Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-25
BE CAME PREPARED.
A Case of True Love Applied SclentIficaII,
Bosom Gl.be

A Case of True Love Applied Scientifically.
Boston Gllbs.
You don't know what love is, Mr..
Swac&hsmmer," protested the besutiful
girl, with smile of ilc.edu!ity 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 go palpabls dtlusiOn
for the genuine thing it assumes to rep:e
sent"
"But hear me, Miss Clearinghouse" ex
claimed the young man calmly, yet earn
estly. "Au cot cid enough to know MY
own"
ut is not question of age, Mr.. Swack-
hammer" interposed Miss Clearinghouse,
still smiling incredulously, "but of scien.
tific demonstration. As you are probably
aware, have devoted myself for the last
two or thres years to a severe course of SCI
entific study, and have acquired the
habit, perhaps urConsciously, of accept
ing nothing as tr0e that is not demons
trable by the insxorable rules OF mathe.
MATES or 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 ruleI Of
science to matters Of tie tariff" Inquired
the young man. ''How can you subj ct
my love to the test of a mathematical or
scientific demonstratioD?'
'In this way, Mr.. Swackhamme.: The
action CT TIE passion or emotion Of love
upon the various sympathetic g'ngalis Of
tie human organism causes certain we'll
established and clearly defined phenomena.
When ynu speak to me of love 7 look for
the appearance of those phenomena. From
scientific point OF view they are not sat
isfantory. The tremor in our voice is not
sufficiently pror Danced. Your art;Cula-
ton is not thick and husky. The color in
your face is hardly shade paler than it,
normal hue, and you have no nervous
movements of the hands. Do you think
a mere assertion can disproye the evil
dence"-
"Alvira Garlinghouse," came impetu-
ously from the lips of the youpg man, as
he rose to his feet, There are facts in mer-
tsl as well as well as physical science that
are not wholly beneath your notice. So ne
men are gifted with the marvellous faculty
of SELF. control, 30 far as external msnifesta.
tons are ccncerntd. Beneath the appar-
emily unmoyed exterior that you have
sui sCtsd to q scientific test there RACES a
volcano of passion. Do you doubt it? l
will demonstrate il to mathematical GER
tainty. l foresaw the skeItcism with
which you would receive my avowsl, and
came prepared. Listen TO the beating OF
my hart"
And with a quick movement he drew
from beneath his wsistcost the flexible
tube Of s!etto cope and placed it against
her ear.
Count the pultationar' he continued
"They will run nearly 100 TO the minute.
Normal heartbeat, seventy pulsatio1s.
Note the revelation of doubtless love Goa
veyed by this respirometsrm And he pro
duced another flexible tube. "Rsspira-
tiops per minute, twepty-eight!
Twenty -eight, Alvirs-count them
--swenty-eight! Normal TeJpira-
tions per minute, from fourteen to twenty
in adults. Observe the mathematical GER
tairty of tempestuous passion demon.
strated by my temperature And opened
his tightly closed left band be showed her
small thermometer. Temperature,
Alvirs, 112 degsl Normal temperature,
about 100 deg. Fahrenheit! Have Ipfoved
my lover"
"Alpheus," murmurtd the lovely girl,
as she placed her heal on his shoulder,
with her lips at an accessible angle, 'ycu
hsvew