The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-12

world and the flesh above the fine arts.
He, too. went to dinner and met a Bos-
tonesque highly intellectual, rigidly
formal Mrs. Jack, who froze the blood
in his veins.
"Why couldn't she have been the
other one this timf?" again ne
groaned.
Some way the imp of perversity
seemed to run things most Of the time
She was so often to his moods tine
other one" He began to feel like
shuttle cock between two battledoors.
Not being born to suffer in silence,
one day he said irrtabiy: II wish you'd
try and be one or the other, Grace,
long enough for me to begin to feel at
home. Then, too, when l want you to
be one of you you are always the 9TH
er"
THAT never bothered you before we
were married" Grace suggested.
mo; before a man is married he
sort of eliminates his own moods. He
simply takes the impressions the girl
is giving him without any counter cur
rent of his own. Afterward, of course.
! he takes his innings. Now, before we
were married / thought your unexpec-
|
married life. 1t does, but there is just
| the trouble. A man finds out that he
wants his married life to be monoton-
Gus. He gets enough of the other out
side. The unexpected in matrimony
is not desirable. 1t keeps him jump
ing around like a toad under a har-
row."
Il am very sorry" said Grace,
simply; but / don't see how it can
be helped"
In a dim way, though, Jack did. The
thought seethed and he worked in the
wire meshed laboratory of the electric
| al building down town days and nights
too.
He came home one day with blaze
in his eyes and triumph in his face
Grace" he said, II hold the millen'
MUM in my hand. 1 have discovered
something which will adjust the world
In studying a way to equalize youl
temperamental peculiarities the thins
has revealed itself in all its magnifi
cence. l will take you down to th'
laboratory tonight and explain it,
In the electric gemmed laborator!
that night Jack explained
"The foundation of it ALL" he said
"is the N-ray. Well, science is begin
ming dimly to realize the wonderful
: powers of that ray. They have fount
that turned on the parts of the bod
| in which they swarm it will kill th'
} microbes of disease. Now ] hav'
reasoned this way. There are fluid
filling the brain cells which ar
charged with all the human passion
} as they predominate in the individual
They are a part of life. All life mus
: have organism. All organism is COM
posed of microbes. There you have il
, Isn't it simple? BE careful; don't touc
medicine. You might hurt it. Their
2 is a secret in it in the manipulation @
t the ray which / have barely caugh
1t Is what does the business and Wi
4 make me famous.
"You don't understand it? Why,
t is this way: You turn it on person
head and you kill the predominate mi
= crobes. For instance, there is big
c brutal truck driver about here; swear
; like pirate all the while. l got hir
I in here, fixed him in the chair an
e turned the ray on him. When he sc
up his whole countenance was chang
ed. He looked like a Quaker. The
r there's old Rogers. He'd skin a tle
a for it's hide and tallow. Gets a five
!, cent glass of milk for lunch every da!
- 1 fixed his head this morning and h
/, bought a 50-cent lunch l saw him 81
n it. Then l tried Miss May, our type
: | writer. She's a mighty pretty, vail
flirtatious little girl"
= she is," interposed Mrs. Kerens.
:. She was always rafting the boy
= around the office. l turned it on hC
:, last night. You'd think she was a nu
if you'd seen her today. But the bigge
!, triumph of all was Hail. You knO
the conceit of the fellow, Grace? +
. had the big head past all enduring.
got him there. They all thought
= was some Roentgen ray business
r photograph brain. Meek and milC
|: Well, rather. / could hardly get alor
: with him before, but today he d.
n ferred everything to me.
l. "Oh, it works. OF course, it hi
k only been running "a couple of day
: but haven't l proof enough? BY Jov
Is it's the discovery of the century.
will empty all our prisons and refor
& schools.
e "Now, my darling, as regards you