, 1923-03-21

"S e"uitS- put ne came nome told
his wife about 1t.
lie wrote briefs as impassioned and
as full Of Imagination as any see
mario and then acted his own CONT
nuities with fiery enthusiasm. His
cases often took him to distant cities
and 1t was not always convenient for
to go with him.
There was such n strain upon her
natural Jealousy that she had to con
suit a physician, DIR. S. @. Lapius,
h had a charming bedside manner
and soothed her by suggestion rather
than by knife or nostrum.
After one notorious lawsuit in
which Elphlnstone wore himself al
most to a wreck by his defense Of a
hayward lady who had bankrupted
her husband and her sued him for
alienation Of her affections, Elphin-
stone came home to find his mother
ana father-in-law and the physician
trying TO restrain Peachblow's hys-
terics. When Elphinstone approached
her solicitously she covered into the
bosom of the doctor and screamed:
"Go away; you are no longer a hus-
band of mine; in fact. you never
were"
Elphinstone was seized as by invis-
ible hands and hailed backward to
his own office where he awoke with a
splitting headache and d strange gap
In his memory.
Peachblow, once more miraculously
restored to m%aidenhood, said:
After all, a doctor is the worlds
most useful citizen. l believe l should
enjoy being a wife to one"
"'Barkis Is 'w%illin'," said the physi-
clan, who was unusually well read for
a doctor. He persuaded another physi-
clan to take care of his patients and
went away on a bridal tour of all
imaginable bliss.
When he came back Doctor Lapius
found that his overworked substitute
had let his patients get well, and he
had to buckle down to the task of
restoring them to a state of profitable
disorder.
He had his office in the parlor OF
the home and this made 1t necessary
for Mrs. Peachblow Lapius to enter
tain her friends In the upstairs living
room.
The acoustics were such that she
could hear what went on in the
office. The halest and heartiest
women constantly entered the parlor
In a state of acut distress and after
long murmurous consultations went
away so much better thai Peachblow
grew frantic with suspicion. She re-
membered all too wildly how gentle
and soothing her husband had been
with her when she was another mans
wife. And she wondered, till her Won
derment grew to be a bitter convic-
ton.
Worse yet, he was the slave of the
telephone. At no hour of the day or
night was he safe from the hateful
summons to hurry to the rescue of
some distressful patient. In nine cases
out of ten 1t was a woman, and in no
cases out of ten was Peachblow ever
urged to come along.
She so lost her taste for material
indictments that she longed for spir-
itual help, and went to her rector,
dear DIR. Clarence Yost, to confess her
misery.
She was set upon a divorce. but he
was Mortified at the thought.
Now an annulment would not be
so bad" he urged.
"A1l right, it's an%nulled," said
P~eachblow grimly.
And Doctor Lapius found himself
back In bachelorhood. But P~eachblow
had come to depend upon Doctor Yost.
He lived in such nm exalted sphere
and such n comfortable parsonage
that she decided to share both with
him.
To her intense confusion Peach
blow discovered that the feminine por-
tion of the congregation took her mar
riage to their dear rector as n per-
sonal invasion Of their rights.
For n time the attendance fell off
~not,ceably. But gradually the lonely
women returned to their pews. Next
they resumed their habits Of bringing
their woes TO their spiritual adviser.
These were genuine woes beyond
the reach of scalpel or tonic, but
Peachblow could not regard them as
anything but n hypocritical excuse for
weeping on her husbands shoulder
and cling.ng to his r~escuing hands
Whether or not she did the women