Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-05-11
A WOMAN DURING THe MOVING.
Some Of the Ludicrous Things She is Likely to Do in That Trying Period.

Some Of the Ludicrous Things She 1s
 Likely to Do in That Trying Period.
 A woman's idea of moving is to wear a pair of old shoes, her hus- bands old overcoat, a damaged skirt and a last years old hat turned hind side before.
 Thus formidably attired, with a pocketful of screws, nails and picture cords, and an old knife in one hand and a broom in the other, she is pre- pared to believe that something is about to be done. The first move she makes is at the front parlor car pet. She takes up two tacks in about fifteen minutes, puts them in a saucer and sets the saucer in the middle of the floor, where it will not Do in the way. Then she goes into the hall to tell the moving men to be careful in bringing down the large rocking chair, as her mother gave it to her.
 After that she darts into the Etch- en, stops suddenly in the middle of the room and says, ''Now, what is it was going to doi" and then races up stairs with a great hustle on sudden ly remembering that pair of vases were not packed away with the bed ding. But they were packed away, and when she discovers the fact she comes back, saying that she has So much to do she doesn't really know what she is about.
 Afterward she draws out the glass ware to put it into barrel, and after packing away couple of tumblers and a salt cellar takes down her dresses and examines them with as much care as if she were going to a ball, and the carriage was already at the door. In the midst of this sur vey she suddenly thinks of something else and rushes off to attend to it, the knife in one hand, the broom in the other.
 When the pier glass is taken down, she is there; when the sideboard 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 picture frame, she e there to rebuke him.
 She attends to everything. She makes her husband go outside and clean his shoes. She gets in the way when they are moving the sofa. She leaves the dustpan just where the carman's assistant can step on the handle, and have it turned with him at a most unfortunate time. She gets the broomstick entangled with her husbands legs. which trips him up.
 She tries to lift two bushel basket of crockery, and finding she cannot do it tells the carman she is not so strong as she used to be, and then contents herself with carrying down an old wooden chair, which has just been brought up stairs to be used in removing 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 a 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 workbasket She thinks the fender and bedroom set should ride together and is quite confident that if the piano is permit ted to stand on the cart as it does 1t will never again be fit to be played.
 She knows that that load isn't put on as it ought to be, and there is room for lots of things yet. She brings out a clock and some old gas pipe, and a pair of old boots covered with mildew, and 8 small basket of empty spice boxes, and an old gaiter, and the back of a worn out vest and wants them all put on the cart She says there is plenty of room, and the things will come useful some time and they don't take up any room, and just as the vehicle is moving away she rushes after it with a coffeepot stuffed with debris, which she sue cessfully introduces into the load, and then comes back in triumph. London Tit-Bits.