The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-01
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rum ana presented Tar more apprC-
pirate vis-a-yis to the houses OF par
lament Its presence there gently re-
! MINCED old-taShioned mem berS that
their constituents were no longer men
! whose first thought was amusement,
but scientists, men of culture of large
mind, who needed enlightened legisla-
ton, and could no longer be hood
Winked by clever strung-together
! words of dubious meaning or the re-
sonant outpourings of inflated wind
! bags of So-called oratory.
Aristotle Owen. it is needless to say.
was very clever man, in an age when
all men were clever. for the time of
which we write was in the year 1920.
| Science had made gigantic strides; ed
| ucatlon was on such an extended scale
that, though people still starved from
want OF common necessarieS of life,
they had the satisfaction of being able
to analyze with scientific accuracy the
! Slow progress of the diminution of It's
sue and the certain approach of dis
solution.
Yet with all his cleverness Professor
Owen had been unable to resist pre-
historic weakness-he had fallen in
love with and married very pretty
woman. This, at first sight appears
only an 2fsia5le tendency to which
many great mind has heretofore been
subject, yet was it of grievous import
to the professors peace of mind, for
though in 1920 science had made pro-
digious and progressive strides, virtue,
alaSi had been somewhat retrograde.
Hence it was that, amidst his most
abStruSe calculations and subtle deduc-
lions, harrassing thoughts of his pretty
wife would arise and disturb the calm
mental abstraction which science de-
mandS. In an earlier and ruder age
IL might have been SAID that the pro-
fessor was jealous. but the leading
medical light of 1920 pronounced it as
his grave opinion that Professor Owen
suffered from aggravated cardiac acer-
bitude, and the nervous irratibility pro-
duced by this insiduous disease caused
him to watch his wife with lynX-eyed
vigilance and to note every Slight in
Election in her voice. in her manner;
nothing was too trivial to escape be-
ing, as it were, instantaneouSly pho
toSraphed on his mental sensitive plate.
Professor Owen returned home to
dinner The table was daintily ar
ranged, the food exquisite, his wife at
the head of the table in perfect har-
mony with her surroundings.
You lecture at the institute tomor-
row evening, do you not, Aristotie?'
she asked as the sweets appeared
will you dine at home?"
He looked up quickly His mental
sensitive plate was quivering with
eager receptivity, as he answered
slowly:
L find 1 shall not have to lecture"
The expression on his wifes face
altered perceptibly. A little pucker of
annoyance contracted her pretty
brows. and her lips curved downward
with a disappointed. detected droop.
There was even a faint note of dis
tress in her voice as she answered
"Oh, l thought it was quite
settled"
Nothing but scientific fact or a
mathematical problem can be consid-
cred definitely settled" he answered
Dramatically; then added in a tone he
thought was. genial and sympathetic:
I hope my presence will not incon-
Venience you, or disturb any arrange
ments you have made"
"Oh, not at all. Only I-well think
ing YOU would not be at dinner and
away all the evening, l asked Lefty
Golightiy TO come from Wimbledon
and share my loneliness. OF course
now, as I know she is not a persona
s alta, l will telephone and put her
DO not, I entreat, I should much /
prefer that you should make no alter !
alton in your plans"
And Professor Owen rose, left the /
room and retired TO his study in a very |
bity was rising most prejudicially to |
the proper digestion of an excellent |
dinner.
His wife was right; he did not like
Lefty Golightly. She was advanced in !
many ways even for 1920. Yet. with
q strange inconsistency. she chung to
many pernicious, old-fashioned Gus
toms. too-skirt dancing, bicycling
and q love for music hall songs among
the number-and was engaged to a
muscular husSar with a fine mustache
and body, but no mind. Serious as
these propensities were, there was
another fact which rendered her even
more Objectionable in the professors
eyes-Aiiss Golightiy possessed an IN
married brother who might have been
mistaken for the hussar. This broth
for the weakness of great
nen-was the large cause OF the pro-
,essor's cardiac trouble.
Aristotle Owen sat thinking deeply.
Until his meditations were disturbed
~ the tinl1l;ng of the telephone bell.
Not only house. but every room, pos
;essed its telephone in 1920. He rose
ind. placing his ear to the instrument,
istened
Can you lecture a the Peoples pal
ice on Inchoate Hymenogeny to-
morrow evening at o'clock?" asked
he voice Of a much-esteemed brother
dentist.
Aristotle thought for moment. A
lash of inspiration came TO him. He
,laced his lips to the tube.
Yes, 1 can. VIII you join me here
t 6:9O?"
The answer was evidently satisfac- II
cry, and the professor, with a face
rom which all uncertainty had van
shed, joined his wife in the drawing
DOM.
I hope you have not put off your
riend." he said.
L telephoned to her, but she was
ot a home
We'll, do not alter your arrange
lents. Blatant has asked me to lee
ure at the Peoples palace on 'Hy- I
tomorrow at Z. He will c<Tl I
Or me at $50; we shall have supper in
he city, and L shall bring him here to !
leep; but we shall not be home till / I
tie, certainly not before u 1 have
n experiment l wish to try tonight, I
D do not wait I'D for me-" He re- '
lrned TO his study and was soon deep
! various strange preparations. {
Pretty Mrs. Owen yawned several +
mes. hummed. Douted, and at last,
lrowing the novel she was reading Z
n the sofa in disgust, rose 10 her feet. :
t that moment the bell of the tele- !
hone sounded. She went eagerly TO ?
lie instrument.
Il am here" said a merry voice; ,
what do you want?' c
BE sure to come tomorrow evening y
I. Not moment earlier. l hope !
ack is free
Jack is free; so is Bob. l shall bring Z
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