The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-02
With the Long BolD
Eye Nature's walks Shoot folly as IL files.
annual Exodus of the Householders Calls for Few
Remarks on that Fixed American Festival, Moving
Day-The Heart Bowed Down.
Eye Natll

M AN can live thru moving day and come out alive
IVl because man has done it, but it is an expert
49, ence in which his love for life and his rapture
In the visible world are likely to receive earthquake
shock -
1t is mistake to move, but if you must move,
twere well 'were done quickly. The slow deliberate
moving, all planned out three weeks beforehand,
tails bulk of misery which is simply crushing to the
free spirit The best way to to appear at
at the door with and when your wife asks crush
lngy, what is that for, , you reply, lightly "We
are going to move this afternoon" This of course,
saves all argument '#'7.sS r" -.,~
Did you ever unmber from four to six beds ana
navigate the bed springs and mattresses thru
hall that runs in three different directions inside
of fifteen feet9 It takes diplomacy. . 81: @, 49,
Did you lift one side of the cooking range
from its foundations and carry it eight miles to the
vans 1t takes religion - ~'.~. ''.
Armed with tack hammer and firm determination,
did you rip the carpet from it's woody bed roll it
into dusty cylinder and heave it trumphantly among
the crockery on the bottom of the van Can you do
these things and take advice from the feminine por
tion of the family smilingy? Can you pound your
thumb and rip off section of hide uncomplainngly2
s. phenomenon of moving day is the sudden appear
ance everywhere of long forgotten and unknown furni
fure The house, on moments notice, assumes the ap
pearance of secondhand shop 1t piles up in the
kitchen, the yard is full of ton-weght bureaus with
their drawers packed with books and crockery. Old
saws, washtubs, Lord Byron IS works, bicycle and
eighteen hundred rocking chairs faunt themselves in
the glorious spring air
Taxes high, the neghbors keep chickens; you
may make ST 900 by selling your house, but these
no arguments if they involve moving.
4 Don't move Burn first.
C. G. Selon of Sioux City was in the st. Nicholas
hotel in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake.
= 4 woke in the night - said Mr. Seon with the
clutch OF my wife hand my sleeve and the ter
Sfed scream of her voice in my Plaster and fres
Going were falling all around us, and the feeling in
spred by the rocking of the building is indescribablc
was thrown from side of the bed to the other,
trying to hold onto myself and my all the while
and to calm my wife. kept saying to myself and to
her, 1T III stop in moment But it ddn It stop for
seemed thou
sand times bigger than you are had hold of you and
was saying, There, damn you, I've got you at last,
and I'm going to shake you until get ready to quit
When the fellow finally did let go of my collar got
mp in daze, dressed, ordered my wife to DRESS and
succeeded in getting out on the street,
~ In event like this baldheaded man has dis
tinct advantage in that his hair does not turn white
from fright. But between four moving days and
one earthquake, give us the quake
A cook lady somewhere in the southwest thinned
her stove polish with gasoene. It went the kitchen
range all right but when the stove warmed up to its
work at supper time it broke loose like small male
boy leaving the when he hears the boy next door
whstling on his fingers Happily no one was hurt.
The Fargo Forum tells how wealthy Dakotan, the
of two fine farms and with money in the bank,
to Fargo to wed of the fairest of that ctys
daughters and how his stock deprecated in the estima
ton of the bride family shortly after the event At
the conclusion of the ceremony the happy benedict
then hung around in waiting attitude like woman
at bargain counter. His bride noticed an awkward
situation and exclaimed:
@ Come along, George. What you waiting,
for9'
6: I'm waiting for my change, DEAR the
ply. Il gave the sky pilot S. and it looks if he in
tends to keep it. I may be from the country, but
them smooth guys cant bunco Three dollars is
plenty fer saying few words and giving his good
wishes It's than good farm hand in
two days Of hard work, but suppose IL have to let
it go this time'
People stepping from the Hennepin boule
r1o t1nto thQ
with sound like the cook dropping the hapjack mate
rial on the kitchen floor. co.: A. j. R.
@ For many years florists have tried in vain to