1. By eating moderately (as before advised for health's fake) lefs perfpirable matter is produced in a given time; hence the bed-clothes receive it longer before they are faturated; and we may, therefore, fleep longer, before we are made uneafy by their refusing to receive any more.

2. By using thinner and more porous bedclothes, which will fuffer the perfpirable matter more eafily to pass through them, we are less incommoded, fuch being longer tolerable.

3. When you are awakened by this uneafiness, and find you cannot eafily fleep again, get out of bed, beat up and turn your pillow, fhake the bedclothes well, with at least twenty fhakes, then throw the bed open, and leave it to cool; in the meanwhile, continuing undreft, walk about your chamber, till your fkin has had time to discharge its load, which it will do fooner as the air may be drier and colder. When you begin to feel the cold air unpleafant, then return to your bed; and you will foon fall asleep, and your fleep will be fweet and pleasant. All the fcenes prefented to your fancy, will be of the pleafing kind. I am often as agreeably entertained with them, as by the scenery of an opera. If you happen to be too indolent to get out of bed, you may, inftead of it, lift up your bed-clothes with one arm and leg, fo as to draw in a good deal of fresh air, and, by letting them fall, force it out again. This, repeated twenty times, will fo clear them of the perspirable matter they have imbibed, as to permit your fileeping well for fome time afterwards. But this latter method is not equal to the former.

Those who do not love trouble, and can afford to have two beds, will find great luxury in rifing, when they wake in a hot bed, and going into the cool one. Such fhifting of beds would alfo be of great fervice to perfons ill of a fever, as it refreshes

refreshes and frequently procures fleep. A very large bed, that will admit a removal fo diftant from the firft fituation as to be cool and fweet, may in a degree anfwer the fame end.

One or two observations more will conclude this little piece. Care must be taken, when you lie down, to difpofe your pillow fo as to fuit your manner of placing your head, and to be perfectly eafy; then place your limbs fo as not to bear inconveniently hard upon one another, as, for inftance. the joints of your ancles: for though a bad pofition may at firft give but little pain, and be hardly noticed, yet a continuance will render it lefs tolerable, and the uneafiness may come on while you are afleep, and disturb your imagination.

These are the rules of the art. But though they will generally prove effectual in producing the end intended, there is a cafe in which the moft punctual obfervance of them will be totally fruitless. I need not mention the cafe to you, my dear friend: but my account of the art would be imperfect without it. The cafe is, when the perfon who defires to have pleasant dreams has not taken care to preserve, what is necessary above all things,

A GOOD CONSCIENCE.

ADVICE

ADVICE TO A YOUNG TRADESMAN.

WRITTEN ANNO 1748.

TO MY FRIEND A. B.

As you have defired it of me, I write the following hints, which have been of fervice to me, and may, if obferved, be fo to you.

REMEMBER that time is money. He that can earn ten fhillings a day by his labour, and goes abroad, or fits idle one half of that day, though he fpends but fixpence during his diverfion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expence; he he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five fhillings befides.

Remember that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me the intereft, or fo much as I can make of it during that time. This amounts to a confiderable fum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good ufe of it.

Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and fo on. Five fhillings turned is fix; turned again, it is feven and three-pence; and fo on till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, fo that the profits rife quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding fow, deftroys all her offspring to the thoufandth generation. He that murders a crown, deftroys all that it might have produced, even fcores of pounds.

Remember

Remember that fix pounds a year is but a groat a day. For this little fum (which may be daily wafted either in time or expence, unperceived), a man of credit may, on his own fecurity, have the conftant poffeffion and use of an hundred pounds. So much in ftock, briskly turned by an induftrious man, produces great advantage.

Remember this faying, "The good paymafter is lord of another man's purfe." He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occafion, raise all the money his friends can fpare. This is fometimes of great use. After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raifing of a young man in the world, than punctuality and juftice in all his dealings: therefore never keep borrowed money an hour beyond the time you promised, left a disappointment fhut up your friend's purfe for ever.

The moft trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The found of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him eafy fix months longer: but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he fends for his money the next day; demands it before he can receive it in a lump.

It fhews, befides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful, as well as an honeft man, and that ftill increases your credit.

Beware of thinking all your own that you poffefs, and of living accordingly. It is a miftake that many people who have credit fall into. To prevent this, keep an exact account, for fome time, both of your expences and your in

come.

come. If you take the pains at firft to mention particulars, it will have this good effect; you will discover how wonderfully fmall trifling expences mount up to large fums, and will difcern what might have been, and may for the future be faved, without occafioning any great inconvenience.

In short, the way to wealth, if you defire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, wafte neither time nor money, but make the beft ufe of both. Without induftry and frugality nothing will do, and with them every thing. He that gets all he can honestly, and faves all he gets (neceffary expences excepted), will certainly become rich-if that Being who governs the world, to whom all should look for a bleffing on their honeft endeavours, doth not, in his wife providence, otherwife determine.

AN OLD TRADESMAN.

NECES