Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-05

JONI wesley Is GOOD company, but ne Is al
Ways In q hurry and cannot stay minute longer
on any account. owing 20 something else to be
done Or public spirited citizen and popular
clergyman. Dr. Tatmagc. is much more aIniable
and ''cuhhable" than Wcsier but hc resembles
him in his regular hours OF getting iii and going
To bed. The impGTtunate person in the parable
would have to exercise Gea Of knocking and
OF patience before he could get Dr. Talmagcs
head out CT the window after he has put on his
n;gftcap and settled his active brain on the pill
low Ills rule Is like Charles Dickens. to get
Ms headwork done in the morning. and to let
tie mind divert itself and get toned down for
rest IN the evening. An excellent plan If one
could only keep to it. Richard Baxter devoted
tour hours each night To sleep, winch was per-
haDS enough for enc whose hopes were so in
tentiy fixed upon the Saints Everlasting
Rest"
long sIEEPERs
Turning to other professions and occupations
We find it recorded of Capt Barclay. VINO Wake
a mile an hour for q thousand successive hours
tiiat the instant he lay down after each mile he
fell asleep. When not hindered by sickness the
competitors in the several walking matches in
Madison Square were able to sleep readily dur
iiiE their Intervals for rest. some men can do
with very little sleep. others can take great
many hours sleep at ole time. QItin the famous
actor, u<ed to sleep for twcaty-f0ur hours in
succession. Bower. in his life OF Bpattie re
l2tes OF Dir. Reid that he cOuld take as much
1904 ana immediately attefWard as much sleep
rs were sufficient tor two days.
Experience varies as to the effect of food in
producing sleep The lower animals eat before
sleeping. and we have heard many persons
maintain that this is the right rule for human
lily. Every must learn by trial what is best
for his own ease The present writer has found
that late supper mpedeS sleep. which is mucb
more natural and refreshing if lie has not eaten
solid meal fOr some hours While some
recommend eating before sleeping others re-
u
| clans to recommend good sleep before dinner
as an aid to appetite and good digestion
Some women have achieved remarkable sue
cess rs siecpcfs Elizabeth Oryin. of sleepy and
forgotten memory. is mentioned by Macnish as
nav 'hT Spcnt three-tOUrthS Of her life in sleep
while Elizabeth Ptrkin. an equally great uu-
Known, slept for a week and sometimes a fort
night at Il stretch. after which we are left to
Imagine that she put the kettle that had ceased
TO sing on the fire that no LONGER burned Mary
Lyall. however, is q darling more suited to our
taste than either of the above. for she slept six
weeks at time. How delightful it would be
10 nave such wife in summer, so that one
could lock up our Brooklyn house and cross to
Europe and back without her knowing it.
Women. however. do not always appropriate
the lions share of tile bed. old Thomas Parr.
whom the cakes and ale of Charles the Seconds
court, Killed nj last when he might have logged
along quietly to 2Jo years. ii left to take his
forty winks'' all day long in the country. did
little else than sleep. De Movre. when So years
OF age, slept twenty hours cut Of the twenty
four.
SHORT sIEEPERS
Old age. however. is not always productive of
sleep nor youth of wakefulness and activity
Many master has to ID that boy" like old
"artieH, for the Fat Boy in ''Pickwick'' was
always asleep again. as usual" The idle we
believe, often sleep more soundly than the hard
workers. Gen. Eliot. who lived in his later years
II nm illIal
slept more than four hours cut Of the twenty
four The same Is narrated by John Gordon
esq, OF Cathness. in letter TO Sir John Sin
clair OF James Hackay, OF s5ilcTray. who died in
lI31. aged ninety-0ae. Sir John Sinclair him
Self always allowed eight hours for sleep Lord
Coke and Sir William Jones allowed seven.
frederick the Great. Of Prussia only slept five
hours III the tTenty-f0ur. The same allowance
Suiiiccd FOR John Hunter, the famous surgeon
he whose last words nave ALWAYS seemed to Us
more beautiful than the dramatic death bed
speeches OF Addison. and many other c0mpla-
cent Christians How pleasant ana easy il is to
die. The celebrated French Gen. Pichegru
told Sir Gilbert Blame that during q whole wears
campaign lie never had more than an hours
sleep daily. that is ii tie tWcnty-four hours
Go0ch mentions the case Of u man who slept
only FOR fifteen minutes out Of the same full DAY.
Even this was only Il kind Of d0ze yet he en-
jCyed good health and reached his seYcnty-third
year. But M&cnish deems this incredible and
so do We Ii there We're no waste in nature we
might believe that such could go without
Its sweet restorer, balIny sleep,'-n other
vie.
Il is certain that ability TO sleep varies greatly
IN the same individual at different times and
under different circumstances. And this leads
the present writer (yTh0 began with the George
Augustus Sala style Of - then sloned off into
we from pure ElOdestV and has in the last
few pages been @uilty of the third EersOn out
OF sheer dreadO beir~ thought an Crotist) to
recall, perhaps. for the good Of others-for who
knows bCt that some Young eyes NAV read this
SCnnterOus aTiicle:-One of the one or two
fatal dci1sIons OF his first thoughts about hui
Gitn lie. When Il boy, as far back as he can
remember To have felt THE dawn OF reasons
awful power" he found consolation in the
thpugnt that, whatever the prospective changes
and fluctuations OF this mortal life might be.
sleep was balm for every Woe Il medicine for
every I'll. and that at might. when deep Sleep
ElIeth upon men, and everybody young or OLD
as 4 matter Of course went 20 sleep unless they
were ptiy sic;;liy sick, the burden Of misery was
lifted AMI ali mankind were equal in their sus-
ceHttblty to the pleasures OF rest and the
visions OF Imagination and their oblivion of
the hard lot of actual wOrt-day life This
Gkusion Was quite q companion OF his Youth
fuI solitude. and much OF the delight he felt
II works Of Imagination. like the "Seyen
Champions of CnriStend0m.' Jack the Giant
Killer. Don QuiX0te." the arabian Nights"
and all The fairy tales he met with was in tile
anticipation OF dreaming about them and seeing
tt-tt1 ~ NCtItlc NtNit4A IL Steep Even
at college when nearing mans estate this deiu-
son vas sOace and Il faith. The briefless bar
riSjer the poor cuTate. the physician without a
practice were beyond all doubt Just as happy o.
nights when they We're sleeping and dreaming
or qGite unconscious. as the Lord Chancellor
the Chief Justice the baronia! bishops ana arch
bishops or the fortunate physicians to titled in
yaiIds who received their twenty guinea fees.
\ terrible awakening was it, and never to be |
forgotten while life and memory last. to find
that when the first great calamity Of life came
suddenly upon Us. it was not in the DAY ana i'm |
Tie crowd only that we lett its crushing power |
but That it stood 4 spcCtcr OF despair and hope
lesSness beside our pillow and made sleep i'm |
possible Cur night thought borrow their
coior5 from our daily life Great griets as well
as little anlOyauces project themselves into the
visions OF the night, although french has sung
IN his "EIegiac Poems" which We can but quote
IrOal memory:
cannot tell what coming years
May nave reserved OF grief for me:
! cannot tell what they may be.
How Wrung With anguish, dimmed with tears.
But this KNOW Saddcr morn
Neer yet upon mine eyeliis broke
Ihan when from happy dreams woke
To a reality forOrn
His lines would almost seem to Justify our