Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-10-13

with me- and it works like grease -
Detroit FIRE Pes
Swackhanmer Scientific wooin-
.lou don't Know what love is. Nr.
>wack hammer, protested the beautiful
girl. with a sm le Of lncreduIitv on her
face 1.-The sent ment You entertain for
me Is only passing fancy. Y hen it
has had is brief day and vol look al il
IN the cold light Of reason. you Wi. be
surprised that you ever mistook 50 pal
pable delnsion for the genuine thing =
''But hear me, Miss Clearinghouse,
exclaimed the young man, calmly. yet
earnestly: "A Ii | not old enough 10
know my own -
1T is not q question Of age Mr.
Swackhammcr. interposel Miss Gar
iinShouse, still smiling incredulously,
but OF scientific demonstrat on. A.
YOU are probably aware have devoted
mySelt tor the last two or three wears 20
severe course of scientific study, and |
have acquired The habit, perhaps uncon-
sciously y. of accepting nothing as true
thauis not demonstrablc by the ineNora-
bic rules of mathematics or the soundest
process of logical induction. Science
has became 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 heart:n inquired
the Young man 'liow can YOU sub jcct
my love to IA mathematical or scientific
/ demonstrations
'In this way, Mr. Swackhammer The
! action If the PASSION or emotion of love
upon the various sympathetic gdnglia Of
the human organism causes certain we'll
established and clearly defined phenom-
ena. When you speak to me of love.
look for the appearance Of thoe phenom.
ena. From scientific point Of view
they ;re not satisfactory The tremo,
ii your voice is not sufficiently pro
aoUCcct'. Your articulation is not thick
md husky. The color in your ia G is
nagdly 4 shade paier than lis normal hue
anl vou have no ners ous movements @
ol the hands Do you think . mere q,
,ertion-can disprove the evidence -
''Alvira GarIioghogse, came impetu
ou,ly f.,4r me iif~ oi the youAg man, a
he rose to his feet 'rherc are facts il
mental as vel as physica! sc ence tina
are nor wholly beneath your notice
Some men are gifted ulth aarvt.iou
faculty Of self control, 20 far as cytcrna
manifestations are concerned Rcneatl
tie aDpaIeatlv unmovcd exterior tia
YOU haze sub ceted to a ,cicnti.,c tcs
tlr;c ra-es i volcano Of passion. ~
you doubt it, | VII demonstrate it {,
mathematical certainty. ! forcsaw tn
skeptciS:n with which you would recc y
my avoval, an came prepare |. Ll9tcl
70 the beaiug Of my heart =
And with q quick movement he drew
from beneath h.s waste AT the fleXib.
tabe Of a ~tcthoseopc and placed
against her clr.
"Count tIe pulslt;ons :" he continued
'Tncy VII I'm nearly leo t. the minute
Normal heartbeat, seventy pul~at.ons
Note the revelation Of deathiee3 10y
conveyed BY this -cspiromeler" An
he produced another flexible tube
'Ec-p.rat on5 per minute. twenty ght
Twentv-ci-ht, Ai:ira coun3 them
twenty eight Normal respiratl3nS pe
minute from fourteen to twenty j
adults. Observe the ma;hcmatiea ce;
tainty Of tempestlDus passion demon
stratcd hv my tcmperlture" And
opening his ,eEtly c o,ce left hand, Il
showed her u small thefnomctcl
"Icmpera' ure, A!rira, 1l2 Norm,
temperature, a out 100 Have prove
nv love.'
''-Aphe.s. ,nurmu-ed the lovely "ir
rs she paced her head on his shouic,
With heT i,p- II an accc ,siD.e angle, -
have. Cnc&Ju 1re1une.