The daily Alaskan., 1915-01-02
A New Year S Prescription
sy SARAH BAXTER


 He had come into his friend 9Tom ol- cOtes law once for aUaTpOsO. but he seemed to lave dtfncuity lh announc. ing it. .---.. --'---, s..
 'Jim, I. want you to set me q d. vogce," be sAid etlast
 "Whatg' ~~.- .-.
 "A diForcs. Edith and I can't get on together any lOnSsE." ''whosa fault ts itT asked Jim.
 Whose fault is itY Why. 1t certain ly lsRrt nIls. The truth is Edith iB continually making mountains out of molehins." '''-- a---- ,-----~' .-,.- -.--.
 The lawyer looked grave and said: -
 "The sna4Ber affairs of life are more In keeping with S woman's nature than a mans. How do you know that you're not making 'moiehillsI out Of mountains?" ?"~-'- z ----.'
 What do you mean?'
 "Why, it's quits1Iikely that you have very important faults that you do not consider at all. Perhaps ySu arc un' conscious of them, and yet they nay. be breaking up your home. Now this Is 8 good tims to remedy them, The new 'yeAr9ts3at hand. when ywesall ex- pect to take1a fresh start. New Years resolutions are il, order. 1 Bin give you & rule Of,action for the next twelve months, and, if you adhere to it you won't want lue to secure s divorce for yOu.r
 What is Itf"
 Instead Of reRlying the lawyer wrote something on bit of paper, put it in an envelope. sealed 1t and wrote on 1t "No be opened New Years morning" Then he handed 1t to Geoding. -.
 The next morning Mrs. GOoding Rp- peared st the law office. She did not know of her husbands appearance there the day before. and solcott did not mention it, ... --.. ..--'-.',-
 ''Jim," she said. '4t's all up between Tom and me. want you to get me a divorce" -
 'Is there any special accusation you have to make sgainrt Tom?"
 "Ouiy that he vubs me the wrong way all the tiWe."
 Olcctt looked up st the ceiling
 How oHg will 1t take to separate us?" she asked. --..l --.-.
 "No time at all, All you have to do is not to go back to theahegse."
 q mean lessiiy." -. ..-.
 "0h! You wish to WarCy sgalnT'
 No such thing. Why do you say thatT' ~--
 Because l see no other advantage iu your case in a legal seRsfstion. Do you still love your husbapdH'
 "Of course I do! -It's on hss"-
 "NeYer mLnd hia faults. Would you prefer to keep your hsme as 1t iS if you could get on. toSether?"
 Certainly"
 "Edith." said the lawyer after pause. tomorrow Ril begin the new year. will give you 8 rule for your guidance, and if you. Will follow it l guarantee that you won't need di- Vorce."
 What Is it?"
 Olcott wrote 6 few words on a bit of paper and, after sealing and Sd- dressing it as he hsd,in the ease of her husband, handed it to her, saying:
 Take that and. Rs ths doctors Say when they give y6H a prescription, 1T it doesn't cure you Jet pe know and I'll begin divorce proceedings"
 New Years morning was pleasant, and after breakfast Tom GoodinS said to his wife: ;:
 sweetheart, don't. you think. this being a holiday, we'd hetternake some sort of trip?' .-.- -,s
 "rhe very thing. Holidays are best utilized. To Bit around -at-hcms deinS nothing iS depressing"
 So they arranged for an outing.
 The next day when tue husband was about to go to business his wife asked him if he would gQ 10 a dry goods
  store, six blocks out of his way and buy her d spool of thrrad of's certafn' hue. He brislled Uir, but $uddeHlysu prlSeti her by very aEabIy agreeing to oblige her. Gut te vas too late With q kiss she said that she had no busi- ness to trouble him with such small matters when he had,Eo many big ones on his mind. She was going to the shopping district anyway and would attepd to the natter herself.
 These are samples of many such in. stances by which petty qunrrels were tayohed, and every day showed an i'm movement in, the couple.U domes6c re, Iatiohs.T Often when they bristsed at some fnncted causs Tor dispute one or the other would spadsaly stop as if having remembered something and swing around liks,a weather cock from the bitter north to fhe haimy south. Scarcely ,a month passed before one day Mrs. GooGing put her arm about her hE Esband's Heca a4d sai6:- <. ----
 From, I've coHfsi Sion to make"
 What is it, sWestheartf'S1
 2. "Last Dtcenbnr Savo sp tsytnS to live with yog and vent to Jim olcott for a divorce. He wrote me pftscrtp- -...--- - ! yArn