Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
TOO LATE HOURS.
Opinions of Prominent Women on the
Hours of Modern Parties.
From the Ennch

Opinions of Prominent Women on the
Hours of Modern Parties.
From the Epoch.
Are late balls and parties desirable :?
was the question asked of the following
ladies': Mrs. Chauncy M. Depew SUBJ
mitted to being interviewed.
II Think said she, thet it would be
much better to have receptions begin
earlier and end earlier. Late receptions
are especially hard on gentlemen whose
late next morning. Very few men can
these days 1t stands to reason that
they cannot burn the candle at both
ends without having to pay the penalty
some time.
Nor are late hours good for women.
l am old-fashioned enough to believe
that the most beneficial sleep is that
which you get before the sun rises. |
don't thik that if you go to bed late you
can catch up by rising late next morn
ing. You are still in arrears somewhere.
Besides, it isn't always convene Mt to
rise late. Nothing so quickly takes the
roses cut of the cheeks OF young girls
who have just come out as late hours.
They are not accustomed to late hours
and it takes some time for them to adapt
themselves to style of living which is
unnatural"
Next sought literary lady, Mrs. J.
Wells Champney, whose "Vassar Girls"
still travel ABROAD" to the delight of
in a room pervaded with the atmos-
phere of art, she was busy with her pen.
GAS you see," she said. ST do my
work in the morning. Therefore ii I
attend a late reception it lnterferes Sc
riOusly with my work the next day.
On this account [ have to decline MANY
invitations. [ would much prefer that
receptions should begin earlier and end
earlier.
ST enjoy receptions. I like to see
fair women and brave men in hand
some rooms with music and flowers,
and all those things that lend an artis-
tic charm to the scene. But it is not
necessary to wait until midnight to get
all these effects. Pleasure should not
interfere with work. And when it's pur-
suit lasts until far past midnight, it does
interfere with work."
DIR. Grace Peckha somehow finds
time to look after large practice and to
attend receptions.
ave are largely creatures of habit"
very accommodating sort of machine.
To people who are accustomed to late
hours-that is, people who habitually
go to bed late and get up late-late
hours are not in themselves injurious.
If you get sleep enough / do not think it
makes much difference whether you get
1T before or after the wee sma' hours.
There are many newspaper men, for
instance, who don't go to bed until
many people are thinking of getting up,
and yet as class they enjoy average
good health. The same is true of peo-
pie of various callings who have to work
by night and sleep by day.
But when people are not accustomed
to late hours-when they indulge in
them irregularly health is very
likely to suffer. The girl, for instance,
who is in the habit Of retiring, say at IL
o'clock or Whereabouts, and rising at q
tolerably early hour in the morning,
will probably have cause to regret it If
she takes to attending late receptions
without adjusting her mode of life to
them. People who make practice of
rising early ought to be chary of attend
ing late receptions.
But late hours are not the worst
feature of these receptions. More harm,
believe, is caused by what [ might call
the conoomitants of them-bad air, i'm
proper dressing and rich and unwhole-
some food taken at an unreasonable
hour. These things produce headaches,
colds, Indigestion and other more or less
serious arrangements. Speaking for
people generally have no doubt that
it would be better to have receptions
begin early and end early, rather than
begin late and end late."