Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1897-06-03


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AND now DR., Janet of Paris has discov
cred that love is malady, disease, sick
ness, due to germs, microbes and other scien-
tiiic animalculae,
1t is enough to shake the foundations of
government, says the Post-Dispatch, to learn
that, through ages Of ignorance and supersti-
ton, men and women have been burning in
cense to an immodest little Cupid, when they
should have established quarantine against
prosaic infection, as they would lumpy jaw
and the glanders.
DR.. Janet's theory is that person in love
is person diseased, and that no man or wo-
man in sound bodily and mental health is
liable to its contraction. Ii is, therefore, only
communicable when the system is 6eblitated
the mind depressed, the moral nature cropping
in darkness for help from some unseen
force.
Then it is, the little wriggling worm called
love, gets in its incest work. Once poisoned,
the world changes color Tor the victim and
his unbalanced intellect turns human affairs
topsy-turvey.
The learned physician does not yet say
whether innoculauon would be effectual, but
this drastic treatment generally follows in the
wake OF all germ and microbe discoveries,
and may be expected as the rational prevent
i've.
An instance OF the safety of one vaccinated
against the love bacillus may be imagined.
beautiful young woman, almost fatally
diseased by the love microbe, walks out to-
ward Forest park and meets handsome
young neighbor. She is unaware that the
injection she carries may be communicated.
But in the responsibility of her malady, she
says:
"Oh, Algernon, what a beautiful evening!
| can scent the odor of violets in the atmos-
phere."
"Yaas, possibly" says Algernon, who has
been vaccinated, and it took, "splendid
weathaf, Pm suah. Just the right thing,
they tell me, for putting out onion sets and
burning brush heaps, don't you know"
Then the blushing sufferer passes on, with
mid disgust, to find the physical soundness
of the man had warded off the microbe with
which she would have lnnocently infected
him. In other words, man must be in condi-
ton to receive the disease, or else it passes
him by, just as would the mumps OR the
whooping cough.
! And this is no joke, either. tits the solemn
conviction OF one of the worlds great scien,
lists, who has with his researches uncovered
mystery which for all ages untold, has baf.
fed the scrutiny of the world.
Thus, when Adam slept beneath the shades
CT Eden's garden, he caught bad cold,
which rapidly developed into an aggravated
case OF love Eve happened along and eve.
ryoody knows the rest 1t may have been
that Eve caused the infection to begin with
1t was she who ate the unripe and worm m-bt-
ten apple; It was she who gave itunto Adam
and the record is that "he did eat thereof"
Then love broke out in vertabIe nos.
tales, and the victims wandered out over the
earth IN search of natures remedy, and event.
uhlly died together In spasm of ecstacy ue
euliar 70 The malady they possessed.
The man who ran down hill and iun,pef
into the sea because he was possessed o.
seven devils, was possibly victim Of Incor
rect diagnosis. Mayhap he had the love
sickness, the germ which Janet declares ha,
spread itself unhIndsred through the world.