River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-08-02
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wont wear
Young men are not the only sinners IN
respect to sleep. School girls study at
night-some of them-but their pale
checks are oftener caused by late novel
reading and entertaining company. Go
to bed at nine o'clock. Missy tip-tilts her
small nose in disdain.
She is not a child, she would have
you to know, but young lady of, say
fifteen years, and knows how to take care
of herself. The one thing that an Ameri-
can mother is usually profoundly ignor-
ant of is how either to exact or win ODE
dience from her chits of girls. SO the
waste goes on. Clergymen who spend
Saturday night over their sermons enter
their pulpits, worn and dull on Sunday,
and preach people To sleep because they
are themselves half asleep in body and
wholly so in spirit. They go on sea voy-
ages and European tours in search of lost
health which they would find at home if
they would sleep enough and at proper
| ! lrs.
he poor mothers and hOusekeepers
who are kept awake by restless children
| and unfinished tasks have more of our
/ pity, but even they might manage better
/ than they do Babies are sure TO be Ill
and restless if their mothers get over
tired. 1t is surprising to see how many
of the indispensable pieces of work may
be postponed if one will but think So"
Il might have done little more,
wrote Faith Rochester once, "but l re-
membered that was the baby's mother
and so went to bed" Sensible woman
and good mother! 1t IS pitiful to think
how many nursing babies die of embroid-
cry and ruffied skirts, of cake and pies
and superfuous machine and housework
of all sorts. 1t is not put down so in the
registry of deaths. They call the trouble
by various names-cholera intantum
marasmus, hydrocephalus, etc.-but thu
recordil g angel knows better, and, with
out minching matters, writes; Died o
fatigue because its mother was ignorant
or obstinate, or vain and silly as the cas-
may be.
Thank Heaven il is no longer though
an enyiable distinction in woman t
have delicate health. The time ha
turned since the days that some of us cal
remember, when the girl who fainteC
easily was thought TO be of little highe
order of beings than her most robust com
panions Health Is becoming fa-hiUrable
but public sentiment wilr not be entirel.
sound upon the question so long as tn
fact is not generally recognized that 4
risk the health for present personal graft
fication is worse than stupid blunder, /
is sinful, and while there is no little cul
| tivation of the moral sense that peppl
very generally do not care whether tiei
actions are right of wrong.
A return to the habits of life in vOgu
a century ago are neither to be expecte'
nor desired. 1t is right that we shoul'
| share the pleasures of our own time, ant
be in sympathy with its filler light; blu
, surely ne who realizes that he is not sim
ply one of a procession passing iron
birth to DEATHS not here merely t
serve and please himself, but to bear hi
part in the worlds work-will feel NOR
: ally bound net tc Gtfii himself for futur
usefulness by needlessly eXhausting IN
) body. A great many obituary notice
that are headed mysterious Providence,
; would be more truthful if the words
Died for lack of Sleep" were substituted