Show f A Suicidal UjjMeniic The epidemic of suicides which occasionally occa-sionally sweep all over the world something some-thing as bodily diseases attack mankind gives use tq numerous theories as to the cause None of them appear very satis fttory The imitation theory may i answer Tery well in a few instances but II r it happens that peculiar kinds of suicide t are seen almost simultaneously in places remote from each other and between which there is no apparent communication communica-tion Sometimes the weather is supposed to have a great deal to do with the suicidal tendency But that only answers in i winter and times of gloom and the summer t sum-mer often produces just as many cases as V in the opposite season when cold and hunger prevail Quito recently there have been a number of suicides and the lack of apparent reasons for them in the sunniest time of the year has led people to marvel greatly t Sudden aberration of mind is the easiest superficial solution of the problem But the utter absence of any Indications of insanity previously in many of these instances in-stances lead to the belief that this is onlv vshujfling method of accounting for the mystery And if this remarkable aberration aberra-tion is the cause what occasioned in so many cases the sudden and previously t undeveloped insanity A vague and unesplaiued idea is expressed ex-pressed that there is a higher law governing I r gov-erning mental phenomena a subtle influence t in-fluence which operates on persons susceptible sus-ceptible to it and which is yielded to by It individuals under peculiar circumstances i prompting them to act in an abnormal t manner and do things contrary to their t own convictions of right and propriety in some instances taking their own lives i What is it whence it comes how it r operates is beyond present information If there is anything it nobody has yet demonstrated it uWo dont know is a Irankar and tvuer answer to the question What Causes so many remarkable suicides sui-cides than these intangible theories that mystify mora than they explain It is the duty of every person to preserve pre-serve health serenity of mind oontent meat and a temperate life in all things so far as possible Brooding over care via lence in grief indulgence in unavailing egrets and similar disturbances of tIll mental equilibrium must be avoided I And no onefhauld set on sudden violent I impulses but be determined to let reason rule and patience have its perfcctTvorlt If people can keep from yielding to the buiddal 1 mania the cause of the supposed epidemic will not be of so much consequence conse-quence |