The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-12
PYRAMUSIN PRIVATE.
Model Husbands and Matchless
Wives in Public.
SUIT THEY ARE sAvAees At HOME
when Abroad They Charm With Their
Displays Of Affection, bat Shock
yIsitaas with oaarreis.

When Pyramus Brown married Thisbe
johnson everybody said il vas beautiful
match He had been deyosed 20 her for
longer time than il took jacob TO win
Rachel, and had succeeded in winning her
unwaverEng iavor for = longer time than
any other haif a dozen Of her admirers put
together. He had provided her with oceans
Of lemonade and soda water each summer.
with ice cream and bonbons on every occa-
sion, and with theaier tickets and oyster
supper trimmings each winter since izrss
be sinFez his beautiful wings m the blaze
OF her sunliE smile True. some OF the
foolish virgins who didn't keep trimmed
the lamps OF their opportunity. and who
felt little sore at the capture achieved ~
Thisbe. said some iil-natslred things
about the beauty being IN mighty big
luck 10 get Pvramus at ali when one
came 10 think how very long she
had been in society. But that was none OF
their funeral, and they should not have
complained If Pyramus was satisfied: and
he seemed 20 be. for every day saw the be-
ginning of some new tale OF Browns devo-
ton TO his beautiful wife He had bought
her an elegant seal coat with trimmings OF
black Russian sable and buttons made OF
tigers teeth and lining made of swans
down. What could be more eloquent Of
devotedness than that? And be let his
shares In the building association go for
what they would bring and bought her the
most delightfully."- stylish cart and pony that
ever pounded pebbles on the boulevard.
He gave up his shady companions ard quit
the club. 70 the evident sorrow OF large
II -. t-T4s.s I'D
lender when they saw him.
Thisbe was always going into eestasles
over the sweet temper OF Pyramus, and
was never so happy as when recountlng 70
a lot Of women how unfaiteringly pollte
was her iege lord. He still treated her,
she averred. with all the tender considefa-
ton of a lover, never for al instant ques-
toned the wisdom OF anything she did,
and invariably paid her the EXTREMIST DEF
erence, whether they were alone or IN the
largest company. People at church no
ticed them. He would come IN carrying
her hymn book and fan and lace wrap, and
would totter around all smiles while she
swept with a queens grace into the pew
and then sweetly lifted his tenderly pro-
tected burdens. They would COO right
there in the presence of a bashtuI young
minister and 100 other people more or less
interested, and when the service was over
and he had ceased tanning her heated
brow they would fix each other up for the
street, so mutually engaged as never TO
hear the SITUATIONS of passing friends.
They would intersperse their public exhibit
tons OF these rare graces by the most
charming OF little eccentricities by which
they were supposed TO amuse themselves,
and he would almost threaten bis LIE with
apoplexy when she made some specially
funny comment on the service or the
served They would pass into the street
with the most clinging OF movements, and
nince along toward home quite satisfied
with each other and altogether obiyioas OF
the rest OF the world.
some folks thought il funny that Pyra-
mus never invited anybody home. and lady
callers got to remarking that Thisbe seemed
always tout" when they called upon her,
but these things were quite overshadoved
by the larger mantle OF their ever-apparent
unison Of sentiment. Some men also who
used 10 dine at the club dropped ugly hints
about meeting Pyramus on the puriieus OF a
shady half of town, while Others told about
seeing him. or some one that locked much
like him, riding in cabs with persons who
sang CAV songs 1t midnight and seemed
TO favor very modest drinking resorts
with their custom. Bat when these things
were mentioned 10 Pyraaus in bantering
way he would retort-not angriIy, but
with the dignity that became man
welded to a goddess-that some men paid
their money debts by slandering their
creditors.
one day Thisbe, who was so fond Of
company that she visited a great deal OF
the time, was paraiyzing a los OF happy
wives with her stories of the SOLICITORS care
of Pyramus, when one OF them inquired
why don't you give little tea and in
wife Us over. 50 we can help enjoy his vir-
tues and learn some things to teach our
Observation-Disclosures they are very well as it
is9n
ThSSbe had digged mine under her cit
adel. but she would not retreat and so at
the very next meeting OF the church soei-
etv Of which she was so shining member,
She invited half a dozen ladies 10 meet at
her home next week But next week was
quarteF-day. aud they always met With the
treasurer on such OCCASIONS.
"well 20 right down today" said one Of
those Jancs OF the earthly Olympus. who
have an imperious way of doing whatever
they very much want TO. without mortaily
offending ATTY Of the gods OF etiquette. All
the other ladies declared themselves charm
81 IS though Ihisbe had profIered the IN
vilAsion, ard that mstron. much hewild-
erred found herself leading heyv OF chat
tsring busy bodies TO her home. There was
no tine for preparation sna the Women
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