The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-19
LYING IN BED.
A Lazy Mans View on tho Advantages of
Not Getting Up in the Morning.

LYING IN BED.
, A Lazy Mans View on tho Advantages of
Not Getting Up in the Morning.
From London Society.
Let us analyze this lying in bed a
little further. I maintain that, in the
mere fact of lying in bed, there is some
thing healthy and recuperative to the
system. The wheels of life are oiled
and eased. The proper and legitimate
purpose of stopping in bed is to 60 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 greatest speakers in the
House of Commons have been the men
who can 60 to sleep there as much as
they like. This explained the juvenility
of the aged Palmerston. There is man
who has been attorney general, whom I
have seen bury his face in his hands over
his desk and sleep soundly until his own
cause should come on. "Sleep," says the
Greek proverb, "is the medicine for every
disease. If he sleep he will do WE'LL"
A friend told me that he treated himself
for fever. He went to bed with large
pitcher of lemonade by his side. He
drank and slept, and slept and drank, till
he drank and slept 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 say
ing, "you have to pay for double
bedded room, confessing that you have
taken a most unreasonable amount of
sleep out of a single bed. You will be
banking a whole store of recuperative
energy. Even if you cannot sleep, still
keep to your bed. There is no more pes
tilent heresy than that you should get up
directly you awake. If it is the early
riser who catches the worm, the worm is
a great idiot in rising still earlier in order
to be caught. If you do not get sleep
by lying in bed you get rest. You secure
the fallow ground which will hereafter
produce a good harvest. Sleep is, of
course, the proper employment for bed,
but if you do not sleep you can lie still
and read. I don't believe that.th man
who gets up really learns or does more
than the man who lies in bed. If, for q
moment, the writer may be egotistical,
some of the hardest work which he has
ever done has been from the early dawn
till after breakfast in bed. Of all sleep
in the world there is none so good as
what you get, in the way of treasure
love, 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
barbarism of our ancestors. I should
quarrel with any man who presumed "to
call" me. One of the main beauties of
an occasional day in bed is that you get
an extra stock of sleep, which goes to
the credit side of your sanitary account.
Taking an occasional day in bed, SIM
ply on account of indisposition, is, how
ever, a very simple and rudimentary
notion of this glorious institution. Bed
is the natural domicile of every man:
"In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,
And born in bed, in bed we die"
Bayard, the French physiologist main
tanned that man is an animal who exer-
cises the thinking faculty best in hori-
zontal position. Thus, there are high
artistic, social and intellectual uses con-
nected with an occasional day in bed,
which imperatively claim discussion.
Brinley, the great engineer, when he was
fairly bothered and puzzled by some
tough problem, always betook himself to
bed until he had solved it. Most people
have great kindness for Lord Melborne,
who, under the affection of frivolity, used
to get up Hebrew and the Fathers and
imperturbable good humor to bear with
his wife, Lady Caroline, while the pretty
Byron-struck termagant used to smash
the drawing room furniture. His init
mate friends would find the premier
calmly taking breakfast in bed, with let
tiers and dispatches strewed all over the
counterpane. The poets have been ter
rible fellows to get out of bed. sup
pose it is because the visions of the day
and of the night sweetly intermingle.
The poet Thomson cultivated laziness as
a fine art, and thought out his poems in
bed. Pope was q still worse fellow.
When he had fit of inspiration on him,
he would keep the servants running
about for him all through the night.
He made amends to them by the plente-
BUSINESS of his "vails." We take later
instance. Bismarck says, according to
DR.. Busch, ~ was troubled with varicos
veins in 1866. I lay full length on the
bed, and had to answer letters of a very
desperate sort with pencil" He has
given us some of his experiences when
lying in bed. "I used to lie awake full
of all sorts of thoughts and troubles.
The Varzin would suddenly come up
before me, perfectly distinct in the mi
nutest particulars, like a great picture,
with even all its colors fresh-the green
trees, the sunshine on the stems, the blue
sky above. saw every individual there.
1 struggled to shake the thing of, and
when at last I ceased to see it, other
things came in-reports, notes, dispatch
es, and so on; but l fell over about
morning." Bismarck at Versailles used
to lie in bed a great deal, "because he
cannot keep himself reasonably warm in
any other way" l sympathize with
Bismarck. Accept, Prince, the marks Of
my distinguished consideration.
A CoLoRED MAN ON THE OHIO TICK
ET.-Among the delegates to the late
Ohio Democratic Convention was col
ored man named Andrew Jackson Davi.
son, full blooded black, and man of