Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-02-22
incubation
For Love
By SADIE oLcoTT

visits when his colored housemaid came
in with shamefaced look
What is it, Sue?"
Mars Doctah," she said, can you
inoculate anybody with a sickness?''
Certainly"
Sue looked in every ERECTION except
the doctor
Come" said the doctor, there's
something on your mind. Out with it."
Il hearn tell, Mars Doctah, dat Tub
is disease
"Well?" said the doctor. becoming
interested.
II hearn tell, too. dat long age dey
was hub potions and if any one took
de potion dey was in lub. been think.
in dat yo' might glib de disease that
way somehow"
You mean that you are in love and
wish me to make the man you love
love YOU
Its about dat" Sue confessed in
voice scarcely audible
Whom are you in love with, Sue?"
II don't like to tell dat. Can't yo'
glib me de potion to glib to him."
NO; l should have to manage the
case myself. fyou'll tell me his name
perhaps | can do something for you.'
II reckon it's sam
MIR. Trotter's Sam?"
Yes, Mars Doctah."
The doctors eyes expressed amuse-
ment, but he kept straight face. al
though this was scarcely necessary, for
Sue never once looked at him. Pres
entity he went to a medicine case, took
up bottle and poured little of it's
contents into vial Then. handing
it to Sue. he said:
The next time Sam comes to see ven
and asks for drink of water or cider
IN fact, anything to drink-pour some
OF this into it. 1t will make him sick.
Appear to be much frightened and tele
phone for me-"
Yes, Mars Doctah, | do dat
II was not long before the doctor was
called upon to cure Sam of the effects
of the dose Sue had given the man she
loved. He examined his patient care
luliy and gave him something to settle
his stomach, then. pricking his arm
with Il lancet. drew little blood.
sam, he said. I'm going to fest
this blood for the disease you've got.
Come and see me tomorrow morning.
and IN tell you what it is
The next morning Sam was perfectly
We'll. but curiosity and fear drove him
,..,.e, 4
mitted in his turn and when the ply
stefan had felt his pulse and tested his
temperature With mouth thermome-
ter he looked very solemn
sam" lie said you've contracted n
serious disease.
awine to kill me-
Not unless it drives YOU to suicide.
I'm itself it is not fatal. but it some
times drives persons to do very foolish
things. II will Oh rare occasions throw
the patient into a fever. a hysterical
condition, in which he will act like a
lunatic. You have little of that fe-
verishness about you now"
La salSes. Mars Doctah! What yo'
call DAT disease?"
'Amormania."
How YOU know | got dat?"
The doctor took down bottle from
shelf, put drop of rainwater on a
bit of glass. put the glass on micro
scope and after adjusting focus told
sam to look into the instrument. The
darby saw a lot of monsters swim
ming about
Now Sam. said the physician. II
ooh wish to scare YOU, but you are
looking at drop of your own blood
sam collapsed. and the doctor held
him up.
IAN diseases nowadays, Sam. are
caused by germs. Those creatures are
the germs of amormana that have GOT
into your blood. When a man falls in
love with woman they take possess
sino of him and"-
But l hain't in Tub with any wo-
man, protested Sam.
L didn't say YOU were, Sam; at least
you don't know it. The disease hasn't
developed vet. When it does you'll find
out that You are in love and no mis-
take. If there is no response to your
love Nonll suffer from sort of lu-
macy"
10 de Lawd.''
There is medical theory, Sam, that
like cures like continued DR.. Dins-
more. Il can take some of your blood
and inject it into the veins of the
woman YOU love-
But | haint in lub''
"Aes. YOU are, Sam; you're in love
with good girl. AS soon as these
monsters ! have shown you develop
there's only a dozen now in few
days there'll be million-youll have
IL regular attack of amormania."
What | do den?" cried Sam. aghast
Unless your passion is returned YOU
viii act like lunatic. They all do.
Now. III tell You what | propose TO do.
1 can inject some OF your blood into
the body of Il nice girl. This will give