THE EARLY RISING DELUSION.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 107, 27 October 1877, Page 3

THE EARLY RISING DELUSION.

Under this heading we find the 1 following paragraph m the columns of a contemporary :■ — " For farmers^ and those who live m localities* whefe'the" people can retire at eight or'iiiiie; o'clock m, the evening, the old; ifotibH early rising is.still Sppr6prlate. Bttfc he" who is kept up till ten 6r" eleven or twelve o'clock and then rises at five or six, because .of some old ditty about ' early to rise,' is committing a sin against his . <ywre^o»l: ' There is not one inau m. jfcetl *hauSasrid vtiio c&n dffo v'd f o d*o vwitiibut'seven or eight hours ' sleep. %l\ the stufc written about great men; who sleep only three or f out Hdtjrs at dafy ifc a ; poeryphal.' They have beea put/ upon such small allowance occasionally and, prospered; but no man ever yet kept healthy m body and mind- for- a 1 number of yea^rs with less than gfeven Hour's' sleep. If you can get to bed early/- then rise early. If you can--hot get to bed till la"tej then rise late It may be as proper for one man to rise at eight as it is for another to rise at five. Let the rousing bell "be rung at least thirty minutes before your public appearance/ Physicians say that a sudden jump' out of be# gives irregular motion to the ''pulses. It takes time to get over^a sudden rising. It is barbarous to' expect Children instantly to lsfad" oh the centre of the floor at the call of their nursey the thermosmeter below zero. Give us time after you call us to roll over, gaze at the world full m the face, and look before we leap."