The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-01
JOB PRay'Y'EJVaS
TWELVE WAYS OF COMMIT.
TING SUICIDE.

| A medical paper thus enumo-
rates the fashionable modes of
committing suicide.
| l. Wearing Of thin shoes and
cotton stockings on damp nights
and in cool. rainy weather. Wear
ing insufficient clothing, and es-
pecially upon the limbs and ex-
tremities.
| 2. Leading a life Of enfeebling,
stupid laziness, and keeping the
mind in an unnatural state of ex.
citement by reading trashy novels.
Going to theaters, parties and balls
in all sorts of weather in the thin
nest possible dress. Dancing un-
til in complete perspiration, and
then going home without sufi-
cient over-garments through the
cool, damp night air.
8. Sleeping on feather beds in
seven by nine bedrooms, without
ventilation at the top Of the win
dows, and especially with two Or
more persons in the same small
unvantilated bedroom.
4. Surfeiting on hot and very
stimulating dinners. Eating in a
hurry without half masticating
the food, and eating heartily before
going to bed, when the mind and
body are exhaustedvby the tolls of
the day and the excitement of the
evening.
5, Beginning in childhood on
lea 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 de-
scription.
6. Marrying in haste and getting
an uncongenial companion, and
living the remainder of life in
mental dissatisfaction cultivating
jealousies and domestic broils, and
being always in mental ferment.
Z. Keeping children quiet by
giving them paregoric and COR
dials, by teaching them to suck
candy, and by supplying them
with raisins, nuts and rich cake
when they are sick by giving them
mercury, tartar emetic and arsenic
under the mistaken notion that
that they are medicines and not
irritant poisons.
8. Allowing the love of gain to
absorb our minds so as to leave no
time to attend to our health fol-
lowing an unhealthy occupation
because money can be made by it.
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-
mandizing between meals.
10. ContriEing to keep in a con-
tinual worry about something or
nothing; giving way to fits of
anger.
II. Being Irregular in all our
habits of sleeping and eating,
gong to bed at midnight and get
ting up at noon, eating too much,
TOO many kinds Of food, and that
which is too highly seasoned.
12. Negleeting to take proper
care of ourselves, and not applying
early for medical advice when dis
ease first appears; taking cele-
brated quack medicines to a de-
gree Of making drug shop Of the
body.
The above causes produce more
sickness, suffering and death than
all epidemics, malaria and conta-
yion, combined with war, pesti-
lence and famine. Nearly all who
have attained to old age have been
remarkable for temper, correct
habits of diet, drink and rest; for
temperance, for cheerfulness and
morality. Physical punishment is
sure to visit the transgressor of
natures laws. All commit suicide,
and cut off many years OF their
natural lite who do not observe
the means of preventing disease
and of preserving health.
|. The Sunday is the core Of our
civilization, dedicated to thought
,J revaranne Il invites the