The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-12
The Reason Why.


The Reason Why.
Most people are cross, and most people are
unusually hungry on sunday. NoOne can tell
why it Is, but II we observe our acquaintances,
we shall ind tito be true.-lGoldeu Rule.
Now it seems to me the easiest thing
possible to know the reason of this Sun
day crossness and hunger. Almost
everybody sleeps later on that morning,
most persons from two TO three hours.
A great many parents are driven up at
last by noisy, hungry children clamor-
ing for breakfast. They rise hurriedly,
themselves faint from longer fast than
usual. The breakfast, where servants
are employed, has been kept waiting so
long as TO be nearly unfit to eat, and
often the poor servant is blamed for it,
and the "cfossness" of the mistress
rouses crossuess in her. All having had
their usual habits broken in upon, are
affected more or less by it, especially
the children. When servants are want
ing, and the late risers have to prepare
breakfast, what hurrying and "scurry-
ing" takes place. Then there is the fire
that won't barn, the muddy coffee, the
uDderdone bascuit, the crying, quarrel
some children, little animals as they are,
like any other animal deprived too long
Of food, ready to snap at anything,
while father wonders that they are so
cross. Many q child has had Sunday
whipping when the real fault lay with
those who compelled it to wait too long
for its accustomed bath and food. Just
here bethink me of a child who used
often to be chastised on Sabbath morn
ing, not exactly for crossness, but for
skipping out OF bed, waking up two sis
ters and a baby brother, and getting
them all uproarious with laughter at
her antics. All, me J how that child
subsided as mother, driven from her bed
by the noise, appeared at the door. L
took the whipping, but to this day am
in doubt whether deserved IL or not. !
wasn't tired with work. / rose at the
usual hour, and If only the rest of the
family had, what unpleasant memories
/ should have been spared.
"No one can tell why people eat more
on Sunday ~ Because they've tasted
/ longer. And then, overlooking their
stomachs and having no usual labors to
engage in to work it of, but idling
about, stretching themselves to rest
| again, or doing over book or paper,
who wonders they are cross? Some OF
these late risers-more's the pity-are
church-gOers; and then there are the
hasty or neglected baths, the clothes
| that won't be found, the missing but
tons, etc. When found, mother is called
all ways at once, and at last has heT
brood dressed only as the bell strikes for
church. Throwing on her own clothes,
snatching parasol and fan, and marshall
ing her troops, she hurries forth, and,
painting and heated, enters that house
that "hOliness becomes forever" quite
unfit for worship.
And just here / must say it seems tC
me that Protestant churches might with
great profit adopt one custom Of Roman
Catholic ones, by appointing an early
morning service, at least in summer
As il is, the hottest hours of the day
half-past ten in the morning and a.
three in the afternoon, the bell sum
mons out the faithful to drag through
the heat bodies which, however willing
the spirits they may carry, do ofteI
suceumb to it. | have positively envieC
the Irish girls as ! saw them walking
cool to church in the fresh morning
hours, while /, miserable woman, my
self up at the same hour as on weel
days, was waiting breakfast for sleepers
But l hear some working man o
woman, some overtasked father o
mother, ask : "Is not Sunday day o
rest? Do you grudge US one day o
sleep ?" Yes, dear friends, do grudg
! you the morning hours, because l know
/ il hurts you more than it helps or rests
a celebrated physician tells his con
sumptive patients even: "Never go 4
sleep after you wake in the morning
2 Every nap you take drains your life.
Judging my own feelings when forcinl
myself into taking a second nap that
might not disturb those who wished Z
sleep, believe this to be true. Try ris
{ ding at your usual hour through tn
5 week, take breakfast at the usual hour
bathe and attend church in the morn
ing-let US hope the hour for servic
= will soon be appointed earlier ere tn
{ sun is hot-then in the afternoon, oh
D workers, stretch the tired limbs on tn
lounge, on the cool grass under th
lilac bushes, or the great, glorious elms
and rest body and mind until evening
e a short service of prayer and praise yo
' will surely wish to join in ere sleeping
and will come home refreshed, and, a
, Fanny Fern says, "with somethin
! wherewith to fight the devil through ia
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