The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-08-03
Twelve ways Of Committing suioldo.

A Medical eotemporary thus enumerates
the fashionable modes of doing it:
1. Wearing of thin shoes and cotton stock
/ ings on damp nights and in cool. rainy
/ weather Wearing insufficient clothing aud
/ especially upon the limbs and extremities
/ 9 Leading n life Of enfeehling, STUDIED
/ laziness, and keeping the mind in an un-
natural state of excitement by reading trashy
novels Going to theaters. parties, and balls
in all sorts of weather, in the thinnest pos
sible dress. Dancing till in complete pers-
piration, and then going home without suffi.
cient over garments, through the cool, damp
night air
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, unven-
tilated bed-rO0m.
f. Surfeiting in hot and very stimulating
dinners. Eating in a hurry, without half
masticating the food, and eating heartily be-
fore going to bed, when the mind and bady
are exhausted by the tolls Of the day and
the excitement 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 Intoxicating liqnors; by personal
abuse, and physical and mental excesses
of other descriptions
6. Marrying in haste and getting an an
congenial companion, and living the remain
der of life In mental dissatisfaction cultivat--
ing iealousies and domestic broils, and be-
ing always in a mental ferment
7. Keeping children quiet by giving pare
gorie and cnrdials, bv teaching them to suck
candy, and by supplying them with raisi7s,
nHts. and rich cake when they are sick hy
giving them mercury, tartar emetic, and
~ aN-rE
they are medicines and not irritatantpois0ns
8. Allowing the love of gain to absorb our
minds, so as to leave no time to attend to
our health; following an unhealthy occupa-
ton because money can be made nv it
g. Temnting the appetite with hitters and
niceties when the stomach SAYS No, and by
forcing food into It when nature does not de-
mand and even rejects it, gormandizing be-
tween meals
10 Contriving to keep in a continual vor-
ry-abaut something or nothing giving way
20 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 mqnv kinds of food and that
which i too highly seasoned.
u. Negiecting TO take proper care OF
yourselves, and not apnly early for medical
advice when disease first appears; taking
celebrated qnack medicines to degree OF
making drug shop ofthe body.
The above causes produce more sickness.
suffering, and death than all eIidemics, ma
laria. and coutagion, combined with war,
pestilence, and ftmine. Nearly all whoihaEe
attained to old ace have been remarkable
for equanimitY of temper. correct habits of
diet, drink. ard rest-for temperance. cheer
fulnesr, and morality. PHYSICAL psnishme ut
j. sure 20 visit the transgressnr of natures
laws. All commit suicide and cnt of many
years of their natural life who do not OBJ
serve the means of preventing disease and
Of preserving health.