The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-23
He CAME PREPARED.


A c,.sc Of True Love Applied Scientific
ally.
"you don't know what love is, Mr.. Swack-
hammer" protested the beautiful girl, with
n smile OF incrcduity on Der face; 1.-The SEN
tinent you entertain for me is only passing
fency When 1t has had its brief day and
Won, look nj il in the cod light Of reason you
Will ls. surprised that yon ever mistook 90
paln,.,le a dlclusion for thr genuine thing II
assumes TO represent"
"But hear n,e, Miss Clearinghouse ex-
clair,,ed the young inan, calmly, yet ear
nestlv. cam not old enough TO know my
own
at is not question of age. Mr Swack-
hammer rnterlssed Miss Clearinghouse,
still smiling incre,uIously. but Of scientific
demonstration. As You are probably aware,
! have devoted myself for the last two or
three years to a severe course Of scientific
study, and have acquired the habit. per
haps nnconscioIsly, o. accepting nothing as
true that Is, not demonstrate b. The iuex-
orahle rules Of mathematics or The soundcst
process of logical induction Science las
become with me the tombstone Of all things
asserted. claimed or proposcl, and
"But how do you apply the rules Of science
to matters Of the heart" inquired tlio young
man. "Iow can YOU subject nv love to the
test OF Mathematical or scic., o. demon
strat.on"
"In this way, Mr. Swackhammc~. Tho ac-
ton Of the passion or emotion g., ir'- upon
the various sympathetic ganglia oi ilc in-
man organism causes certain well estaii..od
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
tremor in your voice is not sufficiently pro
nounccd Your articulation is not thick and
husky The color in your facc IS hardly a
shade palcr chan its normal hue, and sou
have no nervous movement Of the hands.
Do you think a mere assertion can disproye
the eyidence'---
"Alvira Garlnghouso,' came impciuouIy
from The il Of the young man, as lie rose to
bis feet. there are facts IN mental rs well rs
physical science That are not wholly beneath
your notice. Some men are gifted with a
marvellous faculty OF self control, so far as
external manifestations are concerned BE-
meath the apparently unmoyed exterior that
Won have subjected 10 a scientific test there
RACES a volcano Of passion Do you doubt
III will demonstrate it to mathematical
certainty. foresaw the skepticism with
which YOU would receive my avowal, and
came prepared. Listen TO the beating Of my
hearth
And with a quick increment he drew from
beneath bis waistcoat tic flexible tube OF a
stothoscope and placed 1t against her car
"count the pulsations" he continued.
"They viii run nearly 100 to the minute.
Normal heartbeat, seventy pulsatioiis. Note
the revelation of deathless love conveyed by
this respirometerT And re produced an
other flexible tube. "Respirations per min
ute, twenty-eightl Twenty-eight, Alyira-
count them twenty eight Normal respira-
tons per minute, from fourteen to twenty in
adults Observe tie mathematical certainty
Of tempestuous passion demonstrated by my
temperaturei" And opened his tightly closed
left hand he showed her a small thcrm0m-
eter "Tcmpcraturc, Alvirl, ll2 dessl Nor
NAL temperature about 100 degs. Fahrenheit
Have proved my loyoN
"Aiphcls.r murmurcd the lovely girl, as
she placed Lcr head on his shout Ter, with her
lips at an accessible angle, you hayor-
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