MORE WOMEN SUICIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 236, 2 October 1920, Page 19

MORE WOMEN SUICIDES.

STRAIN' OF HOLDING HUSBAND'S LOVE. Vital statistics snow thle rear that more American women arc committing euieide than ever before. Medical and scientific minds are wondering why. whii e in 1910 one woman took her own life for three men who did so, the present year's ratio U one to two. • Medical experts point to marriage as one of the leading causes, eaylng, that a few ■generations since it was a placid entry into dignified retirement In the bosom of i> family, but in the present day a woman must hold a husband .by' something more advanced than love. Marriage Us becoming a business, and under Its strain more and more modern women 'become unbalanced. Dr. H. M. Warren, president of the "Save a Life" League, says that endless generations conferred protection on women till It became an instinct for them to receive It and turn to It. Now they are world hidden to a great extent from them for agee. Marital ties are often strained to-day, and a woman Is called on to solve many problems in keeping th e lov c of a husband engaged in a busy world. If, added to this, the woman goes in 'for a career Iα business, it meane a further drain on ocr Women are taking up the cudgels to defend their sex and confound the experts. They quote thousands of instances where and in business, carrying out In perfect health duties unrnought of by their mothers and grandmothers.