The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
oMrN have been the dominating
w influence in nh, the life ,s,na,r of Hrs,. s,o-
| fessor of ancient languages at NoiuhiD'"
university, writer and once editor OF the
Rookman There was his motner' OF
| course but more to the point ana years
later. there was and is Mrs. Corneha
pacs his first wife, who divorced MN
when she found that the caustic crltie
r,ad his csusticity home with him.
| In passing. there might also De men
toned Miss Esther Quinn, whom the io'
NOR Professor Peck remembers because
che sued him for breacn OF PROMISE anu
got a SIC. 900 judgment and VINO also tooN
a.;oa of some remarks he made about
h.r while the case was on trial tnat he'teo
~ verdict of 100000 more for libel anu
a,aaarous remarks And finally, meet
Me- elizabeth Dubois Peck, his present
.,so ve will do our best not to get them
l-aixed up.
The influence of some of these women
hos been more potent than that of Others
INST now Mrs Cornela Peck, the dlVorceu
-.,fo holds the lead in trumps and all the
.ns hesides. She has recently taken
peck from a hospital at Ithaca, \. ~
where he was desperately i'll, to her home
in sound Beach, Conn, where she hopes
| 10 nurse him back to health'
| poo,, was stricken with a nervous trou-
h,e following, perhaps, tine overplus OK
feminine influence in his life HIS ininu
was affected and he became worn ana
e,,aciated in body. His path has not been
:, tho nrimrose variety since Esther
! Quinn decorated the pages OF the ieadlhs
daily papers of the country with the love
notss and bits of tender verse the literary
peclx wrote her in the intermission be-
tween his divorce and marriage "on inn
pulse to his present wife. HIS dismissal
from Columbia did not ads to his mental
equilibrium.
| when Peck went to the hospital, physi-
clans looked him over and shook then
heads sadly. The deadly feminine mhu-
ence was getting in It's work, they said
sorrowfully! and Peck's days We're tick
oted and laid aside. He could never get
well They put it that plain. Hence there
wos a dash from two directions to reach
his bedside Mrs Cornelia Peck won py nne
snrinting. When Mrs. Elizabeth Peck
his present wife. arrived at the hospital
she found the divorced wife already in
stalled in the room where Peck lay i'll
She was taking turns with the nurse
watching over him. Across the bed the
nresent wife also looked tearfully down
upon the emaciated Mr.. Peck. 1t was
only a question of hours? Well, both
would wait till the end. The two women
took no notice of each other. 1t was as
liz their side of the bed were the only
side.
But Mrs. Cornelia Peck is Christian
Scientist. She telegraphed the reader OF
4 her church:
"Treat Professor Peck against death"
Every day different telegram was
sent. After the first injunction her mes
sage to the reader said Treat him fol
i harmony That the treatment Nigh
be more earnest she called in a science
practitioner near at hand Instead o.
dying within three weeks Professor Peek
left the hospital in her charge. It-.was
with. the consent and approval of eh'
present wife, 1t is said. Peck was taker
to Mrs. Cornelia Peck's home at Sounf
Beach. -
when I found him his cheeks wer.
sunken and his eyes had a fixed am
CLASSY stare" said Mrs Peck. "Almos
Immediately he began to brighten Tha
was 10 days ago. Now | have just brough
him to my home by motor car. He stoot
the trip fine, and little while ago had {
good sized luncheon. He is walking abor
to-day. His strength Is returning rapidly
And he is very much better mentally |