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THE OREGON .SUNDAY ' JOURNAL' PORTLAND, SUNDAY HORNING, FEBRUARY ' 16, 1905
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rOU have been kissed?
There, there, don't blush
and don't glance around to see
whether any one is noticing. If you do, they'll
begin to suspect, right away; and you might
as well stand up and confess when and where
and how and who kissed you.
So you have been kissed! Now, never
mind; it's just between the printed page and'
your tenderly reminiscent eyes. Can the
paper and the ink see from your eyes whether
it happened before the engagement or after
ward, or that there isn't any engagement at
all; or that the kiss whose first flavor came
to your remembering lips was the one you got
at is in the hallway, or the one you got in
the dark of the carriage, after the ceremony?
Or that it was a kiss you hadn'tany right
to get, owing to circumstances over which you
had no control, being in love and leaving the
control of circumstances to somebody else?
Well, whenever it happened and how
ever it happened, it is the literal, undeniable,
scientific fact that you can go on the witness
stand, take the solemn oath, tell the sdlemn
truth and say he never touched you.
It may be as unpleasant to think as it is
pleasant to say, but it is as true as all the
gospels, and also as true as that two and two
make four.
You may have been kissed, but your lips
and his lips have never even touched. At
least, according to science.
How rtllclou Is' the winning
Ot a ki at loves beginning!
SINCE the time of Adam and Eve, perhaps, the kins
hag been the outward and visible sign of an
Inward and tender passion. Why. then, could
not science, that remorseless and prying Icono
clast, leave It alone In all Its original attractiveness?
But science says that when the ardent lover kisses
the blushing maid he docs not kiss her; he Is merely
deceived by a kind of electric thrill.
Sclcnco has advancod, with the analysis of the
mysterious properties of radium, to the positive con
clusion that actual contact of any one substance with
any other substanee-though both be so closely allied
and attuned as the lips of the lover and the lips of
the maid Is an utter Impossibility.
Sir William Crookes lias done It he and Professor
Lodge and Professor Curie and a lot of other sclentlflo
iconoclasts who would as lief rip tho flaming veil
of light "off the sun as they would brush away the
most intimate, palpitating, delicious, tender, titillating,
Joy-lnsplrlng, blissful, thrilling, hypersensitive, stimu
lating, heavenly, rapturous, heart-easing, aoul-Btlrrlng,
entrancing, exquisite ecstasy of a woman's kiss.
It happened this way:
" Madame Curio and her scientific husband, who
were as model a married French couple as ever hap
pened outside of a French novel which means most
cf Paris and practically all of France having dis
covered radium, were next most profoundly absorbed
In defining Its nature and classifying its properties.
As all the world knows, Madame Curie was tne
point of fact, played the modern Pandora to the sealed
mysteries of science which, once opened to the harsh
light ot day, have destroyed the dearest illusion the
members of her sex have known since Eve bit into
the apple and, nevertheless failed to touch it
- If Madame Curie had known what was to emanate
from radium, perhaps the wouldn't have tried to dis
cover it; and neither would Pandora maybe.
But the fact remaini, Madame Curie did discover
radium; and all the men of science came scurrying after
her, trying to discover what was-Icft.
Sir William Crookes, of England, was In the van.
Spon rumors arose that some great fundamental
principle of solence had been undermined by the uni
versal experimentation with the marvelous new metal;
and other rumors followed that some all-important
new principle was likely to bo evolved which mus't
change man's view of his universe for all time to come.
MICROSCOPIC SPLENDORS
Meanwhile Professor Crookes, who has a very
human taste for seeing the picturesque side of his
scientific experiments, Invented tne sphlntharlscope.
It N a little microscope, at the farther end of
which a screen appears that has been covered with
sulphide of zinc. Upon a very delicate Wire over the
screen is a fragment, a mere mote, of radium weigh
ing no mora than one-thirteen-hundredtU part of a
grain. The radium continually flinging forth Its ema- ,
nations, the particles released Impinge upon the slnc
aensltlzed screen, becoming instantly luminous.
To use the sphlntharlscope, the observer takes it
into a darkened room and waits until his eyes, de
prived of light, have become extremely sensitive to
any rays that may be presented to them. In a measure
in the measure to which the human eye can an-
proach It he becomes nyctaloplc, or capable of sight
in darkness, like a cat or an owl.
" ri'ViAn nnnlvlnir lha ahnnrmallir rnHnUln. ...... . .1 .
microscope lens, he can Fee the luminous emanation
of radium, the most magnificent spectacle In the
microscopic world, so far outshining the trrentpnf
'ftnlonrlnrQ nf the telencrtnA fm In teavA the Mfllr
and all the comets about equal to a few plnwheel's
and a Roman candle beside an eruption of Mount
Vesuvius.
A whole heaven of meteors hurls itself forth from
the mote of radium upon the screen, perishing In
darkness as they impinge. Cascades of shooting stars.
myriads or Diazing xuub, a wnu cnaos or leaping nres,
infinitely splendid, flare before the astounded eye.
These a-c the Infinitesimal particles of radium
which, until the time of Sir W'llliam Crookes and his
sphlntharlscope, would have been denominated "atoms"
by the scl?noe of the nineteenth century, as well as by
the science which theorized along nineteenth century
lines until a very .recent date.
But now the whole, vast atomic theory has fallen
Into complete ruin. With radium' dazzling riot of
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fire in Its eye, science is compelled to admit that the
atoms, which It formerly believed combined to consti
tute the solid mass of the molecule, are themselves
Immensely divisible. And, of course, not the atom of
radium alone; the atoms of all substances have each
their characteristic weight and their characteristic di
visibility. It has been determined that the hydrogen atom,
ordinarily accepted as a standard from which to com
pute the weights of atoms of bther elements, consists
of 700 units, or Ions, which are identical with the
units, or ions, of all other substances, but different in
the number constituting the atoms found in the
others.
Where the hydrogen atom contains 700 ions, the
oxygen atom embraces 11.200 ions, and the atom of
gold contains 1J7.J00 Ions. Radium's atomlo Ions
number 120,000.
But that is only the first principle of the revised
science. The next Is far more astounding. It la this:
The Ions of every atom, many as they are from the
700 of hydrogen to the 137,200 of gold and confined
as they are within the compass of the atom, a bulk
beside which the common "grain" of chemistry's
weight measurement would loom like the Alps com
pared with a pebble, are In continuous orbital move
ment, whirling around and around with the swiftness
of lighting, yet held together In their myriad individ
ual orbits by the eternal laws of motion such as carry
the earth around the sun.
And all are imbued with some tremendous dyna
mics, some energy which science believes to be elec
trical In Its nature.
It Is as though, within every atom, there were
confined a separate, distinct, individual, characteristic
cosmos, or universe. In all respects similar to the uni
verse of the earth, the seiajvsystem and the incal
culably distant stars we see about us yet with this
difference:
Sometimes, at long Intervals, the orbits of star and
star, of comet and planet, of meteor and earth, concen
trate and meet; and then there occurs collision and,
for the smaller of the two great antagonists, extinc
tion of the separate orbit. But in the miniature uni-
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NCIENT myths embodied man's highest
ideal ot leminine beauty in Helen of Troy,
who, it was said, sat in a beautiful shrine,
clothed, for the most part, in lone, thick.
golden hair, flowing unbound from her head, while
she' wove men's destinies m threads of silver on
an enchanted loom.
Woman's hair is her ciown of glory, the coro
net given by nature to compote the attractiveness
of face and form. But her solicitude for it, hr
vonderfu! Vays of handling .and fixiig it, have
never been understood by mere man, especially by
the one who combs his own .with a towel.
So, when the report went out recently that
Pittsburg merchants were considering the advisa
bility of banishing the pompadour becauso their
employes spent so much time arranging and fixing
that lofty and imperious head-dress, there was a
loud and widespread wail of protest. Singularly
enough, too, there has been a greater rush in Eu
rope than in this 'country to defend the pompadour.
I ERHAPS those Plttsburar merchants never
meant it, after all. Perhaps they only meant
to convey a gentle hint to a few of thoir em
ployes who. they thought, oormltted their anx
iety for personal adornment to take their attention
too frequently from business.
Be this as it may, the scare spread, and In many
other cities the question was anxiously asked:
"Must we lose the pompadour?"
It Is said the question of attempting to banish the
pompadour was gravely considered. Some of the men,
it Is reported, declared it to be not only a visible and
foolish exhibition of feminine vanity, but a pencil
cushion as well, often stuck with five or six pencils;
they even knew It to be used as a savings bank, where
girls carried dollar bills, and often, one man whis
pered In a voice that trembled. Infested with "rats"!
It seems the principal count in the indictment
against the pompadour la that It is often unruly, and,
like a bad boy, difficult to keep in place. It slips over
to one side or the other, droops down over the fore
head or flattens Itself in a weary way upon the head.
Then, of course, It must be tlxed.
"Enter a store any time," declared a man who
thinks he Is observant, "and you will see a girl pause
before a mirror, making dabs at her hair." How much
time is lost In a day by a company or regiment of
girls attending to the refractory pompadour has never
been computed, so far as known, but some complain
ing employers say it Is a matter of considerable im
portance. Many girls come to work late in the morning.
What is the reason? The pompadour. One girl. It
was said, had confessed that she devoted a half hour
to dressing her hair. In the stores customers some
times complained of Inattention. Mistakes were made.
The cause? Why, the pompadour. For how can a
girl compute arithmetic when she is agitated by the
possibility of her pompadour being lopsided?
"The pompadour is pernicious," declared an em
ployer. "A woman can't get her mind off it."
"It's worse than an Inside pocket," declared an
other. "It's stuck full of pencils, pens, pads and
even money. Yes, I've seen girls carrying money la
their hair. It's' a pincushion apd a savings bank."
Perhaps the unktndest thrust at the pompadour
was made by an old woman recently. She was dis
cussing the question in a store one day. and looking
slyly at a salesgirl who was pushing up ner hair with -both
hands remarked:
"It often ain't real."
verse embodied in the atom there are no collisions, 0
Impacts, no disarray' of orbits.
There is, and there can be, no contact of ion WitH
Ion.
And as between Ion and Ion there must foreves?"'
yawn a gulf of space as unbridgeable as It Is lnflnlU-4
ly small, so there must yawn forever a gulf betwi
atom and atom, between molecule and molecule, be-
tween element and element, between substance and
substance, between heart and heart, between breast
and bosom, between lips and other passionate thirsting)
lips of love.
The most convulsive clasp of the most passionate
lovers who ever lived the clutch of Cleopatra haling!
great Antony 1o his fall, the embrace of Juliet M
she bade farAWell tn hr PnmA th. mrih, ffnnnlM
of Paris upon the dewy Hps of Arrive Helen all must,
forever fall, to effect the actual contact wbioq
humanity has so fondly believed was real. 'i ... '
Weight of mountain piled on mountain, and t&el
crushing burden of giant Jupiter piled on both, coald)
not suffice to press Into actual contact two hands
clasped and moist at the moment of their meeting.
So you and no human being, living or dead or to M
alive, could boast the felicity of the kiss harsh sclenaej
has taken from the Joys of life. And yet science ae4
knowledges now, .'n the very essence of Its new dlscov-
ery. a groater principle, which formerly it relegated 4
the faithfulness of an Imagination It despised. " ,
REGULATED BY ELECTRICAL FORCE J
For It admits that the force regulating the orbits)
of the Ions In all substances Is electrical In It nature.
And the kiss, which, by those who hare tasted Its de
lights, is averred to possess soma marvelous, if lnex-
pllcable, magnetism. Is as literally and actually an)
electric thrill as it Is literally not a touching of Ilpsi
to lips.
Science, In Us own queer, prosaic, plodding; wrong
headed way, has blundered upon proof that the drsams)
and the fancies of humanity are the last, the greatest
the ultimate among Its facts. -
So Miss Shonts, when the lips of her ardent duo
de Chaulnes et de Picqulgny press upon the pouting
Cupid's bow one sees in her photograph, will deceive)
herself if she imagines bis mouth and hers art lis
the perfect touch her young affection craves. Gladys)
Vanderbllt may feel the parted moustache of her hand
some Count Lazlo upon her lips; but it will bo lllu
slon merely. Beautiful Marie Bonaparte and tall
Prince Oeorge of Greece may kiss to their hearts
content, and still be out of touch until they die of old
age; and lovely Victoria of Spain, with her devote!
Alfonso, ami the ciown prince of Germany and his
dear little Duchess Cecilia, may be happy all IheiS
lives. Yet their lips can never touch.
But the Ions that make their bodies and tho loves
that fill their souls will hurl themselves onward by,
the old, divine impulse which vulgar science Is con
tent to believe electric in its power. And the forces,
whlr.h Aeitv t W rt rr&,h nf WArtrl, t n m,lr. Ih.n ......I.
one another, are so mighty that, for the kiss from
whioh the charm of the literal contact of Hp with
has departed, kingdoms will still be cast aside and
empires spurned as dross. '." i -:.:t .-,
No? Well, try It yourself this evening.
Love-Making to Aid Robbery
WOULD you like to be made love to In-order to b
robbed? No. you say; love-making might pot
be objectionable, but robbery , Is going a littlo
too far. v. -V :.:; V; ; ,
An number of girls In London have been compiatn
ing this winter of the unpleasant dual experience. It
seems that several handsome men, always tastefully
dressed, have been making -a regular campaign of lv
and plunder. -,. --j,
Nearly always they pretend to be members of tho
Stock Exchange, and when their suits have progre t
to the point of engagement, they manage fo.enthu
their fair victims over some "big boom" of which the
have learned, and thus secure all the money that tlt
deceived ones can scrape-together. :
In quite a number of eases young women have bfi
robbed of their Jewelry by smooth, rascals to whoia
they had become engaged. V ' , , .
"My love affair." said one of the victims sad!-,
"cost me more than 60 IS09 but the mnny h
nothing to the fact that It took sway years of tny y"'.
and left me with the cftovlcuoa that 1 shall novur u ,
another man." . ... . .-, ' -
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