Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-13
WOMAN ON MOVING DAY.

A woman's idea of moving is to wear
pair of odd shoes, her husbands linen
buster, damaged hoopsl1irt, and last
years jockey turned hind side before.
Thus formidablv attired, with pocket
full of screws, nails and picture cords,
and a timber bladed case-knife in one
hand and broom In the other, she is
prepared to believe that something is
about to be done. The first move she
makes is at the parlor carpet. She takes
up two tacks in about fifteen minutes,
puts them in pint saucer, and sets the
saucer in the middle of the floor, where
it will not be in the way Then she
goes into the hall to tell the carman to be
careful in bringing down the large rock
ing-chair, as her mother gave it to her.
After that, she darts into the kitchen,
stops suddenly in the middle of the
room, and says "Now, what is it l
was going to do?" and then races up
stairs with great hustle on suddenly
remembering that pair of vases were
not packed away with the bedding. But
they were packed away, and when she
discovers the fact, she comes back, say
ing that she has so much to do she don't
really know what she is about. After
ward, she draws out the glassware to
put it in barrel, and after packing
away couple of tumblers and salt
cellar, takes down her dresses and ex-
amines them with as much care as If she
was going to ball, and the carriage was
already at the door. In the midst of
this survey, she suddenly thinks of some
thing else, and rushes off to attend to it
the case-knife in one hand, the broom
In the other. When the stove is taken
down, she is there-when the bureau is
being lifted, she is in the exact way of
the man who is going backward-when
the carman gets up on the best chair to
take down a frame, she is there to re-
buke him. She attends to everything.
She makes her husband go out doors
and clean his feet. She gets in his way
when they are moving the ice-chest.
She leaves the dust-pan Just
where the carman's assistant can
step ON the handle. and have it turn
with him at q most unfortunate time.
She gets the broom-stick entangled with
her husbands legs, which makes him
swear She tries to lift a two-bushel
basket of crockery, and finding she can
not do it, tells the carman she is not SO
strong as she used to be, and then con-
tents herself with carrying down an old
wooden chair which has just been
brought up stairs to be used in remov-
ing things from the walls, and which has
to be found and brought up again by
some one else. But it is loading where
she makes herself conspicuous. She
brings out ten-inch looking glass and
wants it laid on the bottom of the cart,
and she don't want anything else to go
on until she can get her work basket.
She thinks the stove and bedroom set
should ride together, and is quite conf
dent that if the bureau is permitted to
stand on the cart as it does, it will never
again be fit to be seen. The carman
steps on her and walks over her, and is
swearing all the while down In his
throat, but she don't mind him. She
knows that that load isn't put on as it
ought to be, and that there is room for
lots of things yet. She brings on a
clock, and length of damaged stove
pipe, and pair of old boots covered
with mildew, and small basket of
empty spice boxes, and an old gaiter,
and the back of a WORKOUT vest, and
wants them all put on the cart. She
says there is plenty of room, and the
things will come useful sometime, and
they don't take up any room anyway.
And just as the cart is moving away she
rllshes after it with a second-hand peach
can stuffed with debris, which she sue
cessfully introduces into the load, and
then comes back in triumph. And while
the carman is gone she is just as busy as
she can be telling the woman next door,
that she can put just three times as
much stuff on that cart as is on it, and
if she has got TO move again she believes
she'll give right up and die-DanbTy
Netcs.