Show I 1 how hoddo do they manage it A genius writing in in the bizarre 1 who has spent three months with the shakers indulges himself in telling tales out of sell school ool speaking of the proneness of the sexes to hanker after each other occasionally he hesayo says it is by no means an uncommon event for a young woman or roan man to dissolve tou with the dommu community anity for the sake saka of contracting matrimony and sometimes sonae limes these matri matrimonial montAl candidates conf leave f eave the same community at the same time and pd meet at the same place elsewhere for the same lame purpose how they chev are ever able white while within shiker limits to find place lace and time for the preliminaries of becoming inoculated with the virus of cupid and of p perpetrating courtship I 1 cannot from all toy my experience conceive for in the tha whole community there is is not a single individual mate male or female who is is not the ob t f a vigilant and never sleeping Apper vision 1 in the squi seasons sons of worship and in till ail the details detail 8 of f daily libei afe the sexes are kept apart by a host of n in 0 mor bl I 1 rules and usages no woman is is allowed to enter the apartment where a man is is or even to address him unless she be accompanied by at least one other woman this regulation extends even to tile the hospital iras once confined there for a week with a I 1 lawe b boil 01 1 on my wrist and the elderly and not ex ively sing nurse who poultices iced in a day was always scrupulously careful to bring with her a 1143 sister ister not much more ut attractive than herself who will doubt the power of animal magnetism ism after this Is it not as pi plain un as d lysight that this is the force the only force forca which operates upon the youthful fi i i bahs under such ces cesa Reze Hezekia klah li and ruth perhaps while in in the very act of devoti devotional onil shaking look at each other hezekiah discovers for the first time that ruth is good looking while she instantaneously receives the same impression concerning him the magnetic fluid tit at once shoots from two pair st eyes that sparkle with a desire which never lit them up before f ore the blood rushes madly the veins of each knees grow weak and he is 19 u unable n to keep up his shike ra ruth while her heart knocks agin her ribs like a jolly boat in a storm sighs heavily and forgetting her devotions leaves the sanctuary lary hezekiah follows he cant hel help himself hes under the influence they reach the open air ruth thou thoa art a comely damsel and I 1 love thee 1 I love thee likewise hzekiah pop bang a smack like the rap of an old brogue agin a barn dure dare and the matter is settled parson Pick Pic leero kleem does tho the rest tell us theres nothing in magnetism |