GETTING UP EARLY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 484, 28 June 1890, Page 4

GETTING UP EARLY.

The Habit Would Kill Most of Us in Five Years. Most of the talk about early rising is moonshine. The habit of turning out of bed in the middle of the night suits some people ; let them enjoy it. But it is only a folly to lay down a general rule upon the subject. Some men are fit for nothing all day after they have risen early every morning. Their energies are deadened, their imaginations are heavy, their spirits are depressed. It is said you can work so well in the morning. Some people can, but others can work best at nigfhb ; others, again, in the afternoon. Long trial and experiment form the only conclusive tests upon these points. We all know the model man, aged eighty. * I invariably rise at five ; I work three hours, take a light breakfast—namely, a cracker and a pinch of salt—work five hours more; never smoke, never drink anything but barley water, eat no dinner, and go to bod at six in the evening,’ If anybody finds that donkeyfied sort of life will suit him, by all mean let him continue it. But few people would care to live to eighty on these terms. If a man cannot get all withered and crumbled up on easier conditions than those, it is almost as well that he should depart before he is a nuisance to himself and a bore to everybody elee. School boys and young people generally ought to get up early, for it is found that nine-tenths of them can stand it, and it does them good. But let no one torture himself with the thought that he could have been twice as good a man as he is if he had risen every morning at daylight. The habit would kill half of us in less than five years. ‘ Domestic Monthly.’