The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-06-02
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On GettiuE Up.

On GeItlnB Ups
Listen 10 tho sufferer: II put my watch
upon little nail at my bedside. Ny
time Of business Is half.past nine, and !
believe that II rose OF eight l should
have Just nice time to get there. l say
I believe il l rose at eight for l have moi
yet done 90. / generally awake at hall
past Eeven. Delighted TO find | have yet
another half hour, turn on my side and
invariably fall asleep again immediately
wake again at eight. Then say TO my.
self, 1t is time to get up have scarcely
made this observation when I perceive
that Is Ave minutes past eight. Winnie
remarking how quickly the i've minutes
passed, 1t becomes ten minutes past, and l
yawn and rub my eyes as people do before
Swinging out OF bed When take my
hands away from my eyes, l keep the
latter shut for moment while take, as
were, farewell OF my bed for the day.
twenty-five minutes past Fights l feel
with horrid sense Of guilt that have
been 10 sleep again. Knowing now l
mus. get up, / assume u sitting posture
and think Tor a moment over the miSeries
Of my position. The last twenty-five
minutes have been exceedingly uncom.
Portable, and have been irighttully tor
mented by my sense Of what Is right.
And then comes tho bitterest part oil my
reflections. The oct Of rising is not one
whit more pleasant, or less discomforting,
than 1t was an hour ago. Deeply i'm
pressed with the Significance OF this fact,
crawl slowly out of bed, and for the
next two hours the hurry and austcr sm
10 remind INC painfully OF the time l have
wasted" Is not this case for PITY
Not the least interesting feature Of the
disease which such unhappy people SUI
Ter from, is their steady demand Tor alar'
ums and other mechanical contrivances
10 perform the work OF Nature, when she
has fairly given up In disgust. And We
must do them the Justice TO say that many
sluggards have, in their praisewOrthY and
conscientious Cndeavors TO conquer their
falling, inflicted upon themselves consid.
cradle annoyance, and occasionally that
Of very painful nature. The writer was
.scuusined with an undergraduate, whose
punctuality in being exactly fourteen
minutes late for chapel every morning
was q marvel to his friends, and who
therefore determined TO rouse himself
FULLY half IN hour earlier every morning
by means Of an alarum.
This be accordingly bought, and hav'
ing duly wound and set 1t, placed itupon
the corner Of his dressing table, styling 1t
his "Iriend," who was going to cure him
Of his weakness. But what change oil
opinion tho morning brought about At
the appointed hour the machine duly
went of with bang, 'Whir.r.r," after
the manner Ol such instruments. Alas
for its too prompt and Jealous friendship
With q cry Of Indignant remOnstrance, q
heavy boot was hurled at It, and, cut
short 10 It's appeal, It fell to the ground
IN a state of complete silence and demoli'
tiOn-While its owner turned on his side
and "slumbered again"
There was another sufferer who, by an
ingenious continuance Of movable shell
above his bead head and the alarum OF q
clock caused two books to iGll upon what
ever part Of his head or iaco happened ia
be uppermost at hali.past six In the
morning. This person, ii must be admit
ted, rose ealy as rule, but It Is impossible
to help rejecting Oh tue superior comfort
Of those who attain the same object
without tho risk of book corner In the
eye on waking. -.
These last cases apertaiu TO a class
struggling against It's iRilings. But there
are persons, equally slaves to this vice,
who are conlessedly and hopelessly given
to over to its influence, and these endeav-
or to work the mine OF It's delights TO the
utmost. II must not be imagined that
simply TO lie in bed all day would DO
supreme happiness to these individuals,
for their tastes are more refined, and
wishes aud ideas more epicurean. Their
highest object is generally the realization
OF pleasures which exist only In anticipa'
lion.
A person Of this class called on q week
day at eight, and due at business at nine
knows he must get up. But give him 9
Sunday morning, and he Is so persuaded
Of the comfort an extra hour would have
been the day before, that he tries to keeE
upan idea that Sunday 10 some other day
But in vain. he endeavors to make him
self believe that he Is due at nine, in or
der that he may experience the pleasure
Of being In bed at that hour under such
circumstances. But he knows that he Is
not due; he knows that he may lie In bed
for the next twenty.iOur hours II he will
and the salt having lost itsSayor, he Ia
mentS the impOssibility FCI feeling as be
did the day before.
Such the disease. where arc wo to look
for tho remedy Perhaps in the grand
but gradual, regeneration Of society (
which opllmists look iorwaTd-Who shall
say? The gloomy part Of such prospec
is its present unlikelihood, for society hai
not as yet stigmatized tho failing her
treated Of and even when society ba
passed itS condemnation on a fault; II
aversion aud intolerance towards thosl
who commit It arc still some distance of
TuAT DAnbury dyspepsla .curer says Il