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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1921, Page 4

WIFE’S HUNGER STRIKE. . ( NEW YORK, March 20. j ( The .spectacular effort of a woman, ( .Mrs Sadie Harrington, to force her hushand to join her church— Pentecostal , C hurch of God—is exciting widespread ] interest and not a little amusement in ( the town of Danville, Illinois. . After fasting for 43 days and deelar- ( ing that until her .husband became a i member of the church she would not eat , a morsel of food, Mrs Harrington to-day ] modified her conditions and announced that she will he content il her .husband consents to eschew tobacco, illicit wins- s by, and swearing. j The husband, a well-to-do com meichant, refuses to humour his wife even ( in this lespect, inv.-ki ■; the example < f ( Mr Joseph Cannon, father of the House j of Repiesentafives and a leading citizen . ( of Danville, whose highly coloured lan-' ( guage and inveterate cigar-smoking are ( a favorite theme of political cartoonists. . c Mrs Harrington, propped up in bed, ;| receives the reporters of the leading , American newspapers and daily dis- | ( courses to them on the efficacy of fast - ( ing as an instrument for the conversion s of husbands. f Mr Harrington is also tfie target for. innumerable interviewers, to whose ( v questions whether he will yield he in- | v variably answers: “Never.” “H lri >’ ]-, wife wants to die she can die,” he de- „ dared to-day. “ I’ve always been a good husband, hut I’m as stubborn as e she is.” # h Mr Harrington has retained the ser- j, vices of a nurse to look after his wife and a lawyer to protect, his legal inter- ti ests should she die. h tl Beware of imitations. Call WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS. for ' y, : Hf