The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-20
CONFESSIONS
WAR BRIDE
I LEARN NHot Z BRAIN
tEI.ts-A>D SCHEME To
MAKE ONE GROW!

so / Switched Miss Dennis admir-
er away from her. altho at first |
didn want 20 talk with pr Kramer
at alt But when I found that he in.
tended to make my acquaintance. /
decided to get some information
from him about sheltshook I eN.
planned the pecullarites ~ uoe's
condition. not mentioning names
And this soldier seems normal Ia
every thing hut the memory OF his
bride. 10 you think he ever really
loved herr" 1 concluded Nly voice
must have tremhled for Or Kramer
looked at me long aud hard
lie loved the gifl very much,
should say. madcmoiarllr he re
piled Perhaps the thought Of her
hurt him So terribly that il inter
fered with his soldering That was
not unusual Ia the war Certainly,
the man must have powerful VIII
he must have formed the hahit Of
erasing the gifi from his conscious.
ness The shock simply locked up
the brain cells where Hhe was reg
istervd
Ills theory wts like that OF other
experts. put my big question TO
him
"Win anything restore his mem.
ory 81 herr
1t is like this Kramer explain.
ed "A brain cell IL like a grape.
madsmoiselle Il has skin and a
pulp. The pulp may dwlndic from
pverwork OF perhaps fright. or wor.
-. or shell shock. and the e~ll may
wither up and dry Ike a grape uut
I II little pulp Ia left lu the skin ~
/ the cell. Il may increase under tho
right conditions and the brain may
become normal again liut " the
pulp is all destroyed well. the cell
Will stay dead forever
This new theory about brain cells
fascinated me
I oh gasped "You mean that
iif if~lg the wife could stir sin
I gle thought Of love ones more. Ia the
man. ths cells might swcli ana grow.
and All the old love might come back
some time
That's one way AZ putting ". Ger
I tainty." Dr Kramer answered with
a laugh Of genuine enjoyment, But
[ Of course. this mans condition IL
most unusual The desire TO love
and be loved IL about the last thing
which could be shocked out - a hu
man being I should cay. uut moth.
ing was lnposalbie IN m. war I'm
der pressure % exploding TINT al
moat anything might happen to even
normal brain You understand.
mAdemoisciis. that insanity isn't the
same thing as shell shock Hut II
were treating the case-I'd try 10
wake up the need to he loved in that
man why. I'd place temptation In
his path-show girls Yes. honestly.
I'd get right down to the primitive
Instinct"
For moment Dr Kramer ap.
peared TO forget me. - wrapped up
was he In a new psychological pug
xie.
~Oh h-h.h"' I whispered 10 myself
Its poor day that doesn't bring
me some hst Of vaiuahle know ledge
The plan TO win my own husband
back, which had evad~t me thru
days and days OF hard thinking
came to me in fash
Jane Lorimer must TemaIn--drad'
That vas the first detail % Il.
/ counted tho only persons in the
world who knew that l WAS not
dead.
Chester the chauffeur. who had
put F.lVlse on the train. he had dis
appeared. but he might az any time
return to tell the truth to the Lor-
liners.
Tommy knnw--but could man
age Tommy
md certeis would kuo'g.-when be
called on his patient Mile. Wander
Ign. Plainly. I must make my -.
cape from the place before Ccrtela
arrived And Dr. Kramer should
help me-
Go Re Continued