The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-07-14

maximum in the years so to so. Poi
son, on the contrary, is highest in the
earliest age group. Gas and drown
ing are fairly regular. Hanging shows
comparatively regular growth to
the highest age group, showing that
this method is in favor with the old
rather than the young. Cutting is
higher in the middle age groups.
In every group there are more
males who take their lives by shoot
ing than by any other method, al
though up to the sixteenth year poi
son approaches it very closely. Poi
son is the fag0rite method with fe-
males at every period except over
10. when drowning leads. In drown
ing and poisoning the maximum num-
Der for females falls in an earlier
age group than does that for males.
In shooting, tthe reverse is true, but
in the others. the maximum is iden-
teal. II poison and hanging more
suicides occurred after the fortieth
year than before it among the males.
This was never the case in females.
| In shooting, nearly SO per cent of the
cases among females happened be-
fore the 80 year, while among males,
only a little over % per cent are
| found
! "By drowning and poisoning there
are actually more cases of suicide
among females before the thirtieth
| vi iln mil
group, deaths from gas are two and
one-half times as common among
females as males. For young women,
then, drowning, gas and poison ap-
pear attractive. while among males
there are fe'wer cases in the earliest
drowning and poison the period over
20 is the one that falls below that
under TO- For males under 80 the
number by shooting are nearly one
and one4half times as numerous as
by poison and hanging in the same
period, while after 60 years the NUM-
bers from the two latter methods are
far more numerous than by shooting
There has always been a tenden-
cy by those who have studied the
subject of suicide to put all doubtful
cases under the head Of deSpondency
or of insanity, and as result, these
have been a great catchall, reaching
beyond justifiable proportions In a
sense, it is true, that all suicides are
result of dependency, unless We
go to the length of accepting the doc
trine that when man takes his owr
life he is temporarily insane The at
tempt has been made in every case
to search for the primal cause ant
not attribute death to these causes
unless it coded the only one THAI
could be determined. When the mo
, tive was doubtful it was PLACED
, among unknown. In this way thai
class is rather large. Disappointe'
, love, domestic trouble and grief ar
most alike. Grief was generally tn
result Of the death of consort. rela
, tive or friend. Most of those incAude
= under disappointed love were single
! while uuamels of married couple
) caused most Of the domestic trouble
!. Those who are inclined to believ
. that the tendency of the age is to dix
+ crease romance, may take heart Q
/ grace from the fact that the majorit
+ of suicides of persons under 20 ar
q for love. This seems hard to believe
: but the inexorable figures of Yale
> statistician prove it. Furthermore
y the fact that the major portion c
the suicides occurring between 2
J. and 80 are from disappointed love
# shows that the heart still remain
h tender and susceptible in most pes
h pie long after base feelings are SUI
" posed to have worn away the SINAI
T. of Cupids darts.