GETTING OUT OF BED.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1150, 13 February 1874, Page 2

GETTING OUT OF BED.

Dr Hall does not approve of the old doctrine -which was formerly instilled into the minds of children- that they should spring out of bed the instant they awake in the morning. He says that . up to eighteen years every child should be allowed to rest in bed, after the sleep is over, until they feel as if they had rather get up than not. It is a very great mistake for persons old or young —especi. ally children and feeble or sedentary persons—to bounce on'; of bed the moment they wake up ; all our instincts shrink from it, and fiercely kick against. Fif. teen or twenty minutes spent in gradually waking up, after the eyes are open, and in turning over and stretching the limbs do as much good as a sound sleep, because the operations set the blood in motion by degrees, tending to equalise the circulation ; for during sleep the blood" tends to stagnntion, the heart beats feebly and slowly, and to shock the system by bouncing up in an instant, and sending the blood in overwhelming quantity to the heart, causing it to assume a gallop, where the instant before it was a creep, is the greatest absurdity. This instantaneous bouncing out of bed as soon as the eyes are open will be followed by a weariness long before noon.