The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11
AUNT TRUDY's LETTER.
She Discusses the Suicide Question
Very Thoroughly.


Jane Starr F'oggy and have been
out takin a walk. We walked as niue h
es about ate b1oks-three blocks length
! ways an one block width-wayss an
bak agen. We come along by place
where onct poor man comited a Sool-
side. 1 was keepin' silenc fur respec
Jane Starr spoke up an sed: TITS jus
es well he died, fur the worl is better
off without folks es reched as that"
But" ! sed, the poor scattered little
unSi Think o. them!' There better
off, too, no doubt. He never cud seem
to pervide. 1 tell you 1 think in sum
cases, it's good sens In man er wo-
man to comit a sooiside when they
can't help theirsels an no it, an ar a
hinderunce to there folks, an in the
way"
I'm who's way, Jane Starr Foggy?
Hasn't each one q way. an a rite TO
that Way?"
Eyes, but you no sometimes ways git
mixed up an we git to bumpin agin ecn
other. an in the rode of ech other, an
somtimes think it looks like a genrus
an onselfish thing fer one to hey the
courage to take himself out"
Jane Starr Foggy, I jes can't be
this sloo at the same time, an I can't
leave your impression this here way, so
let's take one of them seets there on the
state laun 6hanks by to the Wlmens
KlubD an have this argument out!''
Jane Starr saw l couldn't talk fast
an be walkin' sloo, so We took one O
them SeetS awhile.
You think Jane Starr that when
things git crowded a sooside is a heroi-
cal thing, do you? Well, it's a good bit
genruser than would ever suite me!
Here! sayin' nuthin' of the sin, it's week
an childish to git out o. truble that way.
It's pure cOwardneSS."
"Cowardness? 1 think it's brave
man can CONT his own sooside!"
TITS more than bein' a coward. It's
meanness, an it's revenge oftenest. A
mans a shirk who would die that way
But it's better to die mersifol an
quick, than be tramped to deth peec-
meal"
mo man what has any spunk is goin'
to be tramped to deth peecmeal- Theirs
other doors to git out of truble than
sooside. A tramped on man can get
somers an find room. The ole worl is
big enuff yet. 1t makes me think OF
somethin l saw in Auburndale yester-
day. 1 was a wallSin' along waten
fer a car, an I notised big chip IN
the grass a kind of jerkin' itself about,
like it had a noshen to walk off. was
jes like Moses at the burnin' bush. l
wanted to see what was the matter, so
I walked up and poked it over with my
umbrel handle, an what do you think
under it was about 80 black bugs-a
Scrabblin' an quarreltn' an puSh1n an
bitin' one another, becos there wasn't
room enuff for all! You see they he'd
been born under that chip an materially
thot it was all of life an all the worl
Well when I let in that streek o. lite,
I don't know as they ever foun their
folks agen! There wus some of them
ded, an L suppose they was the genrus
ones who wanted to git out O. the way,
an comited a sooiside.
''Well L wus jes' SO interested in seem,
them all SO surprised at the e, bi t; OF
got a block past me-jes' hikin rite on,
there so interested in that bug story, she
clean forgot her opasit pint of argument
;fir " Burns o cuzzen samyel He he'd
got into desprit truble by sikness, an
an he wus jes getting poorer every .yere.
He couldn't keep up, an all the bills |
m he ee a4 an ana whge and all the
time more an more sikness, an his |
o. her for it. But jes' as fast as he got |
one Diet paid there would be sonethin' els
the chills an malary in these swamps."
he sed, land wen all die rite here, fur
never kin git the diets paid so we kin go /
Then Tressy sed he set down. an put
ieef, an groned. His wife went to him.
an was terryfide to see him rech one |
hand fur his gun; which he he'd t set !, Rere;
longer! If die the nabers will move you
out an take care Of you, , and you Won't Won't
would materially tainted. but she was the
man of the house, for that that minute, an 2.
over an it went off harmless on the
floor.
You stogs samy.el Bqrns .,,r,, she d,i
the rasin' of these here children to
me. You jes' let that gun alone An
YOU lissen to me. You jes go rite no an
drive that COW over to Howerds. He sed
hed pay $40 for her You git that money
an come home an don't say a word. III
pack up. an kill the chickens an take
EN- along to cook. an wen start out
Don't you say diets to me. You kin
pay yore diets es quick there here
sure. We kin travel a day too with
put the wagon cover, till 1 kin git muslin
an make it; Wen start at dark an no.
body will no where we're goin', nor stop
jes' what Maria sed, an they put there
little family, sick ones an all, in the
wagon with there beddin' and dishes. an
started at dark to go "out west" They
les had little mule TEEN, but they trav-
aled till mornin', an rain a comm on
they got into barn. an there fixed on
heir cover. After So days they got throo,
pack an a Neither, finer, loviner family
you never see, an Samyel hes been presi-
lent of the skool deestric fur eleven yeres.
o I tell you there's way out fur every
body an even a desprit course like hissen
s better than sooiside any time.
There's room enuff in the big old world.
IN the rite place for every body-if they
get out an start for it.
anpade, would your sed Jane Starr
Toggy. as we began a goin' on.
He'd left 'em unpade some at longer,
Jane Starr I sed, 'if he he'd comited a
;ooiside." AUNT TRULY. !