Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 34 | Wife Died in Sea by Own Will, Says Husband

Dim IN SEA y OWN Will I If t f r AYS HUSBAND i I nun und d Trowbridge Dana Declares Drowning Was I rot Not Horrid Accident BOSTON ETON Mass I. June Jun a ain In in In a ro- ro IC statement six given en n to the Trowbridge Trowbridge papers pers id Idward l s a f rand on Oil of oC th the poet LonglE i in and nil a assistant professor at sit the t I t of ot l d declares declares' s wI s death th In hr t the I 10 nn act of ot her own t was an i and not nol a n. horrid accident t I ilaa i i m. m married yarded Jessie Holliday a three e three tits ri iago ago by a Justice of ot the peace l i f deg rg to a Ii simple ritual which arranged Both were wele s. s lair rs Danas Dana's loath her husband husban r act of ot r lu-r fa h was an nn Till tier Her face fac N ha had the tho calm look looka J a person who hn had fallen tullen asleep Walsh h of ot relief ho declared The rt that Mrs Irl Danas death was due part art failure he Insisted was wan siman sim- sim fin in an attempt of or well meaning per per- peril il to 10 deceive t the public in the mis- mis Tn n hat that suicide 1 Is something om j jbf be bf- bf alwn always S 'S s ashamed of ot lu together 1 the quail equally ol I 11 notion that I ou ht to lie whenever er it il is iN conet confor con- con 1 nt et for tor ones one's self olf or ray e Dana Jana had hid not harl had heart tro troy trop She had tried suicide before hilt out Moat Ilot her nt nerve She Rill had always s ui the old idea hIM that it is dignified dJ to die of oC ones one's own will oIe JIO to leave Itan the hour nn and manner of lis s death to circumstances Being in from supernaturalism p l she old did l lit share thare the conventional morbid of death nor the notion that sul- sul ulin ul- ul in all circumstances Is wrong I Was Wu Free r I am glad that it was wasIs Is id of my wife's s own choice and amI alt Il accident though it Il was 1 pathetic mistake that made her feel teel the world would o ll be better with with- t Suicide shows R an erroneous Abe especially e for tor an Intellectual D a i and a considerable erable amount of ot Q while f accidental drowning is isly sly 1 ly due ue to weakness stupidity fin ainess 81 or loss of or nerve which Is reason I suppose that thal people al- al prefer the latter explanation I Why did Mrs oIls Dana commit Bul- Bul k That is a lon long story that I can cane cant e t only a R most inadequate or of h here ie In th the first l place one onet t It understand it jt at nt all unless s one allies ins in this that for tor Mrs Mire Dana linking InS InS' up 1 n child was a rII religion lon it e had the thc strongest sense of oC duty duly to the making of or a human hand and consciousness combined with kt t 1 Is 15 rarer rarer rarer-a a sense of or the enor- enor iuis JJ Importance of the environment character B By r environment cn tan scan all 1 Jho Sho hc external influences eh h h as S food air nil people etc Like she had a contempt for Cor ment me- me rity nt The baby must be brought c sot cot t merely well enough but In the thet It t possible way n She felt n U great ral I 1 responsibility that the charac- charac tho happiness and the efficiency 1 I human individual were In her hi- til ii iJ For years rR car before our son Ron was teas wa she had set sd her heart hart on doing doing- M thing Just right This was vaa the litone of or her life lite after utter we were ere ltd fid t f id cf Over Health tr er her bel son was born last Jul July tome IOme Inexplicable reason she lost Ah fifth In Sn her hH ideas dens In diet and began beganI I put ut eat more than usual eating beIen ben be- be pen Ien n meals and from a n I sense nse of oC duty ut Ma tn to she abe was not really hungry For Forand H and other reasons she silo became C e down and began to worry which fetal ilia She Has as really to highly r strung to toe toa like a e a perfect mother but hut she would late we e made a splendid mother had she to the tha responsibility She SheI Shee I e ent a 1 continual m mental torture remorse for tor haYing having as she con consid- consid ld- ld W. W bungled her work b by allowing allowing- Melt Jt to get gel in ill that her lito life as a n. mother Important thing In the world U not b been en perfect she Bhe was 17 11 heart broken and felt Celt that the they Y thing to do was to commit suie sui- sui J e t. t Her notion that she ho was WIlS a failand taIl fall 11 and Md that she would never get Iel bet t ere I think I-think think quite mistaken but lau notions ha had not been ben mistaken f L act ct it seems to me would ha have havea YC a f right leht war ar life lite to together ether has b been en a b beau beau- au- au 4 d comradeship and has now had a tragic but ut beautiful bC I