Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-05-21
A New Year S
Prescription
BY SARAH BAXTER

ooVu uoi'iiiS, jim.
How are you. Tom?"
Tom Gooding looked uncomfortable
He had come into his friend Tom OIL
colts law office for purpose, but he
seemed to have difficulty In announc-
ing it.
Jim, | want you to get me a d.
vorce," he said at last.
"Whatw
"A divorce Edith and | can't get
on together any longer"
Whose fault is it?" asked Jim.
Whose fault is it? Why. it certain.
ly isn't mine. The truth is Edith is
continually making mountains out Of
molehills."
The lawyer looked grave and said:
The smaller affairs of life are more
in keeping with wolnans nature
than Il mans. How do you know that
you're not making molehills ont OF
mountainsF
What do you mean?"
why. it's quite likely that you have
very important faults that you do not
consider al all Perhaps you are an.
conscious of them. and yet they may
he breaking up your home. Now. this
is good time to remedy them The
new year is at hand. when we all eX
pect to take a fresh start New Years
resolutions are in order. | will give
You rule of action for the next twelve
months. and if you adhere to it you
wont want me to secure divorce for
you"
What is it?''
Instead OF replying the lawyer wrote
something ON bit of paper. put it in
an envelope, sealed it and wrote on
it ITO be opened New Years morning"
Then he handed 1t to Gooding
The next morning Mrs. Goodng ap-
peared at the law office. She did not
know of her husbands appearance
there the day before. and Olcott did
not mention it.
"Jim," she said, Its all up between
Tom and me. | want you to get me
Il divorce"
rs there any special accusation you
have to make against Tom?"
"Only that he rubs me the wrong
way MI the time"
Olcott looked up at the ceiling
How long will it take to separate
us?" she asked.
mo time at all. All you have to do
is not to go back to the house."
Il mean legally"
"Oh You wish to marry again?"
mo such thing Why do you say
that?"
Because ] see no other advantage
In your case in legal separation. Do
YOU still love your husband?"
"Of course do! It's on his
Never mind his faults. Would you
prefer to keep your home as it is II
you could get on together?"
Certainly"
Edith. said the lawyer after
pause, tomorrow will begin the new
year. / will give you rule for yonr
guidance. and If you will follow 1t
guarantee that you won't need di-
| vorce.'
What Is it?''
of paper and. after sealing and ad
dressing it as he had in the case of her
husband, handed it to her, saying:
Take that. and. as the doctors say
when they give you prescription. II
it doesn't cure you let me know and
| I'll begin divorce proceedings"
New Years morning was pleasant,
and after breakfast Tom Gooding said
to his wife:
sweetheart, don't you think. this
being a holiday. we'd better make some
sort of a tripY''
1.-The very thing. Holidays are best
utilized. To sit around at home doing
nothing il depressing
So they arranged for an outing.
The next day when the husband was
about to go to business his wife asked
him II he would go to dry goods
store, six blocks out of his way, and
buy her spool of thread Of certain
hue. He bristled up, but suddenly sur
prised her by very affably agreeing 10
oblige her. But he was too late With
q kiss she said that she had no hnsi
ness to trouble him with such small
matters when he had 40 many big ones
on his mind She was going to the
shopping district anyway and would
attend to the matter herself.
These are samples OF many such In.
stances by which petty quarrels were
avoided. and every day showed an I'm
provement In the couples domestic re-
lations. Often when they bristled ut
some fancied cause for dispute one or
the other would suddenly stop as II
having remembered something and
swing around like weather cock from
the bitter north to the balmy south.
Scarcely month passed before one
day Mrs. Gooding put her arm about
her husbands neck and said: