The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-02
O0[EFUL LAMtNTS
ABOUT THE
WEATHER
Those Who Want to Move or
Get Married Find Them
selves Out Of Luck.

Down with the snow and Old King
Boreas" will be the slogan adopted
by the people if the diabolical weather
of yesterday lasts any length of time.
People who have tried to move or to
get married know that 1t either pours
in torrents during the first week of
May. or the snow makes a re-appear-
ance, so that to the fortunes of both
endeavors the weather adds a moco-
seness and gloom and dampness that
makes either undertaking an omen of
ill-fortune.
One has often heard a lugubrious
lament. What bad day for funer-
AL" as the cortege wends its way
through sleet, and rain, and mud, and
gloom, and kind-hearted people have
often also, remarked, what a bad
day to moye," but no person with a
well-balancei idea of things has yet
been known to remark brightly,
What pleasant day for funeral"
not yet What a nice day upon which
to move" Experience limits one
upon the day one would choose to be
buried, but there is no day in the
calender sufficiently bright and beau
tiful, golden and blue, that one could
with cheerfulness say. Upon this day
l would like to move"
There Is just one way of moving.
That is to move. There are women
who have planned and schemed and
drawn up plans and been the general
in command who have said that this
moving would be upon safe, and
sane. and sWell-balanced and careful
ly thought out method, SO that any
moment during the process one
would be able to lay ones hand upon
any required. article.
Fools!
When they have been dumped un-
tremendously but with glee into a
new apartment, with the bedroom
furniture and.the kitchen utensils in
the, rooms where they had planned
to dive. with their choice model of
the Winged Victory" with its head
gone and one wing clipped, reposing
above the kitchen range, and the par
Tor nicknacks carefully stored in the
spare room down cellar, and some
heathendsh member of the family
comes In and says, t"You packed that
tan vest OF mine, didn't you? You
know that nice one with the checks
and round red dots. Well. where is
1T? I've got to have it this minute.
remember yOu were going to keep
a list of everything that went every
where. so there wouldn't be any
trouble
mot in the least" she who did the
packing with a glitter in her eye is
likely to reply. Il took everything
and everything is here You are at
perfect liberty to hunt. And as you
hunt you might just as we'll put
things where they will eventually CO.
BY the time you have found the vest
we will be settled
Double Troubles. -
The troubles Of the movers are not
all that cumber the world,on May day.
There are the new neighbors. People
have SO developed their secretiveness
that they are just as likely as not to
carefully wrap all. their old tlfted and
pine furniture in paper wrappings
just to deceive one into believing it
mahogany while one sits at the Win
dow and watches the van unload.
The meals of moving day are also
among its keenest woes. The woman
interested in seeing the result of diff
ferent combinations Of her furniture
In different corners is rather oblivi-
GUS to such things as warm meal
and those things known as "snacks"
are enjoyed for some few days. But
like many other things the sorrows
OF dwelling on them, moving day and
Its attendant horrors are imminent.
Most people look grave when they
are buried in thought.