Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE THINKING IN BED" HABIT.

J. c. Stukbs, director of traffic of the Hartman lines, has announced that
 he will quit the railroad business on
 his 63th birthday, which occurs next
 homestead, already selected, and spend
 the rema inder of his life in the peace
 fui pursuits of country gentleman.
 The reason given for the retirement
 of this physically healthy and mentally
 efficient man is worth considering. MT.
 Stubbs has seen his chief fall in death
 in middle life and has resolved to es-
 cape like fate himself, if that be
 possible He has determined to throw
 off the arduous cares of his profes-
 sion before they prove too much for
 him.
 Says MT Stubbs, regarding the late
 Napoleon Of the railroad world: Thinking in bed killed Hartman. He worked all day and thought out his
 problems at night Whether this diagnosis covers all the facts in the case CT not it is at least too true to be overlooked. We get picture of a man, working at high pressure all day, still wrestling with his enormous prob lens after his hours of toll had prop erly closed. When all the rest of the house was quiet his restless mind was still planning campaigns.
 One shrinks from thinking how many thousands of Americans are doing practically that sort of thing. They are carrying over their cares and trou-
 bles into the hours meant for refresh ment. The head that wears a crown is not the only one that lies uneasy. Many plain citizen finds himself scant of vitality today because he tossed half of last night in the at 1 tempt to formulate his plans or think i cut his problems.
 1 If we fancy that We gain some light 1 for our path in those still hours when 1 the brain seems especially active, the l pra ctise means heavy loss in the long 1 run Nature will eventually take up 1 quarrel with us for the slight put l upon her. Sleep, which we have de- l nied and refused, wreaks her revenge ] by deserting us altogether. And of 1 all sufferers, those from insomnia are perhaps most to be pitied.
 l There are some things which we 1 should not as a habit at least, think 1 a bout after 10 o'clock at night We 1 should not, for instance, dwell upon 1 our failures. Some blunders and ab- 1 surdities TO coubt have crept into the 1 day. We have played the fool in this l way CT in that. Our mistakes shoulc | not be allowed to drive sleep from oul ] eyes. With 8 prayer for forgiveness | and a mighty resolve to do better to- 1 morrow we should drown these things l in oblivion.
 We need not plan anxousIy for the 1 demands of the day that is coming. l Take no thought for the morrow, said the great Teacher and Friend o | men, for the rorrow shall takt ] thought for the things of itself; sufn-
 cient unto the dey is the evil thereof. l A public man who had taken his owr 1 responsiollities very hardly once saiC to MT. Gladstone, himself in the thicl | of a political crisis. But don't yol | find you lie awake at night thinking 1 how you ought to act and how yol ought to have acted 2" MT. Gladston,
 turned his great flashing eyes upoI his interlocutor, and said, with a loo. of wonder. No, I don't. where would be use of that2" Where. indeed, i
 the use of it-for any of us?
 Happy the man who can, at bed
 time, quietly turn the key on tha l chamber of his brain holding his fears
 his worries and his regrets and giv'