The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-11
Social Fallaoies.

We commit the still greater error OF
plunging into ice water every morning;
then scrub all the skin off with horse
hair brush or n coarse board towel (; sit
down to a breakfast of oatmeal sawdust;
dine oil a tablespoonful of wheat and
two berries, and make Il supper on cat
nip tea; then are put through Rus
sian bath of 500 degrees sleep under an
open window when the thermometer is
at zero; wear long hair; dress the
women in pantalOons make all our
property over to them then sit down
in the kitchen cOrnerand nurse the baby
and when it is asleep wash up the tea
things and go to bed at nine o'clock to
be tout of the way" What will be-
come of US men? Surely we have fallen
OH evil times. A better, truer mode OF
life is to have plenty of everything that
is good to eat and drink, which imparts
nourishment and strength and as much
of it as you want. The idea of getting
up from the table hungry is unnatural,
absurd and hurtful, quite as much so as
getting up in the morning before your
! sleep is out, on the mischievous prinei-
pie that "early to rise makes man
| healthy, wealthy and wise"
Early rising, in civilized society, al
ways tends to shorten life. Early rising
of itself never did any good. Many a
/ farmers boy has been made an Invalid
for life by being made to get up by day
light, before his sleep was out. Many a
Young girl has been stunted in body and
in mind and constitution by being made
to get up before the system has bad its
full rest. All who are growing, all who
work hard, and all weakly persons
should not get up until they feel as i
they would be more comfortable to get
up than to remain in bed; that Is the
only true measure of sutiiciency OF resi-
and sleep. Any one who gets up In th'
morning feeling as II he would giv'
ANYTHING in the world" to remain ii
, bed a while longer, does violence to hi
own nature, and will always suffer from
! it-not Immediately, it may be, but Ger
T tainly i'm later years, by the cumulativ
i'll effects of the most unwise practice
! In any given case, the person who get
: up in the morning before he is full
4 rested, will lack Just that much OF I'll
r energy requisite for the days pursuit.
q AS people, we do not get enoug
n sleeD, we do not get enough rest, we WI
a NOT take time for these things: hem
; our nervousness, our irritability, OF
q bastv temper, and too premature givin
a ont of the stamina of life. Half of us
4 old ct three score, the very time ma
! ought to be in his mental, moral an
e physical prime. Half of our wive
i especially in the farming districts, d
= long before their time, because they
IS not get rest and sleep propOrtionate
o their labor. Nine times out OF ten
a would be better for all parties II the Ia
" mer should get up and light the hres al
" prepare breakfast for his wife, she cor
re ing directly from her toilet to the brea
4 fast table. because it almost always ha
n mems that she has to remain up to s
1e things right, long after the husband h
"a gone to bed, when really he has nothiI
lis to do after supper but to got to bed: III
n is a monstrously cruel imposition
n wives and mothers.-HdlPS Journal
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