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Tw elve Ways Of Committing Suicide.
A medical paper thus enumerates the

Nv eve WAYS OF committing SulCluts
A medical paper thus enumerates the
fashionable modes of committing sui
eide:
l. Wearing of thin shoes and cotton
stockings on damp nights anu 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 un-
natural state of excitement by reading
trashy novels. Going to theaters, par
ties and balls in all solts of weather in
the thinnest possible dress. Dancing
till in complete pcrspiration, and then
going home without sufficient overgar-
ments through the cool, damp night
air.
3. Sleeping on feather beds in seven
by-n;ne bedrooms. without ventllatlonsat
the top of the windows, and especially
with two or more persons in the same
small, unventilatcd bedroom.
4. Surfeiting on hot and very stimu-
lating dinners. Eating in a hurrT,
without half masticating the food, and
eating heartily before going to bed.
when the mind and body are exhausted
by the tolls of the day and the excite
ment 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
liquors; by physical and mental excess
OF every description.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an
uncongenial companion, and living the
remainder of life in mental dissatisfac-
ton; cultivating jealousies and domes..
tic broils, and being always in mental
ferment.
!. Keeping children quiet by giving
them paregoric and cordials, by teach
ing them to suck candy, and by supply
ing them with raisins, 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 rs to leave no time to at
tend to our health; following an un
healthy occupation because moneycan-
be made by it.
9. Tempting the appetite with bittcrs
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.
l0. Contriving IT, keep in continual
worry about something or nothing;
giving way to fits of anger.
ii. Being irregular IN all our habits
Of sleeping and eating. going to bed at
midnight and getting up at noon. eat
ing too much, too many kinds OF food,
and that which is too hi ghly seasoned
l2. Neglecting to take proper care OF
ourselves, and not applying early Tor
medical advice when disease first ap-
pears; taking celebrated quack medi-
cines to degree of making Il drug-shop
Of the body.
The above causes produces more sick
ness, suffering and death than all cpl
Gemics, malaria and contagion, COM
bined with war, pesti!encc and famine.
Nearly all who have attained to old
age have been remarkable for equan-
unity of temper, correct habits of diet,
drink and rest; for temperance, for
cheerfulness and morality. Physical
punishment is sure to visit the trans
gressor 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 pre-
serving health.