Year: 1859

sally associated with early rising; and we
are pointed to countless old people, as evil
dence of its good effects on the general sys-
tenn. Can any Of our readers, on the spur
of the moment, give good and conclusive
reason why health should NOT be attributed
to this habit? We know that old people get
up early; but it is simply because they can't
sleep. Moderate old age does not require
much sleep; hence, in the aged, early rising
is necessity, or convenience, and is not a
cause of healthy in itself There.is large
class of early risers, very early risers,' who
may be truly said not to+haveT a days
health in year-the thirsty felix's, for ex-
ample, who drink liquor until midnight, and
rise early to get more! One Of our earli-
est recollections is, that Of 'old soakefs,, ma.
king their devious way to the grog STOP or
the tavern bar.room, before SUNRISE for
their morning ,grog,; Early rising, to be
beneficial, must have two concomitants; to
retire early, and on rising, Ito be properly
employed. One Of the mostemineut diVines
in this country rose by daylight for many
years, and at the end of that time became
an invalid-has travelled the world over for
health, and has never regaiued it, nor never
will. 1t is rather an early retiring that does
the good, by keeping people out Of those
mischievous practices which darkness favors,
and which need not here5be more particular
ly referred to-


Another important advantage of retiring
early is, that the intense stiffness Of mid
night and the early morning hours, favor
that unbroken repose which isthe all.power-
ful renovator of the tired system. Without,
then, the accompaniment of retiring early,
seariy rising is worse than useless, and is
positively mischievous. Every person should
be allowed to 'have his sleep OUT otherwise,
the duties of the day cannot be properly
performed, will be necessarily sighted, even
by the most conscientious.


TO all young persons, to students, to the
sedentary, and to inValids, the fullest sleep
that the system will take, without artificial
means, is the balm of lie-without it there
can be no restoration to health and activity
again. Never wake up the sick or in6rm,
or young children, of a morning-it is a
barbarity; let them wake Of themselves, let
the care rather be to establish an hour for
retiring so early, that their fullest sleep may
be out before sunrise.


Another item of great Importance is:-
Do not hurry up the young and the weakly.
It is no advantage to pull them ont Of bed
as soon as their eyes are open, norris it best
for the studious, or even for the we'll, who
have passed an unusually fasiguiag day to
jump out of bed the moment they wake up;
let them remain, without going to sleep
again, until the sense of WEAKNESS passes
from the limbs. Nature abhors two things;
violence and vacuum. The sun does not
break out at once into the glare Of the mer-
idian. The diurnal flowers unfold them
selves by slow degrees; nor aeetest beast,
nor.sprightliest bird, leaps at once from its
resting-place. By all of which we mean to
say, that as no physiological truth is more
demonstrable, thsn that the brain, and with
it the whole nervous system, is recuperated
by sleep, It'll of the first Importance, as to
the well-beiug of the human system, that it
have its fullest measure of it; and to that
end, the habit Of retiring to bed early
should be made imperative on all children,
and no ordinary event should be allowed to
interfere with it.-Dr. Hall.