The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-06
Loves Vibrometer.

Il fear, professor" she said. toying
with hqf fansf'9lat If should marry
you VOC would be constantly referring
everything to a scientific cause. Ff, for
snssancc. yom wege so devoid Of feel
ing as to forget to give me even n
flower on the anniversary OF our we'd
ding you would excuse yourself OH the
ground that the Photographic impress
sion on your brain had not been suf-
fCiently strong, whereas your action
would be-well, 1t would be just hor-
rid"
"No; should say that mental ae-
tivIty In another direction blurred the
picture"
(which would stil be horrld You
are so STEPPED in materialism that all
sentmant has gone out Of you"
Sentiment You mean sentimental.
ism. And what is sentlmentnlism?
Manufactured emotion. say manu-
factured emotion, for it surely is not
natural like anger, fear, pity. And
how many couples does it tie up IN
matrimonial chains who are not fitted
for each other? With what result?
Misery and divorce"
"Then you don't believe IN marriage
for love. You would scorn those hap-
by moments OF lovers In the moon
light among flowers, listening together
TO strains of sweet music"
"Why not say with Shakespeare. TO
the lascivious pleasing of n luteT
grant you that all these things induce
passion, but is mere passion suf-
ficient reason for marrlaRc?"
"Of course not!' Indignantly.
''The scientist. where he reaches a
foundation for his faith, stands on
bedrock. There Is where stand in
the matter OF love We have attained
to a knowledge of what love is We
may not always be able TO determine
II It exists between two people in
sufficient degree to warrant marriage,
but | believe the day will come WHOM
II will be measured to a scale. Just ais
we measure our weight temperature,
pulse"
''In other words. a train d nurse puts
love thermometer on our hearts and
reads zero, temperate, grand passion,
as the case may be, People who sub
nit to such absurdity are indeed fit to
be under the care of a nurse. A luna
tic asylum is the proper place for
them
suppose In 200 marriages 100 of the
couples are brought together by your
moonlight, flowers, music and such
like; the other hundred by a-well, call
1t n vibrometer In the first hundred
cases we cannot expect all to turn out
happily. Let us assume that sixty are
happy, thirty unhappy and ten are di-
vorced. Now, If every case pronounced
by the vibrometer TO be genuine love
say. 05 per cent, to allow for errors
turns out happily If the amatory oscil-
lations continue through a long life.
would you admit the scientific method
to be the betterY
ooh, certainly! And If you should
pump gas into me from one of your
abomlnable machines that would make
me soar in the sky would admit that
you are a conjurer."
'Now. | have said that we know
what love is It has been defined by
DR.. Scheibler Of the Berlin Institute
Of Electro Therapeutics thus: The os-
citations in the interior Of a persons
body. as may be seen in the case of
vibrntory attraction, are in harmony
that is to say, they are at the first
movement in complete accordance with
the oscillations IN the interior Of some
other persons body
Oscillations! That's mans love.
end the more women between which
he may oscillate the better I suppose.
ePlease don't interrupt. 1t is OF
course, necessary that the reactionary
sentiment -
Sentiment? You mean clockwork' =
=" in the case of the two sub
jects' ="
"Automatons."
L" should be of an agreeable ma
turc' ~
"A grin painted on their faces"
=" since the two vibrations facilitate
the movement of all the atoms which
in this way accumulate and emit their
rays without disturbing the dlffu-
sion ~
Il suppose each heart is lighted tai
low candle?"
=" this 1t is which causes the senti
ment known as sympathy
Machine sympathy. I'd stick a pir
in a man who would offer me sucl
sympathy"
-" and which subsequently causes
love-"
"Oh, heavens! And this is love Ther
/ suppose cotton mills where shuttle
are continually vibrating are brimfu
of romances. And think OF the cases
IN watchmakers' shops where th'
watches all hang together TO be regu
lated How they must vibrate for On'
another. And Is this the kind Of low
you are Offering meT'
MY love for you is not thing Il
offer. n 1t can only exist with yours"
"Dobring the vibrometer and let n
see whether we are lovers"
There is yet no such instrument
The nearest we can get TO it Is by tn
touchP taking her hand do you fee
thrill? That's vibration in unison
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