Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-28
HE CAME PREPARED.

A Case of True Love Applied Scientific
ally.
"Yiou don't know what love is, Mr.. Swack-
hammer" protested the beautiful girl, with
a smile Of incredulity on her face; "the SEN
timent YOU entertain for me Is only passing
fancy. When 1t has had its brief day and
YOU look at it in the cold light OF reason you
will be surprised that you ever mistook SO
palpable delusion for the genuine thing 1t
assumes to represent"
"But hear me, Miss Clearinghouse" ex-
claimed the young man, calmly, yet ear
nestly, IAN not old enough to know my
own
vt Is not question of age, Mr.. Swnck-
hammer" interposed Miss Clearinghouse,
still smiling incredulously, "but of scientific
demonstration AS you are probably aware,
have devoted myself for the last two or
three years to severe course Of scientific
study, and l have acquired the habit, per-
haps unconsciously, Of accepting nothing as
true that is not demonstrable by the mex
orable rules Of mathematics or the soundest
process Of logical induction. Science has
become with me the tombstone Of all things
asserted, claimed or proposed, and"-
"But how do you apply the rules of science
to matters Of the hearth inquired the young
man. "How can you subject my love to the
test of mathematical or scientific demon
strationF"
''ln this wn,.. Mr.. Swackhammer: The ac-
ton OF the passion, or emotion Of love upon
the various sympathetic ganglia Of the hu;
man organism causes certain well established
and clearly defined phenomena. When You
speak to me of love look for the appearance
of those phenomena. From a scientific point
of view they are not satisfactory. The
trenior In your voice is not sufficiently pro-
nounced Your articulation is not thick and
husky. The color in your face is hardly a
shade paler than its normal hue, and you
have no nervous movements of the hands.
Do you think q mere assertion can disprove
tine evidence"--
"Alvira Clearinghouse" came impetuously
from the lips Of the young man, rs he rose to
his feet. there are facts in mental as we'll as
physical science that are not wholly beneath
your notice Soirio I...en ere gifted with
marvellous faculty Of self control, so far as
external manifestations are concerned. Be
meath the apparently unmovsd exterior that
you have subjected to q scientific test there
RACES q volcano of passion Do you doubt
It'll will demonstrate 1t 10 mathematical
certainty. foresaw the skepticism with
which you would receive my avowal, and
came prepared. Listen to the beating Of my
hearth f.r4t I.t.El+-
And with quick movement he drew from
beneath bis waistcoat the flexible tube Of q
stethoscope and placed it against her ear. 7
''Count the pulsationsl" he continued.
"They win run nearly 100 to the minute.
Normal heartbeat, seventy pulsations Note
the revelation of deathless love conveyed by
this respirometeri" And he produced an
other flexible tube "Respirations per min
ute, twenty-eightl Twentyeight, Alvira-
count them-twenty eight Normal respira.
tions per minute, from fourteen to twenty in
adults. Observe the mathematical certainty
Of tempestuous passion demonstrated by my
temperature!" And opened his tightly closed
left hand he showed her small thermom-
eter. Temperature, Alyira, liz degs Nor.
NAL temperature, about 100 degs Fahrenheit
Have,I proved my lover.
'Alpheus," murmured the lovely girl as
she placed her head on his shoulder, with he.
lips at an accessible angle, 'you have!"-.
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