Evening star., 1922-10-08
A Marital Extravaganza

, never have lived together. never have
been anything but friends, which they
still are, and might not be if they
had been married.
Tho children that used to play in
front of their bungalow are the chill
dren of a neighbor."
AHA" quoth Peachblow. II will
marry this bachelor" And immedi-
ately began to pack her trunks. She
told her father to get her stateroom
to Los Angeles and her mother to
come along.
Her parents indulged in mental PIN
wheels when they heard her decision.
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nUT nothing could change Peach
d blows mind. She went out to
Los Angeles and sent one of her
photographs to Mr.. Winsor with a
request for an interview. That pho
tograph was letter or introduction
enough, and she was invited to call
at the great mans studio.
When she stood before his eyes he
said:
DO you want to go into the
movies?"
well" she said, I'm going to mar
ry into them"
Indeed? And who is the lucky
man."
"You"
Really"
"Uh-huh.'
Being used to the silent drama and
hating superf1uous titles, he SAID
nothing. but took her by an elbow,
her mother by an elbow. hurried them
out to his car. ran them to the near
est parson and said Shoot
The parson then did them an ir-
reparable injury-or what would have
been irreparable in the case of any
body but Peachblow.
For a time the marriage was happy
and she reveled in the luxury of being
loved by an expert. But then he
| went back to his profession. and
modification set in.
Peachblow found herself the chattel
of a husband who left her arms early
| In the morning and hastened to the
arms of other women; who fought
for them, pursued them, risked his
life to save their lives, gazed into
their eyes with an ardor that trans
fixed all behoIders; who faded out Of
every picture with a dying-duck look
artificial beauty-and then came home
at night worn out with love and
wanted to go to the American Legion
prize fight.
After a few months Peachblow sent
for her mother and father and listen
ed to their II told you SOS" with
great patience.
They agreed with her that life with
such a husband was impossible, and
engaged the best divorce lawyer in
Los Angeles. While they were be-
wailing the inevitable newspaper
horror, the headlines, and all the
hideous details of divorce, Peachblow
felt a renewal of her occult power.
divorce nothing" she said: "Pll
just forget him. I'll just unmarry
myself quietly, and erase my memory
from his mind"
She said this In the very presence
Of Mr.. Winsor, who had called with
his lawyer to confer with Peachblow,
her parents and their lawyer, John
Elphinstone.
As soon as Peachblow spoke, a
curious look came over Claude
winsor's face. Again the earth jolted
and spun backward, then raced for
ward once more.
Its nothing" said Mr.. Elphinstone,
| but one of our little California earth
quakes. Quite nothing at ALL"
He slipped his arm about Peach
blow to sustain her, and found the
attitude singularly comfortable. To-
gether they watched Claude winsor
staring at them with a look of be-
wilderment. Then he bowed and
said:
Pardon me, I entered the wrong
| set-house, by mistake"
He staggered out and the next thing
he knew he was sitting on his porch
dandling his baby before his original
wife, while the publicity man took
| snapshots for the magazines.
Mr.. Elphinstone clung to Peach
blow until her father ihtervened and
said:
What right have you to stand
there embracing my daughter as if
you were announcing your engage
ment to her?"
| And why not?" said Elphinstone.
Il see no objection" murmured
| Peachblow, who felt sudden empti-
ness in her life. After all, who
| could make better husband than a
lawyer?"
| And so in short time expensively
engraved cards conveyed the infor-
nation that Mr.. and Mrs. Greene an
nounced the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Ellen Anne, to John Elphinstone
esquire.
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THOSE who have experienced it
i say that there is nothing like