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Another Sunday school lesson! Miss Coleotten lecture upon beauty flashed uponme more than she had done, and his every as measured What was the mystery? What had he to say to me?

"T'e most beautiful--voman--in t'e vorld," he went on in a slow, cadenced whisper "Do you vish it?"

His glittering eyes heldatwith anxiety for me to make some decision upon which much depended He was in very serious earnest

But was ever a question et the wish--ah, there's a different ht he must be crazed by over-study, and I could only sit and stare at him, open-mouthed

"Listen!" he went on more rapidly, as if to forestall objection "You are scholar, too, a little You kno Nature vorks, how ar into sweet cider and it is vinegar T'e fero in vit' vater and hops and malt, and t'ere is beer T'e bacilli of bread, t'e yeast, svaro into t'e housevife's dough, and it is bad bread; but t'at is not t'e fault of t'e bacilli--oot bread T'e bacilli of butter, of cheese--you haf studied t'eood butter into bad creaoot It ripens It is educated, led in t'e right vay Tradition vaits for years to ripen vine and make it perfect Science finds t'e bacillus of t'e perfect vine and puts it in t'e cask of fresh grape juice, and soon t'e vine drinkers of t'e vorld svear it is t'e rare old vintage T'e bacillus, inconceivably tiny, svar itself a billion froist helps Nature

"See now," continued Prof Darmstetter "I haf a vonderful discofery made I must experiment vit' it--experimentum in corpore vili! Impossible, for the subject is , young--all t'e conditions ence--t'at is you She should know soy, and be fery brave, so t'at she ift is to come to her; and t'at is you She should not be already beautiful, lest t'e change be less convincing Yes, you are t'e voman for t'e test You may become more famous in history fan Cleopatra or Ninon, and outshine t'em and all t'e ot'er beauties t'at efer lifed Do you vant triumphs? Here t'ey are Riches? You shall command t'em Fame? Power? I haf t'em for you You shall be t'e first Aftervard, v'en beauty is coliness is now--ah, I do not know Efen t'en it vill be a blessing But to be t'e first is fas I promise you Now do you trust me? Now do you beliefe me? Vill you make t'e experiment? I haf--let me tell you!--I haf discofered--"