Show hereditary IDEA OF SUICIDE proof that mania runs in families Fa kaa has been substantiated by investigation with tho the object of showing tho con equen coa of where a suicidal lilal taint exists exist sp ind the necessity fur for imposing somo some restraint the alan mendel journal tile the organ of tile tho mendel mandel society gives nn an instance ot of the development of suicidal mania through four or five generations two families lived in the same ill logo ago and the tradition la Is that one tain lly ily was addicted to suicide by drown ing and tho the other by shooting the tradition la Is traced back tit at least five generations but the actual records of the first generation were not kept in the second generation ono one individual committed suicide by drowning and in the shooting family there was a case of suicide by shooting of that generation a member of the shooting family married one of tile the drowning family and of the issue of the marriage one person committed suicide by shooting and ft another nother by drowning there were two normal nien bors ibers of tho the two families who mar had malting making what Is called a cousin marriage arriage of the offspring of this union nion being the fourth generation in order one was insane with suicidal mania I 1 and Is still living two brothers drowned themselves a fourth poisoned himself a fifth shot himself and a sixth poisoned himself A seventh was insane with suicidal mania and there are three other normal members of tile the far family lilly who are still living the suicidal mania persisted in othor other brane branches besof of what Is called the shooting family aud ami in ono one of these branches in we die third generation thora there was a mamber who shot allot himself his son also committed suicide in the s same ame way and a third was insane with suicidal malai ma iiii two sisters were nor mal inal but in the next and present generation all the off spring offspring have had suicidal mania |