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Show MOVING HOUSE AND HOME. ' Curious rbant of Moving Whore Not Im Carpet Are Taken Up. , As a general thing a man knows where to look for his house when he goes home from work. A two story dwelling is developed de-veloped strongly in his bump of inhabi- tiveness. In a world of mutations it is usually content to remain at tho old stand till the wreck of all things earthly over- , takes it. Let a man once build a house on lot SO, block 6, and he can lcavo it In tho morning with a pretty safe assurance assur-ance of finding it right there when he comes homo at night. ; But houses do sometimes stray away, and while they leave certain ancient landmarks land-marks they make others as they go. It often happens that a man residing on hie own property sells the lot at a good figure ' and moves the house to a less costly location loca-tion farther on. These are the times when the rule finds exception, and the ! head of a family who closed Jiis front door at Adams and Wood streets this morning is likely to open it to-night at Garfield park. Tho housemover comes when he can not when you are ready . for him. He shoves a lot of rollers under , Your residence, hitches a windlass horse to it and snakes it along the highway, ' while your family remain inside and (' continues to pursue their daily avocations. avoca-tions. In northwest Chicago this spectacle spec-tacle of a quiet domestic scene in a wan-' wan-' dering residence is very familiar. People are changing the face of the country so rapidly that homes gi ve place to four story buildings at the slightest notice. The daily programme of breakfast, dinner and supper go on, though three grocers may have to be patronized before enough ' provisions are obtained. The lifted bulk goee drifting through the street.approach-ing street.approach-ing the revolving capstan and chasing it away, forming the one thing which can top Mr. Yerkes' street cars without causing caus-ing all the passengers to bless the Philadelphia Phila-delphia baron. When a man goes home at night or goes to the place where he expected ex-pected his home would be and finds but an aching void in the old familiar place . Jie has only to step into the street and . tako up the trail. Persistent following of this will bring him at last to his retreat-ing retreat-ing domicile, when he may mount tho back steps as he would a car platform and resume his disturbed relations to the family. ! Ladies who go to call on women who are being moved house and household do not leave their cab standing at tho corner, but direct the driver to keep up If he can, while they sit in a comfortable comforta-ble drawing room and enjoy the shifting scenery, Children can be kept in the house so readily while tho latter is being moved from one part of the town to another an-other that it has been suggested to have the state hire licensed raisers and movers who shall draw domiciles about from place to place as often as "infants terrible" ter-rible" demand a change of scene. As the progress is continued day and night, . policemen who call to see the cook may greet her in Capt. Schuettler's domain . and give her farewell in Simon O'Don- This moving a family and a bouse together to-gether has its disadvantages for fellows .who sell patent Tights -and-women who canvass for the book "Clear Skies." For these bores are limited to a certain territory, terri-tory, and it is awfully trying on a solict tor's nerves to see the house ill which shs hasher victim, treed just approaching Belmont avenue, knowing full well that onno across that street she dure not sc.'i Think of the moving housewife s thought loss dalliance. An hour's work and hard talking have induced her to subscribe, but she wants to object a little longer, and while she gratifies that wish her place of residence has changed from Lake View to Jefferson, and tho agent has lost a sale. Fellows with coaL bills and grocers with unbalanced accounts ' can find one of these elusive households any day, and they are likely to run along in breathless fashion at the rear entrance or back off from the impending, advancing advanc-ing front door, pulling the bell as if they were tweaking its nose and lieu retreating retreat-ing as if afraid it would resent the insult. These buzzards who float around a family en transitu may as well be paid; they will camp wherever tho house is deposited, and it doesn't look well to bo introduced to a neighborhood by a bevy of bill col- lectors. . ' Taken altogether, the business of mov-. mov-. ing house and household, family and familiars, without taking up a carpet or packing a box is deluding. A man never knows where to look for the thine, and life is too short to go and sit down on the vacant lot till it comes; hia neighbors know too much about him from tho start, ' And his family cannot rub out old scorei ' and begin anew in the legend sJdocf Ufa, -Chicago Herald. |
