The morning call., 1893-11-19

everybody who rings the bell, and work
steadily until your days stent Is done.
Stick to your stent until 1t is done.
When you have finished, stop. DO not be
p tempted 10 go on because you feel in good
spirits-for work There is no use in max
ing ready to be tired tomorrow. You may
go out of doors now; YOU may read !:
you may ip whatever way get light and
life for the next day. Indeed, il you will
remember that the first necessity for liter
airy work Is that you have something
ready before you begin. you will remember
what most authors have thoroughly for
gotten or never knew.
The business of writing is the most ex-
haustive known to men. You should
therefore steadily feed the machine with
fuel find a good plan to have standing
on the stove cup OF warm milk Just
tiDged with coffee. Beef tea answers as
well, and bowl of chowder EQUALLY as
we'll as either.
If 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 dav. besides the morning cup of
coffee or coffee c0lored with milk. which
he has before breakfast. Breakfast is one !:
the extended lunch rs another; dinner is
the third. say, at half-past 2; tea is the
fourth, at or 7, and, what is too apt 10 be
forgotten. sufficient supper just before
bedtime is the fifth. This may be as light
as you medical men please, but let it be
suff1cient. A few Oy>terS, slice of hot
Toast. clam-rhowder again or bowl OF
soup. Never go 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 by which the whole scheme starts,
decline tea or cuffee within the last SIX
hours before gong TO bed. If the women
kind insist you may have your milk and
water at the tea table colOred with tea,
but the less the better
Avoid all matthew atics or intricate study
OF any sort in the last six hours. This is
the stun dreams are made of, and hot
heads and the nuisance of waking hours.
Keep your conscience clear. Remember
that becauSe the work of life is infinite
you cannot do the whole of it in any linz
tied period of time, and that, therefore,
you may just as we'll leave off IN one place
as another.
Pardon me that l have used so often the
hrst person singular in giving this advice,
but your letter asked me what my habits
are, and does not ask for those of the
En- press SemiTamis.
Believe me, sir, very truly yours,
EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
A prominent business man who uses
great deal OF Edward Everett Hale's work
is Mr.. John Brsbpn Walker. editor of the
COsmo lolian Magazine. He has seen all
sorts of ups and downs in business specu-
lati0n and literature. He made fortune
IL Denver and he promises to make an
other IN the Cosmopolitan Magazine. He
is man perhaps % wears of age. He is a
man OF brain, push and In ellectual vi
tally, and words that ne writes are worth
printing, though he does not seem to think
the questions l have prOpounded by any
means easy to answer. He says:
Dear Sir: The business OF health for
literary man seems to me t. depend large
ly upon sleep. That means the brain
should not be excited or even worked hard
for six hours before bedtime. The even
ing occupation should be light and pleas
ant. as music, novel. reading aloud, con-
Versatlo0, the theater, or watching the
stars from the piazza. OF course different
men make and need different rules. l
take nine hours for sleep and do not OBJ
lect to ten. l think three hours is enough
daily desk work for a man of letters |
dlsiiEe early rising as much as any man,
nor do / believe there is any moral merit
IN 1t. as the childreu's books pretend But
30 secure IN unbroken hour. or even less,
L like TO be at my desk before breakfast as
long before as possible. l have cup of cof-
lee and soda biscuit brought me there anu
IN the thirty to sixty minutes which fol-
low, before breakfast, | like to start the
work Of the day.
EDITORIAL Rooms, COSMOPOLITAN !
MAGAZINE.
New York, 1898
Ny Dear Sir: You are modern Ponce
de Leon in search of the fount ain of per-
petual youth. You ask busy man how
he avoids worry. He is like yourself SEEK
ing the clew to this secret and will doubt
less some day have his body covered over
by a Mississippi Of care and anxiety and
the secret still be a secret. Yet there are
two or three things worth knowing. One
is TO aid digestion by plenty of outdoor ex-
erclse, walks brisk enough to bring out the
DerSplration. Another Is never TO worry
at the result after you have done your best.
These two will bring sound sleep and So
next days labor becomes pleasure. Ii
you obtain the true solution TO your prob
lem please send it TO NE. Yours sincerely,
JOHN BRIsBEN WALKER.
Judge Holman tells me that the secret
OF his good mental condition is in a good
diet and sleep. He believes 10 hard work,
and says: more men are killed by shrk-
ing their work than by doing it," He takes
cold bath every morning. and says he
loses a great deal of intellectual vigor
whenever he misses it. Governor Curtin
once told me that he though. his intele t.
nal health came from his care in his diet.
He said he could go all day without eating
and not notice it. Henry B. Payne. the
famous Ohio ex-senator, told me that he
owed his gOnd mind to the fact that he VS.
temperate in all things, and also to his
habitnf walking long distances every day.
He believes that more men are killed by
intempera ce 10 work than by intem per-
ance in drinking, and is an active advo-
cate of short hours and long rest. Cassius
NJ. Clay once told me that he never could
get along on less than nine hours
sleep, and that he did not believe
that a man should be walked in the
morning. He believes that good
mental condition can only be kept by
daily exercise in open air and by cold
baths. 1t was the same with number of
old men whom l interviewed. Of these
men there were about dozen famous oc-
enarians. and without exception they
attributed their good mental condition to
open-air exercise. frequent bathing and
moderate drinking. / knew George Ban.
croft well during the later years of his
life. He took a ride every day almost up
to the day OF his death, and he was in the
saddle for hours every day between the
years OF 80 and 80 He attributed his long
life 20 his exercise and TEMPERANCE.
Among my letters from prominent BRAIN
workers is one from Erastus Wiman. He
Is, you know, a seif-made man, and has
certainly had his share of ups and Gowns.
His pen just at the present time is more
interesting than when he was at the top
of the swim as Wsl-street millionaire
His letter reads: