Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — Marriage Not a Safeguard. [ARTICLE]

Marriage Not a Safeguard.

Within the limits of Greater N>W York during the past year there wero 57*5 Bill rides. More than one person in every 7,000 of the city’s population committed self-murder. Disease, poverty, alcoholism, passion, pain, disappointed love and despondencyeach contributed a quota to the horrify-' log total. It is proved by ths suicide statistic of the past year that to a certain extent marriage i* by no . means a safeguard against self killing and that divorce is especially productive of it.