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Why Lovers
' CAN'T HELP
Quarreling
W-fHE psychologists hare been making a special
" I " gtudy of Jealousy. According to their latest
definition, Jealousy la Just love with the engine
reversed.
If you tell a lover that he Is Jealous because he
baa, bo to speak, reversed his engine of love, he will
think you are Joshing him; but that, according to the
latest scientific research, is Just his complaint
jealousy la pain, while love is pleasure, but both
Impulses are governed by the same brain centres.
These. train centres work violently on the heart
through the vagus nerve, and, if long continued,
jealousy may npset the entire nervous system and,
through it, all of the bodily functions, reaching even
to the stomach and the processes of digestion.
IWhat Is termed love is accounted lor upon psycho
logical grounds by the action of these same brain
centres, acting sometimes as an excitant upon the
. vagus nerve, but when satisfied and gratified has a
soothing influence upon the heart through the samo
nerve.
It is not easy to explain the association centres,
for they are so complex in their action that they have
not been fully explored and explained, We know that
the centres of touch are at the top of .the brain, and
those of smell and taste at the base of the cerebrum.
We are certain that often these centres act together,
especlaly where the emotion is very 'powerful. They
are stirred through the eye, the ear of touch.
When you see the person you love or bear his
voice or even see bis picture there Is an excitement
of these associative powers, and often a desire to
touch the beloved. This is gratified by touching the
hands or lips, cr even touching the clothing may suf-
JEALOUSY Is Simply LOVE with the Engine REVERSED
flee. The excitement often manifests
itself by the act of blushing, which
Is only the action of the vagus nerve
upon the heart, sending volumes of
blood to the surface of the face es
pecially, and so gorging the blood
vessels that the skin turns red. Some
become pale under excitement, ow
ing to the tightening of the capilla
ries, preventing the blood from show
ing itaelC
"The mere sight of her photograph (A), or the sound of his voice (B), excites the association centres in the
lover's brain and creates a desire to touch the loved one (C) with lips or hand."
These are the explanations which the nhysicist
gives of the accompanying phenomena of love, for he
is' not concerned with, nor can he ever explain, causes.
Why these centre act as they do, none can say, but
after many ages' of observation certain signs have
been set down as indicative of affection or of Jealousy.
Jealousy is, however, so complex a feeling that It
is not easy to explain the process by which it is at
tained. Ita source is the association centres of the
brain, and Bight or sound aro only the excitants of a
etate of mind, or excitement, quite
the reverse of love. Love must be
present for Joalousy to arise. If the
lover sees the beloved in tho com-,
pany of a rival, or be told somehtlng
tending to show that another is pre
ferred to him or her, Jealousy is at
once evoked. It, is one of the most
powerful motives that can be arous
ed in a human being, and may go
even so far as to bring about a mux- -der,
as in tho case of Othello and
Desdemona, an act repeated thous
ands of times since from a similar
motive.
The engine of love may still be
progressing under full steam; in fact
Jealousy has been known to raise
love Itself to fever heat The flirt
tries to make her lover propose by
showing him how attentive others
are and arousing his Jealousy. The
psychologist recognize the power
ful play of Jealousy and show how it
perverts the Judgment and magnifies trifles which to
others mean little or nothing. To the Jealous man a
look may mean preference of his rival, whereas it may
have been the most innocent possible.
It is because of this overbalancing and perverting
of the judgment that It is well to understand how
jealousy works, thus safeguarding men and woman
fr.om useless, often silly, suffering, because of the
blindness or magnifying power of the hatred of the
rival. Just as love Itself magnifies every virtue and
sees beauty where the unmoved person sees nothing
especially attractive, so jealousy takes the one whom
it possesses to the wildest extremes, because of the
over-activity of the emotional centres, preventing him
or her from seeing the truth or listening jto reason.
It has been held that those who really lovj deeply
are incapable, of jealousy, because of complete confi
dence based upon a full appreciation of the qualities
of steadfastness in the other. But if in any Way this
confidence Is shaken by the whisper of gossip or the
observation of something that seems to be a breach o
love jealousy steps In with' a violence In proportion to
the love perviously experienced. This is the reason
that psychologists speak of jealousy as a reversing of
the engine of love, because, while the lover asserts
and reasserts his affection, to others it seems as if love
has become hatred, not only of the rival, but of the
primary object of love.
Confidence in the object of one's love is to be en
couraged. The greater the confidence the less likeli
hood of Jealousy. Most jealousy proves to bo ground-
lpRR. anA iTlA mAnl n,ll(lH ,AA,nt TievtVnln.lnnl
search seems to point is that the lover should thor
oughly investigate the grounds for his Jealousy before'
allowing it to run uway with him.
Microbe That EATS METAL
How the COCKROACH May Be the CAUSE of CANCER
ALTHOUGH science .knows a hundred
micro-organisms that devour the hu
man tissues and cause all sorts of
maladies, and also many that eat plants,
roots, dirt, wood and clothing, it has never
been imagined that there was one capable of
eating up bits of Btecl and Iron. Yet the
discovery just made by E. M. Mumford, an
English student, shows that this is the case.
bacillus that has a specific action upon
solutions of iron and steel was obtained by
Mr. Mumford from the Brldgewater canal
tunnels at Worsley, Lancashire, England.
' Shis new species of bacillus varies in its
digestive action upon iron and steel com
pounds according to whether it acts in the
presence , or absence of air. When oxygen is
present, the iron is precipitated by the germs
as iron bog-ore, while in the absence of oxy
gen no iron salts are formed.
This Iron eating germ is a short microbe
about one-thousandth of an inch long. It
grows readily on potatoes and then looks
greenish brown in color. It also colonizes in
milk, gelatin andpr.
It also forms an " iron digestive juice or
ensyme, which acts upon iron just as the
germ itself does.
WE have heard so much about the .'dangerous
house-fly that 'it is quite a relief to have the
blame for some of the ills that' afflict man
kind shifted from the shoulders of the fly to the broad
back of the disgusting cockroach.
In a recent Issue of The Lancet, T)r. W. Melville
Davison calls attention to the fact that the cause of
cancer, may be an alga which Is found in the bowels
of several varieties of cockroaches.
By a curious coincidence, the United States Agri
cultural Department has recently succeeded in Isolat
ing a vegetable parasite which causes plant cancer,
and which carries the disease from plant to plant, and
Professor Ylbinger, of Copenhagen, has discovered a
worm which flourishes in the house rat, causing can
cerous tumors in the rodent it afflicts. The larvae
stage of this worm is passed in the intestines of the
cockroach, and Professor Vlblnger states that he has
no dcubt that a similar parasite causes human can
cer. Of course these suppositions are based on the as
sumption that cancer is a germ disease and -not a
dietetic disease, as an eminent authority stated only
a few years ago in The Lancet. It was believed that
excessive beef eating causes cancer, and It was pointed
out that the British, who are the greatest beef eaters
in the world, show the greatest percentage of cancer
as well. - t
It is well, at any rate, to be on the safe side, and to
exterminate the cockroaches as ruthlessly, or more
ft), than the fly. No food on which a cockroach had
been seen should be eaten. If cockroaches infest a
place, all left-overs should be carefully covered to kepp
the roaches from touching the food.
The Lancet, of course, recommends that roaches
should be starved and not poisoned. Scrupulous
cleanliness will do much toward ridding a house of
roaches. A bread crumb that has drdfTped to the
floor unperceived, a bit of Jam that has splashed on the
kitchen oilcloth and has not been wiped away, imme
diately, will attract this, loathsome plague.
Roaches are often carried into the kitchen in bun
dles of wood, and it is well, where wood Is still used,
to Bhake each bundle thoroughly before bringing it
into the house. A good many housewives are using
charcoal instead of wood to kindle their fires for U)ii
reason.
How the Kaiser Learns the War Secrets of Other Nations
THE versatility of the Kaiser is well
enough km n nrt to need oxp? latlon
here. But what an Indefatigable, even
watchful worker his Majesty is, is knewn
to very tew. Indeed. In addition to
those public services which are per
formed In the light of day, there are certain
other grave affairs of state at which his Maj
esty "labtrs tar Into the " night, of which the
publlo never hear and of which few officials
ever get to know anything.
Let me relate a typical incident in the Ufa
of the Kaiser which illustrates the point I
telstrasse, in Berlin, on a nignt in February,
lJll, .reading quietly, when the door was
thrown open and my man -showed in a middle
aged, military looking gentleman, wearing1
Verdienstkreuz, the cross of merit. Though I
bad never until then set eyes on this particu
lar gentleman, I Immediately knew him to be
on'e of the emissaries from the Wllhelmqtrasse,
which is the palace of the Foreign Office in
Berlin.
Drawing himself op, clicking his heels to
gether and saluting, this messenger handed me
a sealed envelope bearing the number 17, and
the curt demand, "Antwort," meaning, Answer.
I should explain here that all secret agents
are addressed and known in ordinary corre
spondence by numbers, and No. 17 was my des
ignation on the rolls of the service.
The note banded me contained card an!
a command to appear at 11:30 p. m. at the Wll
belmstrasse in full evening dress, and to held
myself in readiness for instant Bervlce. Th
card bore above the signature of Oraf von We
dell the Inscription, "Vorzulassen und vorsu
fuhren" Admit and present.
To hold myself in readiness for instant ser
vice was nothing now to me. But the ofder for
full evening dreBS, the time 11:30 p. m. set
me to thinking. I cast over In my mind for
any likely explanation. Was there any high
foreign personage in Berlin at the time requir
ing to be. watched. Was there any function
going on? it frequently falling to th lot of an
agent to be present at these affairs to watch
eminent men and keep track of their move
ments, meetings, conversations, etc. But I
could come to no satisfactory conclusion.
"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles
toe," being one of my favorite maxims, I turned
again to my book after instructing my man
to lay. out evening togs and .get mo ready by
II o'clock. '
That hour saw toe turned out in full fit and
sauntering, having still half an hour to Spare,
slowly down the Linden "alley and past the
Pariser Plata. Then, turning into the Wilhelra
etraase, 1 rung the socond entrance door bull,
and produced my card. I was shown into an
ante chamber where I found a tall, distinguished
looking gentleman, cf military bearing, likewise
In evening dress. We bowed formally to each
other, but, following the unwritten law per
taining to these places, held no speech.
At the stroke of 11:30 an .usher appeared
and asked us to follow him. We were shown
into a spacious room where, seated at a large
writing table shaded by a green reading lamp,
eat Count Udo von Wedell, Privy Councillor to
his Majesty. The Count, whom I had met on
many occasions, is a tall, scholarly and courtly
gentleman, In appearance not unlike your Pres
ident Wilson, only with the addition of an iron
gray moustache. Requesting us to be seated,
be Inquired if we were acquainted, and receiv
ing a negative reply, he introduced us, my com
panion proving to be Herr,von Senden, ex-captain
cf the Second Guard Hussars. After a
cursory chat the Count suddenly drew his
watch, and remarked:
"Gentlemen, now to business. You will in a
few minutes enter a certain room, advance to
the centre and sttfnd at attention. Tou will be
asked certain questions. Your answers are to
be short and to the point You will not put any
questions and on being dismissed will back out
of the room. This Is under the strict silence
rule. I enjoin you to avoid any discussion
of this matter between you. You understand?"
We nodded silently. Then a gong boomed
Bomewhere, and by the sound, from below
ground. The Count rose quickly, and with the
words, "Be ready, gentlemen," left us. Re
turning almost immediately, he commanded us
to follow him. We proceeded a abort distance
along the corridor and then turned into a deep
alcove. There the Count pressed a spring and,
a panel sliding suddenly apart, disclosed a
spiral stairway, down which we went. I count
ed fifty-four steps, It being my habit always to
count steps and paces when on strange ground.
The habit, I may add, has frequently proven
of great use to me when I had to operate in
dark places. i
Again we proceeded through a long passage
nntll we cams to a large double door at which
two sentries stood Immovable on either side.
The Count halted and knocked. The door was
opened by an officer in the undress uniform
of the Life Guards. We entered, and; mindful
Of instructions, both of us marched to the mid
dle of the room and then came to attention.
The part pi the room where we that is, the
officer, von Senden and myself were standing
was brillantly lighted. The remainder, which
formed part of a large alcove, and was cut oft
by a transparent screen, was quite dark. The
officer .stood about three paces to the right of
us, towards the screen, the Count having dis
appeared behind it. ' ,
Thus, we stood for a full five minutes, not
moving a muscle. Now andtnen an indistinct
murmur came from within. Suddenly a sharp,
clear, and but for this throaty sound almost fal
setto voice, broke the silence.
"Putwitz," addressing the officer, "ask the
doctor if he is well acquainted with Morocco,
especially the coast"
Here let me observe that through the whole
conversation all questions from behind the
screen, and all our answers, were conveyed
through the officer von Putwitz.
My reply was:
"I am well acquainted with Moroccan affairs.
I know all the principal ports through personal
visits to them. I have been, at one time, medi
cal adviser on the staff of Kaid Sir Harry Mac
Lean, formerly commander-in-chief of tho
Moroccan army."
. "Ah! Sol So! Goodi" came In ejaculatlon
from behind the screen.
"Putwitz, whe was this Kaid MacLean?"
The officer repeated the query to me.
"By birth a Scotsman," I replied, "who at one
time held non-commission rank in the Anglo
Indian army. Shrewd, silent a man of great
ability he was much relied on by the Sultan
and feared by his troops. He was knighted by
King Edward VII. on the occasion of the Moroc
can delegation to England."
"Still alive?" came the question.
"No, died of an attack of pneumonia at
Nizza,"
Two more questions were put to me regard
ing the length of my stay In Morocco, and the
amount of English and French Influence I
found existing there. My answers were evi
dently satisfactory, for I heard repeated ex
clamations of:
"Good! Good!" (Schoen! Schoen!)
Then a series of questions were fired at von
Senden, it appearing that he must at one time
have been an attache to the'German Legation
at Morocco, end at the Embassy to Italy as welL
Just then came an interruption. I heard a
knock on the door at the back of the screen.
A person was admitted, and Judging from the
resulting sounds, some papers or documents
were handed in. Suddenly a tiny green shaded
reading lamp was switched on, revealing Indis
tinctly the apartment behind this transparent
screen, but plainly revealing the man seated
before a plain mahogany writing desk cov
ered with papers and maps. Senden, beside
me, gave a start and a gasp, although I was
pretty well prepared for the sight which met
our seats." Seated within four yards of us was
his Majesty,' Emperor William II., bending over
some of the Just banded in papers.
The Kaiser wore the interim uniform of a
colonel of the First Guard Fusllllers, with the
Cross of the Black Eagle dangling from his
second button. I had ample time to study his
Majesty, for be was engaged in perusing the
papers held in bis hand for quite ten minutes.
There are many portraits of the Emperor
in existence, but none of, them is a real, na
tural likeness to my way of thinking. His Maj
esty is thinner in face and fuller in figure
than any of the photographs X have seen make
him. The face in repose beasa a marked like
ness to Frederick the Great in middle age.
There are the same aquiline features as In the
case of the great Frederick, only the Emperor s
nose Is more pronounced, and his Majesty nas
the same close pressed, finely cut lips, with a
faintly cruel look about the mouth. Brown,
with a ruddy eclor in his cheeks, his Majesty
looks to be in perfect condition
Ho looked up suddenly ana found von Sen
den and myself gazing at him. A shade of an
noyance seemed to cross his face as he slowly
and minutely looked us over. Senden was
visibly nervous and ill at ease, and turned bis
head toward the Count I looked back without
moving an eyelash. We were looking at each
other for a full minute, and I had a good chance
to observe the rather rare color of the Em
peror's eyes, another feature never appearing
in any of his photographs. They are large,
clear and a light steel blue, and they can peer
pretty sharply at one cut of knitted brows.
I can quite understand that Ministers and
others And those. royal orbs Bomewhat dlscon-
certing, especially when their owner is in an
adverse mood.,
Onco more the Emperor turned to his papers,
his left hand stroking his moustache. He was
evidently considering something of great im
portance. Meanwhile, there was not a sound
in the room. Von Putwitz, Senden and my
self remained standing like blocks of wood, the
Count sat erect in his chair.
Curious thoughts flitted through my ' mind.
Here was I in the presence of one of the great
forces, if not the greatest force on earth at
present Picture to yourself the scene: Mid
night, in an underground chamber, the man
who without doubt holds the peace of Europe
in his keeping for he can well put nine mill
ions of armed men in motion trying to make
up his mind on some matter of the most far
reaching import What part was X to play in it.
if any? , .
. It was a pregnant moment, indeed. We all
were instinctively aware of this, especially the
Count, for I observed him glancing more than
once rather anxiously at his master. Still not
a sound. The Emperor continued reading
quietly, his. brows knitted. Then he suddenly
turned in his chair toward the Count and
bringing his left fist sharply down on to the arm
of his chair, he cried in a tense voice:
"I shall do it See to all the details."
I saw the Count gaze search ingly Into the
face of his Majesty, and heave a sigh. Wheth
er or not the Emperor noticed it I cannot say.
With a move of bis hand toward the officer,
he said:
"The gentlemen are dismissed."
"Retire gentlemen," said von Putwitz, turn
ing to us.
We backed tdward the door, the Emperor
following us with bis eyes. At the portal we
bowed deeply. The' v Emperor - absently ao-'
knowledged our ' salute and returned immedi
ately to his papers.
The last view I had of the master of Europe
was of an intensely human looking figure, ap
parently wearied, but eager and active for all
that, bending over his desk Intent still upon
,the affairs of his people, the majority ff whom
at that hour were sleeping quietly in their beds.
Out in the corridor I drew my watch. It waa
just en the stroke of Ta7m7 -""-w5"r
Not until later did I learn the meaning of that
strange midnight quizzing by his Majesty. It
is a story in itself. But within two hours I was
on board the Orient Express bound south on n
mission in connection with a recent chanter
ot Euorpean history which brought the Powers
to the verge of general war.
& Snap-Shots S
Vt:een of 1
3 tain nami
enchants
THE MAID WE LOVE.
her realm!" uneer-
name that pusiles and
you.
For the "Realm" and what It la the
name no knowledge grants you.
Behold! She la a maiden fair who
splendidly can cook.
And I would warn you, one and all.
there's danger In Tie? look.
Her salads are a dear delight like
wise her cherry pies;
AH folk must cater to th'a maid as
In their power lies.
Ah, maid) how trembles all your
realm when one like you departs.
For you are queen of rolling; pins and
of policemen's hearts.
HAVE TOU NOTICED THAT
It is much easier to live because
we won't have to go on doing It for
ever? PleasursB and troubles are alike In
one respect they are both greatest
In anticipation T
When the average toian "plays to
the gallery" the only observer in that
gallery is his own self-esteem?
Yesterday's triumphs, defeats and
sorrows all belong to yesterday for
tears or smiles?
The chaps who l'ves only to 'enjoy
life never enjoys anything?
Friendship Is to be valued tit what
there Is in It, not for what can be got
ten out of it. Trumbull.
Let friendship creep gently to a
height: if it runs to It. It may run It
self out of breath.
The strength of friendship oonslste
more in liking- the same things thaa
in liking each other.
There la no folly equal to throwing
away friendship in a world where
friendship la ao rare.
It la Une thing to be yourself, and
a true friend laves you most whea
yju are!
Think less of your right to demand
service from friendship and more of
your sacred duty to give to it.
To be a hero, trust yourself to be
a martyr, trust the world and If you
are an idealist trust your friend.
When your friend disappoints you
It hurts 'out the agony la bitter when
you Ond yourself falling- your own
Ideal of friendship.
ON FRIENDSHIP.
He who has a thousand friends
Hna nnt frian A .
And he who haa one enemy
Will meet him everywhere.
"Tou are my friend, for you have
dwelt with me
In gay or stormy weather;
I like you for the times you've smiled
with me
I love yiu for the tears we've went
together." "
j S Don't
If you are blessed with a good
memory, don't weaken it by cherish
ing thlnga against people.
Thought that you alight the import
ance of the good old Second Thought.
..,".'t .for(ft thl" a little fairy
should appear and make visible the
burdens all are carrying- on the"
backs. , yours would seem small an J
trivial in comparison with most
Don't put a barbeTwIre fence arouni
fhaUf .rn "U" -Pot- anj insist
that others have bars down.
Don't tell little lies. If you mat
be untruthful, tell big onea and be
comes known aa a statistician.
Don't forget that next Week tou
may be looking back with regret be.
caus you didn't show greater nnr2!
elation of t.o-iay,
VXANCSa t. OARSIDK
Domestic Amenities. r
He waa mumbling bout tons
steak and cold coffee. n.t ..
Oiimself generally disagreed.? "
Mtir.11 f.H. a.1 - A . lTAn . -
- ti, v irai nncnmi arvwi so over your tn A
gather, and, of course you know John," aaid his wife, -nobodv 1.
how one has to on tMat sort xf ocoa- tng to ake 1t a,way from vou- "
slon-we each Insisted on tumping' -v
SSffi h!r... -But Practical Woman!
what about that narrew escaper , Aspiring- Poet-p-IH set the Thamae
"That's Just it For a minute or on fire yet L" ' ;
two It looked very much as though I'd His Wife I do hops you win, dear
Overplayed the game and the other Would you mind making- a lire in the
three really were going to leave me kitchen grate -Just by way ot orea
with that bill to pay!" ' tlce. you know) : 7 .
DON'T forget when the trouble
you fear most comes to you it
.will be much easier to bear
than you Imagine.
If you have a strong point In your
character, don't make It a weakness
by admiring it too much. '
Don't alt In Idleness waiting for
your ship to come In. Tou will be
luckier than most people if, when it
finally comes in, the 811ent Boatman
Isn't In charge.
Don't keep . a diary. Some one
might produce It when your enemies
are trying to prove you are Insane.
Don't forget that every taak you
neglect that you may take a vaca
tion will meet you at the sta
tion with all Its relatives and friends
when you get back.
A Narrow Shave.
?By Jove, Iv had a narrew escape
yesterday!"
. "Reallyl Howr