“TIRED OF LIFE”
MORE STUDENT SUICIDES IN AMERICA. A TRAGIC EPIDEMIC. (Received Wednesday, 7.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 22. The student; suicides-mentioned in a recent cablegram now total twenty. Eleven have occurred during the past week, three of them to-day. Twentythree is- the age of the oldest, and fourteen that of the youngest who have taken their own lives in the last two months. To-day’s cases include a gifted young violinist of New York, ■who took. gas. His parents ascribe his act to over-study of the pessimistic philosophers. A girl of nineteen from Alabama who killed herself because she was tired of life, and a seventeen-year-old boy,, who shot himself, the reason being unknown. Another eighteen-year-old youth in Chicago stabbed himself and.' is in a critical condition. Tire suicide epidemic, which has assumed sensational proportions, has resulted in inquiries from noted educationists, ministers and preachers who variously ascribe it to the so-called “Jazz Age” and lack of beneficent parental influence and religious training.—(A. and n.z;).
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Wairarapa Age, 24 February 1927, Page 5
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165“TIRED OF LIFE” Wairarapa Age, 24 February 1927, Page 5
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