| Show HENRY SAYS NEW YORK YORK Late Late September Septem Septem- ber is a time of ot loveliness and melancholy In New York City The taxis and subways begin begin be be- gin to take on their first hint of autumn colors There Is a delightful crispness about the soot in the air and the honk of ot the soap box orators as they migrate south from Central park to Union square is to be heard There is a zip and a tingle to the way pedestrians crowd one another off the sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks and the fr fresh sh woodsey scent of mothballs is in the air But New Yorkers arent aren't happy hap hap- py Late September is also a time for moving from one apartment apartment apart apart- ment or hotel to another Between Between Be Be- tween now and the first of ot October just as if they were ch checker men moved about a aboard aboard board by a giant and unseen ha hand d New Yorkers will hop over one another by the millions mil mil- millions lions in pursuit of ot a different residence They can no more help this than salmon can help cluttering cluttering clutter clutter- ing up certain rivers each year or the tailed bob-tailed mackerel can help making his annual trip to the Indian or some such ocean cean When this time of year arrives arrives ar ar- ar rives something stirs in the New Yorkers Yorker's breast that compels him to scorn the renewal of his lease and turn his face toward a new neighborhood with the excitement of meeting strange janitors strange superintendents superintend superintend- and strange corner druggists druggists drug drug- and butchers This Irresistible urge to move does not make the New Yorker happy His roots sink fast and andin andin andin in the year he has lived in the apartment he must leave he has learned to love it He has the same affection for it t that hat other men have for the old family homestead Everything about it is so familiar He cherishes the stately cop copon copon copon on the corner just as a Hoosier does the old sycamore on the lawn He knows that 1150 in inthe inthe inthe the morning is the only time the sun strikes the living room with sufficient force to warrant turning off the lights He also knows that the superintendent always has a beer at the corner tavern between 5 and 6 and that it is safe then to take the pup for a romp on the roof of the building He knows just how far to turn the hot and cold coldwater coldwater coldwater water faucets on the bathtub to draw a perfect bath He likes the view from his living room window because it commands a view of the Smiths' Smiths living room across the court and the toe Smiths give the best parties of any family in the building Its It's tough on New Yorkers to pull up these seated deep-seated roots product of a whole year of living in one place The only consolation New Yorkers have when moving Is that 89 99 9 out of ot times they will move into an apartment almost identical Identical Iden iden- with the one they left It wont won't be any larger it wont won't be any more comfortable The kitchen will be right where it was in the apartment they moved from and of the same standard size meaning it will willbe willbe b be so small that it Is impossible impossible sible to make an omelet w wit with i t h more than four eggs in it Off the kitchen w will ill be a dinette and off the dinette a a. living room and of off the living room a bedroom and off the bedroom a bath and placed in inconveniently inconveniently inconveniently in- in conveniently here and there a closet that can accommodate one cap and a pair of overshoes s provided they are friendly and dont don't mind snuggling The wealthier New York apartment switchers move from penthouse to penthouse These again have a dreadful similar similar- ity The smoke and grime that blows over one blows over all and to spend 15 minutes on the terrace of one of them is to wind up looking like Al Jolson in th the first act The trials of moving are even worse for New Yorkers this year The cost of ot packing and has risen considerably so many are doing the work themselves Building Boulder dam took long longer r but packing a barrel of china is harder The man who designed the first cup never meant for it to be packed in a a. barrel The only way to make malte a dup Cup fit is to knock off its handle Thousands of handles are yielding their lives in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York right now and the money amateur packers are saving will be spent to replace the broken china Few men can wrap and tie a alove alove alove love seat in newspaper and burlap burlap bur bur- lap and come through the ordeal the same The late Harry Houdini Hou Hou- dini dins couldn't extricate himself from a straitjacket with half the ease a piece of furniture can come out of its wrappings when it is packed up to be moved But enough of this describing the horrors of ot moving Were We're going to move on October October Oc Oc- Oc tober 1 and I have at least 20 appointments to go and look at other apartments It'll be benice benice benice nice to be out of the house though and miss the 20 or 30 prospective tenants who arc are coming to look at mine Distributed by Syndicate Inc |
