The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

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THERE CERTAINLY are a great
many people In this world who
like to move every spring. They
are not often men people. A man
will find unintermittent fault with q
house from the time he sets his foot
over the threshold. He will revile the
arrangements Of the rooms and MUIR
mur about the plumbing. He will re-
call with bitter lamentations the flesh
pots of Egypt in the shape Of a GER
tain corner in the old house where the
light fell at the proper angle upon his
paper and little room on the third
floor which he had always planned to
turn into a den for himself but which
plans had only reached the embryonic
stage Of samples of flercely oriental
wall paper. He will object strcnuously
to the location Of the gas fixtures,
and will regard every door fastening
on the premises with disfavor, but
when, in the course of human events
and feminine restlessness, the day
comes for this last residence to be for
saken for another he will suddenly de
velop a clinging attachment for the
house from which he must now de-
part Then will 1t have charms utterly
unaDpreciated before. Then will he
discover that no other domicile can
have such an excellent location for his
lounge and that never again will he be
blessed with a separate closet for his
own apparel In fact a man, like a
cat. becomes strongly attached to a
place and desires to remain there un-
disturbed.
TO be sure, In the case Of the man
this attachment may not be invariably
fixed on the spot he calls home. 1t
may be certain club, a certain bill
liard-room certain saloon, according
TO his statian and tastes. The trait
may be mSA strongly shown in the
route he takes to business, and the
I half acknowledged feeling of being Of
| Tended If somebody insists upon his
walking down another avenue or on
the opposite side Of the street, in the
almost superstitious regard he has for
q particular position at a certain tee
| on the links or certain table at whist
or special square foot Of space where
he would stand when bowling
He Is far more a creature of habit
than woman. She will blithely start
| off house-hunting and will see rosy
Gelectable possibilities in grimy,
dinry receptionhall. which only in
husband m 90 Jtc-
gust. 1t will not depress her to be in
formed that the cellar is damp and the
dining-room isn't large enough to en-
tertain dinner party numbering
more than three. She will not mind IL
there are two dark bed-chambers or
If the hack yard con-ists solely of a
high board-fence. She likes that re-
ceDtion-hall and nothing else matters.
/ have known a woman to tear up
her household gods. sell her old car
pets which were in goo! condition, for
almost nothing. and go to great ex-
pensc to fit uo n new house which she
chose s.nply because che liked the
Empire wallpaper which matched a
gilt cabinet already in her possession.
Indeed, woman may want to move
for such an inSnitude Of reasons that
her husband will early abandon the
struggle for Shear apprehension that
the list will grow. II may he the
kitchen-range or the kitchnn-sink. and
who can blame her for seeking sur
cease from the sorrows Of a procession
O! Beetles and Norahs with their la M
entations? 1t may he the neighbora.
Why l know a woman who desired eX-
ceedlngly to move the family nlot in
the cemetery because she didn't
like the neighbors. however we'll they
might sleep after life's htful fever.
Oh. there are countless reasons why
woman wants to move in the spring.
All the change some women get is
in moving and arranging their old
furniture to III new rooms. Surely no
one should grudge them this small
variety in life. or course it would be
cheaper for their husbands to take
them on n trip to New York or the
sea-shore once year. or to send them
away on a six weeks visit to relatives
when they would probably come home
pleased and contcnted with the old
house. But men will probably never
learn the wisdom Of this expenditure,
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the longest. triennial fitting with its
perennial discomfort.
But, after all, this everlasting mov-
ing from one house to another has its
influences on the morals and social
conditions of the race which at tho
best is undesirable. If the school-boy
of today Is the statesman Of tomorrow
his biographer is likely to have a hard
time of it in tracing his "haunts and
homes" The head Of the moving
household will scarcely be able to tell
where the various children were born
and to designate the exact house
where the statesman Of the future first
saw light will offer as many difficult
ties as to declare the birthplace OF
Homer.
1t is rather a pity that American
children in the aggregate will know a
great deal about numberless houses
but little of home as such a.term Is
regarded. say across the sea where the
same roof, humble though 1t may be,
is likely to shelter the same family
for generations. The spirit of unrest
Is surely fostered from infancy in this
country. The very prosperity of the
people adds to the changeful condi-
tions. If they We're not in a position
to do better for themselves often they
would not remove from their old loca-
ton. They can afford to change resi-
dences and they do 1t. But to their
children the memories of childhood
must be chiefly a succession of differ
ent houses which they called home
but which could scarcely be termed
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