The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-02-12
Correspondence baltimore County Union.
POPULAR DELUSIONS.
No. l..


BALTIMORE, February 9TH, 1881.
One Of them is, "Rise with the lark, my SON., for
early to bed and early to rise,
Makes man healthy, wealthy and WISE"
| don't beve it, It's a snare and cheat; con-
temptible fraud upon credulOus youth. It's the
very embodiment of subtilty and deceit. 1t is one
of those servie proverbs, grinding maxims Of
greed, manifesting the inOrdnate sellishness, the
grasping eoveteousness of our earliest ancestors,
that have been Systematically and relentlessly dis
titled into the ears of helpless childhood, in each
succeeding generation from remotest antiquity
Not that it embraced the minutest particle of tan
gible truth, but because it favorite and con-
venient vehicle of our great grandmothers for
stealthy disseminating their sordid theories, and
the same stimulating financial distich that had
been dinned into their unresisting young auricles
by their own great grandmothers in the far away
past, its only claim to consideration its hoariness.
We still rehearse it to our children, but who be-
lieves it? Who attaches the slightest credence to
its utopian philosophy What has the time of 60
ing to bed and getting up to do with ones health?
Nature demands specific amount of sleep, differ
ing for different constitutions, but stpulates no
Especial hours therefor. Provided that proper rest
is had, it matters very little whether day or night
be addressed to sleep, this being deferred to habit
or inclination.
Then it indicates no regard for woman's physi-
cal, financial or mental condition. Why So?
Would not this melodious aphorism apply with
equal propriety to woman, and the consequent
profitable results be quite as grateful to her Does
not woman require rest and sleep? Are not health,
wealth and wisdom as indispensable to her COM
fort and well being as to mans? Or is the infer
ence intended that those hours allotted man for
sleep should be employed by woman in nursing
babies and iniusing this infdel dogma into their
innocent minds?
Larks, unhappily, have an. odious propensity
for early rising but because they and other festive
feathered choristers unwisely elect to rise at un
christian hours and go forth into the morning
dews, hazzarding "malariaP fevers and horrible
agues, that they may uplift their voices in incon-
gruous and discordant oratories to that heather
deity the Sun, is it obligatory upon quiet, ease
seeking masculines to forsake a comfortable bed
and pleasant morning nap and engage in such
reckless, Pagan symphonies, or unite in those
idolatrous choruses l trow not
l have not the most feeble tendency towards i'm
violating myself burnt offering or any other
sort of sacrifice upon my great grandmother's i'm
pious old altar erected to greed.
Again, is there any one so stepped in simplicity,
intensely unlearned in finance, as to credit the
improbable averment of that avaricious old saw
relative to attaining wealth by the mere act of re-
firing and rising like poultry, at early hours, be-
living that such action would have any percepti-
bic influence on Wall street, would add a solitary
nickel to depleted exchequer? Does not every
idiot know that if there the most infntessimal
prospect of accumulating wealth by such simple
and easy process, there is not an individual man
who wouldn't be in bed at down and up at
sunrise through each diurnal period for the re-
mainder of his natural life, and in the interim be
rolling up greenbacks and piling up standard dol
lars until exhausted by the labor?
The poor women, however, not being considered
in our grandmother cheerful system of provident
economy, must wander aimlessly and hopelessly
through ife debarred the benefits of this panacea
for all the ills of man.
1 am indiscreetly credulous, but peremptorily
refuse to adopt this pernicious financial faith
I'll none of it, and shall continue to retire, rise
and take my breakfast at refreshing intervals.
Faithfully, CHESAPEAKE.