Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-06-22
GREAT MEN RISE EARLY.
Jules Verne is Usually Writing Soon After Six
O'Clock in the Morning.

! fact that many of our most eminent
men and women spend less time il
their beds and leave them much ear
lier than most of US. Through tn.
whole of his working life the lat,
President Faure was rarely, if ever, il
bed after five o'clock in the morning
Even when President he invariably
rose at 5 o'clock, even in the depths o
winter, had cold bath and was i'm
mersed in his books in his library bJ
6 o'clock. To this habit of early ris
ing the tanner president" attribute,
much Of his success in life.
NJ. Jules Verne is another practical
believer in the virtues of early rting
His practice is to rise at dawn in sum
mer and at 6 in winter. After a ligh,
breakfast, he takes up his pen and
writes industriously until IL o'clock
when his days work is complete, and
he can devote himself to recreation
"If had not been an early riser," he
said, 81 should never have written
more books than l have lived years."
Alexander Won Humboldt, the great
German philosopher and traveller
rarely spent more than four hours in
bed, and on the testimony of Sir
James Sawyer, was frequently content
with two hours; and Littre, who lived
to be so, thought that to spend more
than five hours day in bed was
shameful self-indnlgence. Although
his invariable hour of rising was
O'Clock he scarcely ever left his desk
until 3 in the morning, or until sun.
rise warned him that new day had
dawned.
There are few earlier risers than the
kings and queens of Europe, who
might pardonably indulge in later
hours than their subjects. In his
younger days the Austrian Emperor
used to rise at 4 80 in summer and
o'clock in winter, and was paying his
morning visit to the stables when
nearly all Vienna was sleeping.
The German Emperor has never
been sluggard, and is usually hard
at work in his study at 5 o'clock and
on horseback at 6, while the Empress
shares her husbands love OF the morn
ing hours and may be seen gathering
on her favorite mare two hours before
the world breaks its morning fast.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
is usually to be found among his be-
loved books between 6 and Z every
morning, and the Kings of Italy and
Roumania have also left their beds at
this hour.
The young Queen of Holland, like
her mother, rises at 7, and about the
same hour the Queen Regent of Spain
may be seen, in sombrc black, "fat
and florid," on her way to mass.
Many of England's greatest men
have scorned the delights of bed while
living "laborious days" Brunei, the
great engineer, who lived to be so,
rarely spent more than four hours in
bed at any time OF his crowded life,
and Sir William Arrol, the engineer of
the Tay and Forth bridges, and the
Brunei of our day, rises earlier than
any OF his employees and will frequent.
ly crowd twenty hours work into one
day during the progress of his great
enterprises.
Art, too, has its early risers among
its most eminent men. Mr.. q. F.
Watts, the great academican, has rare
ly allowed his bel to keep him away
from his brushes later thau 5 o'clock
in the morning, and has put in many
hours of hard work when the breakfast
bell rings.
Mr.. Sydney Cooper, the dozen Of
the worlds artists, who is now in his
Goth year, has always been an early
riser and has often been busy with his
palette at 3 or o'clock in the morn.
iLg.
Sir Richard Webster rarely allows
himself more than four or five hours
sleep and often has to content himself
with less. He has frequently retired
to bed at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morn
ing, and has been reading on the days
briefs at 5 o'clock, and yet he is one OF
the most vigorous and robust men in
England. For many years Lord Rus
sell did not average five hours sleep a
night, and the same story is told OF
Sir Edward Clarke and the late Lord
Herschell in their busy days at the
bar.
Lord WOlseley, like Won Moltke and
Bismarck, is a believer in early hours
and is often at work in his study at {
o'clock in the morning, but perhaps
no eminent man OF our time spends
more hours out of bed than Mr.. Edi'
son, the "Wizard OF America" 1t il
no unusual thing for Edison to work
thirty-six hours continuously at
single problem, and on many occa'
sions he has spent a whole week "ir
his clothes" snatching few minutes
sleep when exhausted nature proved
too strong for him.
Jru KEENE the New York stock