The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-01-30
The Early Rising Deluslon.

The Early Rising Deluson.
We are glad to quote the following very
sensible words from contemporary. There
is no particular virtue in getting up in the
morning before one has secured more than
half proper allowance of sleep. An ade-
quate amount Of sleep is indispensable, even
if it must be taken in the middle of the day.
ssFor farmers and those who live in locall-
ties where people can retire at eight or nine
O'Clock in the evening, the old notion about
early rising is still appropriate. Buthe who
is kept up till ten or eleven or twelve o'clock
and then rises at five or six. because OF the
teachings of some old ditty about 'early to
rise, is committing sin against his own
soul. There is not one man in 10000 who
sleep. All the stuff written about great men
who slept only three or four hours is apecry-
phal. They have been put upon such small
allowances occasionally and prospered but
no man ever kept healthy in body and mind
for a number OF years with less than seven
hours sleep. ILL.,
eff you can get to bed early, then rise
early; if you cannot get to bed till late, then
rise late. 1t may be as proper for one man
to rise at eight as it is for another to rise at
five. Let the rousing bell be rung at least
80 minutes before your public appearance.
Physicians say that a sudden jump out OF
bed gives irregular motion to the pulses. 1t
takes hours to get over a too sudden rising.
It is barbarious to expect children to land on
the center Of the floor at the call OF their
nurses, the thermometer below zero. Give
us time after you call US, to roll over, gaze
at the world full in the face, and look be-
fore you leap" y
In this connection we cannot do better
than quote the words Of Shirley Dare in the
Toledo Commercial on the subject Of rest
and sleep:
i,"What American women, worn by the
care of households and social ambitions, need
more than anything physically is plumpness,
roundness of figure and feature. They use
up all. their strength and flesh, and fail to
provide nature fresh supplies of either. To
be brief, the first thing to recruit them is
sleep, which every woman who reads this
probably needs from nine at night till five
or six in the morning. Then do not rise too
hastily. More strength is gained by the hall
hour awake in bed of a morning than seems
to be gathered all the night through. We
do not know how the process is completed in
this waking rest, which gives strength to the
muscles and healing to the nerves, but it is
certain that many woman would find her
temper quieter and her strength last better
the day through for half en- hours rest after
waking. r
ssWhere sleep is stranger, it may be in
duced by various applications, which must
differ according to the needs of the system.
One eats late, heavy dinners, lies awake
from one to four at night with heartburn
or dull headache. Her remedy is to take SUP
per at five punctually as rule, and for i'm
mediate relief, dose of one-third Of . tea.
spoonful of baking soda in half glass Of ho1
water to correct the acidity, or five drops Of
ammonia in as much water as before. for the
| stupor. Another, nervous aud careworn, Of
young and exciteable, lies awake half thu
night light-headed for the want Of nourish
ment, and cracker or apple will give tn
stomach something to work upon and sent
her into refreshing sleep. 1t is mistake
that the longer after eating one goes to be-
the better. The best sleep comes when tn
nerves are sustained by the stimulus of q di
gested meal, three or four hour after eating
Children often suffer in the night from hun
ger, and child who asks for something t
eat at night should have its want regarded
warm bath after overwork is the best ner,
inc in the world, and teachers, mothers, an
tired nurses of the sick, who find themselve
unable to sleep should try it on retiring
hot foot bath and hot applications to tn
head will have nearly the same benefit
where it is inconvenient to take full bati
as hot water on the head often relieves heat
ache or nervousness better than cold.