Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1913 — WIFE, PECK’S TUTOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WIFE, PECK’S TUTOR

Professor Again Is Learning Things Lost Through Illness Oivorced Spouse Says She’ll Restore Him to Present Mate When He Again Is Normal —His Mind Is Slowly Recovering. New York.—Mrs. Cornelia Dawbom Peck, divorced wife of Professor Harry Thurston Peck, Is making a desperate effort to nurse her former husband back to mental and physical health, through prayer and constant attention. In order that she may restore him to his present wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Dubois Peck. Mrs. Peck, the first, is drawing freely upon the money she received from her former husbandL In the form of alimony to aid in restoring his health Mrs. Peck and her former husband, at one time one of the leaders in the faculty of Columbia university, arrived

at a little bungalow in Greenwich, t'ove, South Beach, Conn. Recently the first wife of Professor Peck rushed to his bedside when she heard he was dying in an Ithaca hospital. “When I reached the hospital the death rattle was in Professor Peck’s throat. His physicians said be could not live more than three days “For 19 days I remained at bis bedside, determined to break the overpowering ego which dominated him. From the pitiable wreck which I found him, his mind a total blank, and bis body so emaciated that the looked like a I have nursed him to a point where he is nearly whole of body, and relearning like a

child, the things he lost through the unnatural philosophy with which he was oppressed. “I never have met Professor Peck’s wife. She may come here and visit him a little later, but she must tell me, so I can go away. I feel sorry for her, and I have asked Dr. Frederick Crane to assist her—not so she can help her husband, for I shall provide for him until he Is fully restored to health. Then I shall return him to her.” Professor Peck presented but. a shadow of his former self as he slowly followed his former wife about the apple orchard of their little temporary home. “What time Is it, dear?” asked Mrs. Peck, in a soft tone. “A quarter before 6,” answered Professor Peck, and his face lighted up with the expression of a child who has learned a new lesson. “That’s right,” said Mrs. Peck, “but how is the reading lesson coming along?” Then the first Mrs. Peck opened a black leather-bound book and the former Anthony professor of Latin read slowly and with the hesitancy of a child: “God is In Heaven; all is right with the world.”

Mrs. Cornelia D. Peck.