Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-20
The Daily Story
PERPETUAL YoUTH-BY F. A. mitchell.
CopyrIghted. 1913. by Associated Literary Bu.eau


rally my efforts were not at once sue.
ceSsful I did not completely arrest
Wilhemiue'S natural decay till she
WIS midway between seventeen and
eighteen"
Won Buest paused and resumed his
pipe,
Well professor. said Reiuhard i'm.
patiently, go on"
In what way? In the case of vii
heimiue WeiSbard there are many Sto
ries What would you prefer to know
about her.
Reinhard thought few minutes,
then asked his friend to tell him if the
girl gained or lost by remaining young
and why.
What you ask 10 know" replied the
professor. has in Itself many branch.
eS. | will Contue myself 10 oneA-Wil
helmine's relations to her husband
She married Max Neu2eL She was
then twenty. he thirty lie grew old.
his wife remained young. Her father
one day came to me with a cloud upon
his brow and told me that his son-in.
law, who was getting gray and other.
wise showing signs OF age. was max.
ing his wife miserable by his jealous
behavior. She was still Young and
beautiful and attracted younger Se1a
than himself.
From time TO time WeiShard came
to me to tell me that matters between
his scn-in-law and daughter were go
ing from bad TO worse. At last he con
feSsed that he regretted having urged
me TO give the latter perpetual youth.
~ have given her perpetual youth
/ replied. only so long as il may be de-
sired
His face lighted with pleasure.
Can you re-establish the ordinary proc
ess of growing old" he asked.
There is nothing to re-establish.
Let your daughter stop taking the anti
toxin and the natural decay will be re-
sumed'
Il did not see Weisbard for a week,
at the end of which time he looked
more luguhrious than ever. l asked
him what troubled him. He told me
that he had proposed 10 his daughter
10 cease taking my antitoxin and she
had fatty refused. Weisbard had very
wife could resume the process OF fol.
lowing him 70 old age if she chose. and
| he had urged her 10 do so. She was
T obstinate. and quarrel had ensued
/ between the two that bid fair to wreck
! their happiness forever-that ID, oil
that was left of IT,
And here. my friend, comes an in
stance Of the unity of nature. 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 Fran
/ Mcneil should grow old. And yet
those old fellows like Ponce de Leon
were continually seeking for the elixir
Of life. A man may he satisfied To
! grow old. "A woman never. This one
having perpetual youth would never
give it up. though it threw her out of
harmony with the rest of the universe
AT first il seemed that remaining
! young with her children would he "A
boon 10 her. 1t did not turn out so. A
melancholy phase of life is that we
cannot be OF the next generation be
meath us. Even 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 it became case Of De
cember and May. Inc older Frau
MenZcl grew in years the more pleas
ed she was with the attention OF
young men. They. while pleased with
Der beauty, found in her an experience
which did not accord with their own
eXuberance. This led to n continued
disappointment in her that soured her
disposition The couples chickering's
wore on Weisbnrd. who reproachcd
himself for being the cause Of their
troubles
And yet there was one thing that
would nave undone. partly Mt least,
all the mischief All that was needed
was for Wilhelmine to stop taking the
antitOXin."
That could scarcely he expected"
remarked Reinhard. How did the
/, matter end
When Fran Mcneil was fifty years
oId-she reached that age yeal ago
she was a very singular compound.
having Il youthful body and an old
mind. enc evening. having forced her
husband who was now sixty, to take
| her to a ball. she insisted on dancing
the turkey trot. which was Just APP
pearing In fashionable society. When
the pair reached home there was a
violent quarrel. the result Of which
p was never known. hut the couple were
> never seen ont together again. soon
: after this the husband died. and the
wife discovered thar the antitoxin
q ceased to affect her Her youth and
! beauty suddenly collapsed. In night
> she had grNwn old and ugly"
4 What was the matter with the anti
: toxin" asked lteinhard.
4 Il was making It for her and after
a her quarrel with her husband over the
dance | ceased to put In the proper
y Ingredients"
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