The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-02-06

came of age. The young man was
within few weeks Of twenty-one, and
preparations were being made for the
wedding when received a hurry call
to the Schoffenholer residence. I found
the fraulein very Ill, This was unfor-
tunate, for within a few days 1t would
be necessary for me to give her an in
lection of the serum, and In her weak
ened condition did not know what
the effect would be. Indeed. dare
not administer it
"For a time the fraulein's life hung
In the balance. Then she began to
mend left. her under the care of
the family physician and did not see
her for a month. When / saw her
again / was shocked From girl Of
twenty she had become a woman Of
over forty, and her Illness had made
her look ten or fifteen years older than
that. Her hair was almost white, her
skin yellow and wrinkied, her teeth
badly decayed and her figure bony and
angular Indeed every feature which
would have decayed gradually without
my treatment had broken down with
In brief period.
"Here was an embarrassing situation.
Young Wobel had shown every willing
ness to marry the girl his father had
provided for him, not only on account
of her fortune. but because Of her
beauty, which was that Of girl, and
her intellect. which was that Of ma
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say when he should see her? Her ia
Their begged me to restore her youth
and when told him that had no
power to do so stormed at me for a
fool and an idiot
young Wobel was not permitted to
the proposed wedding. When he met
a woman who looked to be over fifty.
and much broken at that, he collapsed
There was no use in trying to induce
him to marry her. Indeed, at her age
marriage would be fruitless and its
object defeated.
81 was placed in a very unfortunate
position. Every one seemed to consid,
er me to blame for the affair, though
had done only what had been re-
Quested to do. felt very sorry for
Fraulein Stakeholder. for l was
obliged to admit to myself that had
permitted her to grow old as nature
intended she would not now have been
suddenly plunged into her present dis
tress. In order to make amends
wrote a note to her guardsman lover.
informing him that the lady he had so
long loved was now free to marry him.
However, l thought It best to permit
him to observe her changed condition
for himself He replied, thanking me
for the information, which he declared
had thrilled him with an ecstatic hap
piness.'
"He called upon her. When the poor
woman saw his shocked expression at
her altered appearance she held out her
arms to him, putting on just such an
appealing smile as would be seductive
In a girl Of twenty, but was horrible in
a broken down old woman. He tried
to respond, but failed After q brief
interview be excused himself and has
never seen her from that day to this.
Recently received his wedding cards
and have learned that he is to marry
girl Of sixteen.
"As for the frauleln, who had 1t not
been for my interference with natures
laws would now have been the wife Of
the guardsman and the mother doubt
less Of grown sons and daughters, she
IL withered spinster can never for
give myself for being the cause OF her
misfortune
'"This is the reason why have never
either prosecuted my discovery or given
1t to the world 1t remains for these
Americans who are upsetting the ira
ditions Of centuries to proceed in their
reckless course to defy natures laws
and to make themselves generally dis
agreeable to the rest Of the world
would like to get this fellow who has
made this so called discovery, keep him
young for a matter of thirty or forty
years, then let old age come upon him
at once, to see how he would like the
transition. So long as they confine
themselves to colonies Of bacteria or to
guinea pigs or monkeys there is no
harm done. but when it comes to Jump
ing young girl into an old woman
please excuse me. I've had enough Of
it."