Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-11-19
Twelve Ways Of Committing Suicide

A medical Journal thus enumorate
the fashionable modes of doing It.:
/. Wearing Of thin Shoes and cottor
stockings on damp nights and in cool
rainy weather. Wearing insufficient
clothing, and especially on the limb,
and extremities.
2. Leading life Of enfeebling, stu
pid laziness, and keeping the mind il
an unnatural state of excitement by
reading trashy novels. Going to thea
ire, parties and balls in all sorts Of
weather. in the thinnest possible dress
Dancing till in 4 complete perspiration,
and then going home without sufficient
over garment, through the cool damp
night air
3. Sleeping on feather beds in seven
by-nine bed rooms, without ventilation
at the top Of the windows, and espe.
cially with two ormorc persons in the
same small, unventilated bedroom.
4. Surieiting on hot and very stimu.
lating dinners. Eating in a hurry,
without half mlsticating the food, and
eating heartily before going TO bed,
when the mind and body are exhaust.
ed by the tolls Of the day and the
excitement of the evening.
3. Beginning in childhood on tea
and coffee, and going from one step to
another, through chewing aud smok.
ing tobacco and drinking Intoxicating
liquors; bypersonal abuse, and physi-
cal aud mental excuses of other de-
scrlptions.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an
uncongenial companion. and living the
remainder OF life in mental dissatisiae-
tion; cultivating jealousies and domes-
tic broils, and being always in a men
tai ferment.
Z. Keeping children quiet by giving
parogoric and cordials, by teaching
them to snok candy, and by supplying
them with raisins, nuts, and rich cake (;
when they are sick by giving them
mercury, tartar eDietic, arsenic, under
the mis- AIKEN notion that they are
medicines and not irritant poisons.
s. Allowing the love of gain to ab.
sorb our minds, so as to leave no time
10 attend TO our health; following an
unhealthy occupation because money
can be made by il.
8 Tempting the appetite with bit
ters and niceties when The stomach
says No, and by forcing food into it
when nature does not demand, and
even rejects it; gormandizing between
meals.
10. CoDtriving TO keep in continu-
al worry about something or nothing;
giving way to fits of anger
IL. Being irregular 10 all our habits
of sleeping aud eating; going 20 bed
at midnight 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 ourselves, and not apply early for
medical advice when disease first ap-
pears taking celebrated quack medi.
cines to a degree Of making a drug
shop of the body.
The above causes produce more
sickness, suffering and death than all
epidemics, malaria and contagion, com.
bined with war, pestilencc anG famine.
Nearly all who have attained to old
age have been remarkable for equani.
nifty OF temper, correct habits of dict,
drink and rest-for temperance, cheer
morality. Physical punish.
ment is sure to visit the transgressor
of natures laws. All commit suicide
aud cut off many years Of their natu-
raj life who did not observe the means
of preventing disease and preserving
health.