The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-25
Bah ON THE MOVE.
CONTENT WITH BOARDI%G HOUSE
"JoY5"SzE 20 IS HOUSEKEEPING

! joys OF VII CHI We Only Eezd-SiCY-
ing Prosaic Business Devoid Of
any Pleasure ven the Dead Do
Move-some Things We Ponder
over.
(CopgriahtD
NEW York, Sept 24.-Everybody seems
TO be moving. Here in New York the peo-
pie who are up town are moving down {;
those who are down are going up. and am
just going across. There are people who,
moving often, don't mind it. I don't be-
long to that class consequently, after
abiding seven years in one place, NOV
ing me was difficult. think it has taken
four weeks; in the meantime have had my
household goods. so to say, Oh exhibition.
IN THE HANDS OF THE MOVER.
The average mover, so called, is a very in
Dope dent person. I am almost tempted to
say very shocking one He grasps your
treasures as II they amounted u nothing,
exhibits them on the sidewalk, ana regards
you aud your admirations with scorn. Yes
terday he had Mrs. Langtry. N s. Kendall,
my great neutrality-suspicious. mar
rIage certificate Hrom County Wexford
| and my vellum-bound volumes OF the ARA
bian Nights" all leaning against the fence,
30 at he who ran mig t read. He pre-
ferred taxing my clOthes first a d unless We
gave him his way, he might decline to move
US, We let him do as be pleased. After this he
took any hing he fancIcd, and | sat in my
desolated household AMI tried to smile. At
last was put into a cab and had things
packed around me that | was told we're
| valuables. La or on | discovered that the
| vsluablzs consisted of welvs bottles II beer,
of two baskets Of odds and ends, tr yelling
clock a al q japanese ina e. The silver aud
my Iewelry had gone over an opan basket.
! The prin 'ipal mover was man who
looked tor the history of every hing, aud as
he gazed a. me tiercely when l announced
that bought one jar in New YORK, drew
on my imagination for histories
to go with all the other things.
be believes, as lar as know,
that japanese pillow, gotten here within
the past six months, was presented to my
father by the Emperor Of Japan. and that
two cups and sau erS which he broke we're
GIVEN To NE BY QUEEN VICTORIA
the evening l took tea with her. l don't
| kGow that he believed these things, but he
urged me on until now he has gotten me in
a condition until l don't know whether Bis
marc& gave me my writing desk, the King
of Ireland, the typewriter, or James J. Cor
| bett, the shtlIelah, CHI is adorned with
red, aud blue ribbons. He asked me
| r u yUJdy celebrated had yer slep5 on my
bed, ahd l told MIN Per ell died on the
mattress. What the result of all this will
! be on me 60 not make. | may frank
great liars, VINO make fortunes by tins
,rade.
l hud myself stopping and staring at
| other peoples movings, just as othe peopls
! did at NINE Sometimes | laugh; some
times cry. I laughed at an artistic nov
| ing where everybody passing by stop. cd t.
| study the nudes which were strung
along in straight line awaiting
their turn. fsis the tears co ne
in my eyes when saw an elderly woman
grasp little shoe as i, fell firm a bask.t
and say, 20! tuAt mu tl't be lost; every
| one of my babies wore il Tor tae first shoe;
some of them are great big nsn; ne Of
them will always be babies"
STUDY IN EBONY.
We had an advantage in our moving. We
had Alexa der. Alex der may be any
thing from 50 to but don't believe any
body ever called MIN "Alsck." At times
of great distress he has the vigor Of 35, at
other times he seems ~, especially if it is a
question or lifting heavy weight. His ap-
petite Is beJwee these two ages, and would
be ca led, l suppose, normal. lie has a
keen eye for the artistic, and this showed
ltss in the decoration OF the kitchen man
tel, with all my finest brlc-a-brac; he has
al Intense hatred for the janitor, and he
gives him a look eve time he
sees him t at would do great credit
TO stage villain. There are int rvas
whe be is missed, then anybody eau be
10 to !, and there will le no takers. That
Alexander Will be found in the miis. OF the
books improving his mind. In knowledge
ne Is very bread; be is up in the morning
papers, he eau give an opinion as to the
proper cooking If the STEAK; no has positive
ideas about his vote. aid he likes a little
light literatu once and awhile. He can
pal floor IT wasa the dishes, brush "a
0oEn or hang pictures. Ia fact, Alexah~
der's accomplishing IS are many, aud In
moving man or the Alexander type is in
valuable.
He hates every ody else who is doing any
thing, nsequently he sees they d mt steal,
d IN his own way he has a rather con-
TEN It for your belongings SO that they are
quite safe in his hardS.
JOYS OF WHICH WE ONLY READ.
have read funny articles alb ut owing
there IS nothlak funny about the real
thing. You wa It your own soap, q you
can dud five fancy payer weights
aud nothing else, you want
somsthing to fetch You up, aud
though there is ink and giIe, aud vaselIne,
and beer, the something you dss re is mis-
Ing. u set work strai2aten s me
tGinR and you come across a package OF let
ters written ten years ago; you can't RS st
readin one T NO, and hen you augh and
c'y; one says: "Dear Maria sopped in
and bro Ight me a bunch of fl wers;n you
DIR. D you head for Dear A ariau" is here
the flowers are everlast and the o.ly
Thug left OF her on earto 10 a blossom Of
baby. q. d the loving memory In the hearts
II those WIN cared for her. A1ot ,er tells
how 'tha stupid boy, AWKWARD AT long
legged, bored me with his talk" and you
laugh to thi K no. sac DOESN'T call him a
STUPID boy now, but the dearest iello " in
the world. Another ne says: al know /
have a great futu before mel am sure
Of it, my pen will make the world con
scious of it"-the pen never did, and the
welder Of it has gone down, down,
down, until even you, who would speak to
the meanest wre in the world, almost
shudder when you see him. The there is
another letter, that tells of a newborn baby
| babies were rare in hose days-last d lght
| you got telegram announcing be arriN al
of the fifth in that b useh Id There is q
letter Of thanks from polite actress for a
few kiadly words said of her Work-you
smile and are glad there are some polite
ones There is photograph taken az the
seaside. you and someb dy else-you DIR p
them all after this, AID 10 K at that pio ,ure;
think out the story of the years, aud wonder
| what it all means