Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-29

udgS, lot on the tWeHty-tuiIu Jay u
new birth Of cell destroying bacteria
came up to recommence the process OF
decay.
at was not long before I learned of
the love affair between the guardsman
and the fraulein and that clandestine
meetings were taking place-at long in.
fervals 10 be sure-between them
Since the fraulein remained youthful
and the gusrdsman was growing Older
his love for her grew In proportion as
the difference In their ages heightened
What effect this increasing difference
had on the fraulein l did not learn.
for she kept her feelings to herself. i
offered to decline to continue my treat.
ment II she wished II. but she told me
that, having acceded to her fathers
order. she would carry II out to the end.
Seventeen years passed. The baby
thirty-seven and the guardsman forty.
The latter had never married. and his
love for the fraulein had grown to be
a dominant passion with him. He was
getting gray and bald and showed 9th
er signs OF coming old age. On the
contrary the girl he worshiped had all
the freshness Of youth. Her beauty
had not been In the least impaired. II
was quite natural that a man who was
now too old for other girls of the frau
lein's age should cling to her, especial
ly as she had kept pace with him In
that experience which natures the in
tellectual powers,
Baron Wobel would not consent to
the marriage between his o and
Fraulein Schoffenholer till the former
came OF age. The young man was
within a few weeks Of twenty-one, and
preparations were being made for the
wedding when i received a hurry call
TO the S~choffenholer residence. | found
the ~frauleIn very Ill. This was unfor-
tunate, for within a few days II would
be necessary for me to give her an In
lection OF the serum, and In her weak
ened condition I did not know what
the effect would be. Indeed, dare
not administer 1t,
For q time the fraulein's life hung
10 the balance. Then she began to
mend. left her under the are Of
the family physician and did not pee
her for a month. When I saw her
again was shocked. From a 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 wrinkled, her teeth
badly decayed and her figure bony and
angular. Indeed every feature which
would have dscayed gradually without
my treatment had broken down with
In 9 brief period,
There 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 Vas that Of a girl, and
her intellect, which was that or a ma
ture woman. But now what would he
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
see his fiancee till d few days before
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
a marriage would be fruitless and Its
object defeated.
81 was placed in a very unfortunate
position. Every n seemed to consid-
er me to blame for the affair, though
I had done only what l had been re-
quested to do. / felt very sorry for
Fraulein Schofenholer, for I 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.
t1ONtNPI, ! louSut IL OtoL " ptihbiL
him to observe her changed condition
for himself. lie 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 or just such an
appealing smile as would be seductive
In a girl OF twenty, but was horrible in
a broken down old oma He tried
to respond, but failed. After a brief
interview he 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
q girl OF sixteen.
"As for the fraulein, 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 vi and daughters. she
Ia d withered spinster. ! can never for
give myself for being the aus Of her
misfortune.
This is the reason why I have never