Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-03-16
HERES WHAT WE'VE
Been LOOKING FOR
Proof Positive, or Otherwise
That Early Rising Is
Debilitating.
SHOULD SLEEP TILL NOON
Nensus Returns Show That Farmers
the Chief Advocates Of Pre- Sunriss
Activity, Are Neither Healthy,
Wealth or Wise"
Early Rising Wholly Wrong.

From the Chicago Tribune.
One morning last week i got UP early.
The baby howled and refused TO 60 to-
sleep again. so / got up at 5:45 a. m.
For fifteen minutes / was busy GET
ting the baby dressed over the radiator.
while my vertebrate acted as a LADDER
for chjlls to run up and down. and
when my wife got up at 1880 / was
meditating whether to strangle the
baby or drop II into boiling water.
Some one may assert that / am not
an authority on getting up early. The
charge Is untrue. Once / got UP at B
a. m. to go 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 one time 1 worked for a
Arm that required me TO reach the Of
flee at 1880 q. m.-which meant that
i must arise at 6:15-so i speak not as
the scribes M pharisees.
Long some n 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 that 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 hat the farmer Is not wise.
The early bird catches the worm"
says the old proyerb.
Job ky, 8 says. Man that Is a
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. n all. and that the dog that
prowls all night probably eats the cat
before going to breakfast.
1 remember well the first time I ever
tried getting up early as a regular
thing. 1t was on a farm. We got up
about 1880 In summer and had lone a
days work by breakfast time. BY 10
a. m. | was so sleepy / was worthless.
AT any, time during the afternoon any
one could have beaten me in a bargain.
/ have wondered since liz gold brick
men don't sleep until about 80. eat
good breakfasts, and then catch the
farmers who get UP at 5 a. IN. hall
asleep and sell them h 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 az
5 a. m. so as to get to work downtown
by $3.50 or Z gets a bad start.
That Is the worst time OF the day
to get up. Even In hot weather tina
rooms are chilly and have that damp
dawn feeling. In winter q man hud-
dies close to the radiator or stove and
suffers tortures. He creeps downstairs
In his stocking feet so as not to awak-
en- his wife. He pokes up the fire a bit
shuts himself In the kitchen, and warns
the coffee left from the night before
eats a saucer full OF cold breakfast
food with half frozen cream, thaws out
a BIT OF butter To spread on cold bread,
n starts out. half frozen and hall
nourished.
He waits on the corner twenty three
minutes In q bowling blizzard for O car,
n then ha q long. dismal ride down
town. BY the time he reaches the Office
he Is I'm a mood for murder. He never
gets cheerful or In a proper frame Of
mind for good work until after lunch
con.
The only consolation that I ever de-
rived from getting up early was to tell
the night workers OF the Beauties OF
day work and the evenings ar home.
Those cozy evenings at home are
among the worst frauds n decisions
aver perpetrated. The man who gets
ing to dismember h children and kick
his wife. He turns In at 8 o'clock mad
at the whole world.
No one eyer heard OF a millionaire
getting up at 6 a. m.-cxcept In their
Biographies. AS a matter Of fact. they
SkGtD utLlk " kGt ~ NiG oAiCC ~ WOW
fresh, clear headed and ready TO make
another million or two.
The only reason that no farmer ever
got rich bucking the stock market OF
the board of trade Is that the boards
and exchanges. being controlled by city
men. do not open until 10 a. m. IL the
markets opened at g a. m. the armer
would all be milhonaires and heads OF
trusts.
The railroads have for years tried tx
vain to train American travellers Ia
early rising. The exact object of this
Is uncertain, but the fac remains thai
every train that ca~~ies q sleeping car
arrives at its important stops exactly
at Z a. m.-which means that thep or-
ter wakes every traveller at 6, 30 as TIC
be sure TO get a han TO brush q
quarter out OF him Possibly the OBJ
ject OF the railroads in rousing people
In sa1esmanship. especially, early ris-
ing has serious drawbacks. The sales
man who gets up at 8 to "a the
store at 7 or 1880 Is not ft for good
work. He Is grouchy. slow to think
and move, and he lacks brightness. He
works half mechanically; half asleep,
as Ii were.
The wise merchant OF the future will
be the one who opens his store at 10
a m. and gives hi. clerks a chance to
sleep until 8. Ten men who have slept
! until Q o'clock can outsell and out
work twenty who are forced TO get up
at 6 a. m. Besides that. the wise mer-
chant who tries the plan will have his
pick OF the best statesmen in the world.
The more advanced n cultured ma
tons become the later their workers
arise in he morning and the later they
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 1t lie wrong, duliing their brains, re-
stricting their activities, and destroy
ing their yigor and their tempers.
Advantage of Frontier Life.