Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-11-01
A WRITER'S LIFE.
EDWARD EVERETT HAIe'S SUCCESS.
TIoNS AND EXPERIENCE.
he Business Of Health Depend emit
Largely Upon Sleep-Ce 60 Work
Early-Breakfast and Other
Meals-variOus ItemA
r E Hale's Letter in Herald OF Heal,hl

EarIy-Breakfast and Other
MeaL-various Items
r. Z HaIe's Letter in Herald Of Health
The business Of health, for literary
man, seems to me to depend largely upon
SLEEP. He should have enough sleep. and
sleep well. He should avoid whatever irl-
| tures sleep.
This means that the brain should not Be
excited or even worked hard for six hours
before bedtime. Young men can disregard
this rule, and do; but as one grows older hs
finds it wiser to throw his work upon the
morning hours. II he can spend the after
noon, or even the evening, in the open Air,
his chances of sleep are better. Tia evening
occupation, according to me. should bs light
and pleasant, as music. novel, reading
aloud, conversation, the theatre. or watch
ing the stars from the piazza Or course.
different men make and need different
rules. take nine hours for sleep in every
twenty-four, and do not object t. ten.
As men live, with the telegraph AMI tele-
phone interrupting when they chose, and
this fool and that coming in when they
choose, t. say, Il don't want to interrupt
you; will only take a moment" the great
difficulty Is to hold your three hours with
cut break II q man has broken my mir
ror. do not thank him for leaving the pieces
next each other;he has spoiled it, and he may
carry them ten miles apart il he chooses. 50.
if a fool comes in and breaks my time in two,
be may stay il ne wants to. He is none the
less fool What l want for work is I'M
broken tine. This is best secured early in
the morning
dislike early rising es much as any man;
nor do believe there is any moral merit in
1t, as the children's books pretend. But 70
secure an unbroken hour. or even less.
like to be at my desk before breakfast as
long before as possible l have a cup OF
coffee and soda biscuit brought to me
there; and in the thirty to sixty minutes
which follow, before breakfast. l like to
start the work Of the day. II you rise at
quarter past there will bs comparatively
few map pedlers or book agents. or secre-
taries Of charities, or jail-bird-. who will
call before 8 the hour from 6:3N to 1870 is
that Of which you are most sure. Even the
mother-in-law or the mother %f your wife's
sisters husband does not come then TO say
she should like some light work with large
salary, as matron in an institution where
there is nothing to do.
believe in breakfast very thoroughly,
and in having a good breakfast l have
lived in Paris month at a time, and detest
the French practice Of substituting for
breakfast a cup Of coffee, with or without
an egg, Breakfast is meal at which much
time may be spent with great advantage
People are not apt to coms to It too regu-
LARRY, and you may profit by the intermis-
sion TO read your newspaper and lecture on
its contents No harm in spending an hour
at the table.
After breakfast, do not GO to work for an
hour. Walk out in the garden, lie on your
back on a sofa and read: in general, "loaf"
for that hour and bid the servan. keep
everybody out who ring tbs bell, and work
steadily till your days stent is done. If you
have had half an hour for breakfast, you
can make two AMI a half now.
1t is just SO much help il you have a good
amanuensis; none, if You have poor one
The amanusnsis should have enough el,e to
do, but be at liberty to attend to you when
you need Write as long you feel like
writing: the nom mt You do not feel like it,
give him the pen, and walk up and down the
room debating. There are those who say
they can tell the difference between dictated
work and work written by the author /
do not believe them. | will give a share in
the combination Protoxde silver mine OF
Gray's Gulch to anybody who will divide
this articl. correctly between the parts
which are dictate anu those which arr
written with my own rel right hani
Stick to your stint till it is done II Phil
istines come in, as they will in a finite world,
deduct the time which they have stolen
from you, and go Oh 50 much longer with
your work, till you have done what You set
out to do
When you have finished the stant, stop
Do not be tempted to go on because you are
in good spirits for work. There is no use in
making ready to be tirsi tomorrow You
may go out OF doors now; you may read;
you may. in whatever way, get light and
life for the next day. Iniesi, if you will
remember that the first necessity for iitsr-
airy work is that you have something ready
to say before you begin, you will remember
something which most authors have thor
oughly forgotten or never knew.
This business OF writing is the most ex
hausting known 70 men You should. there
fore, steadily feed the machine with fuel
find it good habit to have standing ON
the stove a cup OF warm milk, just tingei in
color with coffee In the days of my buoyant
youth said. of tho color of the cheek OF a
brunette in Seville" I had then never seen
. brunette in Seville, but ! have since; and
l can testify that the description was good
Beef tea answers as well; bowl Of chowier
quite well as either. Indeei. gooi clam
chowier is probably the form Of nourish-
ment which most quickly and easily comes TO
the restoration or refreshmant of the brain
Of man.
II this bowl of coffee, or chowder, or
soup, is counted as one meal the working
man who wishes to keep in order will have
five meals n day, besides the morning cup
Of coffee, or coffee colored with milk, which
he has before breakfast Breakfast i, one;
this extended lunch is another; dinner is the
third, say at half-past 2; tea is the fourth,
at or z; and, what is apt to lie forgotten,
a sufficient supper just before bedtime is the
fifth. Thi, last may he light you
medical gentlemen please, but let it be sui
fcient A few oysters, slice OF hot toast,
clam chowder again, or a bowl Of soup
Never 60 To bed in any danger OF being
hungry People are kept awake By hunger
quite as much as by bad conscience.
Remembering that sleep is the essential
force which the whole scheme starts Do
cline tea or coffee within the last six hours
before going to bed. IL the women-kind
insist, you may have your milk and water
at the tea-tabie colored with tea; but the
less the better.
Avoid all mathematics or intricate study
Of any sort IN the last six hours. This is the
stuff dreams are made Of, and hoi beads.
and the nuisances Of waking bour>.
Keep Your conscience clear Remember
that because the work of life Is infinite, You
cannot do the whole of it in any limited
period OF time, and that therefore, You may .
Just as well leave off in one place as AN
other.
Reading this over SEQ tnat at the proper
place have not said that no work Of my
kind should be done in the hour after din
ner. After any substantial meal, observe,
you need all your vital force for the begin-
ming Of digestion For my part, | always
60 to sleep after dinner. md sleep for ex-
actly an hour, II people will only stay away:
and am much more fond OF the people
who keep away from me at that time than
am OF the people who visit me.
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