The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
Loves YibrOmeter.

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II fear, professor" she said. toying
with her fan. that II / should marry
you you would be constantly referring
everything to q scientific cause. If. Tor
instance you were 50 devoid OF feel
Ing as to forget 70 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 sur-
ticicntly strong. whereas your action
would be--well Il would be just nor
rid
no; I should say that mental nc
tlvity In another direction blurred the
picture"
(which would stll bc horrid You
are SO stecpcd in matcriallsm that all
sentiment has gone out OF you"
Sentiment YoU mean sentlmental-
ism And what Is sentmcntaiism?
Manufactured emotion. I say manu-
facturSd emotion. for It surely Is not
natural. like anger fear ply. And
how many couples does it tic UP IN
matrimonial chains who are not ftted
for each other? with what resultg
Misery and divorce"
''rhon You don't believe In marriage
for love, fou 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
the lascivious pleasing Of mtcT
grant you that all these things induce
passion, but is mere passion suf-
ficient reason for marrlaSef'
"Of course not" Indignantly.
"Thc 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
70 knowledge uf what love Is. We
may not always be able to determine
If It exists between two people IN
sufficient degree to warrant marriage.
hut J believe tho day viii come when
It viii be measured TO a scale, just as
we measure our weight, temperature.
pulse"
in other words, a trained nurse puts
Il love thermometer on our hearts aud
reads zero temperate, grand passion,
as the ease may be. People who sub
init TO such absurdity are indeed ft to
be under the care of nurse A luns-
tic asylum is the proper place for
them"
Suppose I'm 200 marriages 100 OF the
couples are brought together by your
moonlight, flowers, music aud such
like: the other hundred by a-well call
It Il vibrometer In the first hundred
cases we cannot expect all to tuin ont
happily. Let us assume that sixty are
happy, thirty unhappy and ten are di-
vorced. Now, If every case pronounced
by the yibrometer TO be genuine love
say, % per cent. 10 allow for errors
turns out happily If the amatory oscil-
lations continue through 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
abomnable machines that wculd make
me soar in the sky / would admit that
you are conjurer"
"Now ! have said that we know
what love Is. II has been defined by
Dr Scheiblcr 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
vibratory attraction, ure In harmony
that is to say they are at the frst
movement In complete accordance with
the oscillations in the interior OF some
OF p pcrsons BODY