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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1981, 10 November 1863, Page 4

Eably Bising.— -Health and long life are almost universally associated with early rising ; and countless old people are pointed at as evidence of its good effects on the system- Can any of our readers, on the spur of the moment, give a good and conclusive reason why health should be attributed to this habit? We know that old people get up early, but it is simply because they cau't sleep. Moderate old age doei not require much sleep ; hence in the aged early rising if, a necessity or a convenience, and is not the cause nf health in itself. Early rising, to be beneficial, must have two concomitants—to retire early, and on rising to be fully employed. An important advantage of retiring early is, that the intense stillness of midnight, and the early morning hours favour that un- i ! broken repose which is the all-powerful renovaj lor of the tired system. Without, then, the accompaniment of retiring early, ear/y rising j is woise than useless, and is positively mischievous. Every person should 'be allowed to have his sleep out ; otbervvis9 the duties of the day cannot be properly performed— will be necessarily slighted, even by the most conscientious. To all young persons, to students, to the sedentary, and to invalids, the fullest sleep that the system will take, without artificial means, is the balm of life — without it there can be no restoration to health and activity again. Nerer wake up the sick or infirm, or young children of a morning — it is a barbarity ; let them wake of themselves ; let the care rather be to establish* an hour for retiring so early that their fullest sleep may be out before sunrise. Another item of very great importance is : do not hurry up the young and weakly. It is no advantage to pull tbenfout of bed as soon as their eyes are open ; nor is it best for the studions, or even for those in health, who have passed an unusually fatiguing day, to jump out of bed the moment they wake up ; let them remain, without going to sleep again, until the sense of weariness passes away. Nature abhors tcvo things — violence and a vacuum. The sun does not break out at once into the glare of the meridian. The diurnal flowers unfold themselves by slow degrees ; nor does fleetest beast or sprightliest bird leap at once from its resting place. By all of which we mean to say, tbat as no physiological truth is more demonstrable than that the brain, and with it the whole nervous system, is recuperated by sleep, it is of the first importance, as to ths well being of the human system, tbot it should have its fullest measure of it ; and to that end the habit of retiring to bed early should be made imperative on all children. At ten o'clock at night, where possible, the year round, the old, middle-aged, and the young should be in bed ; and then the early rising will take care of itself, with the incalculable accompaniment of a full rested body and a renovated bvain. We repeat it, there is neither wisdom nor safety in early rising in itself; *)ut there is all of them in the persistent practice of retiring to bed at an early hour in winter and summer. — Dr HalL Why is a man bathing in Paris like a madman /'•—Because he's in-Sane,