Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-12-30
For Science
By FRANK H. WILLIAMS

Prof. Virginia Carruthers, head of
the class in psychology, took up her
businesslike fountain pen with deter
mined fingers. Her pretty forehead
was corrugated with frown and her
lips were drawn firmly together. Then,
with this serious, studious aspect, she
wrote the following note:
Dear Fred: I've something very
important that want to tell you. Can
you meet me tonight about eight
o'clock in the row of trees near the
gymnasium? Please do not fail me.
Yours, G."
Prof. Carruthers pensively regarded
the note before she sealed and direct
ed it to Prof. Fred Baker, head of the
physical culture department of the
college. She thought idly of how stall
wart he would look as he opened the
envelope, and then, with suppressed
sigh, she took UP another sheet of pa
per. She must not think of Prof.
Baker except as an aid for science.
There had been time-but that time
was passed. She saw him almost
Ae@Ay AAOW WILL llldI MISS oWlJu, CQ0
pretty new assistant music teacher.
Much as she hated to do it, it was
now Prof. Carruthers' duty to bring
Prof. Baker and Prof. Smith together.
That day in the psychology class one
of the serious pupils had asked if it
was fact that propinquity and moon
light make the thoughts of young peo-
pie turn to love. Prof. Carruthers
was unable to say for sure. None of
the serious, studious class knew any.
thing about it, or, at least, would say
nothing about it, AS consequence.
Prof. Carruthers had felt it her duty
to be able to deliver an accurate re.
port to her class at the next session.
And, furthermore. the only young peo-
pie In the college, outside the pupils,
were Prof. Baker and Prof. Smith and
herself. Much as she hated to do it.
1T was necessary that she try her ex-
pertinent on these two. Perhaps she
was really anxious to know how mat
tiers stood between the two.
Prof. Carruthers' next note was
even shorter than the first. 1t read:
z Dear Gertrude: Can you meet me
tonight about eight o'clock in the
row of trees near the gymnasium?
Important. Yours, FRED"
g Shortly before eight o'clock that
evening Prof. Carruthers hid herself
in the shadow of the gymnasium, Just
out of the moonlight, and waited de-
Velopments. In a few minutes she
discovered Prof. Baker walking hasti-
ly toward the row of trees. In mo-
ment he was near her, and, despite
her attempt to be calm and scientific,
her heart beat faster and faster. But
Prof. Gertrude Smith, where was she.
How could Prof. Carruthers know that
Prof. Smith had read the note with
sniff of disgust and thrown it into the
waste. basket without a further
thought?
Prof. Baker and Prof Carruthers
both became annoyed and restless at
the delay. The physical culture in
structor strobe back and forth nerv-
ously while the pretty psychology
teacher knotted and unknotted her
tiny handkerchief. At last, in an un.
guarded moment, the girl peeked
around the building to see if the as
sistant music instructor was coming.
AS she did so she thrust her head into
the moonlight. In moment, stalwart
Prof. Baker ran to her.
"Genie!" he cried, ecstatically "I
hoped it might be you! hoped had
made an impression on you, my cold,
beautiful little professor!'
Suddenly Prof Carruthers discoy-
cred that in some manner Prof. Baker
had managed to envelop her in bear
like embrace. She struggled inef-
fectually.
ooh, OH" she cried. "What will
Prof. Smith say?"
Prof. Baker laughed, then whis-
pered to her as he drew her closer:
"Ill tell you a secret, honey-Ive
been walking around with her for days
trying to make you jealous!'
Prof. Carruthers' report on the ef-
feet OF propinquity and moonlight
upon young people of the opposite sex,
was delivered to the class. the next
day with a great many unnecessary
bushes, it seemed to the serious.
earnest pupils. And even then it was
not at all satisfactory, for Prof. Car
ruthers advised each of them to con-
duct individual experiments of their
own.