New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08

10 explain. "you only young woman, hardly even
that. But, speaking ungc-ihely, YOU are my blessed
niece. And that comes pretty nearly being religion.
doesn't it-whcn things get blessed
~, Unclc Are you going to fail me''
~ Fail YOU. BY getting religious about YOU Is
that failing YOU, my dear,
a know Uncle Harry; but you've always been SC
sensible before That's why came 20 YOU on were
the single solitary one in the whole family that thought
Icoud count mot to get religious about me thought
Won would be- COOL and collected, and philosophical
And here you are, going of the handle just like any
other emotional person. What's science for, don't see.
if il isn't 10 prepare one for q crisis like this,
But nv dear Eileen YOU cant expect me 10 be SCI
cntifc about something OF which utterly ignorant
know YOU but 10 this tins other person why al
know about him is that he has req HAIR NGl very
safe hypothesis the professor added, AS think YOU
will admit. Red hair, YOU know, IS supposed to 90 with
the devil Of a temper.
why, Uncle Harry You, a scientist, dragging in
barbarors old superstition like that
"NIv dear child tell YOU this thing transccnds sci
cncc, It's another plane another realm altogether.
love is That is the professor fastened TO add fearful
that he had conceded more than was quite compatble
with his uotion I'm the scientific world, ut IS another
r,I,, ,cLrn It's yorr own ovc-or your nicccS But II
Won, insist uuon nv thinking and speaking as u scientist,
can only say that am reduced TO far narrower grounds
than ever Hold on here say, rs a scientist lie
fore we commit ourselves let us investigate tins here
pinlish phenomenon. w
apinlish, Why. Uncle Harry think you're horrid!'
"Ab said the professor in his best classroom manner,
"w. begin "a what II means t" bc SCIENTIFIC mercy
scicn,iGc Compared with the science OF the case the
rIioion of If is bv far the broader and We may say
more promising ground to build upon. IS 1t not, my
Eileen sighed. ayes, think prcfcr.it, Uncle, on
the whole It. more respectful, certainly
aon;t, ca h, answered. and speaking uncIc-iii-
c,llv again, assure You that have no doubt mat
your dear Peter
aStclbcn / should say is all that could be desired
4Oh Lc'sIoycly," Eileen assured hun. "Hou can take
nv word for it, You don't think I'd love HIM nc
wasn't do Won, That wouldn't be logical
"Uarllv the professor muruurcd.
ooh. YOU cant begin to even imagine now nice ne Is!
%Tbats inst the rub answered the professor Whcn
i conc, 10 NV socmny assuring your father and mother
Of what | cauI b'ein 10 ei.cH imagine
Eileen frightened. "Ihat IS, rs Il aCGiI'''' 'i''c'
A. - man Of course YOU imagine 1t, m sure
The professor regarded her with some amusement.
aWcI YES" was his reply, AS a man can imagine 1t,
. IttIc. lint should have to be woman, suppose 10
picture it completely And that's why 1t seems to me-
Eileen he added gently. that you ought 10 appeal
she ought TO understand without much diculty' Shc
been there herself 60,
a. know Uncle. But if Mother only would be reason
you You don't treat me Ike CmId.
Neither IS 50 emotional -rcgiouSy emotional! Eileen
added with sigh "Shcs not bit philosophical about
life And she forgc,s.shes always forgetting -tht
I'M nineteen years old.
aycs, nineteen And Stephen is 50 uncompromisng!
He never would Mother And OF course he
couldn't expect her to WOO him.
"Well hardly" the professor answered IN a graver
tone. But / hope, my dear, that Philip is
stephen, Uncle
stephen, should say. hope he is at least defer
entail 10 your mother. ~
"Oh, my, yes! That is as far as she will let him. But