Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-01

bosom Of the doctor and scrsa ed:
Go away; you are no longef 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 strange gap
in his memory.
Peachblow, once more miraculously
restored to maidenhood, said:
After all, a doctor is the worlds
most useful citizen. believe 1 should
enjoy being wife to one"
Barkis Is willin'," 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 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 state of profitable
disorder.
He had his Office in the parlor of
the home and this made it 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 state of acute distress and after
long murmurous consultations went
away so much better that 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-
tion.
Worse yet, he was the slave of the
telephone. At no hour of the dav or
night was he safe from the hateful
summons to hurry to the rescue of
some diStressful patient. In nine cases
out of ten it was Il woman, and in no
cases out of ten was Peachblow ever
urged to come along.
She so lost her taste for material
Inducements that she longed for spir.
ttual help, and went to her rector
dear DIR. Clarence Nost, to confess her
| misery.
she was set upon divorce, but he
was Mortified at the thought.
Nov an annulment would not he
so bad" he urged.
"All right, it's annulIed," said
| Peachblow griInly.
And Doctor Iapius found himself
back in bacheiorhood. But peachbloW
had come to depend upon Doctor Yost
He lived in such an exalted sphere
and such comfortable parsonage
that she decided to share both with
him.
To her intense confusion Peach
blow discovered that the feminine DOR
ton of the congregation took her mar
riage to their dear rector as a per.
sonal invasion of their rights.
For time the attendance fell off
noticeably. 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. hut
Peachblow could not regard them as
anything but Il hypocrltical excuse fol-
weeping on her husbands shoulder
and clinging to his rescung hands.
Whether or not she did the women
cruel injustice. the effect on he,
nerves was manifest. At last in q
crisis of unhappiness, she stormed:
| I'm sick of all the professions. Tn
| going into trade"
She unwished herself from Docto,
| YoSt and he once more assumed al
the charms of an unwedded clergy
man, eligible and available.
merchant was Peachblow's mex
first husband; handsome Junior mem
Der of the firm of Wanafeld & Son, al
whose great department store she hat
long run up bills for her father tt
protest against and pay.
But when she called at his Office
she found him so surrounded with
stenographers, buyers, mannikins
cloak models, designers and other
women customers and aides that she
could hardly get to him.
His heart was given to providing as
many women as possible with beauti.
full garments and embellishments of
! every intimate sort, with perfumes
and ribbons and lipsticks and what
not. He thought about fashions and
he was so weary Of feminine charms
and their enchantment that When he
came home to his Peachblow he left
at once for one Of his exclusively male
clubs in order to keep his sanity.
A small shoe shop man was Peach
blows next experiment. But when she
went by his store and peeked in at
the window, she always found him
kneeling before some woman, or try
ing to crush No. gle foot into a No.
"A shoe; and she simply could not
endure 1t.