Line 0.0.0 "Amoritis" or Love Sickness.

Line 0.0.1 This well.known diseaso is commonly

Line 0.0.2 supposod to affect the heart only, but this

Line 0.0.3 iaiat wholly true, as undoubtedly at times

Line 0.0.4 it also affects the lips.

Line 0.0.5 It usually attacks its victims about the

Line 0.0.6 ago of sixteen, and few of either sex are

Line 0.0.7 immunoe from its ravages. As in some

Line 0.0.8 other complaints, the patient rarely do

Line 0.0.9 sires a cure, and although fully admitting

Line 0.0.10 the proesence of the nalady, glories rather

Line 0.0.11 than otherwise in his sufferings.

Line 0.0.12 It distinctly contagious, but only so be.

Line 0.0.13 twooei members of thoopposito sex. When

Line 0.0.14 once fully developed, segregation Is

Line 0.0.15 not only. difileult but futile, and if affected

Line 0.0.16 will in manycaqe ,oily.serve to increase

Line 0.0.17 the diagoase..,,, .

Line 0.0.18 Diagnosis of. tito complaint is ompara.

Line 0.0.19 tively easy, even byn?' layman;' the h6arb

Line 0.0.20 beat and pulsoe;aro quickened, the lips

Line 0.0.21 tremble, and tlheheoeks and sometimoe

Line 0.0.22 the neook assund a rosy hue, while the

Line 0.0.23 eyes emulate those of the sheep. In the

Line 0.0.24 male sex, the 'airm assumes a curved shape

Line 0.0.25 which, if measured, will be found to

Line 0.0.26 conform to the 'exact dimensions of thli

Line 0.0.27 feminine waisht, ihile in the latter sex

Line 0.0.28 theafingers are entwined in a nervous and

Line 0.0.29 apparently unmeaning manner.

Line 0.0.30 BMoonlight is generally considered par.

Line 0.0.31 ticularly favourable to the growth of the

Line 0.0.32 germs, hence it is looked upon by some

Line 0.0.33 as a species of lunacy.

Line 0.0.34 Although by no means intraotiblo, thile

Line 0.0.35 ease and speediness of cure vaiy much;

Line 0.0.36 it Is siid that the course of the true disease

Line 0.0.37 never runs smopith; complications ensue

Line 0.0.38 and in some eases are so serious as to yield

Line 0.0.39 only to energetic action-usually called

Line 0.0.40 "breaoh'of promise."

Line 0.0.41 Iarriage is perihaps the most nearly

Line 0.0.42 infallible cure,,? t some cases are chronic

Line 0.0.43 and last througltdlit life;'

Line 0.0.44 "' saONrEYImio~U 'iMtPECUNIANIS,"

Line 0.0.45 This'-very trying, complaint is unfortu

Line 0.0.46 riatoly all too.:common. By some it is

Line 0.0.47 inherited, whilp;;others who come into

Line 0.0.48 this world in a position strongly fortified

Line 0.0.49 against its attacks-or as it is called

Line 0.0.50 "born with a silver spoon in their mouths"

Line 0.0.51 -a-ubsequently.fall victims to the disease.

Line 0.0.52 To all it is a constant monaco, and few

Line 0.0.53 go through life without periodical attacks

Line 0.0.54 Temporary attacks can often be warded

Line 0.0.55 off by an arrangement with one's avuncular

Line 0.0.56 relative, while maiden aunts are looked

Line 0.0.57 upon by some as a special provision of

Line 0.0.58 providence to afford a haven of refuge to

Line 0.0.59 sufferers when other means fail.

Line 0.0.60 Painful as are theho intermittent at.

Line 0.0.61 tacks they are to be preferred to the

Line 0.0.62 positiont of others who suffer from a

Line 0.0.63 chronic phase of disease. In niany cases

Line 0.0.64 ib is incurable, and special homes for the

Line 0.0.65 afflicted are built and maintained at the

Line 0.0.66 public expense. Very severe but non.

Line 0.0.67 fatal attacks can be only relieved by pas

Line 0.0.68 sing through a species of hospital known

Line 0.0.69 as " the Courts,' inl which the patient,

Line 0.0.70 after a very thorough examination by

Line 0.0.71 oxports, is treated with a course of "white.

Line 0.0.72 wash" nndtin very bad cases his discharge

Line 0.0.73 may be postponeud for months or even

Line 0.0.74 years.; •' ': .

Line 0.0.75 -Extract froblAtri English contemporary

Line 0.0.76 through 'our'Pakonham correspondent.