The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-06-18
Twelve WAYS Of Committing Suicide,

A medical paper thus enumerates the
fashionable modes of committing sui
eide:
/. Wearing of thin shoes and cotton
stockings on damp nights ana in cool,
rainy weather. Wearing insufficient
clothing, and especially upon the limbs
and extremities
Leading life of enfeebling, stupid
laziness, and keeping the mind in an I'M
natural state of excitement by reading
trashy novels. Going to theaters, par
ties and balls in all sorts Of weather in
the thinnest possible dress. Dancing
till in a complete perspirati ion, 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, ithout Yenti Iatlons at
the top of the windows, and especially
with two or more persons in the same
small, unventjlated bedroom.
4. Surfeiting on hot and very stimu-
lating dinners. Eating in hurry.
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
S. 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-
tion; cultivating jealousies and domes-
tic broils, and being always ina mental
ferment.
I. Keeping children quiet by giving
them paregoTic and cordials, by teach
ing them to suck candy, ard by supply
ing them with raisinS. nuts and rich
cake; when they are sick by giving
them mercury, tartar en4etie and arsenic
under the mistaken notion that they are
medicines and not irritant pois3ns.
s. Allowing the love of gain to absorb
our minds so as to leave no tine to at
tend to our health; following IN I'm
healthy occupation because nsoncycan-
be made by it.
8. 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 1t !;
commanding between meals.
10. ContriVing to keep in q 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 highly seasoned.
10. Neglecting to take proper care Of
ourselves, and not applying early for
medical advice when disease first APP
pears; taking celebrated quack medi-
cines to degree of making drug-shop
of the body.
The above causes produces more sick
ness, suffering and death than all cpl
Idemics, malaria and contagion, COM
bined with war, pestilence and famine;
Nearly all who have attained to old
age have beer remarkable for equan-
unity Of temper, correct habits of diet,
drink and rest; for temperance, for
checrfulness and morality. Physical
punishment is sure to visit the trans
eressor 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.