The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-07-18
His Systematic:
Moving
BY FANNY MAJORS

Tom is going to move into another
Office" said the bride. I've been sim
ply dying to houseclean his bookcases
and things and told him was COM
ing down to help him"
"Oh, my heavens!" interrupted the
woman who has been married for some
time. keep away! Don't go within
mile of the moving fracasI How
lucky you are that l am here to save
youl"
'Wh-wh--" stammered the sur
prised bride
"Never shall l forget the time"
proceeded the long-married lady,
when John thought that the eastern
branch needed him permanently and
he decided to store his office furniture
here in the basement of a flat build
ing he owned. Like most business
men. John hates detail, and was sus-
picious of his ability to move three
large roomfuls and arrive with half
the things. | offered to help him get
books and pictures and his heaps of
papers in order for the journey.
"But 1t developed differently. One
night he arrived for dinner looking
wild and distracted He was so
iumpy he couldn't sit still. If he
had been a woman he would have had
i Mysteries and kicked his heels.
"T'm movingr he said defiantly
/ I've been moving all day! No, Of
course my papers and things weren't
ready he admitted to my question
ing. why, just sort of chucked
them into drawers! Yes, of course,
they had to take all the drawers out
to move the tables and filing cabinets!
4 No. of course | didn't see that they
were covered tightly! Whadyuh think
I'd cover 'em with? No, l couldn't
get one of the big movers. grabbed
an eXpressman a man told me about.
No, he hasn't Il vanl Oh, a sort of
wagon with two dying horses and I
think the three men he sent have
creeping paralysis! They started to
take things down at 2 o'clock and
hadn't got them put on the wagon
when | left And it's rainng-and
the wagon hasn't a cover! Oh, gee,
it's mess"
81 led John sternly to hot coffee
and a steak and then l insisted on GO
ing with him to the building where
the things were to be stored. | car
rieI duStcloths and old newspapers in
wild hope of repairing some of the
damage We arrived TO find n small
motor delivery wagon dlsgorglng some
Of his furniture on to the sloppy walk.
It seemed that he had too much for
The original wagon. The wagon was
on the way. No, there was no telling
when 1t would arrive. And, say, where
was the basement light?
"There were no lights in that part
of the basement. One of the movers
produced some candle stubs. Failing
MI over themselves in the grim gloom,
they got the dripping chairs and ia
bles inside and l mopped them off.
"TheL we settled down to wait. The
basement was an immense cavern Of
cement and the three candle stubs
turned 1t into n regular conspirator's
den. / never saw such complete and
whoIe-sOuIed waiting as we did. John
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