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PAGE SIX THE RICH3IOXD PALLADIU3I AND SUX-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, XOVE3IBEK 7, 1909.

L1KEHS HERSELF TO THE VAMPIRE anvjnnnnnnn '"' '"" ' Chicago Woman Prides Herself on Resemblance to ' Kipling Character.

WRITES PECULIAR LETTER tells the ju8tice who married her, telling how she played on Heart-strings of her husband.

A fool there was and be made bis prayer (Bven as you and I). To a rag and a bone and a bank ot hair. Tbe fool be called her bis lady fair (Even as you and I), But we called ber tbe woman who did not care.

Cblcago, Nov. 6. Happiness isn't elastic. Elsie Viola Larsen, whose

latest search for realism led her to marry William Brown, the "man with tbe black eyes," says it can't be stretched like a rubber band. That's why she left her husband, nearly three weeks ago, and went into hiding in Evanston. Viola's she likes that name bestphilosophy of love is contained, in letters written to Catherine Waugh McCullough, the woman justice of the peace of Evanston, who married her and Brown after a three days' courtBhip that began with "love-at-first-sight-in-the-street." Brown's offer to sign a life agreement to let her do

CURED ITCHING

PAINFUL HUMOR

Which had Spread Over Face, Body and Arms Swellings were as Large as a Dollar When they Broke, Sores would Not Heal Sufered 3 Years. MADE SOUND AND WELL BY 3 SETS OF CUTICURA

MMy trouble began about three years go with little black swellings scattered over my face and neck. They would disappear but they would leave little black scars that would itch at times so I couldn't keep from scratching them. Larger swellings would appear in the same place and they were so painful I could hardly bear it and my clothes would stick to the sores. The first doctor I went to said the disease was scrofula, but the trouble only got worse and spread. By this time it was all over my arms and the upper part of my body in big swellings as large as a dollar. It was so painfuLihat I could not bear to lie on my back at night. The second doctor pronounced my disease inflammation of the lymphatic glands. He topped the swellings, but when they would break the places would not heal. He tried everything that he could but to no effect. He said I might be cured but it would take a long time. I bought a set of the Cuticura Remedies and used them according to directions and in less than a week some of the places were nearly well. I continued with the Cuticura Remedies until I bad used three sets, and now I am sound and well. The disease lasted three years from the time it commenced urtil I was cured. Before Christmas something broke out on my seven year old brother's hands in the form of large sores. I tried everything I could think of but to no effect until I happened to think of Cuticura and one application cured him. Also, not long ago, my sister got a bad burn on her ankle. I have been using Cuticura on that and it gave her scarcely any, trouble. O. L. Wilson, Puryear, Tenn., Feb. 8, 1908." "Warm baths with Cuticura Soap, gentle anointings with Cuticura Ointment and mild doses of Cuticura Pills, afford immediate relief and point to a speedy cure of torturing, disfiguring humors of the skin, scalp and blood of infants, children and adults, when all else fails.

Suicide Rate Grows Rapidly: Grave Threat to the Country

New York, Nor 6. Suicide mortaility statistics, compiled here show that the increase in the rate of self-destruction over the increase in population has be come so alarming as to attract serious notice throughout the country. From east to west, north to south,' there has been a general increase, and in nearly every city of sixty-five of the nation's representative municipalities the fig ures show that the rate has grown larger. The rate of increase of suicides per 100,000 of population was probably tbe least alarming in Chicago. For 1908 the pro rata increase was 1.11. Only four other cities, all of them much smaller, showed a smaller increase than tbe Illinois metropolis. The increase in Oakland, Cal., was the highest, with 33.0 while tbe lowest was 0.1 in Buffalo, N. Y. Several smaller cities in the list showed a decrease in the rate of from 1 to 2 per cent Chicago's total of suicides during 1908 was 500. This was at a rate of 23.0 per 100.000 population. For the decade ending 1907 the total was 4.031 or at the rate of 21.9. The increase in the suicide rate has been most alarming in the West. With a total of 0tt5 self-inflicted deaths in the tabulated Western cities for 1908

the rate has increased 5.1. Tbe rate is 33.8 while it stood only 27.7 for the decade ending 1907. The lowest rate ped 100,000, speaking of the . country in geographical sections fas 19.5 for the North Atlantic cities. In the ,we8t the greatest advance in the rate was shown in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a rate of 39.7 over the figure of 13.3 for the entire previous decade. The increase in all the cities of the Pacific coast was great. Taking all of the sixty-five cities, there is little doubt left that suicides

are indeed, on the increase. Tbe rate : for 1908 was higher than for any pre-j vious year. Against the rate of 1S.S for 1907 the rate for 1908 was 21.8, or j higher by one point than the excen- j tionally high rate of 20.7 for 1904. The increase for 190S was three persons in every 100,000 .over the rate for 1907. ; The increase in the actual number of suicides was tiO, or 18.5 per cent. The corresponding increase of population during the same time was only 2.3 peri cent. I The increase in rate was practically general, although not uniform, throughout the country. The figures also show that the degree of suicidal

frequency is lowest in the small cities and higest in the large cities.

MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN GREAT Two Hundred Thousand Young Folks Might Be Saved Annually.

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as she pleased, receive admiring letters from her "intellectual" friends if she wished, and do everything except wicked things, called forth the letters. "An intense desire to spread his happiness over a litttime," is one of the indictments against her husband in the letters. She doesn't want to whisper, "I love you," all her life at least, not to William Brown, she says. "Played on His Heart." Just how thoroughly she analyzed the unsuspecting husband during her few weeks of life with him she tells in one of the letters. "I played on the strings of his heart as carelessly as an amateur handles a priceless violin," she says, " but to me be represented just so much gray matter that I might manipulate, experiment with." Here is the first letter to Mrs. McCullough, written as answer to her husband's overtures for her return, made through the Evanston woman lawyer: "Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCullough: There are two sides to every story, as there are two sides to the cloud. The dull, gray side it presents to us, and the sun lined side it shows to God. "When you read my account against the story of my husband you will be merciful. "The trouble with him is an intense desire to spread his happiness over a

lifetime. This does not appeal to me. "As in my childhood days, I did not care for the bread and molasses unless I could lick the sirup off in quick taste, so now does happiness only appeal to me when it is short an'!

strong but he wants to pull it out as gum is strtched, and there is no elas

ticity in happiness.

"He cries in bitterness because I

said 'I love you,' and would not continue speaking it. Yet it made him happy at the time and repetition breaks the charm.

Constant Love Wearisome. "I am not trying to be cynical, but

I am not a love-sick swain, and I cannot murmur constant terms of endear

ment.

"I will not return to my husband

under any consideration. You mav inform him of this; there remains not one thread of hope.

"From what I hear he evidently means to claim me. I shall be careful to keep out of his sight until I am free "VIOLA LARSEN." The second letter goes into her love philosophy still deeper. It's a second refusal to do any more for the pining husband than to pity him. Here it is: Like Kipling's "Vampire." "Mrs. Catherine W. McCullough: I understand Mr. Brown is still seeking me. Because of my experience gleaned from bitterness, all the sympathy in my heart goes out to him. Yet I do not want his love, especially I do not want the love which, interpreted, means physical desire. "The truth of this did not strike me until too late; after I had played on the strings of his heart as carelessly

as an amateur handles a priceless violin. "To me he represented just so much gray matter, which we call brain, that I might manipulate, experiment with. It simply was unfortunate that I should have chosen a man who knew so little of my work. A man of letters would be different: the game would then have been well played and the cards not jumbled. It hurts to have a trusting heart build a pedestal for an idol, only to find it is made of clay. It almost typifies Kipling's caustic poem. "The Vampire.' ' "If it is true Mr. Brown loves me so distractingly, then I pity him from the depths of my soul. "VIOLA LARSEN." Remains in Hiding. Both of these letters were written from Viola's hiding place. Every morning she calls her father on the telephone, at his home, 1700 West Monroe street. Then the father reports to the husband at home, 112" West Van Buren street. But as he hasn't been told where his daughter is, the father has been unable to aid the husband, who is waiting for Viola's return. It has been such a stormy career for

i the realism seeking girl Chicago's

own Mary McLane that she was glad of the comparative quiet of the last three years ,she says. The story of the courtship of the "man with the deep black eyes." as she calls her husband, and the death of her love is Viola's latest contribution to the psychology of a young woman in search of the realities of life.

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Saving His Win A highland athletic gathering was In full swing, and considerable interest centered in the chances of a local competitor who bad entered for several events and confidently expected to win at least one of them. His first attempt was in that hardest of races tbo quarter mile, and he was easily defeated. "Donal'. Donal", exclaimed a supporter reprovingly, "why did ye no rln faster?" "Bin faster." echoed Donald contemptuously, "an me reserving masel' for the bagpipe competition."

Lcckktia: Just learned that Gold Medal Flour la if ted tm time throne flnemt Hlk. KvaxinA.

Washington, Nov. 6. Two hundred thousand children die annually from preventible diseases in the United

States. Such is the assertion of the

United States census bureau, which

has just completed a compilation of

vital statistics for 1908. The bureau

refers to this mortality as a waste more serious than race suicide. Pre

sent day knowledge of sanitary meas

ures, it says, should step in and stop the waste. The registration area for

which statistics are presented embraces only about one-half of the total population of the United States. For this registration area 691,574 deaths were returned for 1908. Nearly onefifth were of infants under one year of age, and over one-fourth of children less than five years of age. The bureau notes in passing that the brute force of the figures representing the actual deaths are more impressive than any ratios or the rates of Infant mortality. Except From Accidents. Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, who assembled the statistics for the government, asserts that children should not die at all in early infancy or childhood, except from the comparatively small proportion of accidents that are strictly unavoidable. The bureau points out that the general death rate of the country is largely dependent on its infant mortality because the death rates of infants and young children are high and affect a relatively numerous element of the population. Exact study of the incidents of disease upon infancy and childhood is most important, the census bureau asserts, and it is necessary the bureau declares, that there should be more effective registration throughout the United States for this purpose. Attention is called to the fact that the rate known as "in

fant mortality" is the ratio on deaths

of infants under one year of age; not the ratio to population, but to the number of children born during the year. This important ratio, the bureau says, should be readily available for the comparative study of deaths of infants in every state and in every city. In collecting the vital statistics for the last year the government discovered that the registration of births in most of the states is absolutely worthless. Ground Only Scratched. Commenting on the statistics the bureau was able to get together, Dr. Wilbur says that in the light of the figures at hand it would seem that practical sanitation has only made i beginning in the work of preventing the occurrence of infant and child mortality. "The ground has only been scratched over," says he. "Deep stirring of the soil and thorough cultivation of all the means available, with

our present scientific and medical i knowledge for the guarding of young human lives would produce startling, ; and from past human experience, al- . most unbelievable results. Public j health, as a function of government, is

itself only a creation of the middle of the last century, dating from the utilization of the knowledge available as a result of the operation of tbe English laws for the registration of vital statistics. Even in England, however, no systematic efforts have been made until very recently to utilize the utmost possibilities. It is time that greater attention be given to the subject in the United States."

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