The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07
.oye's Vibremeter.

s1nstance. you were so devoid of feel.
ing as to forget to give me even a
Hover 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-
fnclently strong, whereas your action
would be-well, II would be just hor-
rid.
$40; / should say that mental ac-
ltivity In another direction blurred the
picture"
(which would still be horrid. You
care so STEPPED in materiallsm that all
sentiment has gone out of You"
( sSentimentl You mean sentimental
ism. And what is sentimentalism ?
Manufactured emotion. I say manu-
faetured emotion, for 1t surely Is not
natural, like anger. fear pity. And
how many couples does Il tie up in
matrimonial chains who are not fitted
for each other? With what result 2
Misery and divorce"
g "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, TO
sthe lasclvious pleasing of n luteY
grant you that all these things induce
passion, but Is mere passion suf-
fcient reason for marriage?'
"Of course notr 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 knowledge of what love is. We
may not always be able to determine
IL IL exists between two people in
sufficient degree to warrant marriage,
but | believe the day will come when
IL will be measured to a scale, just as
we measure our weight, temperature,
pulse"
Elm other words, trained nurse puts
a love thermometer on our hearts and
reads zero, temperate, grand passion.
as the case may be. People who sub
init to such absurdity are indeed at 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 a-well, call
it a vibrometer. In the, first hundred
cases we cannot expect all to turn out
happily. Let MS assume that sixty are
happy. thirty unhappy and ten are di-
voreed. Now, If every case pronounced
by the vibrometer to be genuine love
say, % 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 better?"
ooh, certainly And If you should
pump gas into me from one of your
abominable machines that would make
me soar in the sky l would admit that
you are 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 persons |
body, as may be seen in the case of
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. |
And the more women between which
he may oscillate the better, Tsuppose" |
please don't interrupt 1T is, of |
course, necessary that the reactionary
sentiment
t"Sentiment? You mean clockwork." |
-" in the case of the two sub
jects' -
"Automatons"
-" should be Of an agreeable ma.
ture'"-
"a grin painted on their faces"
=" since the two vibrations facilitate
the movement of all the atoms which
In this way accumulate aud emit their
rays without disturbing the diffu-
sion -
II suppose each heart is a lighted tai.
lew candleT"
=" this II is which causes the senti-
ment known as sympathyH--
Machine sympathy. I'd stick pin
In a man who would offer me such
sympathy"
80 and which subsequently causes
love.'p
ef'0h, heavens! And this Is love! Then
suppose cotton mills where shuttles
are continually vibrating are brimful
of rOmances. And think Of the cases
In watchmakers' shops where the
watches all hang together to be Tegu-
lated. How they must vlbrate for one
another! And Is this the kind Of love
You are Offering me"
my love for you is not a thing to
offer. II can only exist with yours"
''Do bring the yibrometer and let usf
see whether we are lovers"
,"There Is yet no such instrument
The nearest we can get to 1t Is by the
toneh," taking her hand. "Do you feel
a thrlllf That's vibration in unison.
This pressing my lips on yours is a
more sensitive testn
n think do feel 1t Just little"
T'Perhaps a cardiac juxtaposltionp-
"A whaty'
Il wiz illustrate. fold you In my