Connecticut western news., 1908-11-12
Loves VibrOmeter.

Copyright. 1908, by American Press Asso-
 ciation.1
 "1 fear, professor" she said, toying with her fan, that if I should marry you you would be constantly referring everything to a scientific cause. If, for instance, you were so devoid of feel ing as to forget to give me even a flower on the anniversary of our we'd ding you would excuse yourself on the ground that the photographic impress sion on your brain had not been suf- hcieEtly strong, whereas your action would be-wen, 1t would be just hor- rid"
 "No; l should say that mental ac- tfvity in another direction blurred the picture.'
 Which would still be horrid. You are so steeped in materialism that all sentiment has gone out of you" Sentiment! You mean sentimental ism. And what is sentimentalismi Manufactured emotion. I say manu- factured emotion, for it surely is not natural, like anger, fear, pity. And how many couples does 1t 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 py moments of lovers In the moon light, among flowers, listening together to strains of sweet music"
 "Why not say with Shakespeare, ITO the lascivious pleasing of a luteT I grant you that all these things induce passion, but is mere passion a suf- ficient reason for marriage?"
 of course notr Indignantly.
 ''The scientist, where he reaches a foundation for his faith, stands on bedrock. There is where I stand in the matter of love. We have attained to knowledge of what love is. We may not always be able to determine if it exists between two people in a sufficient degree to warrant marriage, but believe the day will come when 1t will be measured to a scale, just as we measure our weight, temperature pulse."
 Tn other words, trained nurse puts love thermometer on our hearts ard reads zero, temperate, grand passion as the case may be. People who sub init to such absurdity are indeed fit to be under the care of 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 dwell, call 1t a vibrometer. In the first hundred cases we cannot expect all to turn oui 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, 95 per cent, to allow for errors turns out happily if the amatory oscil lations continue through long life would you admit the scientific method to be the betterT"
 "Oh, certainly! And if you should pump a gas into me from one of your abominable machines that would make me soar in the sky would admit that you are a conjurer."
 "Now, I have said that we know what love is. It has been defined bJ Dr. Scheibler of the Berlin Institute of Electro Therapeutics thus: The os cillations in the interior of persons body, as may be seen in the case o1 vibratory attraction, are in harmony that is to say, they are at the first movement In complete accordance witt the oscillations in the interior of some other persons body"
 oscillations! That's a mans love And the more women between whicf he may oscillate the better, suppose
 Please don't interrupt. Tt is, O! course, necessary that the reactionary sentiment "-
 Sentiment? You mean clockwork.'
 -" in the case of the two sub jects' ''-
 "Automatons."
 -" should be of an agreeable na ture'"-
 "A grin painted on their faces"
 -" since the two vibrations facilitate the movement of all the atoms whicl in this way accumulate and emit theil rays without disturbing the diffu sion "-
 q suppose each heart is lighted tai low candle?"
 -" this it is which causes the senti ment known as sympathy "-
 Machine sympathy. I'd stick a pi1 in a man who would offer me suci sympathy"
 -"'and which subsequently, causes l love-"
 "Oh, heavens! And this is love! The1 I suppose cotton mills where shuttle are continually vibrating are brimfu of romances. And think of the case | In watchmakers' shops where tn 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 me?'
 "Iy love for you Is not thing t offer. It can only exist with yours"
 Do bring the vibrometer and let II see whether we are lovers."
 There Is yet no such instrument The nearest we can get to 1t is by tn l 4ol bor. bon6 tfnM vOu foe