Now Christina is ready to employ the same means in behalf of her aunt. To the barber, then, Christina whispers: “A potion. What—what’s the price o’ yer—yer Spirit o’ Love?” The barber, momentarily nonplussed, finally smiled with understanding: A moment later he was brushing a cobweb from a small bottle containing a yellowish fluid. A soiled and faded label of floral design was affixed to the bottle, and on it appeared, as in letters of fire, the words “Spirit of Love.” “One shilling, miss.” “Would it—charm a lady?” “Certainly! I have sold hundreds of bottles of ‘Spirit of Love’ to gentlemen for that very object. Charms them like magic!” “Like magic?” “Like nothing else, miss. Do you wish the bottle for a sick friend? Just so! In that case a few drops on the pillow will prove a real charm.” Christina nearly dropped. It was too wonderful! He must be a sosserer! Christina administers the potion in her own way. While her aunt is asleep, she pours a few drops on the pillow, but, disturbed by the sudden squalling of a cat, lets the phial fall. It empties itself on the pillow. The aunt, a sceptic, throws the empty bottle into the fire, with the remark “Spirit of Fiddlesticks!” * * * * * Experimentation and research in the direction of rejuvenating processes and invigorating vigor continue all the time, without cessation. Some procedures involve surgical operations: others are associated with the administration of various hormones and extracts and glandular compositions. Proprietary medicines are on the market, particularly in France and in England. An advertisement in a weekly magazine advocates The Royal Jelly Rejuvenating Food Supplement. * * * * * In the early nineteenth century, in Edinburgh, there were on sale Luckenbooth Brooches. They were in the nature of amatory periapts. These brooches were sometimes engraved with a lover’s initials. Or a plea or an amorous inducement might appear thereon, such as: Let me and thee most happy be. Or: My heart ye have and thir I creve. I fancie non but the alon. Wrong not the heart whose joy thou art. * * * * * Analogous to philtres and similar amatory concoctions is the indirect stimulus derived from reading teacups. A popular Scottish weekly paper says: It’s fun, and there’s a good deal in it, too, if the signs are read aright. In relation to Love and Friendship, the column declares that a ‘human’ figure seen in the form of the tea leaves, whether man or woman, or the outline of a letter of the alphabet, indicates that the love and feeling of affection will concern the person whose name begins with the tea leaf letter. This is, in essence, an innocuous variation of an amatory inducement. * * * * *