The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-11
HIS AFFINITY,
~ N. QUAD.

Hartvilie, or ut least the adult share
OF that number, were recorded as sens
sible, everyday people. They had
loved, and they had felt emotions. but
there were some things they had never
given thought to. One of those
things was the affinity business. All
husbands and wives were satisfiet
with each other. IL not they were
not talking about divorce. There was
something coming to Huntsville. and
1t got 1t when Professor Leonidas Chef:
sey arrived there on summer vaca-
ton. He was professor Of the ethe-
real, he explained, but as most Of the
inhabitants were lovers Of pork and
beans they were not greatly interested
in his subject. They let him day
dream under the cedars and lie beside
the gurgling brook. and the experience
he had later on would never have come
to him had he not mixed the ethereal
with the afiinities.
One Of the most solid and matter Of
fact women in the village was. the
Widow Swift solid because she &tdgh-
ed nearly 200 pounds and matter Sof
fact because no tin peddler that came,
that way could beat her ON trade.
She had large and healthy appetite.
arms that could lift hundred pound
hog back In to the pen, and a tramp
who tried to enter her house unbidden
one day was carried on to jail with four
broken ribs. II any one had told her
or spread the report abroad that some
one would come along some day and
claim ner for an afhnity she would
nave wanted to 90 some kicking with
. NO. = snoe. And yet that was e.
{ actiy what happened. After nve OF
SIX Gays the professor got sight OF
ner. ana ne az once let u De known
tnat tue etnereal part OF nm was z
soner. ne leaned over the earden
.ence where sne was Weeuing ner cad
pages ana compared ner ngure 70 that
o. . sy'pn' ner eyes 70 those OF 9 sioe'
ner FACE 70 tnat OF Greclan eoodess.
Az sue stooa .nere WIN her ~ POUNDS
nEmly p.anteo ON tne eround ana Won
us,.ns - No va : Ivy. =, = suna.lc ne
w won. ~ - say en1. " .lau seen aer ~
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nau s1ltu Jul lol -. = caaia
.yss = els wnuelnsss' .na. .osttnt.I
sey "ou.u now noa. uowu lne s.leam
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1 - ae1 ols "ou.u .ns7e. alu love.
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Iesosnl.e e,acn oener wi.noas any e4'
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e.e.N ae Sou.u ss'e tns'l wiuo" as sn'
100 anons tne cucunipeEs, anu "
evu,u es'e Ne. as sue shooA the taDie
elo.n q Tue DacA uoor ior tne oenen
o. o.. we snlcAens. ana ne was entranced
que Threw STONES at MN every tlm'
s.le saw nim' Dut ne came mack whel
Tue ua a nad iaiien ana sang sad
y unu sWee.ly OF the iove IN MS heart
lou cant Ne etnereal ana be looking
a1ter I'M amnity IN village withou
everybody getting on to the racke
alter DIT. II was SO at Hartsvtlle
ana wnen things had continued TO
3 ten OF Twelve days the Widows broth
2 er determined to put an end to the sit
uation. The widow would have dom
1t herself, but she couldn't get hand
I on the professor.
J. Night had come again. 1t was a,
ethereal night. 1t was just the nigh
for the souls of affinities to go fyin,
about until meeting each other I,