SOCIAL FALLACIES

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1807, 17 October 1874, Page 3

SOCIAL FALLACIES

Beside ethers, we commit still the error of plunging into .ice-water every,! morning &ensciuV all. the skin off with a horse-hair brusk or "a coarse board towel-; sit down to breakfast of oatmeal BawduStj dine off a tablespbonful of wheat and two berries, and make a supper on catnip tea, then be put through a Russian bath of five hundred degrees ; sleep under an open window w.hen,the thermometer is at zero.; wear long* tiair; dress the., women mvpantalddns; iinake all: our pro* perty-oy-er to them : ; then sit down in the Kitchen corner khd iiurse the.-.-.baby, and whenit is asleep, help to wash up the tea thingsiand go to bed at nine o'clock td be V out of the way." What will become of us men ? Surely w« have> fallep on evil times. A better and truer mode, of life is to hare plenty of every thing that is good: to eat and drink,,.which imparts nourishment and strength, and as much of it as you want"; The idea of getting up front the table,hurigry is unnatural, and absurd, ■ and hurtful—quite as much as getting up in the morning before your sleep is'put, on the mischievous principle: that " early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Early rising, in civilized society, always tends to shorten life. Early rising of itself never did anybody any good. Many a.farmerVboy has been made an invalid; for life by being made to get up at daylight, before his sleep was out. Many a young girl has been stunted in body and mind and constitution fey being made to get up before the system has had its full rest. All who are growing, all who work hard, and all weakly persons should not get up until they fed as if they would be more comfortable to get up than remain in bed; that is the only true measure of sufficiency of rest and sleep. Anyone who gets up in the morning feeling as if he "would giv_e anything in the world" to remain in bed a while longer, does violence to his own nature, and he (will always suffer from it—not immediately, it may be, but certainly in latter years, by the cumulative ill effects j of the most unwise practice. In any given case, the person who gets up in the - morning before he is fully rested, will lack just that much of the energy requisite for the day's pursuit. As a people, we do not get . enough rnloep, we da not get enough- rest, we will not take time for these things, hence our nervousness, our instability, our hasty temper, and the premature giving out of the stamina of life. Half "'of; us are old at three score, the very time a man ought to be in his mental, moral,' arid physical prime. Half of our wives, Especially in the fat ming districts, die long before th eir time because^ they do not get rest and ileep proportione<l to their Tabor. Nine times out of ten, it would be better for all parties if the farmer should get up and lightshe.fire and; prepare the breakfast for his wife, she coming directly from her toilet to v the-breakfast table, because it almost always happens that she has to remain up to set things; right long after her husband-has gone to bed. This is a monstrously cruel imposition on wive s andmothers>-^*;Hall^s .journal of Health.'