The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-03-16
HERE'S WHAT WE'VE
BEEN LOOKING FOR
Proof Positive, or Otherwise
That Early Rising Is
Debi'itating.
SHOULD SLEEP TILL NOON
census Returns Show That Farmers
the Chief Advocates of Pre- Sunrise
Activity, Arc Neither "HeaIthy,
Wealth or Wise"
EARLY Rising Wholly Wrong.

Early OISIhQ WhOlly vHFOnQ,
From the Chicago Tribune.
one morning last week l got up early.
The baby howled and refused to go to-
sleep again. SO / got up at 5:46 a. m.
For fifteen minutes / was busy GET
ting the baby dressed over the radiator,
While my vertebrate acted as a ladder
for chills to run up and down. and
m~editating whether to strange the,
baby or drop it into boiling water.
Some one may assert that 1 am not
an authority on getting up early The
charge is untrue. Once l got up at g.
a. m. to g hunting, once the house,
caught fire at 4:45, twice my wife has
thought the baby was going to have
Group n routed me up to go for the
doctor, and n time l worked for a
hrm that required me to a the Of
fice at 1880 a. m.-which meant that
must arise at 6:15-so i speak not as
the scrfbes and pharisees.
Long 6 some one wrote:
EARLY to bed and early to rise makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wise"
The farmer is the type of man who
lives exactly according to that rule.
Census returns show thai the farmer
is not healthy.
Statistical reports on mortgages show
that the farmer is not wealthy.
Every circus CRATER, patent medicine
faker, get rich quick advertiser, and
green goods man in the country will
testify that the farmer ia not wise.
The early bird catches the worm,'
says the old proverb.
Job Nxv, 6 ays Man that Is n
worm, and the son Of man, which is a
worm."
Those old proverb makers overlooked
the fact that the earlier cat catches the
early bird and gets the benefit of bird,
worm. and all, and that the dog that
prowls all night probably eats the cat
before going to
I remember we'll the first time ! ever
tried getting up early as a regular
thing. It was on a farm. We got up
about 4:30 in summer and had done a
a. M. I was SO sleepy l was worthless.
At any time during h afternoon any
one could have beaten me in a bargain.
l have wondered since IL gold brick
men don't sleep until about $50, eat
good breakfasts, and then catch the
asleep and sell them the goods.
AS a business principle 1t seems to
me to be a bad thing for any man to
get up early. The man who gets up at
5 a. m. SO as to get to work downtown
by $3.50 OF z gets a bad start.
That is the worst time of the day
to get up. Even in hot weather the
rooms are chilly and have that damp
dawn feeling. In winter q man hud.
dies close to h radiator OF stove and
0AASAso AAhSS. 1AS SACSR5 OOWllSkA1I8
in his stocking feet so as not to awak-
en- his wife. He pokes up the fire q bit
shuts himself in h Kitchen, and warns
the coffee left from the night before,
eats a saucer fun Of cold breakfast
food with half frozen cream, thaws out
a bit Of butter to spread on cold bread
and starts out, half frozen haIf
nourished.
He waits on the corner twenty-thres
minutes in a bowling blizzard for Il car.
or1 then hoc n I1~o l{~~,o1 -SS> o,,-
town. BY the time he reaches the of:ics
he is in q mood for murder. He never
gets cheerful or in a prop frame Of
mind for good work until after lunch-'
con.
The only consolation that I aver de-
rived from getting up early was TO tell
he night workers of the beauties Of
day work and the evenings at home.
Those cozy evenings at nome are
among the worst frauds and decisions
up at 6 a. m. is ready by 8 in the even
ing to dismember the children and kick
his wife. He turns in at 9 o'clock mad
at the whole world.
No one ever heard OF a millionaire
getting up at 6 a. m.-cxcept in their
biographies. AS a matter OF fact, they
sleep until 8. get to the Office at 10: 80,
fresh, clear headed and ready to make
another million or two.
The only reason that no farmer ever
got TlcH uck1nS tne STOCK market OF
the board Of trade is hat the boards
and exchanges, being controlled by city
men. do not open until 10 a. m. IL the
markets opened at 6 a. m. the farmers
would all be m~illionaires and heads OF
trusts.
The railroads have for years tried tx
vain to train American travellers tc
early rising. The exact object of this
is uncertain, but the fact remains that
every train that ca>~ies a sleeping car
arrives at its important stops exactly
at Z a. ln.-which means that the por-
ter wakes every traveller at 6, SO as &c
be sure to get a chance to brush q
quarter out of him. Possibly the OBJ
ject of the railroads in rousing people
In sa~leslnanship, especially, early RS
ing has serious drawbacks. The sales
man who gets up at 6 to reach the
store at I or 1880 is not fit for good
work. He is grouchy, slow to hin
and move, and he lacks brightness. He
works half mechanically; half asleep.
as it We're.
The wise merchant of the future Wiz
be the n who opens his store at 10
a. III. and gives his clerks a chance to
sleep until 9. Ten mon who have slept
until 8 O'Clock IA outsell and out
work twenty who a.+e forced to get up
at 6 a. N. Besides mat. the wise mer-
chant who tries the plan will have his
pick of the best statesmen in the world.
The more advanced and cultured a
lions become the later their workers
arise in the morning and the later hey
stay up at night.
!. To sum up, the whole idea OF early
rising is a mistake. For poets and,
painters it may be good, also for
hunters and fishermen. But for work
ers it is wrong, dulling their brains, re-
stricting iheir activities, and Destroy
ing their vigor and their tempers.
Advantage of Frontier Life.
Mrs. DE Style-I DON'T see how you
can bear to live in that wild ~frontier
country. SO far from civilization.
Mr.. De West-Don't you? Well. IN
tell YOU. I'd rather live where people
shoot their enemies than where they
cut their friends. I.
What the Evening Wore.
The evening wore on cautinaiesi tha