The Placer herald., 1856-07-12
Twelve Ways of Committing Suicide.

l. Wearing of thin shoes and cotton stockings
on damp nights, and in cool rainy weather.
Wearing insufficient clothing, and especially upon
the limbs and eXremties.
2. Leading life of enteebling, stupid laziness.
and keeping the mind in an unnatural state of
excitement by reading trashy novels. Going to
theatres parties and balls in all sorts of weather.
in the thinnest possible dress. Dancing till in a
complete perspiration, and then going home, with
out sufficient over garments, through the cool,
damp air.
g. Sleeping on feather beds in seventy nine
bedrooms, without ventilation at the top of the
windows, and especially with two or more per-
sons in the same small unventilated bed room,
f. A surfeiting on hot and very stimulating
dinners. Eating in hurry without half masti-
eating the food, and eating heartily before going
to bed every night, when the mind and body are
exhausted by the tells of the day and the excite
aaeut of the evening,
5. Beginning in Childhood on tea and coffee.
and going from one step to another. through
chewing and smoking tobacco. and drinking in
toxicating liquors. By personal abuse, and physi-
cal and mental exercises Of every description.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an uncongenial
companion. and living the remainder of life in
mental dissatisfaction Cutivating jealouses and
domestic broils, and being always in mental
terment
I. Keeping children quiet by giving paregoric
and cordials, by teaching them to suck candy, and
by supplying them with raisons. nuts and rich
curry. tartar ernefic. and arsenic, under the mis-
taken notion that they are medicines and not irr-
tant poiSons.
8. Allowing the love of gain to absorb our
minds, so to leave no time to attend to our
health. Following an unhealthy occupation be-
cause money can be made by it.
8. Tempting the appetite with bitters and nice
ties when the stomach says No, and by forcing
food into it when nature does not demand and
even rejects it. Commanding between meals.
TO- Contriving to keep in continual worry
about something or nothing. Giving way to fits
of anger.
IL. Being irregular in all our habits of sleeping
and eating. Going to bed at midnight and get
ting up at noon. Eating too much, too many
kinds of foods, and that which is too highly sea-
soned
y. Neglecting to take proper care of ourselves
and not apply early for medical advice when dis
ease first appears. Taking celebrated quack
medicines to a degree of making drug shop Of
the body
The above causes produce more sickness, suffer-
ing and death than all the epidemics, malaria and
contagon, combined with war pestilence and fam
inc. Nearly all who have attained to old age
have been remarkable for equanimity of temper,
correct habits of diet drink and rest-fOr temper
ance, cheertulness, and morality. Physical pun
ishment is sure to visit the transgressor of ma
lures laws. All commit suicide and cut off many
years of their natural life who do not observe
the means of preventing disease and of observing
health-.4m. Med. and Surgical Jour-
A SHORT ToOrHED RAKE-Do you own
one Mr. Gardener If not, YOU are still
without one of the most comfortable, aye
and profitable implements used in your bu-
siness. For cleaning paths, where the autumn
nal leaves found nestIing-pIace for the win
ter, there is nothing like short-toothed rake.
For raking the grass borders of paths, the
rake will accomplish the work
in half the time that any other will. For
finishing off the bel, just made to SOW with
small seeds, nothing will draw out the peb
bles, the bits of stick or coarse manure, like
a short-toothcd rake,
An exchange commenting on the fact that
a number of Cincinnatti young ladies have |
lately been married and carried away to other .
places says no city has better claim to
supply spare ribs for the universe.
Men are frequently like tea-tLe real
strength and 90 odness is not drawn out #
them till they have been short time in hot
water.
AIt is not the place" said Cicero, "that
naketh the person, but the person that ma
keith the place honorable"
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