Arizona republican., 1903-09-17

in his soul as a blacksmith, "eat SEN
sibly and enough of that that is nour-
ishing and digestible, and keep clean.
Then sit down on your young ego with
the determination to crush the idea that
you are the whole thing-and some day
you may have grandchildren to spank
The obvious conclusion is that many
maidens get themselves very wet and
nasty, and more of them waste large
quantities of morphine and carbolic
acid, to say nothing of putting the cor
oner tc a great deal of trouble, and all
for nothing. 1t isn't a demonstration
of love at all that they have made. but
simply of the lack of good square
meal and a bath.
After knocking the heart out of the
romantic young woman's chef d'ouvre
this man from Chica goiprOceeds to take
the tender sprouting affections of the
young woman with temperament. dis
sect them thoroughly, analyze each
part in detail and then dangle the
ghastly remnants before the Mortified
eyes of whomever may pass that way.
For after this doctor from Chicago gets
through with Loves young dream there
is not enough left of it to speak of and
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In the beginning" he says. this
young love of the young woman is a
something akin to her adolescence. 1t
is at this period of her life that she is
especially susceptible to strong emo
tions. She is pessimistic for the most
part. and at all times she is self-con
scious and analytical of her feelings.
She is in a period of her life where there
| is a loss of nervous energy at the best;
to the extent that she suffers this she
is pessimistic and moody; her ego is
all prominent. and the sentimental
something called love belongs to that
primitive demonstration of it in man
when ii meant to him simply posses
sion"
1t would take a vast amount of mag
| ination to put romance into a carbolic
acid bottle in the face of such cold,
calm physiological reasoning as that.
with the approach of womanhcod,
continues the doctor, there are mental
and physical changes which must be
effected in all harmony, in effecting
this it is essential that the bodily func-
tons be kept as near to the normal as
possible. A proper diet for the young
woman. an da rational system Of bath
ing and exercise will reconcile the two
conditions with a minimum of nerve
waste, leaving the subject free in great
est measure from the emotions Of
adolescence"
Not content then with having torn
into shreds the very fabric of the divine
passion. with having converted Juliet
herself into a young person who needs
.. bath and has bad digestion. this
auda cious gentleman proceeds to put
sloplifting into the same class. He says
that it Is due to exactly the same thing
as the romantic suicide. The girl who
slips 3. handkerchief into the front of
her shirt waist when the shop girl ism t
looking has exactly the same power
moving her as has the young woman
who leaves a touching note on her pin
cushion. gulps down a couple of ounces
OF carbolic, and then wishes she hadn t
II IS all the same, the doctor says.
They are the result CT an emotional
impulse in which the young woman has
not the nerve force to resist that which
she wishes to resist"
This Chicago doctor believes that the
high rate of suicide in the United States
is due, not to the natural tendency of
he Anglo-SaXonS. but to the influx of
immigrants of what may be called the
suicidal races. In Germans, BohemIanS
and Poles the suicidal instinct is strong
from mere racial inheritance. The Jew
has little of this tendency of the leu
tons because the fact that he is So
cialistic saves him from the conse-
quences of his natural disposition. The
fact that the jews are careful of the