The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-26
SADDEST DAY
OF YEAR NEAR
MOVING DAY FALLS OFFICIALLY
ON MAY I AND TIME is
DREADED BY THE
RENTERS.

Renters and agents are engaged In
,beir annual squabble over rents, i'm
movements and renovations; father
and mother are having animated dis
cusslons over whether the new house
,s hotter than the old, and whether
they should keep the front bedroom for
the family or take roomer.
pity the poor man of the household
on moving day! Why not pity the
Moor woman too. you say Why not?
Because she doesn't need pity. When
a woman cleans house or when a
woman moves. she is i'm her glory. So
II seems to the mere male man. She
rlunges into II with all the vim that a
football player displays in the big game
of the season. She doesn't exactly
have smile on her face. but there is a
fierce 10y IN her grimness She dis
turbs the established order of things
and makes the dust fly around, while
the mere male man looks on in speech
less wonder.
Poor Mans Lot.
Picture the poor man of the house,
hold on moving day! on the night be-
fore things have been assembled
which means that the household furni-
ture Is thrown into jumbled heaps in
the middle of the floor of the rooms.
Pictures are torn from their hooks and
curtains from their poles. Clothes are
packed away i'm trunks and boxes and
bed clothing is packed In bales. Hard
" has he had his tired form down on
the bed before he is shaken out of his
sleep and brought to his feet at the
unearthly hour of 6 a. m. or there
abouts. The moving man will be along
at o'clock and things must be ready.
A day from the Office is no holiday
on moving day. 1t is a day of toll and
torture With nervous qualms the
man of the household watches the
seemingly careless van crew handle
the furniture that he carefully picked
out and paid for at the rate of SIS per
month. lie sees chair legs broken and
clothing soiled. He sees the piano
scratched and the bookcase Jared and
he is helpless to save them.
When all is moved, all is confusion
The assignment of rooms is a task for
an infallible diplomat or an obdurate
dictator. Things that were carried up
stairs must be carried down again.
Things that were carried downstairs
must be carried up again. Half the
night he works, and it is with fierce
JOY that he escapes TO the Office in the
Misunderstanding breakfast at a grab
and-eat lunch room on the way. Par
tial order has been restored when he
returns to the house, but there are
pictures to be hung. trunk to be stored
and thousand and one things to be
done.
Moving day! Moving week rather!
There is no joy for the man of the
household when May l approaches.
Official Moving Day.
May ] is still official moving day in
the copper country and in most other
places throughout the country. In Chi
cago an attempt is being made to
Vhdllse' ana IL Is likely To meet with
some encouragement but the estab-
ished rule holds good throughout most
OF the country.
Why do people move on May 1? why
IS the midday meal eaten at II
o'clock? 1t might be relshed more at
J. Why do men wear vests? why are
coats worn in the office? Why are
Wedding rings given? why are a mil
lion other senseless things done? Be-
cause it's the custom.
The matter was discussed at the
meeting of the National Association of
building Managers last year. Where
old the custom originator" someone
asked and nobody could answer. 1t
Just growed.