Delta chief., 1883-04-04
Art of Lying In Bed.

Aft oi LYNX IN beus
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
One Of the most useful, yet neglected of all the
arts is ths, of lying in bed. The damage that is
done by persons getting up is past all reckoning.
All the mischief and crime, the counterfeiting
and forgery, the murder and thcft, are perpetrat-
ed by parties who persist In getting up. Not only
individuals do wrong by leaving their beds, but
rivers as well do an immense amount OF damage.
Witness the Ohio river, which has left its bed n
few weeks since. How much damage has its di.
version wrought What an immense, incalcuable
amount Of work, labor, and experience has not
its early rising caused! What mnn was ever dun.
ned by u creditor, had his eye put In mourning
by q too close proximity with some ones fist,
broke his leg on a slippery pavement, was run
over by an omnibus, who lay in bed7
What great achievements have been accomplish
cd in war. in poetry. in liieraturc, by genius
abcd What noble thoughts have been born be-
tween the sheets, and, once delivered from their
authors brain, gone Jehu-like whistling down
the raceeourse Of timel Coming events cast
their shadows befope"-one OF the most memor-
able lines In the English innguage-orisinatcd
with the gin-loving poet Tom Campbell. one
morning before he had arisen. Longfellow
thought out that exquisite poem, THE Wreck Of
the Hesperus' after he had retired. Ben Frank
lin said
And make breakfast Of the morning dew,
Served up by nature on some grassy hill:
You'll find II nectar.
wns ever more arrnnt nonsense wrfitenT Fancy
q man getting up on cold, airy morning and
climbing one Of the hills about Cincinnati on an
empty stomach, and leaving his French coffee and
hot rolls. poached cggs and oyster stew, to eat,
whatf Why, dew. How long would tha; fellow
last7 Wouldn't he be a ht candidate for Long.
vic. and no questions AskedI But the early bind
catches the worm Yes, but the sharp boy knock
cd that deluson in the head forever and cterpally
when he said: Father, there's the point, what
in thunder did the get up early for -
He triaed with destiny. he tempted fate he should
rot have done .t. That boy bencfactor to
the human race. He sound the lie-abcd
question.
The French provcrb nys Du III Ia de Ia tahlt
aH af-"frun bed TO grub. from grub TO bed"
That's something ike IT, Get up and cat eat and
eo to bed again. Why noi' All the animals do
It, All nature, the grandmo mother Of Us ALL teaches
IL. Every animal in the world cats and seeks
pose. The cow cats, aud lying down placidly
chcws her cud. the anaconda swallows an OK.
horns and all, and goe. To slcep-"secp that knits
up the rny.led sleeve OF care the birth Of each
day = life. sore labor's bath. balm OF hurt minds;
great natures second coGn. chief naurisher in
iIfc's feast And yet this Is what they would de
priyc OF who nay &c, up. and who oppose the
art Of lying abcd.
Spanish Minister. suddenly raised TO power.
signaiiEed the even, by going to bed and remain.
ing thcrc. for fear that he might have something
to do II wasin bed at the little inn AT Waterloo.
that the Duke of Wellington received the list OF
the terrible casualties OF the fatal 18th Of June
Grny's "odc to Music" was written In bed. and
sam Iohnson's "Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinn'' was
dictated the prn,ers before the great author Of
the Lives Of the Poets" aud loricographcr had
arisen. Peter Pindar tDr. woleotil wns 80 fond OF
lying abcd that he received his visitors lying be-
meath spreads and countcrpancs Rossini wrote
one Of his finest operas in bed, and was too lazy
to pick up u sheet that had fallen away. GcorHc
". lay In bed TO read the newspapers, and
Macauiay read twenty pages OF schiller before
getting up. John Poster thought out his sermons
in bed. and the mcthodcal Anthony Troilope
used TO rcaa an hour before getting up. Cynical
Pope wrote:
II wake Mt night
Fools come into my head, and so write
Mrs Macbeth strikes the koy.no when she
shouts, To bed to bcdi' People hun, the
world over for pleasure, indulge in all sorts Of
mad pmnks In their search for recreation aud re-
pose. roam from the north pole to the southern
cross. penetrating African junrie- and freezing
with sibcrisns and Iaplsndcrs, climb the Alps,
sweiter at Saratoga and Long Branch in pursuit
OF pleasure. Alas, they seek happiness where 1t
IS not. and neglect II where 1t is-in bed.
Never get upl It's the secret Of glory,
Nothing SO true can philosophy preach:
Think of The names that famous In story
Never get up Is the lesson they teach.
How have men compassed immortal achieve
mcnts3
How they have nodded the world to their wilir
'Tis that mid SORROWS and threats and hcrcaye-
mcnts,
Never get up was their principle STILL