The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-06
THE PARSONS
REMEDY
By NJ. QUAD
Copyright, 1913. by Associated Lit
e=ary Press
By NJ. QUAD

farmer. with Ilida Hastings. and for
the first year they We're very happy.
Then it happened that Tilda mother
passed a Week with them. and when
ready TO go home she said:
"Tilda. I've been watching thin.s
since I've been here
Why. what is there to watch she
asked
"Henry,s tyranny over you"
Why. mother
Its a fact. If your father treated
me that way one of us would leave the
house in short order
But | can't understand you at all
Just what has Henry done:'
He's treated you like Il child or
slave | saw it the first day | was
here. and it amazed me that you didn't
show your spunk."
why. mother. how strange you
talk 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 | was here be walks
in and orders you to melt some NUT
ton taller for a sore back cow
why. he didn't order. He asked me
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:
Hey. Tilda. I'm 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"
We'll. I'd just like your father to
roar out at me like that just once. Id
tell him to go to Texas quicker'n wink.
On the third day your Henry hollered
at you from the barnyard and wanted
to know if the sheep shears were in
the Kitchen
But he wanted them. mother"
Il S'pose he did. but he spoke like old
Nero If your father had called to me
like that I'd have gone down there
with club. On the fourth day. as we
was eating supper at 6 O'Clock. the
clock stopped You must remember
what Henry said?"
He said it had stopped"
Yes. but how did be say it? He
looked right across the table at you.
and there was pounded glass in his
tones as he said:
"'Tida you forgot to wind up the
clock last night.
But did forget. mother"
And what if you did,
What do you want me to do. moth
err"
Assert yourself Re the boss of the
house. Have things go as you want
them to. the same as ] do. Your IA
Their 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. On the contrary.
she regarded him as one of the kindest
! men she had ever heard Of She had
no wish to NEEDLE or boss, and she had
felt that she was getting all the rights
she could we'll take care of. But the
mother had Sowed the seeds of discon-
tent and they soon sprouted. Tilda
began to find fault and tender advice
and to even threaten suicide If her
opinions We're not deferred TO. Henry
figured out that the mother-in-law had
been talking and using her influence
! against him. but be went ahead pa
tiently and avoided anything like a
rupture.
1t was when the boy baby was born
| that Tilda's mother said to her:
Now. you want TO put your foot
| right down about name for baby.
| am sure Henry will want to call him
| James, after an uncle
! But that's a good name. isn't it:
/ ''Tilda Scott. have you lost your
/ senses:
Il hope not. mother.
| Then perhaps you can tell me who
| the ravens fed,
Moses. wasn't it:
! Not by a joyful. 1t was Elisha
! ana that's the name you want to give
baby"
! But I'm sure Henry won't like it
1t SO happened that Henry overheard
! most Of the conversation as be was
training Il vine by an open window.
/ He didn't walk in and order the moth
/ er-in-law out of the house. but he
Saunterpd off 10 the home of the par
/ son hose church he and his wife at.
I tended and stated his case down to the
baby. then added:
, My wife il II threaten to jump into