The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-25

EDWARD EVERETT HALG'S SUGGt
TONS AND EXPERIENCE.
The business of Health F1ereH-E.
Largely Upon Slecp-t.o To "orh
Early Rreakfast and Other
Nsal4-yarious Items
lE. f. Hale's Letter in Herald Of IIea'th.I

So H. Shtuft iitFc cIibt9H S'''tt 'lAAN'
sleep welt. He should avoid whatever in
jnre sleep.
This means that the brain should nos he
excited or oven worked hard 70: TX !, ur'
before bedtime Young mon can .ti-rAgar't
this rulc, and do; but as one grows 81 Ter he
fiiIls it wiser to throw his work upon tho
morning hours. Ii ne can spend tn after
noon, or even the evening, i'll tho "p3a air,
his chances of sleep are better. Tho evening
occupation, according II me. should Js light
and pleasant, music, novel, reading
aloud, conversation, the theotr,, or watch
ing the stars from the piazza. or course,
different men make and need different
rule~. j take nine hours for sleep in every
twenty-four, and do not object t. ten.
As men live, with tn. telegraph an tcle-
phone interrupting when they Oh -a, and
this fool and that coming in Wnen they
choose, to say II don't want to interrupt
you; / will only take n moment" the 1roat
difficulty j. to hold your three hours with
out break. IL man has broken ny mir
ror. / do not thank him for leaving the ices
next each other he has spoiled it, and ne may
carry them ten miles apart if he choo 'es. So,
if a fool comes in and breaks my time i'll two,
he may stay il he wants to- He is none tho
less a fool What L want for work is I'M
broken time. This is best secured early in
the morning.
dislike early rising as much rs any man;
nor do believe there is any moral merit i'll
it, as the chiilrcn's books pretend. But to
secure an unbrolen hour, even less, /
like to b, at my de, X before breakfast,
long before as possible. i have n cHp Of
coffee ami a soda biscuit brought to Mo
there; and in the thirty 10 sixty minutes
which follow, before breakfast, | like TO
start the work of tie day If yo;i rise at
Guarter-paet q there will BE- comparati ;e!v
few map pedlers or book AGENTS, or score
taries of charit!e', or Jail-b,riE, who VIII
call before s. Tine hour from G:3 To 7:3J IS
that of which you are most sure. Even tho
mother-n-Iaw or the mother of your wife's
>ster's husband does not come then 10 say
she should like ONE light work with a iarg,
salary. a. niatron in an institution wher'
there i nothing 10 do.
| believe in breakfast very thoroughly,
and III having Il good hraakfc-t ] nave
lived in Paris a month at trtue. AMI de;o-t
the French practice of substituting tor
break IA cup OF coffee, with or Wit soI'
an eg breakfast is a meal Mt which niue.
time may lie spent with great advantage
People not apt to conn to il too recgu-
larry, an you may profit Ly the intermis-
sion :" read your new, paper and lecture on
its cont.n:s No harm in spending an hour
at the tahIo.
Alter breakfast, do no. 90 10 work for an
hour. Walk out in the garden, lie your
for that hour anI bill the servant Keep
everybody ont VINO ring ia, tell, ani work
steadily till your days stent is done. If you
have hal iiIlf AN hour for brclkfa~t you
max" two AMI half now.
rs Just much help if you have good
unlsnuen5is; nom, If vou have p3oT one.
Tee a-uanu ,nSis should have erough else 10
do, IIit bc at liberty IT, attend to you WHOM
you nee l. Write long you feel like
ritins-- tils MT {tD tnni like 1t
give him the psn, and walk UP and down tbs
room dirtlIiue There ara those who say
they can tell tho difference between dictated
work AMI work written by tho author. |
dn not eli them. / will give shar, IN
the 90 rbjnation Protoxiie silver mine Of
Gray Gulch to any holy who viii divide
thu article correctly between tho parts
watch arc dictate and those which are
written with my own red right hani
= Tx t. your stint till it i done If Phil
iStines in, they will i'll finite worlI,
de lurt the time which they have stolen
from You. and go much longer with
your work, till you have done what You sat
out To H..
Wien on havo finished tho stent. stop.
Do not b. tempted to go on because you are
in good ,prit; for work. Therc is no uso in
mnk ing reanly to DO tirnl tomorrow Yoa
may - cut Of doors now; you may real;
yea may, in whatever way, get light cul
life Tor tia u,xt lay. Inieoi, il You will
remember that tho first niece 5,ity for Iit,r-
airy work j. that You havo Something ready
90 say tcfore you begin, yo3 will remember
som thing which ni,~t authors have thor
oU guly forgot n or never know
Thi, u1iHe-s of writing: i, the most c,<-
hausting lnowa to men. You should, there-
fore. steaI,ly feed the machine with fuel
EuI it a good habit to have standing on
the stove II cup of warm milk, just tinged it,
color witt: e, n 81. In tho days of my bloyant
youth said ~ the color Of the check OF a
brunette il Seville" ! had then never seen
til trunet:" IN Seville. Tut / have since; and
j can testify that the de5cr!pti N wa, good
Beef tea answers Il vveii; a bowl Of chovyler
quite IS well as either Ia!ceI Sool clam
chow f. I is probably tho form Of nouri,l-
mant which mo ( quickly an ca lily comes to
tho restoration or refroshuent OF the brain
of man.
Ii thi' howl of e foe. OF chowicr, or
soup, il counted as one meal. the working
man who wi hes to Ike - in order viii have
five meals day, besides the morning cup
of coffee, or coffee colorel with milk, which
lie has before breaEfas. Breakfast one;
this exjen 10 lunch i ;nother; dinner = the
third, say at haif-past >; tea is the fourth
at d ct =; an l. what Is apt To be forgotten
"A sufficient supper jG t before bedtime is tn
filth. Tai, last may light as You
m2dical gentlemen Please, Uut let il be suf-
iicent. \ few oysters y slice Of hot toast
clam ohowdar again, or a bowl o. SOUP
Sev>r 20 IT, Tel III any danger of being
hungry. People ara kept awake by hunger
quito much n i.y bad conscience
Rome InbarinS that sleep is the essential
force which the uu,'ie cIcmo starts de-
cline tea or c foo within the q t six hours
before going led. Ii thu womsn-}yind
Ia So, you may "ave your milk and water
at tbs Ie,-ta.i" rnlorei VI tea: bat the
10, th, Letter.
Avoid all 4uat-enItscs o. IItvtcatc study
IF any sort IA Inc last six hoIr,-S. faI5 j the
stuff Il reanls made II, and hot heads
and the nuisance Of wakiE,, tour.
Keep Your conscience clear. Nsuelai or
that tecau = tho WORT, of life / Iniiu:La w
cannot do tho " hoe oi j. in any limited
perioi or time and that, tnc rciOV,.. yuu may
Just we'll leave oil lii one place al-