Year: 1859

There is capital anecdotc of the
reign of Louis XVI of France, accord
ing TO which some ladies got it into their
heads from some book they had been
reading, that it must be glorious thing
to see the sun rise. But as that took
place in the only hours in which they
were uniformly in bed, what was to be
done After much consideration, it be-
ing of course impossible for them to
think of rising so early, they resolved to
have party and sit up all night and ride
out Just before day to the top Of neigh
boring hill and witness the strange phe-
homenon. This was duly performed, the
friends then all went to bed, astonshed
at the degree to which they had ruralized
themselves. Daniel Webster, it seems,
during many years Of his residence in
Washington, used to get up an hour be-
fore sunrise in winter, light all the fires
with his now. hands, having a knack at
that sort of thing and then start off to
market with basket on his arm, to pur-
chase himself the daily provisions, gain
ing afterwards, no doubt, many an hours
march on most of his associates.


In New York there has been formed a.
Young Mems Early Rising Association,
all the members of which are pledged to
be up at certain hour. 1t originated
with about half dozen young men,
who having kept up this habit for some
years were surprised at lis beneficial ef-
fects, at the success in life of their associ-
atcs.


A little watchful experience will render
this not surprising to any thoughtful man.
.ae ycho rises at eve instead of seven
daily, adds perhaps ten years Of the bright
est hours to his life of active thought and
exertion. Life will be prolonged, health
and happiness will be preserved. All
other animals but men sleep through the
dark hours and wake with the light
The time of all the occupations of the
day will be moved forward or backward
by the time of rising. The early man
takes time by the forelocll, and is always
beforehand with his competitor and his
enemy, anticipates their designs, and has
all his affairs arranged so that they can
not be disturbed or molested. Not the
breakfast alone but all the meals and the
hours of retiring will be governed by
habit. Such man will drop to sleep in
his chair at nine o'clock. SO much the
better. Consider the effect on the young
man. 1t is at the late hour that bad
company becomes most dangerous. By
ron abuses the moon as the light beneath
which at housand times more wickedness
isdone than the sun, and he who at twenty
is never out at ten, will find it has saved |
him fortune, and earned for him a
character before he is forty, of which he
may well be proud. Many a young man
in college has been saved from disspated |
habits by the ringing college bell for
morning prayer at five o'clock. After
getting up thisearly and working hard at
study all day, he was glad to get to bed
between nine and ten, fairly worn out
with honest, hopeful toll instead of max
ing night of it in idle dissipation,


In married life this habit of being
early to bed is worth years of life and
happiness. The children are never wake
full till they have got through their first
sleep. But after that, if man has got |
an MS repoSe 10 Set, III VIII DC SO often /
broken as soon to break him down. He
will become nervous simply for want of |
sleep-sleep that he would have got from.
nine till midnight, unbroken, but which
he cannot secure after. intellectually
man can do twice the work while his
mind is calm andclear, as it is caly in the
day, and as il is not and cannot be later.
1t was before ten o'clock generally that
Sir Walter Scott wrote his sixteen pages
per day of those novels which are the
delight of the civilized world, and it has
been before nine o'clock that in our own
city, DIR. Barnes has written those com
mentarics on the Scriptures of which four
hundred thousand volumes have been sold
in this country and as many more in
Europe. Tho very self-denial and self
command indicated and encouraged by
this habit is not its least value. He who
learns to govern himself in one matter
will in others.--Philadtphia Ledger.