Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-09-04

I persons who need an ample breakfast be
fore they can preach or write. It agree
with their habit and constitution. l onl,
;. describe my own habit. I need but littl,
food. | can eat all things eatable provided
do not overfill.
Third. Next to firing up comes clear
ing out the ashes. What is called being
tired is nothing in the world but ashes in
the body. For every vital act involves a
consumption of fibre or nerve material,
r and the. consumed material collects. When
a man has been working all day, whether
. with his brain or muscles, his body is full
: of waste material which has not vet been
carried of. When he goes to sleep the
whole system recuperates and rcintegrates
itself; the brain recovcrs; the various
capillaries and excretive organs take up
the waste and clean out the system. In
the morning every man ought to give ma
ture an opportunity to complete this
cleansing operation, and he ought not to
begin work until it is completed. 1t is
fully as important as morning prayers. II
man is costiye his brain will be muddled
and his prayers will be muddled.
Fourth. In this connection comes the
morning bath. A great deal of waste
should pass the skin, and il is of the ut
most importance that its pores should be
kept open that they may do their work
well. have been accustomed most of my
life to take cold bath in the morning
when get out Of bed. That, however, is
an experiment which every man must try
for himself. If he does not get up reac-
tion, and the cold water turns his lips and
nails blue, he must modify it. But | re-
commend daily hath in one form OF an
other.
Fifth. Sleep is great restorer of nerv-
ous energy, and it ought to be taken reg,l-
larly and Systematically. A recent paIa-
graph in the New York Tribune reports
German professor as saying that the most
people who have reached the age of eighty
have worked till the small hours of the :
morning and slept till noon. We shall
next have him reporting that the man who
daily drinks eight gallons of Bavaria tcer =.
outlives anybody else! Eight hours is !
fair amount of sleep. Where a man lives l
under pressure, where his employment |
1ecessitates incessant brain work of an I
exciting kind, more sleep may be neces-
'ary. AS rule allow the early morning )
% study, the afternoon to social work, and "
he evening to social recreation. General II
y | break my day into two parts, the
.feater and the lesser day. Besides my n
leep at night, have my afternoon nap "
or an hour. II you cannot take nap af- h
er dinner-and some cannot without in Il
ury to their digestion-sit up in your W
hair and fall asleep for zen minutes before s.
Inner; it will make new man Of you. Il
Sixth. Good fuel, well adjusted to the m
apacities Of your machine and the work
has to do. an engine kept clean, inside II
nd out, and sleep enough, constitutes the hi
ssential and physical condition of health. IL
here is one other condition, quite as inn a,
ortant, refuse to be unhappy. The man Ia
Tho sleeps well, keeps himself clean and a.
eeds well, and then refuses to be unhappy O,
who makes account with himself that SC
nhappiness is wrong (though exceptions Q,
'rce themselves upon him) and ought to
e thrust out who believes that he ought =,
} maintain a trustful, cheerful frame of =. ~
lind, and does tiff he has had a fairly d.
ood body to start with-ought to be q. -.
bic, accidents excepted, to keep it in ~ .
ood, vigorous, working condition up to " ~
le end, or nearly to the end. :"