The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-13
NOT A LOST ART,

That OF yinE Ia BID. But One Not Properly
Understood or Appreciated r.. Dolce
fuf Nie1te OF the Veteran I.ounger -
Roller skstes aud What They are Re-
sPonsibie Tor, Etc Etc.
| O'e oi thc uos' useful. yet neglected #
all the arts IS than Of lying IN bed. The
damage that Is done by persons fe,tins ~
Is past all reckoning. All the mischief and
crime, the counterleitug and forgery, the
murder and theft, are perpeirdigd by par
ties who persist In getting up. Not only in.
dividua.s do wrong by ieavinR their beds
but rivers As well TO nn immense amount
of damage. Witness The Ohio river. which
leit liz bed lew weeks since. How much
damage has its diversion wrought? What
an immense, inChcGlable amount Of work
labor ana exp, Renee has not its early RS.
ing caused' What man was ever Ounued
| by creditor, hal his eye put ia mourning
by too ClosV proximity TO some oGes fist,
broke his leg on slippery pavement, was
run over by an omnibus, who lag in bed?
What great achievements have been &C
complished Ia war, IN poetry, in literature,
| by genius abed Wpat noble thoughts
have been born between the sheets, and,
once delivered from their authors brains,
gone, Jehu.like, whistliug down the race
| course Ot tine! Coming events cast then
shadows belGre"--oue Of the most mrmOra.
BILE lines IN the English anguage--origi.
\ mated WIN the gln.loyiug poet, Tom Camp.
/ bell, ote morn ng before he had Hrlsel.
Longiellow thought out that exquisite
poem, The Wreck OF the llesporus after
he Lad retired. Ben Franklin said, Early
| tn la al and aurly A rtg rt,Yl.u maj
healthy, wealthy and wise Now, Frank,
lin siurtad ont sill right, hut got terribly
mixed when lac SAID early 20 rise. There
II the fatal mistake. People who rise early
are sure 10 catch the malaria; the pruuud is
iull OF halt.hatched poisonous germs the
sun is not up, and has not warmed them
into ilic, given them wings, and sent them
adriit. Poor mlsguidrd man, he arises
lnhdles then, al, tbeY truc,ily and poison
ms entrc svstriN; hcnre, Chi lis, fever, ma
lara, and bali the Ills that human flesh Is
heir to.
rise before the sun
And mako breakfast of Sue morning dew,
SERVED Up by '7utc GA some grassy hill,
| You'll lnu u nectar A"
Was ever more Hrrlut nonsense written
| Fancy man getting up ON cold, rainy
morning and climbing one ui the high hills
about CINCINNATI on am empty stomach
ana leaving hrs French coffee and hot rolls,
pnachtd eRrs and oyster stew, to eat what
| Why dew How long would that fellow
las} W0uldnt he be a it candidate tol
| Longviow, aud no questions askrd2 But
the early bird catches the worm. Yes, bat
the sharp boy shocked that delusiun IN the
head forever aud ctcrnally when he said
! Rather, there's the point; what m thunder
| uii the worm get up 80 early iOr'N lie
trliied with destiny, he tempted tate; he
should not have done IL. That boy was
beneiactor to the human race. lie wa.
sound on the lie abide question.
The French pr0yerb says Da lit II In table
de table au llt--"trom bed to grub, from
grub to bed That q something like it,
Get NJ. and eat, and 20 to bed again, Why
not All the animals do 1t. All nature
the grandmother of MS all, teache,
ii. Every animal in the worlt
eats, and seeks repose, The COW
eats, and lying down, paCidly chews heI
cud, the anaconda swallows an OK, horns
and all and goes To slecp--"sleep that knit,
up the raveIled sleeve of care; the birth q
each days life, sore lab0r's bath, balm o
hurt minds, great natures second course
chief ndursher in iilG's ieast.n And We
this is what they would deprive us of VIII,
say get up, and who oppose the art of lyinl
abeu.
A Spanish minister, suddenly raised /,
power, signal2ed the event by going to bee
aud staying There, for fear he might hav
something 10 do. 1t was In bed, at th
little inn Of Waterloo, that the duke Of Wei
iington received the list oi the terrible casu
altics OF the fatal 18th OF June. Gray's "Od
to Music was written IN bed, and San
Jomson's "Lobo's Voyage 90 Abyssluia'
was dic,alcdto the printers before the gtca
author al the Lives OF the Poets ami IeNi
cugt0pher had arisen. Peter Piudar or
WHlcotl was So fond ot lying aired that ~
received his visitors lvin4 between spread!
ana cOuBterpaues. Ro,sui wrote one ut IN
finest operas In bed, and was too lazy T.
pick w sheet that had fallen away
George ", lay IN bed torcgi the newspa
pers, aud Macaulay read twenty pages u
Schiller before getting up. John fos,e
thought ont his sermons Ia bed and tn
methodical Anthony 1rollope used TO ron,
an hour before getting up. Cynical Pop
wrote
"a wake NJ night
Fools come into my head aud then write"
Mrs. Macbeth strikes the keynote whoI
she shouts, ITO bed to hedln People hun
the world over for pleasure, indulge IN ali
sorts OF mat p'anks IN their search tor re-
creation and repose, roam from the nortl
pole TO the Southern Cross, penclrat,
African i,ngles and freeze with Siberian
and lapanders, climb the Alps, and swell
ter ut Saratoga and Long Branch in purSui
of pleasure. Alas they seek Happiness
where II is not, aud neglect it where it is
in bed.
Never act up 'Ti' the secret of glory,
Nothing so tru0 can philosophy preach;
Think OF the names that are famous in story
Never get NJ is the lesson they teach,
'llow have men compassed immortal achieve
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