Show SUICIDES GAIN I SINCE WAR END Increased Ni Nien Number of W Women Worn Wom en Take Owl OVll Lives L res Lawyers Lead International News Service New York Yorki Mar G Statistics Statistics compiled compiled compiled com com- piled by tho the Save Life league show th that t since tho the end of the tho war deaths I from suicide have havo Increased not only in this country but In all parts of or tho the world worl l. l In 1 1919 1 this country suffered Gl l deaths by suicide le of which w were re cases of ot men and 1 1909 09 cases of ot women More Moro than returned soldiers ended their lives One Ono curious fact Is that mt suicide pacts between soldiers and their sweethearts have ha been very common com com- mon Self-destruction Self Is lG increasing increasing among among to the in in increased women due it is creased d part women are aro playing In Iii the hard and lind nd fast life lite ct cf tho the world worl world worlIn In In business and politics s. s Some years cars ago the ratio was one woman in ht four sui sul- Last years year's showed that the tho ratio had gone gono up to one one wom woman n nIn In three suicides 41 ca on List Lint LintA A pitiful situation is revealed when it Is la noted that children took their I Iown own lives elves elves- 25 boya and 5 girls Tho The I youngest boy bOY was was 4 i and the youngest girl thirteen yeal 01 old 1 Almost a third of Gt tho the number shot cs though there were many cases of ot poisoning poisoning- The Tho facts seem to show that In man many Instances children killed themselves bo be causo cause they were neglected or oven even mistreated mistreated mistreated mis mis- treated In their own homes and in some cases because they were not sympathetically sympathetically sympathetically sym sym- pathetically handled in schools Of Ot tho the more than cases of ot suicides sul- sul reported to the tho league from Crom nil parts of ot the United States one profession protes- protes I slon sion seems to bo almost immune the newspaper profession But lawyers lawers heading the tho list show enow 43 cases es Including including ing 12 13 1 judges jud Thirty six physicians got so tired o of living ll that thc they decided to die Twenty eight teachers felt C lt similarly Life Lite was too much for tor 28 38 S presidents of oC business concerns more than 50 and society women andS andis and is S merchants Unhappy marriage relations relations relations rela rela- caused 50 cases In which v. husbands hus bus hands bands killed their wives vl before killing I themselves ea or wives wi killed their husbands hus itus- hands bands before destroying themselves Tho The oldest suicide in the country was as years of or age tho the youngest 4 a. More in Summer The st statement of oC psychiatrists that suicide is more frequent quent in pleasant than in gloomy weather much commoner commoner com com- moner mone in summer than in winter is full fully borno homo out by figures and facts It is observed that in time of or peace and prosperity suicide Is commoner than thanin in times of or great national calamity Since tho the armistice was signed ned the number has doubled In Vienna Turning on the gas was tho the favorite method and Jumping from Crom buildings and In front of at trains was the method second on the list e |