St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-24
LOVE AND SCIENCE.
Devoted Lovers Perished While
Running the Gauntlet of Germ

Devoted Lovers Persisted While
Running the Gauntlet of Germ
Diseases.
Pail Mall Budget.
''Do you know the very tall. dilapi-
AFTERNOON with his arm in a sling, sits
in the corner yonder and reads the
Lancet?"
know him! Know Wallis, my dear
fellow? knew him seven years ago,
when he first accepted the chair of
biology at Holster. At that time he was
monument among men, an athlete
and breaker of records"
And now?"
Nov he is the wreck you see him.
He leaves his bed at noon, comes down
in Bath chair, stays two hours and goes
home to be nursed."
''COnsumptlOn?"
"No; his story is brief. unique, but
very tragic. Two years after his cleo
ton to the prOfessorship he fell in
love with the rather blue but lovely
daughter of DR.. Delamore, the lecturer
on bacteriology,a and he, the girls father,
consented to their engagement OH one
coDdition-namely, that the wedding
should be postponed until both had by
vaccination protected themselves against
ali known Zymotic diseases. Said the
prospective father-in-iaw: "A mans
first aim, for the sake of those de-
pendent upon him. should be self-pres-
ervatiOn, as also the wife'S. and vaccina-
ton is the basis of all security-it is
life Insurance made actual, and euthana-
STA reduced to a certainty. Death in
some form or other turks at every street
corner, and peers through the bars of
open drains waiting for the unprotected.
Typhoid comes in with the mornings
milk, and measles joins hands with the
children as they play kisS-in-the-ring at
the Sunday school picnic. l will intrust
the future of my daughter to no one
who has not put on the whole aTInor of
salvation woven OF modern research"
And Wallis?"
''Well. Wallis consented A part from
his intense devotion to the girl. this
new theory quite correspondent with his
own conviction, and on it was arranged
that the two OF them should on the fol-
| lowing Monday start their crusade
! against the germ diseases, taking them
| alphabetically. They began with ague;
| by the end of the first six months were
| halfway through the first letter, and
| they spent their Christmas holidays in
| the throes OF an induced asthma, and
| Nv dlCullUC udN UIOlCulllS hCl-
| ties, wheeling their love through the
| steam.'
| AT what stage are they now?"
well, not together. At first they
kept company moderately well, but
palted at chorea; since then first he,
| then she, would make the running,
passing each other. as it were, with
nod and word of sympathy. Just now
| the lovely Ethel is long way ahead.
doing hydrophobia IN Paris, while he Is
still graphing with his G's."
''When dc they hope to finish?''
~ asked Wallis the other day. and he
tells me that, given good lymph and
some luck, the whole thing should be
over in about four years, but the curse
of the system lies in the new discoveries
that are made annually. Wallis had
| only last month to go back to fish
| poisoning, the germ of which some Ger
man dropped on, and yesterday the
| microbe of hay fever was differentiated"
But here comes Wallis; he looks
worse than ever. Pll go and speak to
| him.
81 thought as much from the black
| coat and nat band"
"What?"
Ethel Dolamore died Yesterday of
| blood poisoning in Paris"