Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-05-19
MOVING DAY IN CITIES.
A Faithful Picture.

Inc Ne" IoIk IOst gives WIS very
graphic picture of the scenes, discomtorts,
losses and vexations experienced on the
LIST of May, In large cities. by those who
live in rented houses. Its points will be
duly appreciated about these days by the
multitudes who have just changed their res
licences, and are not yet in the enjoyment
of home comforts
Yesterday was the signal-time for moving
in New York. To ranger it seems as
though nine-tenths f the inhabitants
changed their residence at this season. The
streets ard c~Anues are thronged with loads
of goods in trans 1ortation from one house
to another, the wali.s are INSTRUCTED with
furniture of all kinds, from the handsome
satin-wood French novelties to the old
fashioned high top, mahogany bureau and
bedstead of Gov. Stuyvesant's day; and to
get glance through the blank curtainless
windows of the vacant, dusty houses
which are to be made habitable by ener-
getic housewives, is enough to give one a
fit of homesickness.
The Hegira of the Prophet was nothing
to May moving. Children accustomed
to care are seen strolling helplessly on the
streets, and it is wonder that more are
not lost, or that the anxious mother knows
her own when she is set down in her domi-
Gil: for between the china and the look
ing glasses and various other things to de-
mand her whole attention the poor woman
is nearly distracted The best of house,
keepers a. NIT their incapacity on these
direful occasions. But these trials are not
confined to the actual day of change;
they precede it by eeks. The search for
house takes the father from business
aud the mother from household duties,
day after day, ard when the right dwelling
in the right neighborhood is found, it is
ten to one that some prior lessee has not a
claim, which again drives the poor house.
hunter over the same tract. After the set
Element of that vexed question come q
hundred others II its train The carpets
will be too large or too small, the curtains
too long or too short for the new house,
and there must be waste or purchase,
either of which invole expense. Then
comes the packing of furniture with its in
cident discomforts.
The transition period from ono home to
another-that interregnum of the house.
hold gods when the masses can truly be
said to live generally adds to the
wear and tear of body as well as the wear
and tear of temper, and when Sunday falls
on the first day of May, as this day, the
sacrifices are not lessened. One half of the
beds, carpets and crockery were taken OUT
of the house on Saturday, as the mover is
in measure dependent upon the carmsu,
and takes his services when he can get
them, and the balance remains fos the fam
ilys comfort over the Sabbath. Imagine
the CONSERVATION of pater fdmilids after
having taken his customary cold BATH on
Sunday morning, to learn through the
tube, from the lower regions, that the tow
els were all sent out of the house the day
before, and that he will be obliged to get
up friction upon the epidermis with q
muslin pocket handkerchief and stiffiy
starched pillow case; and when he comes
shivering down to breakfast to find his coffee
in goblet and no spoon with which to
stir it; then t, live all day on bare floors
with bare chance of escaping May-cold,
and to find at night that the coal reserved
for cooking purposes has given out, and if
they have any tea it must be boiled up
stairs on the gas-stove in the baby's milk
porringer; aud in the midst of these an
noyances to discover that the baby is
alarmingly croupy and he must bring the
doctor forthwith, and this infallible author
ity declares that the child must not be
taken out of the house in two days. Such
are a few of the movers trials. who is
moved to resolve that this year shall be
the last of them. But the moving must
90 on if the child dies; the house is dis
mantled, and with boxes, barrels, and the
full complement of noses, they take pos
session of the new premises
Hungry, weary, and in understandable
tempers, they perceive after tedious
search with dripping candle-for some
thing is the matter with the gas the bread
can under the bed in the third story back,
and the boiled ham ambitiously protruding
its flank end through the mistress's band
box into the new spring bonnet; the baby s
powder box broken and the powder sitting
over the only piece of butter in the house.
and the sheets for making up the beds no.
where visible. Alas for the May day
movers
It is presumable that if an estimate could
he made and statistics taken of the average
length of life of the annual movers, and
compared with the average length OF life OF
those who are exempt, that large per-
centaee would be found in favor of the lat
ter. If the mover could
'Fold his tent ike the Arab, and silently
steal away
and. when striking the new encampment,
find the curtains 90 up, and the carpets lay
down, and the beds make themselves, and
the chairs and sofas stasd in pleasant con-
tiguity with constitutionally sound backs
and arms and with the Surroundings an
appreciable diminution of heavy rents, it
might be to him May holiday.
ADVERTISING. There is no doubt that the
great lever in the extension OF business, IN
theae eo.ahead times, is advertising; but the
immense popularity Of that celebrated rem
edy for dyspepsia, liver complaint, nervous
debility. &c, Hoofands German Btters, Is
not 40 much owing to the fact that it has been
extensively advertised, as it is to the great
merit of the article.
A worthless medicine may, through pubic
itv. ACQUIRE a short.lived notoriety, but 1t ro-
onire the basis of true merit, in order to
sustain itself for any considerable length OF
| ,ir,o Uootiand,s German Bitters has been