The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-05-13
A MOVING TALE THAT
WILL MOVE YOU
Things That Move you
To Move
Read This Very Moving Tale and be Con-
vinced That Many Things Can Move You
To Move in a Movement That Really
Moves you to Moving.
Ry Beau Esprita

This Is going to be moving tale.
1t is, also, the exception which
proves the rule that every little
movement has meaning all its own.
But it will not move you to tears.
The custom of moving is an ancient
if not always an honorable one.
Mother Eve originated it when she
was moved to partake of the fruit
of the tree. 1t has many branches
and sidelines.
1t is said that King Solomon had
seven hundred wives. There is
nothing moving about that, you say?
Bachelor! I'll bet it kept old Sol on
the jump! That was not why l
mentioned the incident however, but
tor purposes of comparison. For
there are more ways of moving than
Solomon had wives.
A hook of Ready Helps For The
Writer" recently issued by a New
York publishing house, contains a.
mong other things list of the ways
in which our hero" or our heroine"
may move. Beginning with ably,
abruptly, absently, on through BASH
fully. cautiously, drearily, easy, fast,
giddily, happily, intently, jerking,
keen, lazy. machiavelian, noisily,
oppressive, pert, quickly, racily.
steady, tenderly, vacantly, warily,
Xerif. like yielding, down to jealous
ly, it gives in all three hundred and
ffty-seven ways of moving. At that,
it doesn't mention moving to keep
from paying rent, or because the
corner cop tells you to, or hundreds
of other ways with which we are all
familiar.
Probably the most popular form
of moving, up to the advent of the
tango and fox-trot, was moving to
save rent. Like many other things
of which people are ashamed, it's
origin is generally blamed on Adam
and Eve. There is an undeniable
analogy between the exodus of the
first family from the Garden, and
that of the modern flat dweller.
Neither better themselves or their
positions by the movement.
The endurance record for moving
Is held by Tennyson's Brook. If I
remember the poem correctly, it
goes on forever" and doesn't hate
itself any to speak of because of the
fact. Indeed. it takes on something
of superior air on account of it,
and draws invidious comparisons be-
tween itself and man in his attempts
along this line. But let us not be
downcast. Man has moved backward
hundred years within the past ten
months, and that is more than Ten
nyson's Brook can ever do.
A close runner up to this star in
the moving game is the person who
says Il told you so" at the psyche
logical moment. If the Brooks
movement is eternal, the movements
of this pest are ubiquitous. He is
everywhere. But the less said of
him, the less opportunity given him
to come back" The only move
ment of his which we would like to
record would be his departure for
the great unknown. Probably he will
greet old acquaintances among the
stokers over there with the usual
formula.
Next among the movers of note is
the automobile you are thinking of
buying. 1t doesn't matter what style
or make of car you're being shown,
it is sure to be a mover. You do not
have to take my word for this. Ask
any automobile salesman. He will
tell you.
There is an old saying to the effect
that money makes the mare move. I