SOCIAL FALLACIES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 75, 3 October 1874, Page 12

SOCIAL FALLACIES.

resides others, we commit the still greater errors of plunging into-ice-wator every morning, then scrub all the skin off with" a We-hair brush or a coarse board towel ; sit down to breakfast of oatmeal sawdust; dine ofE a tablespoonful of wheat and two berries, and make a supper on catnip tea, then be put through a Eussian bath of five hundred degrees ; sleep under an open window when the thermometer is at zero ; Yearlong hair ; dress the women in pantaloons ,- make all oiu> property over to them ; then sit down in the kitcheA corner and nurse the baby, and when it is asleep, lelp to wash up the-tea-things and go to bed at nine o'clock to be « out of the way." What will become of us men ? Surely wo have fallen on evil times. A better and truer mode oi life is to have plenty of everything that is good to eat and drmk, which imparts nourishment and strength, and as much oi it as you want. The idea of getting up from the table hungry ib unnatural, and absurd, and hurtful—quite as much so asgetting up » the morning before your sleep is out, on the mischievous principle that "early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise " Jiarly rising, m civilized society, always tends to shorten life. Eariv rising of itself never did anybody any good. Many a farmer's boy has been made an invalid for life by being made to get up at dayhel* before Ins sleep was out. Many a young girl has been stunted in body and mind and constitution by being made to get up before the system lias had its full rest All who are growing, all who work hard, and all weakly persons should not get up until they feel as if they would be more comfortable to get up than to remain in bed ; that is the only true measure of sufficiency of rest and sleep. Any one who gets up m the morning feeling as if he "would give anything in the world to remain in bed a while longer, does violence to his own nature, and will always suffer from it—not immediately, it may be but certainly m latter years, J>y the cumulative ill effects 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 sleep, we do not get enough rest, we wdl not take time for these things, hence our nervousness our instability, oin- hasty temper, and the premature giving out of the stamina of hie. Half of us are old at three score, the very time a man ought to be m his mental, moral, and physical prime. Halt 1 of our wives, especially in the forming districts, die long before their time because they do not get rest and sleep proportioned to their labor JS me times out of ton, it would be better for all parties if the former should get up and light the fires and prepare breakfast for his wife she coming directly from her toilet to tho breakfast table, because it almost always happens that she uas to remain up to set things right long after the husband has gone to bed. This is a monstrously cruel imposition on wives and mothers.— ' Hall's Journal of Health '