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Nine Ways for Girls to Suicide

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 49.

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Nine Ways for Girls to Suicide.

BY A MAN.

  1. WEAR narrow, high-heeled, thin-soled shoes.
  2. Wear a "snug" corset, and hang half a dozen skirts about your wasp-like waist.
  3. Sit up in a hot, ill-ventilated room till midnight, poring over "Mrs. Vavasour's Secret; or, the Lost Heir of Castleton."
  4. Sleep on feathers, in a small, close room.
  5. Eat rich food. Eat it rapidly, and at irregular times.
  6. Use freely coffee, tea, spirits, etc. Weak, frail constitutions need something "strengthening."
  7. Stuff yourself with cake, confectionery, and sweetmeats, then swallow patent medicines to get rid of them.
  8. Marry a moderate drinker—you need not marry a sot to do it.
  9. Employ a fashionable doctor to attend you in every slight ailment.