The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-02

The announcement is made that Dr.
Edward H. Magill, Father of
Swarthmore College, and Mrs. Sarah
e. Gardner, are to be married when
the birds nest again. DR.. Magill is
seventy-six years of age and his bride
to-be is sixty-one. The news is re-
garded by many newspapers as being
so extraordinary that they are putting
display headlines over the announce
ment. But, if the discovery of Cal
ifornia doctor works out as he promises
1t will, the marriage of aged persons
win become so common that they will
go into the news columns under a sin
gle black line. This Western genius,
it seems. has discovered, segregated
and cultivated the micrococci or bacil-
lus of love. Not only that, but from
the culture he has made a lymph the
inoculations of which Immediately kin
die in even the aged breast a flame of
love worthy the most ardent heroes
of romance.
In its experimental stages the new
lymph has proved very promising The
Baltimore Sun a few days ago noted
an example of its efficiency in the case
of Signor Angelantonio, aged 100, chan
cellor of the College of Notaries in AL
tri, Italy. Tt seems, from the Suns
account, that he was inoculated with
the love lymph, and Immediately went
accounting. 80 ardently did he court
that he took the heart of a young girl
of twentysiX summers by storm. He
married her, and 80 enthusiastic did
she become and so impressed with the
sprightliness of her bridegroom that
she did not hesitate to declare that she
expected they would celebrate their
golden wedding" In the same cons
nection The Doctor, a medical publica-
tion, tells something of the prospectus
OF the lymph. It's action, according
to this authority, is prompt. A con-
firmed bachelor of fifty years received
the treatment. Within twenty-four
hours he had dyed his hair and bought
new suit of clothes. Within fortv-
eight hours he had procured a set OF
false teeth and a bottle of hair re-
storer. In a weeks time he had a
new top buggy diamond ring, a gui
tar and was reading Byron. Evident
ly the treatment was a success. In
another case the subject was a demure
maiden of approximately fifty. AL
most Immediately she bought IS worth
of cosmetics, some new front hair. sent
out invitations to evening parties and
sang sentimental songs.
Some persons may be inclined to scoff
at the claims made for this rejuvena-
tor and boon, but It should he remem-
bered that we are living in a mervel-
Gus age. At the beginning of the last
century people would have scoffed at
the idea Of preventing smallpox by in
oculation. yet now such preventive has
the sanction and backing not only OF
the medical profession but the law as
well. 1t isn't well to make derisjve
faces at science when she tells us she
has new scheme on the stocks. She
may yet tap for us the fountain OF
perpetual youth which De Soto looked
for In the wrong place. And It may
~ NAeA eiiN AldhiI lOunIdln VIII be
found a very simple thing. after all.
Simple things sometimes have marvel
GUS results. Our contemporary, the
Sun, which we have already quoted,
tells a story In illustration. The in
cident occurred at Atlantic City some
years ago. where there was a presump-
tuous young man who ridiculed the
homeopathic treatment. "a gentleman
who heard his gibes undertook TO ad-
minister lesson to him. He took
several drops OF water from the ocean.
az spot where a party Of Young
ladies had been bathing. diluted n
in gallon OF rainwater and then ad-
ministered two drops 10 the skeptic
at intervals Of one hour. The next
day the young man screamed when he
saw mouse, and two days latter. the
doses being continued. he was knitting
a nubia."
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