The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-21

case they take the house, and the next
day anew candidate comes, pays a months
rent, asks no questions and moves in.
There is also a system in vogue where
by the people who do not move terrorize
the landlord.
"Wlu you paint the house? If you do
| viii stay another year. If you don't
I'll move the LIST of May"
The parlors must be papered and
grained or out we 60"
If 1 a nave inside blinds I'll move.
The idea of paying such rent as we do
and not a single modern convenience. It's
outrageousl"
Moving day is a red letter day for the
children. They can go unwashed and
unmatched, all cumming with street
chums to their hearts content, or can
stand gaping on the sidewalk and watch
the procession Of household goods go by.
n olg vans are their especial delight.
These same big vans are new modes of
transportation and a great blessing to the
ambitious housekeeper as well as a great
vexatlon to the curious neighbor. Backed
up to the curbstone no peering eye can
discern how many rolls Of worn carpet
are carried IN their dim recesses or whether
the parlor furniture is rep or brocateLe.
The pathetic story which the rusty stove
and rockerless crib told is unread now.
The shabbiest articles in the whole family
melange are not piled up on the top Of
the the load with a curtain pole
THRUST THROUGH GRANDPARENTS PICTURE
And the wax-fower memento framed in
the coal hod. All the mirrors, pictures,
bric-a-brac, the family Bible and fathers
stove-plpe hat are conglomerated in one
end OF the van, and if they are irreparably
mixed up the world will never know it.
These are the minor incidents of moving
day.
Some are moving up in the social scale,
and some are moving down. ave can
afford to move into a better house and a
more desirable part of the town this year."
says the successful business man, "and
give our children more advantages"
And they move from a back street to an
avenue and all are elated over the change
indicating a good measure of prosperity.
In another family the. have been
drawbacks, death and doctors bills.
They must 10Y into smaller quarters,
leave all associations and find in ome OBJ
scure quarter the cheap place which is all
they can afford now.
There is another class yet, and quite a
numerous one, who have for their motto
the doubtful policy, at is cheaper to
move than TO pay rent" They have had
the law on their side and stayed on and
on in a house for which they never paid
a cent. Others pay all but the last months
rent. To offset this they trump up a bill
against the landlord for new locks, panes
of glass, a choked sewer, or anything that
will enable them to get off without pay
ing-which they usually succeed in do
ing.
The man of the house usually receives
a telegram calling him away from home
on business on this time. He deeply re-
grets going, but business is business, and
he takes a brief farewell OF his family
and returns the day after the carpets are
down and the curtains are up, just in time
to hang the parlor landscapes upside
down.
The babies, bless their hearts, have the
best of moving day. The Venus Of Milo
may have a fractured nose and the china
shepherdess be broken to smithereens, but
the children will all be on hand and tumble
into their little beds as happy as CLAIMS.
The new house sfull of unexplored fields
to them, and eating off a barrel head in
the pantry is the hight of bliss.
A bright woman who has been there
herself contributes this sonnet to the occa-
sion:
We're moving to-day,
'Tis the hight of the season
'TiS the first day Of May,
So we're moving to-day.
There's q months rent TO pay;
Such a very good reason
We're moving to-day;
Z" 'Tis the hight o; the season.