeding,
Who have taught me betimes to love working
and reading"
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 reason in the young fell
low, whO ON being asledwhy he did not got
up, replied that he had nothing to get up
for! We are not even sure that Quin is to
be severely censured on the part he took in
the morning dialogue he took with his
valet:
''John, what's o'cloclz?"
mine O'Clock, SIR"
us there any mullet in market to day,
John?-
''No, SIR
sThen call me at nine tomorrow, John.n
Moreover, it does not follow that, be-
cause man is in bed his mind is idle, or
that he is careless of the welfare of his fel-
low creatures who are up and abroad:
''Herodotus wrote most in bed;
And Richerand, learned physician,
Declares the clock-work of the head
Goes best in that reclined position