Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-26
ADVICE TO SUICIDES.
70 Follow Aunt Mehitabeis Very
Sensible Example.

TO Follow Aunt Mehitabers Very
Sensible Example.
nosion Transcript
That, al least, was theeXplanation
hat suggested itself 10 the listener
as he shiyered through the streets.
Somehow the raw chill brought to
his mind the case Of Aunt Mehitabel
@nilin, who not more than d short
generation ago lived IN cold old
house down the cold side OF Cape
I Cod, with a houseiul 81 rather frlgid
maiden ladies, her sisters and nieces.
Becoming little unsettled ia her
mind. Aunt Mehitabel resolved that
she would battle no longer with nm
/ inelenent world. She announced TO
the family, one particularly chilly
morning that sho had fully made up
her mind 10 commit suicide.
Laws sakesl" exclaimed her
Younger sister Abigail, incredulOuslyi
how DO sou think you're going To
kiil yourself, Mehitabel?"
The most nat'ral way round
here. said Aunt Mehitabel, with d
shiver, sis 20 freeze yonrstlfto death
An that's the way I'm going 10 DC
H.
The rest 81 the family laughed he
to seoFn. HAT when she had made al
. her preparations 10 90, aud ever
I given away her Paisley shawl an'
, her string ii gold beads, their seepti
! eism turned 20 alarm. IL began 4
+ look al il she were actually Ia earnest
Z The next night the Thermometer Wen
I down almost 10 zero, Aunt Mehita
etold them all waiting good-by d
about . o'clock III the evening, an
vent Up TO the spare room, whic
: WAS. 81 course, tile coolest room
2 sAp HOUSE She put up the window
4 SAL on the sill. and hung her feet OF
. into the ley north wind.
There was no man III the household
.. aud no woman strong enough I
brave enough 10 compel Amt Mehl
y abis TO get back into tile room. !
tho sisters and nieres gathered nhou
shtver.ng Ia The intensified cold
. the spare room
r. ny.and uv the suicide began
n. show signs ~ nneAslness IN her per
a. al the window.
T. wal, she said, 4 guess its 10
3. 4 easy ~ freeze 70 death on tile flo
" a. ~ out here
slse crept back into tbe room, q
- crouci,el ioNn upon the hard 10,
s. moaning Rnl complaining. By Z
e. time tie other women ~ the hou
Il hold had hed baek iuin the passa
- Way. and stood waiting u The da
- mess
,a Beats all. they heard Aunt
hifnlsci mnrmur presently. "hoN hl
- this erv olj ilnor ~ guess ! y
on tbs rug
- SIZE moved ID the rug, and ST o
nov series ai Murld.weury lameu
/ items. but after she had eat here
some time. aud bad experienced ~
al the positive symptoms Of ireez
"a death. she rosc aud sat down
thc loot ~ the bei.
This damp old i'cl always
npnrh q ircrse ANYBODY, an'
Guess i'm fetch me. she eSclaiH
vi anything will
Presently. almost without her
4 consciousness, she sank down "
,Na hsyi, and then one 81 her NJ
ejijsd into the room and softly
erred lycr with q quilt
a0h. drnr' OH. dear, Aunt Nell
lsi Whrjrled. Tin goin 60 sleep
that's SURF sign that q tree
10 death Yes. Ton goln J Goo,
Ia q cold. cruel world-good
good hy," -,
- Aunt Mchitnbcl slept soundly
III morning. and awoke IN ere
Improved mental condition, Shce
- no; renew her attempt nj SUI
? pxr ana never made any reference
= n ns long as she lived
isss. To pcople who are born to con
,IAo. suieiic Aunt Mchitabel's meth'
I ~ .hnaling ~ Is, perhaps, TO be re-
zen trsufafiNg