Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-04-19
Perfect Love
BY Charles Wilshin

What Is that perfect love that some
times unites two people and continues
nndimmed through old age?
For 40 years Nine. versale n her
husband had remained In this state.
Their children had departed and many
pld friends had dropped away. But tne
viclssltudes of life had left their De
votion unsullied, and they still sat In
their little garden with It's high Walls
and. screened from the inquisitive
world, held hands In that sweet com-
partnership that ome alone TO TWO
hearts In perfect accord.
Yet Nine. Versale, II must be con-
fessed, carried within her true WON
ans soul a disturbing thought that
grew with contemplation and BROOD
Ing. There were times when she
would look In her mirror and sign,
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"
81 know that you say that to make
me feel better"
They had many friends and some OF
these we're new ones and young In
their ways. When a particularly
handsome young woman would visit
them. Nine. versale fancied that her
husbands face would brighten.
The thought OF this made her "a.
1T is always the same with men.
she would say to herself. Freshness.
youth these are what they de-
mand."
Then her mind would revert to her
pwn 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 1t had not died away.
She conceived the idea that her hus-
band only paid her compliments out
If the goodness OF his heart. She
thought that his alteration was much
Of 1t assumed, and that out OF gal
iantry 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; to protest against 1t only seems to
strengthen 1t.
Young DR.. Van Kale. a physician
who attended them and occasionally
dropped In to pay them a Visitor
they interested him supremely - had
already achieved a 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 revo
tionary; but his opinion always com
manded respect. He had already done
things.
One morning he called upon Nine
Versale, whose husband, having read
his paper, was noddlng on q bench In
q corner OF the garden.
"You look tired" she said. her keeI
eye accustomed to notice changes ir
physiognomy.
DR.. Van Kale's face lighted up.
81 am tired-but ! have done wha
I conceive to be a wonderful expert
ment- If It turns out as 1 hope.
have not slept for 30 hours. It Il
the crisis Of a long toll"
Something intricate-that / can
not understand"
mot at all. In plain. untechnica
language, IL involves a change In tn,
human tissue. ] can restore los
youth"
Nine. Versale started.
"Impossible!"
Nothing Is impossible to moder,
science. After all, the difficulty I ha,
to surmount Is actually less than an,
one might suppose. What are we? 4
ranged In a certain manner, produc,
an individual. D~isintegration is con
stantly going On. produced by dynam
ic changes. The problem has been I,
counterbalance ito make It worl
backward. so to speak. For year
many Of us have been on the verge o
this great discovery. A certain solu
I'tion OF salts came hear It. 1t has reaI
" been a question Of mathematics. A
last have discovered the combine
ton, and by means of my transform
err | can make one young again"
Nine. versale looked at him wit
intensity. Such a startling statemen
related so quietly. filed her with CON
plete astonishment. Yet. as the docto
had said. Why notf
Are you suref"
"Quite sure"
"Have you tried itr 80.
'In the laboratory. but not 30 fuil
an | would Ike