The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10

for four years, day after day. never failing
IN what he considered his sacred duty; then
causing the inscription, H went to find
his loved one to be inscribed on the tomb
stone, killed himself.
Another person whom ! knew, after his
wife's death, found solace only in visiting
the room where she had breathed her last.
When the owners of the house forced him,
premises, he shot himself through the heart
on his wife's deathbed.
While the ordinary suicide usually en-
deavors to end his life in some secret spot,
the lovesick suicides, on the contrary, seem
the world by seeking a public deathbed, so
to speak. or by destroying their life in the
presence or in the house of their loved one.
In a noble family at Berlin the butler re-
Gently drank a cup filled with carbolic acid
in the. breakfast room, where his master
when his faithless love, the governess of
the children, entered.
DOUBLE SUICIDES.
Let us consider double suicides. A young
lady. living in the neighborhood of my house
at Turin, was commanded by her father
to marry a certain rich man. She had a
lover, then serving his term in the army.
When the lover came to spend a few days
with her on leave of absence she per-
suaded him to run away with her. They
went to the st. Bernard. There they stayed
for a few hours, then bound themselves
ny AioiihS anu lCCt aid liieW I'll
selves into the sea. ST prefer to die she
had written to her parents, "as l am afraid,
if living, to become an adulteress. or, what
is worse. to be unfaithful to my lover.
whom l love better than life."
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One day. a young man belonging to one of
the families was told to depart for Turin
would get me my %favorite dish for to-
night" He ate of this with great appetite
and spent the evening talking with his
father and friends in the most animated
manner. When bedtime came he vanished
A young girl of the neighboring family,
with whom the student had been on lovers
terms, the same evening had made a demand
upon her mother to furnish her with a GER
tain dish, that which her lover had asked
for. She was pleasant and, indeed, full of
fun during the meal and after. Once she
walked up to her mother, showing her a
new dress she had made for herself unbe-
known to any one and said in a playful
mother?'
Next day they found a letter. written by
much preferable to parting. they aiscoy-
cred the bodies at the rivers bottom, in
each others arms, the faces illuminated by
found, which proved that the poor child had
anticipated this ending of her love affair
for a year or longer. and that the nearer
her doom approached t1e more easy she
grew In her mind.
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
The psychological aspect Of suicide on ac-
count of this general cause is easily ex-
planned when 1t is remembered that love is
the outcome OF "A sort OF electric affinity.
backed up and strengthened by tempera-
ment, which forces the molecule OF the one
organism to unite ani Identity itself with
that OF the other to such al extent thas
separation becomes impossible. CT, at least,
unbearab!e. 3
The origin of the peculiar rites prevailing
in Hindostan and Malaaar. whefe xisows
voluntarily mount the woodpile on which
their husbands body is ID he nur,iad, may
than to religious conSidera lions.
But, YOU will say. these are outiandish
countries; with ns young ana pretty widow
expose themssl yes to other flames laan the
deadly ores of the woodpils. TruS, the
number of suiciies by widows *. happily.
very small-very much smaller han The per-
centage OF suicide by y,dowers-but, on the
themselves on account OF blighted hopes OF
love, and this proves the opinion. above re-
corded, that woman's love IL. perhaps, not
very lasting. but, at any rate, very Intense.
could mention q dozen suicides from
memory who demanded to be buried sfogefh-
er with their loved ones. One of them wrote:
'.oh. thou, whoever thou nrt: do not sep
last wish. Let 1t be sacred 70 thee, and let
Us he in the same grave. shoulder to shout
Mor.iists aad t~heoIosians may tnank about
tfis IN they please. but I maintafn that Ia
our times. whess everything and excr{6oty