Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-07-25

gave me no peace till consented.
when began to give Wilhelmine
the antitoxin she was sixteen years
old. Hers was my first case and my
only one in practicing upon human
being after having satisfied myself of
the efficacy OF my remedy, and natu,
rally my efforts were not Mt once sue.
cessful. | did not completely arrest
Wilhelmlne's natural decay till she
was midway between seventeen and
eighteen"
Won Buest paused and resumed his
pipe.
We'll, professor" said Reinhard i'm
patiently, "go on"
"ln whit way? In the case of Will
helmine Weisbard there are many sto,
RES. What would you prefer to know
about herT
ieinhard thought few minutes,
then asked his friend to tell him IL the
girl gained or lost by remaining young
and why.
What you ask to know" replied the
professor, "hns In itself many branch
es. | will COnfne myself to one--Wil-
helmine's relations to her husband.
She married Max Mcneil She was
then twenty, he thirty. He grew old;
his wife remained young. Her father
one day came to me with cloud upon
his brow and told me that his son-in
law, who was getting gray and other
UI1n GhnXVintr linnC nf n L.
ing his wife miserable by his jealous
behavior. She was still young and
beautiful and attracted younger men
than himself
"From time to time Weisbard came
to me to tell me that matters between
his son-in-law and daughter were go
ing from bad to worse. At Inst he con
fessed that he regretted having urged
me to give the latter perpetual youth.
"T have given her perpetual youth,
replied, only so long as it may be de-
sired
His face lighted with pleasure.
Can you re-establish the ordinary proc
ess Of growing oldr he asked.
""There Is nothing to re-establsh.
Let your daughter stop taking the anti
toxin and the natural decay Will be re-
sumed.'
II did not see Welsbard for n week,
Mt the end of which time he looked
more lugubrious than ever. asked
him what troubled him. He told me
that he had proposed to his daughter
to cease taking my antitoxin and she
had fatty refused. Welsbard had very
unwisely told his son-in-luw that his
wife could resume the process OF fol
lowing him to old age IL she chose, and
he had urged her to do so. She was
obstinate, and quarrel had ensued
between the two that bid fair to wreck
their happiness forever-that is, all
that was left of 1t.
and here, my friend, comes an In
stance OF the unity OF nature A unity
that Is best for us always, though
there are numerous instances In which
we believe her DEGREES are misfOrtunes.
There was every reason why Frau
Mcneil should grow old. And yet
those old fellows like Ponce de Leon
were continually seeking for the elixir
OF life. A man may be satisfied to
grow old, woman never. This one
having perpetual youth would never
give 1t up, though 1t threw her out Of
harmony with the rest OF the universe.
"At first 1t seemed that remaining
young with her children would be n
boon to her. 1t did not turn out 80. A
melancholy phase of life Is that we
cannot be Of the next generation be-
meath us. Even a young body will not
bridge that gulf
Every year after this the husband
grew older. while the wife remained
young and beautiful, and every year
the gulf between them grew wider.
After awhile II became n case of De
cember and May. The older Frau
Menzel grew In years the more pleas
ed she was with the attention Of
young men They, while pensed with
her beauty, found In her an experience
which did not accord with their own
exuberance This led to continued
disappointment In her that soured her
disposition The couples chickering's
wore on Weisbard, who reproached
himself for being the cause of their
troubles
"And yet there was one thing that
would have undOne, partly at least,
all the mischief All that was needed
was for Wilhelmine TO stop taking the
Sntltoxin"
"That could scarcely be expected"
remarked lteinhard. "Iow did the
matter endr'
"When Frau Mcneil was fifty years
old-she reached that age year ago
she was very singular compound,
having youthful body and an old
mind. One evening, having forced her
husband. who was now sixty, to tako
her 10 bnll, she insisted on dancing
the turkey trot, which was Just mp
pearlng In fashionable society. When
the pair reached home there was II
violent quarrel, the result Of which
was never known, hut the couple were
never seen ont together again. Soon
after this the husband died, and the
wife discovered that the nntitOxin
censed to affect her. Her youth and
beauty suddenly collapsed. In n night
she hnd grown old and ugly"
"What was the matter with the nntl-
tOxlnr" asked Reinhard
II was making II for her, and after
her quarrel with her husband over the
dance censed to put In the proper
ingredients"