Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — EARLY RISING. [ARTICLE]

EARLY RISING.

It Has Many Advantages That AL' Should Enjoy. New York Ledger. Every circumstance contributes to render early rising advisable to those who are in the enjoyment of health. There is no time equal in beauty and freshness to the morning, when nature has just parted with the gloomy mantle which night, had flung over her. and stands before us like a young bride, from whose aspect the veil which covered her loveliness has been withdrawn. The whole material world hasavivifying appearance. The farmer is up at his labor; the for-. est leaves sparkle with drops of crystal dew; the flowers raise their rejoicing heads towards the sun; the birds' pour forth their antherns of gladness and the wide face of creation itself seems as if awakened and refreshed by a mighty slumber. All these things, however, are hid from the eyes of the sluggard; nature in her most glorious aspect is to him a sealed book; and while every scene around him is full of beauty, interest and animation, he alone is passionless and uninspired. Behold him stretched upon his couch of rest! In vain does the cock proclaim that the reign of dav has commenced! In vain does the morning light stream fiercely in by the chinks of his window! He hears not. he sees not, for blindness and deafness rule over him with desperate sway and lay a deadening spell upon his faculties. And when at length he does awake, far on in the day, from the torpor of his benumbing sleep heis not refreshed. He does not start at once into new life —an altered man, with joy in his mind and vigor in his frame. On the contrary, he is dull, languid and stupid, as if half recovered from a paroxysm of drunkenness. He -yawns, stretches himself and stalks into the breakfast parlor to partake in solitude and without appetite of his unrefreshing meal—while his eyes are red, his beard unshorn and his clothes disorderly and ill put on. Uncleanliness and sluggishness generally go hand in hand, for the obtuseness of mind which disposes a man to waste the most precious hours of, his existence in debasing sleep will naturally make him neglect his person.