The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-18
Perfect Love
BY Charles Wilshin

I
husband had remained In this state
Their children had departed and many
old friends had dropped away. But the
yicissitudes OF life had left their de
vOtion unsullied. and they still sat IN
their little garden with its high walls
and. screened from the inquisitlve
world, held hands in that sweet com
panionship that comes alone TO two
hearts in perfect accord.
Yet Nine. Versale, it must be con-
fessed, carried within her true WON
ans soul disturbing thought that
grew with contemplation and brood.
ing. There were times when she
would look in her mirror and sigh,
and then she would say to her hus.
band
Il am not so good looking as !
was"
And he would invariably reply:
Tut. Tut. You are always the same.
How can you be anything else than
beautiful"
Il know that you say that to make
| me feel better"
They had many friends and some of
these were new ones and young In
their ways. When particularly
handsome young woman would visit
them. Nine. Versale fancied that her
husbands face would brighten.
The thought Of this made her sad.
| 1T Is always the same with men,"
she would say to herself. Freshness.
youth IN these are what they de.
mand."
Then her mind would revert to her
own youth, when she was SO beautiful
and when around her always there
was a circle of admirers. And how
beautiful she was then! Even now
the memory of it had not died away.
She conceived the idea that her hus
band only paid her compliments out
Of the goodness of his heart. She
thought that his alteration was much
Of 1t assumed, and that out of gal.
lantry he still paid his court. Some.
times she would say to him briskly:
"YOu know you don't mean that"
His prOtestations were of no avail. A
thought like this, In the heart of a
woman, will often grow to an absurd
ity; t" protest against it only seems TO
strengthen 1t.
Young DIR. Van Kale. a physician
who attended them and occasionally
dropped In to pay them Visitor
they interested him supremacy - had
already achieved worldwide reputa-
ton by virtue of some of his discOv.
cries in applied science. His labora-
tory was the center of much that was
speculative and much that was rev0-
tionary; but his opinion always com.
manded respect lie had already done
things.
One morning he called upon Nine.
versale. whose husband, having read
his paper, was nodding on bench In
o corner of the garden.
you look tired" she said, her keen
eye accustomed to notice changes In
physiOgnomy.
Dr. Van Kales face lighted up.
Il am tired-but have done what
I conceive to be wonderful expert.
ment = II it turns out as hope.
have not slept for 50 hours. 1t Is
the crisis of long toll"
Something intricate--that | can.
not understands"
Not at all. In plain, untechnical
language. it involves a change in the
human tissue. can restore lost
youth"
Nine Versale started.
"lmpOssible!"
Nothing is impossible to modern
science After all, the difficulty | had
to surmount is actually less than any
one might suppose What are we? A
combination of molecules which. ar
ranged In a certain manner, produce
an Individual. Disntegration is con.
stantly going on. produced by dynam.
ic changes. The problem has been to
counterbalance ito make 1t work
backward, so to speak. For years
many of us have been on the verge of
this great discovery. A certain solu.
ton Of salts came near it. 1t has real.
ly been question of mathematics. AT
last ! have discovered the combna.
ton, and by means OF my transform.
er l can make one young again."
Nine. versale looked at him with
intensity. Such startling statement
related SO quietly, filled her with com.
plete establishment Yet. as the doctor
had said. Why not?
"Are you sure?"
"Quite sure
slave you tried it,"
"In the laboratory. but not SO fully
as | would like"
"ls 1t harmless?"
absolutely"
"How long does 1t take?"
"a week"
"Will you try II on me?"
THAT Is what l desire-supremely.
You have made It easy for me; you
have taken the words out OF my