Show STATISTICS OF SUICIDE It is said that tbo proportion of suicides are less in tho class ol persons from GO to 75 years of age than in the class ranging from 15 J to On years of ago One would suppose that the last named class would be less liable to consider life a burden than thus first amid would shrink from shuttling off this mortal coil while largely freo from tho infirmities of ace One reason must be that at about the age of fifty most persons awake to the fact that the anticipations of youth have failed to be realized and hopeless of the future tho less sanguine unmindful of the supports sup-ports of a Christian philosophy which points to tho compensations of the future rush unbidden into the presence of their Maker The boundary lino of 55 or GO years of ago onco passed the inevitable Is accepted with more or loss grace and thoughtful minds profiting by the past and hopeful for the future enter the portals of a now and more equable life in which the impulsiveness of youth is tempered tem-pered by the moderation and experience of age These aro the harvest days of a mans life why should he seek to shorten them by selfmurder |