Evening star., 1926-04-25
Moving Day Furnishes Unending Round
Of Thrilling Incidents for the Mover
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A Charles Stine. the gent for
~ whom the most famous mod
"A ern dance got named, once
4 A wrote in his Daily Hints With
n Kick in Them, "One of the
most moving sights in the world is a
roomful of Charlesstine dancers"
But while / resd this column in the
paper regular, on account as a
Charlesstine dancer am great read
er, well anyways, while l read the
statement as per see above, why for
once l could not agree with him, be-
cause Of me remembering one yr. ago
today. which is May the first, and
what seen at the time, which was a
even more moving sight. BY which
mean to say that was the day when
y we moved from Northwest Second Ave
nue. over to our present home. Yet
know that in the old, early days there
was other Assoc's. with the 1St Of
May In my mind. For sample there
was the famous poem commencing.
Wake and call me early call me early,
Mother dear,
For tomorrow is the hottest day in all
the hot New Year.
In all the wild New Year, Mother,
the widest, merriest day,
So set the old alarm-clock, for I'm
going to hit the hay""
mat, or course. was in the days
when the first of May was pretty
near a rival, as a date for throwing
a big party, to the now more popu.
lar New Yrs. eve. when, as is we'll
known, a good deal of the old Adam
shows up in the most of us.
Also, IN the days Of my childhood
we used to think considerable about
going out after May flowers on that
day. chasing the timid wild things
to their lairs, slaughtering them, and
then hanging baskets of them on the
door knobs of the neighbors we
liked. This give us kids a lot of
pleasure. and give the neighbor who
got basket a little extra work, but
| don't know do the kids hang May
baskets any more. l know our
Junior don't. The kinda pretty tricks
he plays on our neighbors. why the
neighbors are more likely to do the
hanging.
Then, come to think of it, we used
70 have May parties for the kids.
They was socalled not alone because
they come on the 1st inst of that
month, but on account the parties
consisted principally of the kids say
ing may have some more ice cream,
may L punch Billy, may 1 eat the rest
or the cake, and etc, while the
hostess says yes. maybe. or no you
may not. One kid would be Queen
~of the May, there would be a May
pole, and the whole thing usually
ended in a general Maylee, which is
French for fight.
X X x
PUT them old customs seems to
be pretty well gone on into the
times which seems so good, principal.
lv because we don't have 'em anv
more. And now about all a person
thinks of is the May day labor parade
and the moving man. who, whatever
his last name is, his first name is al
ways Bill.
But as I was telling about. one
annum ago today the most moving
sight I remember was I and George,
that's my husband, and Junior, mov-
ing out 10 our pres. quarters.
In the first place. Geo. hadn't want
ed us to take this house we got now,
at all. For the luvva tripe. Jennie.
he says to me. it amt anyWheres near
big enough. Why lookit all the furni-
ture we got right now. We amt got
the room for il where we are. | am
always barking my shins on it; how
and the heck do you expect to get II
all in these little rooms? It amt pos
sible. don't take the place.
So up to then 7 had been kinda
doubtful did | want this house, but
as soon as he says that why | made
up my mind, so we took the house,
and went on back to our old residence,