The daily Alaskan., 1913-11-21
THE PARSONS REMEDY
 By M. QUAD Copyright, 1913, by Associated Lit
 erary Press.
By M. QUAD

ready to go nome she said:
 "Tilda, I've been watching things since I've been here"
 Why, what is there to watch?' she asked
 "Heury's tyranny over you.'
 Why, mOtherw
 Its a fact. If your father treated me that way one of us would leave tue house in short order"
 But 1 can't understand you at all. Just what has Henry done?"
 Hes treated you like a child or a slave. l saw 1t the first day 1 was here, and it amazed me that you didn't show your spunk."
 'Why, mother, how strange you taIkr said the wife. Tell me one thing Henry has done that wasn't right"
 I'm going to tell you of more than one. Tilda. I've been setting them down on paper so as to be sure, and here they are:
 The first day wns here he walks in and orders you to melt some nut ton taller for a sore back cow"
 Why, he didn't order. He asked me to-"
 Don't try to excuse him. There was a commanding tone in his voice. The second day he comes stomping in like a duke and calls out:
 "'Hcy. TiIda, Pm going to town, and don't you forget to feed the hogs at noon.'"
 But | don't see anything wrong about that" was protested. He was going after nails"
 Well. I'd just like your father to roar out at me like that just once! I'd tell him to go 10 Texas Quicker'n wink. On the third day your Henry holIered at you from the barnyard and wanted to know if the sheep shears were in the kitchen"
 But he wanted them, mOther."
 "I S'pusc he did. but he spoke like old Nero If your father had called to me like that I'd have gone down there with q club On the fourth day, as we was eating supper at o'clock, the clock stopped You must remember what Henry said?
 "He said 1t had stopped"
 Yes. but how did he say it? He looked right across the table at you, and there was pounded glass in hls tones as he said:
 "'Tilda, you forgot to wind up the clock last uight''
 But [ did forget, mother"
 And what If you did?"
 What do you want me to do. moth er?"
 Assert yourself. Be the boss of the house. Have things go as you want them to. the same as | do Your fa- thpr wouldn't dare to pull a cabbage head in the garden without asking my leave"
 The wife hadn't looked upon her husband as a tyrant. OD the contrary, she regarded him as one of the kindest men she had ever heard of. She had no wish to meddle or boss. and she had felt that she was getting all the rights she could wei! take care of. But tue mother had sowed the seeds of discon- tent. and they soon sprouted. TiIda began to Gnd fault and tender advice and to even threaten suicide if her opinions were not deferred to. Henry figured out that the mother-in-law had been talking and using her influence against him, but he went ahead pa ticntly and avoided anything like a rupture
 It was when the boy baby was born that Tilda's mother said to her:
 Now. you want 10 put your foot right down about a name for baby. l am sure Henry will want to call him James, after an uncle"
 But that's a good name, isn't tt?
 "Tilda Scott, have you lost your senscs|
 "I hope not, mother"
 "Then perhaps you can tell me who the ravens fed"
 Moses, wasn't itT'
 Not by jugruI! It was Elisha, and that's the name you want to give baby."
 But I'm sure Ueary won't like it.
 1t so happened that Henry overheard most of the conversation as he was training vine by an open window. He didn't walk iu and order the mOth- er-in-law out of the house. but he sauntered off to the home of the par son whose church he and his wife at- tended and stated his case down to the baby, then added:
 My wife is to threaten to jump into the horse pond if l object to the name"
 "You have a horse pond?"
 ''I have, sir"
 How deep is the wate'%
 About four feet"
 "The mother-in-Iaw Is aD2iit Eve feet l believe"
 Thanks" said Henry. "l nave the idea"
 Henry got home just as the mother in-law was leaving the house. He picked her up and carried her to the pond and heuved her in. When she waded ashore he heaved her back When this performance had been re-