San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-26
BY l.. c. OVERTON.


Copyright. by The San Antonio Light.
San Francisco. Cal. March 26.-
Now comes Maj. James +. Ash,
United States ormy medical corps
and military research expert. and up
sets all our accepted theories on the
passion sublime by informing us that
the real fountainhead Of love is not
the heart-but the liver.
IAN upset, torpid liver-a cold
lover"
AN active healthy iver-warm,
happy, amorons love-"
That in nutshell is the army
medical experts diagnosis of the
worlds oldest affliction or blessing
whichever you choose to call it. made
from behind a battalion of test tubes
and reports at the Letterman Gen
eral hospital here where he is labora-
tory research chief for the western
division Of the army. And Major
Ashs contention apropos the scat of
love is backed by scientific data
gathered by him during seven years
of medical research work for Uncle
Sam in the South Seas and the Philip
pines, where, if we are to believe the
occasional talks of Philandering sail
ormen, all the natives come into the
world with postgraduate degrees in
the art of ardent love-making.
The heart has nothing to do with
love- AYERS the military medical
man. Its good or bad liver that
makes a glowing or inspid lover; and
the way our liver reacts to love de-
ponds entirely on what we have 10
eat or drink" the latter part of
winch hanks back to the days when
our great-grandmothers were still in
short frocks and supports the vera
city OF an equally time worn adage.
the way to mans heart is through
his stomach.
Major ASKS scientific deductions
from his study of love and it's abiding
place were arrived at in the United
States army laboratory at Manila.
where he formerly was chief of the
department of the Philippines.
inese were not mere conclusions. but
!he result of extensive Investigations
INTO love philtres' and "anti-love
potlons," in use for centuries am ing
me natives of the South Pacific
islands.
Among these scmi-civilized and
frequently uncivilized folks where the
parents pick the wife or husband for
their offspring. | found that the
matchmaking elders never had any
trouble with the amours of their
said Major Ash TODAY.
L became convinced that there was
cause so | set out TO discover it.
learned Of the mystic philtres they
employed and determined TO analyzc
hem.
, Poets All Wrong.
"Chcmical analysis led TO the dis
rovery that the love potions. the ones
mat excite love, contain ohologogue
irugs that excite the liver and clear
me tongue and complexion, while tue
lnu-iove potion. the one that is used
10 kill love, upsets the liver and
makes 1t torpid. The heart is no:
affected by these philtres, nj all,
which proves that the poets and love.
orh are wrong. It's the liver"
IN MS scientific Investigations
when prove. he says. the superiority
u the humble liver over the nuiSat-
ing hcart as the engine of love, The
,xpert has also found balm for the
VIE whose husband stays out nights,
pr who has become lax in his nome
ove-making.
v ives who would keep their hus-
'ands' love nflame should feed them
simple. easily digested food ms with
healthy liver love will blaze and
blaze" he says. wives with arrant
husbands who are seeking affection