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How To Wake In The Morning

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Day
27
Month
January
Year
1865
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Public Domain
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Geltiug up early ia venerable. Sinoe there liaa been a üterature or a history, the habit of early rlsiug ha- been ree omrneoded ior healtb, for pleasure, and for business. TIik aucients are holu up to us fof exnmples. But thoy [ved sn far to the tast, and so near tho sun, that it wiis tnuuh enfier for thein than for us. People in Iiurpe always get up severa! h'ouK before wo do ; people in Asia sevenil houra before thu Euro peaos do ; and we euppose, as men go towards the suo, it gets oasier aDd oasior, until somevvhere in the Oriënt, probablv, theystep out of bed voluntarily, or, like a flower blossoming, they fi''d their bed clolhes gotitly opening atid turting back, by tho mere attraction oí light. But as far toward sun down as we tre, the matter becomes more diffioult. Expedienta of uvery kind nre resorted to. Some iTien have beiirls wih the oiaan oí time so largely dcveloped that they have only to solect the botir, fix attention opon it, and thon, as t vero, wind up their miiid., and sure enough off thoy go at the appoiuted time. We have tried thia with suocess ourselve. But it induces a habit of waking up nvery half hour through tho night, to seo whether it is time to wake up n'nully. Alarm olooks are very good--provided they do not stop, and do go off. But, if thore is one day in the year on which the machines faiU, it will be that verj day that of uil others it was necessary for you to start early. Servante are much relied upon for waking vou up in hotels and friends' hoases. But of oourse they oversleep on that very morning when you must get tho early trai or lose all the conneetions and huif a dozen appointments. And of' course, too, everybody says - How urpiisiug that the servaut did not wíike I Waa never known to miss before. Always had been reliable ! We have fonnd oiie plan of wakiug tq ba very efiVctive. Lot one preueh a rousiüg sermón over night, becnm) thoioughly exoited, and he wil! wake early enough the next toorsing We oever miss Mondi.y morniiig, whatever tnay be the fa te of otlier dnys The indefatigable E. M. - whose o!servatious of weatber .huvo made him renowned, and whose repnrts havo given to oevvspapers quitü a set ot wealher phrases - has beun in the babit, for yearc, of making bourly obsorvaiious of the thermometerj day aud cigbt. Of course the waking ut night was hu hu portnnt part of the business. II wa= ihe Incky ownur of a dog that sympathized with bis tnastor and divided the labor with hiin. For the intelligent little fellow, every time the clock struck at nigbt, would spring up aud seratch at bis master's door till E M. came foith. tíuah nocturnal labora at lenglh wóre out his coostitution, and scienco tnourns tho departed martyr of thermometric zeal and broken reat ! Good heakhy oliildren thal are put to bed at night when birds and ohickens retire, aro ad inirable awakeners in the moruing When they have slept their sleep full, there is no help for you. Waka ühey will ; coo and frolic they .will. All youi hushiog and humming are vain. Your efforls to put them to sleap only serve to wake you up ! A bounoing boy, a year old, creepiug out of his erib slyly, aud pounoiDg upon his father's face with chirp nd chuckle, is better than auy larm clock. A clock will soon run out its cachonous rattle, but a child never runs down or ends his fun. But we have discovered a new meth od of wuking early. Parchad up upou our green hill-slope beyond Peekskill, we have found it difficult to sleep after about four o'clock ofsuinmei' mornings; for a couctless number ot' bh ds, in all the trees and shrubbery, aim tbeir notes at us with such archery, that wo are pierced through and through with the silver arrows of musio. It is in vain that you wrap the pillows about your ears ! It is in vain for you to reflect tbat you noed sleep, and will not get up. Every ooe knows that an effort of will eufficient to resiat the annoying or attractive sound, is itself the end of sleep. While we are resisting, we are wakening. Thun, this very morniug, all the trees about our little old house were belfrie. and rang out more chimes than were over heard at Cologne or Antwerp. And, after the first recognition, we turued resolutely to the wall, determined o sleep on. But, "that's a robin," said our ears, and " that's a bobolink," '■' there goes a wren," and sparrows, larks,, phoebe, cat-bird, and many 06 their oousins in the orehard and woods, all join to laugh us out of the idea ot sleepiug. Now, if any one wishes to know how to get up early, we will teil him. Go out of the city early in the day. Seek some tranquil place in the country where guns are never heard, where fruit trees und tshade trees abound, nnd where the shaking of the leaf or the distant orow of the chanticleer is the loudest sound ever heard, except of birdo. And theo, alter walking all day among the fields, and hills, and forests, and supping upon milk that never dreained of a city milkman, go to bed by nina o'clock. If you do not wake before five the next morning, report your case to us, and we witl make a fresh prescription. - Beecher. IEP Augustus Sal, thoEnglishman, now oerrespondent in this country for the London Daily Telegraph, gayi : "In all seriousnoss and sincerity, I rendor to the youog ladies of America the tribute of being the most accoirplished talker u the world. Thoir readineas of dictioa, their fucile flow of daas, théir quiokness of apprehensioD, are really and truely astoundiog." MSr A large gang of couDterfeiters tiave lately been brokeD up in New Tork. f

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Michigan Argus