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Show I WOMAN WHO STARVES f TO CONVERT HUBBY i AMAZES PHYSICIAN I Doctor Finds Her Spirit So Exalted That Health of Body Is Maintained Despite Fact She Has Fasted Forty-six Days; Husband in Plight. 4 ' ! DANVILLJ, 111 , Jin 14 (By the Associated Press.) "This is an amazing woman, a strange ease wherein the spirit is so exalted as to maintain the health of tho body," said Dr. Gerety after making a careful esfimination of Mis. Ernest Harrington, who has fasted -10 days in the endeavor to cause her husband to join her ehun h. 'T found her in as normal a condl-jtion condl-jtion OS any healthy person," resumed the doctor. "And 1 am inclined to bl lleve her faith Iv such as to cause her to tell the truth. I am quite sure she has not eaten since November 29. Ur QUlse is S4 which is higher than t normal. .72. but that means nothing ' Her temperature is $ and her heart ! heals firmly. The only change in her hod) appears to be a slight fl tbhiness I of the muscles." Mrs. Harrington declared she Intended' In-tended' to continue fasting and Ifl con-'fldent con-'fldent her husband's spirit Will finally j yield. 11 IT BEGAN, CN. E. A. Staff Special) DANVILLE. Ill, Jan. 11 "Nothing over happened" In the prosaic life of Ernie Harrington, butcher. He prospered. Loved his wife. Took life is it came. Now in the cot'ge where' Ernie and his wife llc 's being enacted a human drama. Its elements are: Mrs. Harrington's religion Ernie's refusal to be converted. Her Cost of 43 days (Jan- 10) to .convert him. His love for her, though he will not yield. ! Will man's will, or woman's triumph0 tri-umph0 Bl i ll IRE DETERMINE l "Ernie loves me .nough to give In." aye Mrs. Harrington, i "Never!" says Harrington "He's the hest b,,y on earth," she says. If did r. it love him belter than iafe Uself, 1 1 wou',rt -riot b; rtoln this." ; Bach dny the Wife grows weaker. She refuses medicine for fear it may contain concentrated food. She prays each cay that Ernie may be converted to the Church of God. And each day Ernie leaves their little, lit-tle, home where " nothing eer happened" hap-pened" and goes t his butcher shop. Big, good-natured, he throws an extra ex-tra "wienie" in the bundle of meat for some voungster WATCHES I I ll ES BED, lie's tired because he has been up at night with his fasting wife "You know, I'm a big draft horse. 1 wasn't built for religion," he says- Why. Sadie has had everything her way," he continues, as he scuffs up the sawdust with his huge foot "I never even touched the safe whn she was hee c g"t that little house and furnished It nice. She had he-." own roadster. "I even took her o church and called call-ed for her till she started to fast. "We were kids together, you know, brought up right here marrie d J S years ago. I "There Isn't anything I wouldn't do foy her except Join the church. I can't see the light Uiat wa ' WIFE'S INSPIRATION. Mrs. Harrington Was collecting for the store one day when she felt a great wave of pity for the unsaved. She continues: ! "I heard a voice say. Tf you fast lit will convert your husband.' "People wonder how 1 live without I food. The Lord Is preserving my body. I will not suffer." Mrs Henry Truman, her mother, watches and cries Her entreaties are in vain. Rev. P. H. Hoag, pastor of the Church of God. vlKlted Mrs. Harrington Harring-ton and urged her to eat- Her physician says that aside from a slight fever she seems to be in good condition but s "Her heart may fall any moment." : limiH5kamSsHHHn ' ERNIE 1 1 IRRINGTOBi M WIFE, |