The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-14

containing the table linen, and are there
hidden from sight for several days.
Hardly have they disappeared "unbe-
knownst" to their owner before he is
sensible of needing all three at once
His whiskers begin to grow like Jacks
beanstalk, his dental equipment cries
aloud from FRACTIONAL attentions whleythe
dust of his shoes SO shocks his sense Of
propriety that ilfe becomes unbearable
EA1ayhap the erstwhile possessor of the
tooth brush, shoe paste and razor does
not use either OF the three articles once
in month, but let him know they arc
missing and everything is different. It's
absence makes the heart grow fond Ter & ].
And 1t is not to be supposed that the
business of moving Is the misery of Il
day. It's stbverting influences, on the
contrary, form an epoch in ones life.
The householder is in transitu for weeks
that is to say, the prudent matron begins
packing weeks in advance, and ere the
daythe caravan gets in motion, the man
on the premises can't call his soul his
own One by one he sees his treasured
possessions lacked up and consigned to
the fathomless depths of dry goods boxes.
Last week his battalion of old shoes Qhe
darlings Of his heart and the pet aver
sion of his wife) were ANONYMOUSLY
hurled after the manner of Luclfer
thrown from the skies into an unappre-
ciatlve mountain of excelsior But yes
tcrday his choicest jar of tobacco found,
sepulchre in n barrel of sawdust: this
morning the nolasses jug was seen IN
the embrace Of his darling frock coat;
only an hour ago his 5odorifcrous meer-
schaum pipe was carted Off In a box,
blinking with walls OF pecac, paregoric,
spirits Of turpentine, castor oil and witch
hazel.
Even now the wretch covers in pas
sageway packed and jammed with SIAM
peded baby carriages, frightened trundle
beds and cribs. excited juvenile express
wagons, centre tables bird cages, doll
baby houses, coffee grinders end clothes
wringers.
lie does not know at what moment he
may himself be seized swnthed in excel
slor packed, jammed and rammed down
into q dry goods box and carted off to his
new abode, there to no dumped out, re-
assorted, rubbed down, brushed off with
n busting rag and assigned to q new
position in life.
Worse still, he fears that part of his
very clothes may be torn Off his back
and tucked away, to serve as a protect-
Ing almor for various and divers bisaue
ladies and gents who heretofore have
bodeckcd tho parlor mantels.
Already he has seen the plaster Of Paris
Venus wrapped up In his rohe dc mutt.
so that the good but chilly lady may not
bump too violently against tho 81 fresco
contingent under the trees on tho Wodge-
wood milk pitcher.
And In the midst of all the hurly-burly
all tho chaos and all the hurricane of
confusion, the mattlnss, rugs and carpets
come up in II simeon OF choking dust,
and the pictures como down y. u cloud
OF dirt, leaving behlnd on tho cheerless
walls, bright spots which show how they
have protected the fading paper from
tile chemical action OF the joy-glying sun
light.
But no more sunshine In this old house,
O. terrified mnn-no more sunshine and
no more shadow-not even tho echoes
of your chlldren's voices Will linger. The
very store room cockronchcs and water
bugs are beating retreat IN the dusty
halls.
You arc going bag and baggage--tho
whole kit and caboodlo of you. Your
I.nrcs and Penates arc already being
tossed into tho hired vehicle along with
tina chicken coops and coal skuttles, tho
pots and skillets.
You arc DESERVING faithful friend, ono
who has sheltered you N fair weather
and in storm Perhaps adversely Is drly-
ing YOU hence God pity you II 1t Is
So Let us rather hope that, prosperity
prompts the changc--that the new de-
mesne is made of finer clay-that It Is
an nristocrat in bricks and mortar or q
patrlcian in mahogany and marble
1T will be but the matter of few days,
probably a few hours. before tho young
iings arc satisfied. They forget SO soon.
And then, too, they have the freshly
kalsomined walls to besmear With their
sticky little fingers and the newly VAR