Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-25

TWELVE WAYS OF COMMITTING SUICIDE
The American Medical Surgical Journal has
the following enumeration of the different
ordinary modes of committing suicide:
l. Wearing of then shoes and cotton stock.
ings on damp nights and In cool rainy
weather Wearing insufficient clothing. and
especially upon the limbs and extremities.
2. Leading a life of enfeebling. stunid
laziness and keeping the mind in an unna.
tural state OF excitement by reading trashy
novels Going to theatres, parties and balls
IN all sorts of weather, in the thinnest possi
bic dress. Dancing till in complete perspi.
ration, and then going home, without sufi-
clent over-garments, through the cool, damp
air.
3. Sleeping on feather beds in seventy.
nine bedrooms, without ventilation at the
top OF the windows, and especially with two
or more persons in the same small, unventi-
lated bedroom.
L. surfeiting on hot and very stimulat-
ing dinners. Eating in hurry without hall
mastlcating the food, and eating heartily be-
tore going to bed every night, when the
mind and body are exhausted by the tolls OF
the day and the excitement of the evening.
! 8. Beginning in childhood on tea and cof.
fee, and going from one step to another
through chewing and smoking tobacco, and
drinking intoxicating liquors BY personal
abuse, and physical and mental excesses OF
every description.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an un.
congenial companion, ard living the remain.
der of life in mental dissatisfaction. Guilt
vating iealousies and domestic broils. and
being always in a mental ferment.
7. Keeping children quiet by giving pare
goric and cordials, by teaching them to suck
candy, and by supplying them with raisns
nuts and rich cake. When they are sick by
giving them mercury tartar emetic, and
arsenic, under the mistaken notion that they
are medicines and not irritant poisons.
8. Allowing the love of gain to absorb our
minds, SO as to leave no time to attend to our
health. Following an unhealthy occupation
because money can be made by it.
- 0. Tempting the appetite with bitters and
niceties when the stomah says No, and by
forcing food into it when nature does not de-
mand, and even rejects it. Gcrmandizing
between meals.
10. Contriving to keep in contiual wor-
ry 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 mid
night and getting up at noon. Eating too
much, too many kinds of food, and that
which is too highly seasoned.
II. Neglecting to take proper care of our
selves. and not apply early for medical ad-
vice W hen disease first appears. Taking eel
ebrated quack medicines to a degree of max
ing drug. shop of the body.
The above causes produce more sickness,
suffering, and death than all the epidemics,
malaria and eontagion, combined with war,
pestilence and famine. Nearly all who have
attained to old age have been remarkable for
equanimity of temper correct habits of diet,
drink, and rest-for temperance, cheerful
ness and morality. Physical punishment is
sure to visit the transgressor Of natures 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