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Show Think of tha moving noutewife's thought-I thought-I cm dalliance. An hour's work and hard talking have indued br to nharribn, but the wanta to object little longer, and while aha gratifies that with her place of reaidenro hat changed from l-ftko View to Jefftrson, and tha agent hoi lost a sale, Fellows with coal bills and frrorers with unbalanced accounta can find one of three eluaive households any day, and they are likely to run along lu breathless faahion at tha rear entrance or back off from the Impending, advancing advanc-ing front door, pulling tha bell ua If they were tweaking it not and then retreating retreat-ing as if afraid it would resent the Intuit. These buazards who float around a family en traniiilu may as wl be paid; they will oauip wherever tha houae if deposited, and it doesn't look wall to be introduced to a neighborhood by a bevy of bill collectors. col-lectors. Taken altogether, the business of moving mov-ing house and household, family and familiars, without taking up a carpet or packing a boi is deluding. A man new knows w here to look for the thing, and life Is too short to go and sit down on tha vacant lot till it comes; his neighbors know too much about him from the start, and his family cannot rub out old scores and begin anew in the legend aid of life. Chicago .Herald. MOVING HOUSE AND HOME. Corlooa Phaan af Miring Whm Wat , Ivan Carpal Ara Takaa Dp, As a general thing a man knows where to look for hit houae when he goes home from work. A two story dwelling it developed de-veloped strongly in hit bump of Inhabl-tiveneas. Inhabl-tiveneas. In a world of mutations it la usually content to remain at the old stand till the wreck of all things earthly overtakes over-takes H. Let a man once build a house on lot 20, block 6, and he can leave it In the morning with a pretty safa assurance assur-ance of finding it right thera when he comes home at night. j But houaea do tometimea ttray away, I and while they leave certain ancient landmarks land-marks they make others at they go. U often happent that a man reaidiug on hit own property sells the lot at a good figure and moves the house to a leas coatly location loca-tion farther on. Thete ara the timet when the rule finds exception, and the head of a family who closed his front door at Adams and Wood si recta this morning is likely to open it to-night at Garfield park. The housemover cornea when he can not when you are randy for him. He shovea 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 qtdot domestic teens in a wandering wan-dering residence ia very familiar. People are changing the face of the country so rapidly that homes give place to four story buildings at tho aiigbtest notice. The daily programme of break fat, dinner and supper go on, though three grocers may have to be patronized before enough provuioua are obtained. The lifted hulk goesdrifting through the street .approaching .approach-ing the revolving capstan and chasing it away, forming the one thing which can stop Mr. Yerkea' street cars without causing caus-ing all the passengers to bless the f'hila-dolpbia f'hila-dolpbia baron. - 'When a man goes home at night or goet to the place where he expected ex-pected his bomtf would be and llndi but an aching void in the old familiar place be hat only to step into the street and take up tho trail. Persistent follow ing of this will bring him at last to his retreating retreat-ing domicile, when be may mount the back tteps as be would a car platform and resume his disturbed relations to the family. Ladies who go to call on women who are being moved houe and houaehold do not leave their cab standing at the corner, but direct the driver to keep up if be can, while they sit In a comforta-blo comforta-blo drawing room and enjoy the tbiftiug scenery. Children can be kept in the house to readily while the latter it lieing moved from one part of tha town to another an-other that it has been suggested to have the state hire licensed raisvraand inovert who tltali draw domicile about from place to place aa often as "infanta terrible" ter-rible" demand a change of scene. Aa the progress is continued day and night, policemen who call to see the cook may greet her in Capt- Hchuettler s domain and glv her farewell In Simon OTjo-nell't OTjo-nell't territory. This moving a family and a houta together to-gether hat its diaadvantage for fellows who tell patent rights and women who can rata for the book "Clear Skies." For thete boret are limited to a certain territory, terri-tory, and it is awfully trying on a solicitor's solici-tor's nerves to see the borne in which alio has bar victim treed just approaching Belmont avetjna, knowing full well that anca actota that street she dare not teU. |