Comfort For Late Risers

The ethic of good sleop should forrn part of household morality. Itis hardly an extravagant assertion that comparatively few people, after childhood is passcd, know by experienco what perfect sleep is, and satisfy themselves vvith a poor apology for this most perfect refroshm ent. Rising tjred and weary fi-om a disturbed, imperfect sleep, they proceed to summon up lost energies by stront tea or coffoo whicli in its turn again" interfers with perfect rest' at nfght; and thisprocessof life, more than any mental or physical labor, vi ears women o'ur and make them prematurely old "I have been reading myself to sleep after retiring," said a Boston woman the other day, "and when I have done' this for two or throe nights I can see that I look live years older. It is anexperience that any woman can verify, and, conversely, she can see tnat sleeping in a perfectly dark and well ventilated room brings back contour and the roses of childhood or early youth. The most perfect sleep is obtained by oaref ullylclosing he windows raising and lowering the blinds to admit plenty of pure ui?, and drawing down the heavy shades, thus makinz'the room perfectly dark. Then, ongoing to bed, go there to sleep, nut to wto or read or thinkorplau, but for that most valuablo of all tliings, the foundation of all aotivity and energy- perfect sleep. A few nights of this experience will work a magie transformation in looks and in feelings. Above all, let 08 divest onrselves of a traditional prejudice that there is somehow virtue in early rising. When early sleep is obtained, early rising is indicated by naturo by waking; but artiiically produced it is pernicious. Unless thcro is an exceptional reasoo, it is ter wiser to sleep Uil one wakens naturally, and one hour then wjlj do the wort of three when one eomes to it tired, unrefreshed. "Nature's sweet restorer' is of all things the most invigoratiDg.