The San Francisco call., 1904-07-23
TEACHES WIFE
NOT TO FORGET
Doctor Gockrill Appears in
Queer Garb Because His
Spouse Locks Up Clothes
DOES IT TO TRAIN HER
In His Striking Outfit
He Imparts Lesson in
the Uses of Memory

DR.. NJ. E. Cockrill, a well-known
physician Of Petaluma, made the trip
home from this city yesterday morn
ing in a costume that was a cross be-
tween that Of a waiter and a pirate.
Mrs. Cockril was in state of nervous
prostration from looking at him in his
odd habiliments. The big policeman
at the ferry almost collapsed when he
saw the composite appearance of the
doctor-but that is another story.
The Petalumans had been visiting
here for a week, occupying the fiat of
friends who are now in the East, con-
sequently the doctor and his wife had
the house TO themselves. Early yester-
day morning they arose and made
preparations to return home, intending
TO eat breakfast downtown on their
way to the ferry. The doctor suddenly
remembered that he needed a shave,
and, not wishing to appear before his
Petaluma neighbors with an Esau-like
phiz, determined to seek barber.
There is a shop Immediately under
the fat which he had patronized sew
eral times the proprietor of which
is jolly, skiIlful, talkative
artist of the tonsorial guild. So. without
vest, coat or hat the doctor hurried
down the back stairs and through the
rear door Of the BARRIERS place and
dropped into a chair.
Mrs. Cockrill, up in the room pre-
pairing for departure, suddenly thought
of a package at a Market-street store
which must be procured before they
left the city. She did not know where
the doctor was getting his shave. Time
was a premium, for ferry boats, like
clocks and tides, wait for no one.
She must hurry away, but the
chamber door must not be left open,
as half Of the doctors wearing apparel,
with pockets filled with valuables, was
there. So she hastily wrote a note for
him. She said she would leave the
door key on the hat rack in the hall
and was careful to leave the written in
formation in a conspicuous place on the
bed, where he would find it when he
got into the room. She forgot that he
would not get the note or know how to
get into the room.
Then she locked the door and hurried
away - the note in the bedroom and
the key in the hall.
Smooth-faced and rosy checked from
his shave, the doctor came bounding
up the back stairs and founder rather
he didn't find-Mrs. Cockrill and the
way into the room. Here was a pretty
mess The door was strong-strong as
some of the language he used. The
agent was afar so his key was not
available, and the time was flying He
must be at home that forenoon, and
moreover he had no breakfast, but he
could waive that Worse still, his
pocketbook with his money was in the
room, though Mrs. Cockrill had her
own purse.
Nothing else to be done, he went
down to the barber and borrowed a
white jacket, red silk handkerchief
and carfare to the ferry - he would
breakfast in Petaluma. He was an en-
! tertainment TO the passengers on the
street car, who took him for a street
faker, and a source of worry to the
conductor, who whispered to the motor
man that they had a runaway crazy
aboard.
At the ferry he burst on Mrs. Cockrill,
who almost collapsed when that white
coat and red headgear showed up. The
harbor police came near arresting him
on suspicion of being an escaped luna
tic but Mrs. Cockrill interceded.
1 She pleaded with him to get a cheap
coat and hat somewhere, but he would
not He said he wanted to teach her a
! never to be forgotten lesson on the
/ practical uses of memory. She argued
with him-told Of the spectacle he
would make at home-but he said he
Z Mill 90 oovfR oI 60
ing if he could make her remember not
& to forget.
So that is why Dr. Cockrill OF Peta-
luna went home in his composite dress
with Mrs. Cockrill by his side, half
dead from modification.