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Come into the garden I can't talk on these steps, right on top of a gravel walk with a distant vista of three gardeners and a cartful of sand." "I must say," said Miss MacNish, "that this is the suddenest thing that ever happened to me." "But you said you believed in love at first sight," McTavish explained.
He also alludes to the custom of covering the head with the bedclothes and calls it, as he ought to do, "a dangerous custom." Macnish also gives the following directions on this subject: "Before going to bed, the body should be brought into that state, which gives us the surest chance of dropping speedily asleep.
Miss MacNish took a step forward with a sudden hilarious brightening in her eyes. "Are you quizzing me," she said, "or are you outlining your honest and mad intentions? And if the latter, won't you tell me why? Why, in heaven's name, should you ask The McTavish to marry you at first sight?" "I can't explain it," said McTavish. "But even if I never have seen her I love her."
Of sleep before midnight. Light unfavorable to sleep. Quantity. Infants need to sleep nearly the whole time. Number of hours required for sleep. Opinions of eminent men. The author's own opinion. Statements of Macnish. Estimates on the loss of time by over-sleeping. Hint to young mothers. All children naturally early risers. Evils of sitting up late at night. Excitements in the evening.
Macnish cannot surely mean drinks of a low temperature, for these would be somewhat injurious in the evening. If too cold, it must be brought into a comfortable state by warmth. For both cold and heat act as stimuli, and their removal is necessary before sleep can ensue.
Macnish is the most liberal modern writer I am acquainted with, in his allowance of time for sleep. Speaking of the wants of adults he says "No person who passes only eight hours in bed can be said to waste his time in sleep." Yet he obviously contradicts himself on the very same page; for he says expressly, that when a person is young, strong and healthy, an hour or two less may be sufficient.
"You have made up your mind, then," said Traquair, "to claim your own?" "By no means yet," said McTavish. "I was only speculating. It's all in the air. Suppose uncle, that Miss MacNish throws me down!" "Throws you down!" Traquair was shocked. "Well," said McTavish humbly, "you told me to charge." "To charge," said Traquair testily, "but not to grapple."
"I don't know the reverse of red," said Miss MacNish, "but that would give her white eyes." "I am sure, Miss MacNish, that quibbling is not one of your prerogatives. It belongs exclusively to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. As for me the less I see of The McTavish, the surer I am that she is rather beautiful, and very amusing, and good."
Family and private worship, in the evening, are enjoined no less by philosophy than they are by christianity; and every young mother will do well to understand this matter, and train her offspring accordingly. "That sleep from which we are easily roused, is the healthiest," says Macnish. "Very profound slumber partakes of the nature of apoplexy."
In this, however, she is only in part successful. For those who sleep so very soundly, often sleep too sound. We are sometimes conscious, when we awake from an over-sound sleep, that we are not well refreshed; but whether conscious of it or not, it is so. Macnish says "That sleep from which we are easily roused, is the healthiest; very profound slumber partakes of the nature of apoplexy."
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