Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-02
Twelve Ways of Committing
Suicide.


A medical paper thus enumerates the
fashionable modes Of committing suicide:
/. Wearing Of thin shoes and cotton
stockings on damp nights and in cool,
rainy weather. Wearing insufficient
clothing, and especially upon the limbs
and eXtremities.
2. Leading life Of enfeebling, stupid
laziness, and keeping the mind in an I'M
natural state OF excitement by reading
trashy novels. Going to tbeaters, parties
and balls in all sorts Of weather in the
thinnest possible dress. Dancing till in a
complete perspiration, and then going
home without sufficient overgarments
through the cool, damp night air.
3 Sleeping on feather beds in seven
by-nine bedrooms, without ventilation at
the top Of the windows, and especially with
two or more persons in the same small, un-
ventilated bedroom. t.
4. Surieiting on hot and very stimulat-
ing dinners. Eating in hurry, without
hall masticaHng the food, aud eating
heartily before going to bed, when the
mind and body are exhausted by the tolls
Of the day and the excitement Of the even
ing.
8. Beginning in childhood on tea and
coffee, and going from one step to another
through chewing and smoking tobacco
and drinking Intoxicating liquors; by ply
slcal and mental excess OF every descrip-
tion.
9. Marrying in haste and getting an
uncongenial companion, and living the re
mainder Of life IN mental dissatisfaction;
cultivatng jeulousies and domestic broils.
and being always in a mental ferment.
T. Keeping children quiet by giving
them paregoric and oordials, by teaching
them to suck candy, and by supplying
them with raisins, nuts and rich cnke:
when they are sick by giving them mereu-
ry, 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- oleave no time to attend
to our health; following an unhealthy oc-
cupation because money can be made by
bit. -
9. Tempting the appetite with bitters
and niceties when the stomach says no,
and by forcing food into it when nature
does not demand and even rejects it, gor.
mandiziAg between meals. n-. -.1
10. Contnying to keep in a continual
IVORY about something or nothing; giyinge
way to fits Of anger.
IL bcluB llltBuluE III ull our nADllS 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.
-. Negleoting to take proper care Of
ourselves, and not applying early for med.
ical advice when disease first appears TAX
ing celebrated quack medicines to degree
of making a drug shop of tie body.
The above causes produces more sick
ness, suffering and death than all epidem-
les, malaria and contagion, combined with
war, pestilenee and famine. Nearly all
who have attained to old age have been re.
markable for eqdanimty Of temper, cor
rect habits Of diet, drink and rest for
temperance, for chcerfulness and morality.
Physical punishment is sure to visit the
tfansgressor 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 preserving
health.