Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-19

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''Ohl oh! you hurt mea" exclaimed the
widow, jumping back.
"Hal hal" laughed the professor; "that
was the electricity acting.o your nerves."
"Why, l thought you had pins in your
fingers or something
'No, madam, it was the magnetic cur
rents action, and you must not be surprised
If 1t is even more severe at times"
He took off the spectacles and showed her
two black balls as large as peas on the ends
of the frames and two more on the wires
that clasped her head. Then he explained,
though she did not understand the expla-
nation, how the current passed from one to
another and completed circuit, thus cur
ing the most stubborn case Of nearsighted-
ness.
For ten days he continued his residence
at the farm house, and his treatment" Of
his hostess eyes. 1t was the busy season,
and it SO happened that none Of the rela-
lions Of Mrs. Spencer had called. The whole
village, though, knew Of her aristocratic
boarder and the ladies' were wild to see him.
He seemed to care to know nobody, how
ever, but paid assiduous attention to the
widow.
Morning noon and night he was at her
side. He praised her farm, her house, her
garden, and even praised Norah. He fixed
the electric spectacles many times day,
and when after week he one evening
allowed az arm to drop around his patients
neck. she was too preoccupied to notice it,
or at least suffered 1t to remain. Then he
went step farther and actually proposed.
The widow was not quito ready to take
such a monstrous step without thinking it
over, and promised to give him an answer
in three days.
On the third day the sewing society met
at the Spencer home. She knew Jonas and
his wife would be there, and thought she
would talk the matter of Prof. De Mauke
over with her brother that afternoon when
he came to take his wife home.
show long have We been wearin' glasses,
Mis- Spencerr' asked the minister's wife,
as they were sitting around the dining
room table after supper, discussing various
little matters Of interest to the community
and waiting for the members husbands.
Jonas was already there, and she and the
professor were talking on the porch out
side.
''Oh, only short time," answered Mrs.
Spencer 81 amt agoin' to wear these long.
They're jest little short-cure experiment"
Short curel What dye meana' inquired
Mrs Squire Beanse, 'air they some new
tangled thingss"
The inquisitive matroA came nearer and
peered at the strange articles.
'What be them balls on the endsr she
queried.
"Ahemp' came from the porch, but Mrs.
Spencer, proud of her possession, did not
notice it.
'They are Electric balls to cure the
nerves." was her somewhat ambiguous an
swer.
chow do they work?n asked half dozen
ladies, coming forward, all agog with Curl
osity.
The professor hemmed and hawed upon
the porch but be was not needed.
Mrs Spencer took off the wonderful
spectacles and handed them to Mrs. Beanse.
How strange they ber' exclaimed that
lady, advancing toward the lamp. 'Do they
help your sight yet2"
"Ya-a-s, think they do some good, though
can't see much difference. The Electricity,
you know, goes through"
s'Why, Mrs. Beanse, what air We doin'2"
"Look, the balls is meltin' an droppin' off!''
ssWhat air they made of?' were some Of
the expressions that interrupted the expla-
nation.
aside the women and snatched the specta-
cles from the holders grasp.
Bringing them near to the lamp again, he
watched another electric ball melt and
fail sizzling to the table.
WAX, b'goshr' he muttered, in deep dis
dain. "Jerusha, where'd We git these
blamed thingsl"
1.-THE professor" Mrs Spencer answered
in n friphtane ed tone
Jonas made one long stride which carried
him almost to the pOrch-the professor was
gone.
And he did not appear again.
The spectacles were confscated by the
angry Jonas, who vowed he would horse
whip the rascal if he caught him.
The Widow Spencer is still widow. She
never confded her proposal to Jonas, and
she dislikes very much the word electric"
Though she has hard work sometimes to
read even very coarse print, she has not
yet, and declares she never viii, wear an
other pair of spectacles.
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