The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-15
New Motive for Sui eide - Spirit Land Like Another Room Human Machines Wound Up to Live.

a woman, killed her baby and tried tc kill herself. She wim probably die If she lives, she will try again, she says She wants to go over to the other side, that she may from thence guide and watch her husband In twenty pages, some written after her baby died in her arms. she recites her plans for spirit control, asks for a cheap funeral and advises her hus- band to marry another woman; woman's supreme sacrifice.
 The Fanchers are poor. Poverty Is depressant. especially of women who love and yearn over their loved ones. We are machines wound up to live. The instinct of self preserva- ton is perhaps a center, like the word center, or the sight center. or the center that controls the lungs and makes us breath without thought, whether we will or no. Fatigue, grief. fear. violence or disease may impair these centers. Then the will 10 live becomes the will to die.
 
 Detectives told Fancher about his wife's desire to watch over him from the spirit land. Damn spiritualis1n," he said. Might as well damn the Iocom olive that grinds a man. The locomotive is useful; the grinding an incident. It would be wiser to damn poverty, and all those remedi- able social conditions which make for suicide; such war, famine, pesti- Ience and unemployment.
 
 Mrs. Conan Doyle has trained her children. she says, until death has no terrors for them. The ultimate talk ing off seems to them no more than passing from one room to another If too many people get into this state of mind. might there be a great inn migration of all to that happy land in which all are paired, and each pair loves and happiness is the universal yule. This is spirit land as the Conon Doyles see it. No danger The young Conan. Doyles will not think so lightly of the transition, when the plane begins to fall, or the ship rolls unduly, or when the high explo- sive shells fall about them. Nature slips sometimes, but not far nor of ten. Her children. the sons of men. are wound up to live in this world as long as they can, as MT. Rocke- feIler knows. who is trying to live to be a hundred years old.
 
 The beautiful Greenwich home of the Churches, Elsie and Alfred, who could not live in matrimonial content ment. is to be a sanitortum for tuber- cular veterans. Good comes of evil. Seldom does the rich man realize that he is building his castle for a public use. The ponderous struc- lures which shelter the ultra success fuI American, are seldom desired by his heirs. and they go for song for a higher use. such as school, hall or hospital
 The palaces of the Caesars are a show place for tourists. The palaces of the English monarchs are open to The public. Windsor Castle is used sometimes by visiting monarch, but fl is chiefly a great hall for the dis play of the very rich curios, taken in battle. or given to kings and queens. There are rich tapestries golden furniture. tables of solid silver. paintings worth kings ransom, sell dom used. but much seen at a few pence for tips, and catalogues.
 The humber sort of costly build iugs become mercantile esta blish- ments, or offices The Marble Block State street was once the toniest thing in these parts. Those great live story brick establishments, com monIy called woman killers" were in their day swagger. Time is demo- cratic. Elsie and Alfred are also democratic The matrimonial spat is the most democratic of indoor sports. Mrs. Van Ryper Sharpsteen, $, married Donald Carl Sharpsteen. 26. She has property. The wife wants me property administered in the Van Ryper name, and property wins. The young man is not a good merchant Youth is priceless. What would Mrs. Van Ryper give to be 26 again? Elsie Hill please take notice. She has not insisted upon more than the Retention of her own name. Mrs. Van Ryper,s husband must take hers The names continue in the male line These women merely prefer the fathers to the husbands name. Here is no true recognition of descent in the female line. ORDER OF REFERENCE
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