Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-29
Ne CAME PREPARED.
A Cuse Of True Love Applied Scientific

A Case Of True Love Applied Scientine'
ally.
"Yon don't know what love Is, Mr.. Swack-
hammer" protested the beautiful girl, with
a smile of incredulity on her face; 1.-THE sen.
tirnent YOU entertain for mo Ii only passing
fancy When II hes had Its brief day and
YOU look At 10 10 The cold light Of reason you
will be suvprised that you ever mistook 20
paipable delusion for the gvuui's thing b
assumes to represent"
"But hear me, Miss Clearinghouse" ex-
claimed the young man, calmly, yet ear
nestly, lam not old enough to know my
own
ut h nol Q question d ego Mr.. S~acs-
hammer interposed Miss Clearinghouse,
still smiling incredulously, but OF scsentifc
demonstration. As you are probably aware,
I have devoted myself for the last two or
three years to . severe course OF scientific
study, and have acquired the habit, per-
hays unconsciously, Of accepting nothing -
true that ID not demonstrable by the mex
orable rules Of mathematics OF the soundest
process OF logical induction Science has
become with me the touchstone 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 a mathematical or scientiAc demon
'strationr
I'm this way, Mr.. swacihamn,er, The &C.
ton OF the passion Or emotion Of love upon
the various sympathetic, ganglia Of the hui
man organism causes certain weh established
and clearly defined phenomena. When you
speak to mo of love look for the appearance
Of those phenomena. From q scientific POINT
OF view they are not satisfactory. The
tremor inNyour voice is not sufficiently pro-
nounced Your articulation Is not thick and
husky. The color In your face is hardly a
shade paler than it's normal hue, and you
have no. nervous movements Of the hands
Do you think mere assertion can disprove
tbe eviienoe~-
"Alvira Clearinghouse" came impetuousiy
from the lips Of the young man, as lac rose to
hisfeet. There are facts in mental Us well As
physical science that are not wholly beneath
your notice. Some men are gifted with a
marvellous fdculty Of self control, so far as
external manifestations are concerned. Be
meath the apparently urirnOved exterior that
you baye subjected TO o scientific test there
RACES a volcano Of passion Do you doubt
iii 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
And with o quick movement he drew from
beneath bis lwaistcoat the flexible tube of q
stethoscope and placed it against her ear.
"Count the ,pukations!n he continued
They will run nearly 100 to the minute
Normal heartbeat, seventy pulsations Note
the revelation Of deathless love conveyed by
this respirometerl" And he produced an
other flexible tubeg Inspirations per min
ute, twenty eight! Twentyeight Alvira-
court them-tventy-eightl Normal respira
tions per minute, from fourteen to twenty il
adults Observe tho mathematical certainty
Of tempestuous passion demonstrated by my
temperaturelo And opened, his tightly CLOSED
left hand he showed her a small thermom
eter. Temperature, Alvira, LIZ degsl Nor
NAL temperature, about 100 degs. Fahrenheit
| Have,I proved my lover' ., II,
"Hlpheus," murmured the lovely girl, a
she placed her head on his shoulder, with he,
lips at an accessible angle "you haye!"-
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