The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-30
HE KNEW WHAT IT WAS.
A Boston Lover Equal to the
Emergency.

"You don't know what love is, Mr.,
Swackhammer," protested the beauti-
full girl, with smile of incredibly on
her face; 1.-The sentiment you entertain
for me is only passing fancy. When
it 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 it assumes 70 represent"
"But hear me, Miss Garlinghouse, !"
exclaimed the young man, calmly, yet
earnestly, IAN l not old enough to
| know my own
sit is not question of age, Mr..
Swackhammer, interpesed Miss Gar
linghouse, still smiling incredulously,
''but of scientific demonstration. AS
you are probably aware, 1 have devoted
myself for the last two or three years
| to severe course of scientific study,
and have acquired the habit, perhaps
| unconsciously, of accepting nothing as
true that is demonstrable by the mex
orable rules of mathematics or the
soundest process Of logical induction.
Science has become with me the touch
stone of all things asserted, claimed, or
proposed, and"
but how do you apply the rules of
science to matters of the hearth" in
quired the young man. How can you
subject my love to the test of a mathe-
NAUTICAL or scientific demonstration
In this way, Mr.. Swackhammer:
The actlon of the passion or emotion
of love upon the various sympathetic
ganglia of the human organism causes
certain well-esta blished and clearly-de
| fined phenomena. When you speak to
me of love 1 look for the appearance
| of those phenomena. From q scientific
point of view they are not satisfactory.
The tremor of your voice is not suffi-
| GENTLY pronounced. Your articulation
is not thick and husky. The color in
your face is hardly shade paler than
its normal hue, and you have no ner-
GUS movements of the hands Do you
think mere assertion can disproye the
evidence"
"Alvira Clearinghouse" came impet-
uously from the Rps OF the young man.
as he rose to his feet, there are facts
in mental as well as PHI steal science
thatare not wholly beneath your notice.
Some men are gifted with a marvellous
faculty of self.control, SO far as exter-
nal manifestations are concerned. Be-
meath the apparently unmoved exterior
that you have subjected to scientific
test there RACES a volcano of passion,
Do you doubt it? I will demonstrate
it to mathematical certainty. l for
saw the scepticism with which you
would receive my avowal, and came
prepared. Listen TO the beating of my
heart"
And with quick movement he drew
from beneath his waistcoat the flexible
tube of stethoscope and placed it
against her ear.
Count the pulsationsl" he con-
tinued. "They will run nearly 100 to
the minute. Normal heart beat, 10 |
pulsations. Note the revelation of |
deathless love conveyed by this respiro-
meter" And he produced another |
flexible tube. Inspirations per
minute, %. Twenty eight. Alvira-
count them-28. Normal respirations
per minute, from IA to 20 in adults. |
Observe the mathematical certainty of |
tempestuous passion demonstrated by |
my temperature And opening his |
tightly closed left hand, he showed her
small thermometer. Temperature, |
Alvira, liz degrees! Normal tempera-
ture, about ZOE degrees Fahrenheit |
Have proved my lover"
"Alpheus," murmure6 the lovely girl,
as she placed her head on his shoulder,
with her lips at an accessible angle,
you haYe!'-Chicago Tribune. |