ARE YOU IN LOVE-AND WITH WHOM?

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 472, 8 June 1912, Page 7

ARE YOU IN LOVE-AND WITH WHOM?

HOW YOU MAY TELL,

Dr. Lightner Witmer is making j series of most interesting tests witl a new- machine. It is an apparatus that can tell you, probably bettethan tyour' o wn heart, whether yol are really in love or not. Take, for example, the case of f young woman who could not quit' make up her mind whether to ncccpHenry Brown or Mortimer Jones Both, in her opinion, were most esti mable young men and she liked then too. Moreover, she knew that cacl of them wanted to marry her. Bin whether to give up Henry and ac ccpt Mortimer or to say "yes" tc Henry and tell Mortimer that slu loved another better was a problerr that she did not seem able to an swer, no matter how hard she tried

The new love testing machine car easily solve all such problems as that. The young woman is invitee by Dr. Witmer to 1 the psychologies laboratory, where her middle lingei is inserted in a tube connected wit! the; machine. Then the profesfon watch the indicator closely as il rises and falls while the young woman is being questioned regarding her perplexing two-fold romance The indicator registers on a piece ol paper all of her varying emotions.

At the moment of Mortimer's name the line wavers and then drops When the professors talk about Henry the line leaps upward. That settles it. The young woman is told, probably much to her own surprise, thai she loves Henry better than Mortimer, and that she had better accepl Henry and let Mortimer go. Aftei debating the matter in her own mine the young woman will realise thai the machine knew her own heart bet ter than she herself did.

If you want to know more about this wonderful little love-testing ma chine you must refer to it as th< phthysinograph. The machine is nol, exactly a new invention. It has been used in psychological laboratories for two or three years to re cord the effects of emotions, to make demonstrations in the direction c< finding hidden objects, to prove tht efficacy of "associated" names ir criminal cases and for other psychological experiments.

Not until recently did any on< think o£ employing the machine tc answer the eternal question, "sh» loves me ; she loves me not." Consequently, popular interest in the de vice is only recent. Now that somi

popular use for it has been discovered it may become as much in de mand as the phonograph, which at first was regarded only as an es perimental device without any com mercial value.

Here is a description of the phthys mograph and the way it is opcrat ed :

The chief feature of the. machine is a small glass cylinder connecte( with a tube of rubber which fits tin finger or the hand like a glove. Int< this mitten arrangement the aubjec —psychologists like to call theii victims "subjects"—inserts his or her finger or hand. The space between the glove and the cylinder is filled with water a nd a gauge on toi of the cylinder shows with unerrint accuracy any contraction or expan sion 0 f the finger or hand so encasec" when stimulated to action by th( psychological influence of the brair upon hearing the name of the love( one mentioned.

As the hand or finger contracts the water falls in the tube. At tht same time a like effect is caused ir a long rubber hose, filled with aii and attached to the upright glass tube. Connected with the hose is f piston-like apparatus, tipped with t rubber diaphragm, at the end o' which is a lever with a pen attachec which registers the contractions 01 expansions on a roll of blackenec paper attached to a revolving drum While a subject rests his or hei hand or finger in the water-encasec glove a series of names are calle< out. Herbert, George, William Henry pass through the young wo man's mind without causing a curv< in the recording line. But if shi loves you, then when she hears you] name, and the machine makes t rising mark, you arc safe in pro posing. She loves you, and if yoi love her and can keep her love yoi may live happy ever afterwards."Popular Science Siftings."