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Show FLOWERS PREVENT SUICIDE Missionary Says Roses and Carnations Carna-tions Hive Saved Downcast From Self-Destruction. Flowers are the moat persuasive Influence In-fluence in preventing suicide. In the opinion of Mrs E. M. Whlttemore of New York, founder of the Door of Hope, through which more than 6,000 women and girls have passed. She Is manager of the women's branch of the antl-sulride department of the Salvation Army In New York. Suicide Sui-cide Is not an evidence of Insanity, but the result of a detailed plan formed when the victim's condition In life becomes unbearable, according to Mrs. Whlttemore "Pink roses and white carnations are the most effective flowers In shattering shat-tering that plan by reaching the remaining re-maining spark of love In. thejieart of tfce, . Iowjrat, person." she ,eeld. "TOese blossoms bring back mianr rt, tif cftlrjhood jumJ reMnd'a Ure of life. . Thejrjdjently perform mission the human 'i'olce ennnot accomplish." Mrs. Whlttemore Is a grsnddaugh-ter grsnddaugh-ter of the late Dr. Valentine Mott. one of the foremost surgeons of New York. She was reared In affluence, was a leader In social circles, and her home has Ixen the scene of ninny re ceptlons and entertainments For thirty years, since ehe was cured of a long lllnefs. she hns devoted her life and wealth to siding helpless and downcast women and girls. Discarding Discard-ing her rosily gowns, she donned the uniform of the charity worker and sought the unfortunate. |
