WHY SHE WEEPS.
TEARS, IDLE TEARS, WE KNOW NOW WHAT THEY MEAN. One does not: care' to have . bnejs tears analysed like a patent food or medicine, and to associate them, with chemical, substances, says an English paper, but we are nothing if not practical nowadays, arid every shred •of-, romance, poetry and . sentiment -is remorselessly wrenched from us' for scientific •purposes. »-A ' French journal devoted to matters of this kind has been telling us, not only of what .tears are composed, but exactly' the. effect;'that is' produced on brain and body when we shed; them. So, henceforth,.,:when'we. read that the heroine's "beautiful.'eyes ware 1 suffused with tears," that •'.'in a 'moment. she . was weeping passionately on his shoulder," we shall know that by a kind, of shower-bath, arrangement a mixture of albuminoid, water, and chemical substances was let; loose at the back of her skull, thus dulling the nerve; centres, arid really giving her relief. However, it does "not. sound romantic, and mere.man is likely to imagine that -the fair one is really Buffering doubtly when this happens.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 5
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179WHY SHE WEEPS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 5
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