St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-13

By Rev. II. Z. HAwEIs.

| Sleep, like any other appetite, can he Gull
tivated and pam ered; and just as every
mouthful offood more than We really want is
waste, and something worse, so every wink
of sleep more than we need is dead loss,
and that without the redeeming quality of
over-eating and drinking, viz: pleasure.
! For to be asleep is not pleasure, simply dead
| loss. To sleep from eleven till nine in the
morning is too much; from eleven till six
should be, and is for one averagely healthy
and normally constituted, quite enough.
The point l want to fix on especially is those
two precious hours before breakfast. How
many people only begin their day after
breakfast, say about ten o'clockl l myself
I lived for nearly forty years without realizing
that had thrown away about twenty-one
thousand nine hundred hours of good work
ing life. OF course the candle cannot be
burned at both ends. You must get your
sleep / have known more than one profess
sional man succumb TO the habit of retiring
too late and rising too early. That was the
beginning Of my poor friend the late Baron
Amphett's collapse. AS Q. C. he never
should have gone into parliament and when
he retired from the house on judgeship the
mischief was done. He used to be up late
with briefs, or down at the house till two or
three, rise at six, light his own fire, and work
till nine. All such over-pressure Is, of
course, bad. Young men may stand it for
few years-yOung men can stand almost
anything for a few years--but it is vicious
principle. Give the body its dues, or the
body will revenge itself. Still to acquire the
habit Of early rising is worth an effort. l
recommend it for health and pleasure as
well as for profit.
remember one glorious summer morning
when l was a boy. l thought, ''instead of
lolling In bed from five till eight, will have
a "spree.' - got up soon after five, dressed,
stole down stairs and out along the glistcn-
ing hedgerows, full Of May bloom and twit-
tering birds. l made my way Gt is thirty
five years ago, ah me DdOwn to those country
roads, then fanked with fields and woods
now adorned with crowded smart Wills, to-
ward the great square piece OF water which
I formed the reservoir Of the old Croydon
canal. Brambles, willows, May trees and
wood roses dropped over its margin. There
were rushes and water lilies haunted by blue
dragon flies and early bees, in abundance. A
wide grassy path went all round the lake-it
was about mile round-and forest of low
fir trees and tangled copses shut it in from
the adj acent meadow lands. Ii was a boys
paradise. There / remained birds nesting
Till about eight O'Clock. l never smelt such
fresh, balmy air; the sun seemed to distil
health and pleasure INTO my veins And
thought, and have often thought since, of the
snoring thousands who might have such an
experience as this, and be richer all their
lives afterward, as l have been, who yet, as
old Watts has il:
Waste all their days and their hours without
number,
and who, should YOU attempt to arouse them,
would only exclaim, in tne words Of the
same well-known poet:
You have walked me too soon, must
slumber again!
like TO hear Of young men who are out
on horseback for a ride before breakfast, be-
fore the family meal, instead of those witess
creatures who come lolling into the deserted
breakfast room at about / o'clocb---iust out
of bed, and with cigar already in their
mouths. No one knows how radiant and
vigorous nature looks who has not cared TO
assist her at early toilet, and seen her bath
ing herself in crystal dew and decking her
self with opening blossoms between and 6
O'Clock on a midsummer morning.
So much and how much more for the
pleasure seeker, But the early rising worker
all the year round IS rewarded by an increase
Of produce, an economy OF time, and an in
vigoratiuu Of mind and body.
Morning literary work is usually character
lied by freshness. continuity. grasp and
yigor, night work BY fever, excitement. au d
less condensation. This ! believe TO be the
rule; and with exceptions, in speaking thus
generally, it IS, OF course, impossible TO deal
or one thing am certain, that for ali
head-workers, especially literary men, the
following rules will be found golden;
To bed before twelve
To work before seven.
As little liquid as possible, aud no smok-
ing before breakfast.