The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-09-16
IN THE SUBURBS.

ubttbT higS Wt DUN CDttuRt, con-
cluded Mrs. Perry Thorne, who was max,
ing her first plea for country life.
81 agree with the doctor that we need
change, of one sort at least, answered her
husband. :.
"Don't be flippant, dear. I am in dead
dearest, and, OH Perry, know of such
dear cottage, one of n row."
81 dislike rows" said Perry. "How-
ever, If you are determined to be subur-
banite and with tho suburbanites stand, !
may as well agree to go. will at once
take lessons ON tho flying trapeze so that
may sometimes be able to catch train. l
shall study to acquire that dazed suburban
stare that people who eat their breakfast
and dinners by lamplight assume, assisted
by catching their quota of sleep in depots
after they have missed their train"
ooh, we won't be there long enough for
that" said his wife, land, Perry, the air
Is just heavenly-so sustaining"
"That's good, as we shall probably be
12 miles or more from a grocery store.
Have you caught your house yet, Maudp"
"Oh, yes. Mrs. Smead has one in tho
same row, and she told me about ours. 1t
Is the southwest corner house, whilo hers
is the southeast. Isn't 1t strange, Perry,
that have never been introduced to Mr..
Smeadp l wouldn't believe there was any
such person If had not seen him."
Nothing strange about it," growled
Perry, in what his wifc called his "bull-
dog voice. 81 suppose you want to know
him because he has tho reputation of be-
ing lady Killer
"Perryw
II am told by fellows we both know
that ho prides himself on his beauty -
81 hate beauty men," said Maud sooth-
ingly, "thcy arc nll vain, conceited croa-
tures. I never would marry handsome
man"
Perry mumblcd something and went
away, first giving his wife permission to
do as she pleased about taking the subur-
ban house.
A woek later both families wero settled
in the row which fronted street and
railroad truck and was equidistant from
two dcpots.
Mr.. Smead did not take us kindly to tho
change as Perry Thurne did, but he told
his wife thouRhtlessly that ono good fea-
ture of suburban life was having the
Thorncs for neiEhbors.
'.Whcre have you ever met Mrs. Thorne?r
asked his wilo susplciously
don I know her from Adam, my dear
but isn't she your friend, and haven't
heard her praises sung ever since we were
marriedg''
and now that VIC are to he neighbors 1 sup
pose you will meet. But you arc SO sus-
ooptihlc and she is 10 Riddy l Just know
you will set people talking"
"Great Caesar, Laural You give YOUR
best friend Il great send of. l susceptible
and she giddyS We must be made for each
| other"
Mrs, Smcad locked volumes at her
handsome husband but whore Is the man
who IDps i,,Nyh hnitFr :, ,.,Fa
tention among his women folk, and Ii
| Sinead had "a special and particular virtue
| 1t was that of being good naturcd.
| Mrs Smcad, like lhe woman of history,
| had two trcasures-her sewing machine
| and her hushand-and she drew the line
| at lending either, and il people wanted to
call her selfish they might. Fortified by
thls law, she rented the southwest cottage.
|
Saturday night The invisible bridge
| spans the distance between tho world OF
labor and the world Of rest. Tho TRANQUIL
air give back no inurmur of the multitud-
| inous voices that had filled it with cries of
! SORROW, anger or gladness during the work
| days ut the past week. 1t was the nnte-
chamber of the sabbath, IA time so sacred
to our ancestors that all work and all pleas
ure was suspended that the soul itself
might rest.
/ = t''AN VI ptbIlb was nurrYlnR
homcward, and all bore the happy burdens
| OF Saturday niqht-new shoes for the feet
OF the little burden bearers, IA now bonnet
/ Tor inother, the Sunday dinner-and
among thom Perry Thorne and Amos
Smead, WHO had struck up n ncighborly
| acquaintance and were now Fastening to
I the same train, going out to their subur-
ban homes for their FIRST sabbath of rest.
They wero both laden to the ears with
I brown I,unl-Ffr,u Ia, -,
to mako tho train, after purchasing their
Communication tickets. They went looping
through the gates in approved suburban
styIu ana caught on just as the train
moved out, and then Perry shouted in a
voice that sounded above the roar of cscap-
ing steam:
We've left our Sunday dinners on the
window stand Of the ticket Office. You 90
on, SInead, and Ell tako the next train
out"
He swung himself clear off the train.
turned n somersault and waved all right
to Smead, who moppod the cinders and
perspiration from his face and remarked
to the man standing next TO him, in a
friendly way:
Nice way to spend the summer living
in the suburbsg''
Yes, If you don't care what you say, >
growled the man.
Then Smcad took bit of pastcboart
from his pocket and began to study it.
southeast corner, Terrace row, Oak
land
Smead asked his gruff neighbor IL hi
got off at that station.
''No, DON'T said the man. 'Y-ou
couldn't hire me to live in that swamp,
go out ten miles farther whore you dan ;,
have to sift the atmosphere to keep %n,
mosquitoes from choking you"
That sounded disconraging, but Smeat
WAS not anxious to ride ten miles farther
on an accommodation train that Slowed
mp fof every cow on the track. and h,
wrapped himself in speculative reverit
until The brakeman called "o-a XII l-a.n.dr
rs If only tho deaf lived at that ssation,
AIRS. Smead was waiting for her hus
hand KzhnIh Sic e..tAsa.t,.l ..r, l.. q q -.