Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-21
LYt,sQ In Bed.

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Taking an occasional day in bed, simply
on account of indisposition, is very simple
and rudimentary notion of this glorious in
stitution. Bed is the natural domioile of
every man:
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry:
And born in bed, in bed we de-
Bayard, the French psychologist, main
| tanned that man is an animal who exercises
the thinking faculty best in horizontal
position. Thus there are high artistic,
social and intellectual uses connected with
the occasional day in bed which impera-
lively claim discussion. Brindley, the great
puzzled by some tough problem, always be-
took himself to : bed until he had
solved it. Most people have q
great kindness for Lord Melbourne, who. un-
der the affectation of frivolity, used to get
up Hebrew and the Fathers, and imperturba.
BILE good humor to bear with his wife, Lady
Caroline, while the pretty Byron-stuck ter
magent used to smash the drawing room
furniture. His intimate friends would find
the Premier calmly taking breakfast in bed,
with letters and dispatches strewed all over
the Counterpart. The poets have been ter
rible fellows to get out of bed. Perhaps it
is because the visions of the day and of the
| night sweetly intermingle. The poet Thorn
son cultivated laziness as fine art, thought
out his poems in bed. Pope was still
worse fellow. When he had q fit of inspira-
! ton on him, he would keep the servants run
ming about for him all through the night.
He made amends to them by the plenteous-
| ness of his ssvails.''
Let US analyZe this lying in bed little
further. / maintain that in the mere fact of
lying in bed there is something healthy and
recuperative to the system. The proper and
legitimate purpose of stopping in bed is to
go to sleep. There is nothing like sleep.
There is no tonic or medicine in the world
like sleep. The more sleep the brain gets,
the better does the brain work. All great
brain workers have been great sleepers. Sir
Walter Scott could never do with less than
ten hours. A fool may want eight hours, as
George III. said, but philosopher wants
nine. The men who have been the greatest
generals are the men who could sleep
at will. Thus it was with both
Wellington and Napoleon. The great
est speakers in the house of COM
mons have been the men who could 20 to
sleep there az much as they liked. This ex-
planned the juvenility of the aged Palmer
ston. Sleep" says tho Greek proverb, sis
the medicine for every disease .sIf he
he treated himself for fever; he went to
bed with large pitcher of lemonade by his
side; he drank and slept, slept and drank.
till he slept and drank himself we'll again.
When you take to your bed get all the sleep
you can out of your bedstead, even although
to quote Dick Swiveller's saying, you have
to pay for double bedded room, con-
Tossing that you have taken most
unreasonable amount of sleep out of
single bed. You will be banking % whole
store of recuperatiye energy. Even If you
cannot sleep, still keep to your bed. There
is no more pestilent heresy than that you
should get up directly you are awake. If it
is the early riser that catches the worm, the
worm is great idiot in rising still earlier in
order to be caught. # you do not get sleep
by lying in bed You get rest. You secure
the fallow ground which will hereafter pro-
duce good harvest. Sleep is, of course,
the proper employment for bed, but if you
don't sleep, you can lie still and read.
/ don't believe that the man who gets
up really learns or does more than the
man who lies in bed. If for moment
the writer may be egotistical, ONE Of the.
hardest work which he has ever done has
been from the early dawn till after a.break-
fast in bed. OF all sleep in the world there
is none so good as what you get, in the way
of treasure trove, after the usual time Of
waking when, in point Of fact, you have
given up the expectation Of getting any
more sleep. As for being "called," as the
saying goes, that is simply relic Of the
barbarisms of our ancestors. Ishould quar-
rel with any man who presumed to call me.
One of the main beauties Of an occasional
day in bed is that you get On extra stock Of
sleep, which goes to the credit side Of your
sanitary account. Hdrpers Weekly.
IWorthington Mobiles county, journal, June