The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-12-27
MIGRATORY HGsH4NbS
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never had enc u them, thank heaven,
BAT know they ulust be drcadial--ihess
heads OF families who are forever popping
% In new localities. with 10! rll build
here. Heres rising bit ofpvperty or
'This old cottage lll renovate--clsp ga a
wing aud a piszEa, live IN II six months,
aua sell out ~ bargain Then those
Husbands who are forever shining their
business FROM place to placc-now TO =
yillage--uow 20 city--How 20 the back
woods sdslighiial lime their wives must
have Of il Never mind how faithful
aud devoted and enterprisiug a wo-
man may be. !, il great trial for her to
be continually pulling np stakes tearing
away home tendrilA. even II her migrate
nv spouse IL not IN her respects the best
IN the world. ia ike to see the person
who told nae that wouldn't 20 with
john II he decided to set up a soda fun
tain in the desert Of Sahara. No, I'd 20
but I'd suffer in the going, though ! told
my woes not even 10 old Cheops himself.
But what II, instead Of one grand move,
he fitted about ike a grasshopery What
II he tried Bloomfield, aud Flatbush, aud
Woodsida, and Harlem, aud dozen 9th
er places, from the coming Of the first
uursery tooth TO the going away Of the
last nursery meSslesY What II he dipped
the children into twenty schools, filed
every April air with mournful tarewells
to all our neighbors, and kept the parlor
carpets in perpetual snasm Of eontrac-
ton aud erpansion2 Won1d be the bles-
ed, happy woman that am? Wouldn't
be thin, weary aud heart-sore, and the
children, morally, just like little waits
made OF the shresds add patches of many
villages? Certainly. Established Smiles
are all very well; but your oaks don't hop
about They stand still and give the cling
ing vines q chance to take root beside
them.
Only Yesterday, while shopping in town
| CHANGED to find myself in street car
beside man and stout woman engaged
in earnest conversation. His was thiu,
flushed face, with restless eyes, aud lips
that asked 'Whyp 'Whor 'WhereT even
when they were silent, Hers was softly
massive, and its little eyes were full o.
temporary atTability and interest. He wa'
evidently speaking Of some recent bereav'
ment, While the lady leaningtQrward hin
wore asort Of wash of deealseling whicl
was not dye' though fhayd her X sorl
of sympathy quite proper II j street aar
Presently can bt lie words
sShcwas indeed. YoAio 4 AFeaAdyI
when you lost hers
Yea and woaaEIgpl creature foi
moving put, pufsaed The man witt
deep feeiibg.
/ III didn't make any difference yol
4 could take that woman and set her dow
fanywherc
His eyes filed with tears, and locke,
out of the window-sorry for his sake bu
glad that the angles had taken at least on
poor woman away from migratory hus
band.
The country abounds with those natu
rallied Bedouins. say nothing agains
men who go north, south, east, west an
settle. They are the nerves of the bod
polite, and indispensable TO our new civ
lization. But | do feel compelled (
quote mothers favorite expression, an
whisper TO hundreds of men almost with
hearing distance at this moment: DO sta
put" For the sake Of wives, home, chi
dren, yourselve, take root somewhere
Help to build up in America the beautih
homestead feeling common TO European
aud almost unknown to us. Let your veI
, sapings understand that in time they al
to shade your great grandchildren.