Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-12

Don't try to bite it, cautioned the
prescribing physician. "Let it dissolve
in your mouth. And now, Nieceums,"
she continued, with very professional
air, when you feel a quarrel coming
on I want you to take one of these
tablets. Don't crush it with your
teeth-just let it melt in your mouth.
And be careful not to speak until it is
all gone. Do you fully understand the
directions?"
Molly nodded solemnly. The respon-
sibility of being a first "case" rather
awed her.
"Will you treat Mabel, too?" she
asked.
at won't be necessary" said Aunt
Frances, gravely, "if you take the tab
lets as l prescribe. And, if l were you
1 wouldn't tell anybody / was being
treated"
The next morning Molly started for
school with a temper tablet neatly
wrapped in tin-foil in her small pocket
That day passed peacefully. So did
| several others; and Molly had all but
forgotten that she was being treated,
when, suddenly, one Saturday after
| noon, she felt quarrel coming on.
Mabel had made a dress for her doll
Molly didn't think it fitted very we'll,
and said so. Mabel answered tartly
that she guessed Molly couldn't do as
well; and Molly had just opened her
mouth to say something peppery when
| she remembered the temper tablets.
Hastily laying her beloved Flori-
monda Isabelle face down on the floor,
she ran out of the room. The temper
tablet was at the very bottom of her
pocket; but she picked it out, un-
wrapped the tin-foil and popped it into
her mouth. The rosy bit of sweetness
tasted very nice, and she went back
to her doll feeling better already.
Thought you'd gone home mad" re-
marked Mabel, with her small nose in
the air.
Never a word from Molly.
81 didn't care if you had," added
Mabel, with sniff.
Molly rolled the temper tablet under
her tongue, but answered nothing at
all.
"Well, you needn't talk if you don't
want to-" snapped Mabel; and she gave
her entire attention to putting the new
dress upon it's owner, Evelyn Kathryn
Olivia.
Little by little the temper tablet dis
solved in Molly's mouth; and, strange
to say, her anger melted with it. 1t
was worn to wafer thinness; and Molly
was wondering just what she should
say when the treatment" was over,
when she heard faint sound of music
far down the street.
"Oh, Mabel" she cried, eXcitedly,
there's a grind-organ; and maybe
there's a monkey! Let's go and see!"
"Oh, let'sl" answered Mabel, jump
ing up eagerly; and a moment later
Florimonda Isabelle and Evelyn Kath-
ryn Olivia were left to be company for
each other, while their respective
mothers raced hand in hand down the
street in search of the probable grind
organ" and the possible monkey.
That night Molly told Aunt Frances
the whole story, and that young lady
listened with genuine professional
piedsuie' Ilei III 81 .'oo "Ao uoiho ~
markably well, she said; and the pa
tient was advised to continue the use
of the invaluable temper tablets in all
similar emergencies. Molly followed
the prescription faithfully, and before
spring both she and Mabel were COM
pletely cured.
After a while Molly discovered the
reason why the temper tablets had
such a soothing effect in the first
stages of quarrel. l wonder if you
have guessed it, too?-New York
! Weekly.