TTTE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 22, ' 1907.
It
AVelhods of Aan and Woman
N
EV YORK, Bept. ll.-The man fle
dged to move on Tuesday.
On Wednesday he wai settled
In bli new abode.
The transfer was effected thus:
The house where he had lived for ten
fear was to he torn down fo make room
for a, skyscraper. He thought bitterly on
the subject aa he chewed hla morning
cigar. A follow couldn't fee let alone In
New York If he wanted to be. It waa a
rPKtleas age and yellow generation.
lie looked at hla breakfast, the same
kind that had been served to him for a
dr-rade, a Juicy chop, hot rolla and aroma
tic coffe. Then he brooded gloomily on the
Chang' and chances of this transitory
tffe.
'What's the use, anyway T" he aald aloud
s he tried to interest himself In the read
ing; of the automobile accidents.
Then ha called Mary.
Mary was a Hibernian, a Jan It reus and of
warm hearted proclivities.
Bhe wept Into her blue checked gtngham
apron as he told her of the Impending
calamity. It waa bad enough, she sobbed,
to lose the roof off the house, but to lose
him, too, was more than she felt was
right.
It waa the day he always tipped Mary,
and It was five minutes past the time.
Everything was subversive. He'd be late
at the office, too, and that had never hap
pened before. This moving problem made
life a nightmare.
Ha overt ipped Mary and gave her dl
recttons. "Have the things ready nt 12," and. as
an afterthought, "you'd bitter go along
with them and see that they get aettled all
right."
Mary clutched her coin, wept anew and
asked, "Where be ye a-goln', sorr?"
"I don't know yet" he hadn't got as far
as that In his decision "but the men'll tell
you."
On the way to his office he stopped at a
real estate office. The blond youth who
met him at the railing noted at a glance
Ms closa shave. Immaculate S n, "amoncl
ring, $14 1'anama and the miest thing In
Waistcoat buttons, then said:
"Bachelor apartment below Forty-second
treet or In that neighborhood? Yes? A
Qulot house where you won't always be
meeting people coming In and going out?
I presume you would like something about
thirty-five, say, a month, with janitor ser
vice and breakfast In tho morning extra
U you want It? Yes?
"We've got Just' what you want. Kx
posed plumbing, up one flight so that you
won't need an elevator, although there's
one right there If you want It and they
sometimes do. you know. The walls are
so thick you couldn't hear a man If he had
delirium tremens In the next room. There's
light all day, except early In tha morning.
in Tackling the Old Aoving Problem
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HIS WAY. V l&ILV'TSr M HER WAY.
the squeaky tone, of MfCT WVMWM JfM
slbUltles. an apartment In which not one
piece of her furniture will fit properly and
not one curtain or portiere will meet the
requirements, one which Is J15 a month
more than she will pay and a third uhlch
Is exactly like the one she Is to leave,
having the same number and location of
rooms, with the same landlord and agent,
hut on the next street.
She takes the one (hat Is beyond her
means. By referring to the notebook h;i
haa kept she learns that It Is the first one
she looked at. and. counting up. discovers
that she has averaged fifteen hours a day
for three weeks In her search.
The woman had always dreamed of mov
Ing Into an apartment which would be in
perfect order. This Is the dream. The
reality Is that she moves out tho same day
that another family moves In and moves
on to a family which has botn occupying
her residence to be. When she takes ac-
iu,.i or. biock sue finds herself the
essor oi inree strange bits ot
a sne nas lost her couch,
tabourette.
During the next ten days strange men
come In with plumbers', carpenters' and pa
perlng outfits. They tap the walls, tear oft
bits of paper here and, there, brush paint
Bos
nia hogany
desk and a
nonchalantly across convenient spaces nnd
go away. The landlord says th.it labor is
high and scarce and he doesn't know what
the Country Is coming to.
He makes her feel In some sort of way
responsible and she agrees with Mm thai
it's a good deal harder on Mm limn on
any one else. When she returns nnd I ok
at her bocks, pictures and general effects
still unpacked she wonders why slia
thought that.
It takes her six weeks to settle-six weeks
of tiresome dnys and wakeful nights- The
money she has expected to spend for her
winter wardrobe goes for curtains and
drapery. Blie Is paying more than she can
afford for the apartment, and after It la
all In order she decides that It Is not at
all as comfortable, convenient or attractive,
aa the one she has left. She makes a sol
emn resolution that she will never, never
movo.
The following May she begins her scares
again.
downstairs he hears
the blond youth:
"Two rooms and bath exposed green
and red beautiful llgh't for pictures and so
quiet that without an alarm clock It is
probable that protection, absolute, with a
year's lcaae or longer If you wish. You
can go right In now In less than half an
hour. Four restaurants and six boarding
membered, and, , walking to
light, took a card of the real estate office
from his pocket, congratulating himself on
his forethought In having taken, down
tha address of his new home.
In ten minutes he was standing In the
red room, with green adjoining. Every
thing was in place, Just as it was In the
rooms he hod before tuule north, chair
east, bookcase south, and In tho other room,
chiffonier and bed opposite. His four pic
tures were hung; his set of Shakespeare
nnd volume of "Man and Superman" In
place.
Only the head of the bed was turned tha
wrong way. He adjusted It with laborious
Jerks. Ha was greatly annoyed.
"That's tha trouble." he said as he fell
asieep, -wiin New York. All sorts and
conditions of things arise to which a man
must get accustomed. Never anything alike
two days running. I don't wonder that
people get tired of city life and go to tha
country to live."
HER PROBLEM,
the nearest contemplate moving and when her turn
comes to look through a grated window
at a haughty young woman with a peek-a-boo
waist, a pompadour and pearl powder,
aha hears this speech:
"I don't think we've got anything to suit
you. Children? That's a blessing. We
might do over one or two of the rooms,
but not all. Yes. I know about the color
of your draperies, but of course, we can't
help that. Yes'm, four flights, rear, easy
stairs, I guess. I never go upstairs myself.
Yes, It's In a very convenient locality If
you like that part of town. Oh, yes, you
have to take a leafce. If you can afford to
get married, you'll find the place plenty
large enough for two. There's an Icebox,
dumbwaiter, gas range, and the agent's
a perfect gentleman."
She determines to give up the middle
man and look for herself. Meantime the
landlord of her present abode telephones
her that he' must know her decision regard
ing her plans Is she going to stay another
year or Is she not? She finally loses her
temper and tells him she wouldn't stay
anyway and he tells her that Is exactly
what he thought.
After that she sits down and cries. She
didn't want to give up the dear little apart
ment in which aha had been so happy and
about which will always linger the sweet
est, saddest, tenderest memories of her
life. v
So the search begins anew, the monotony
of her days broken only by tha Inopportune
visits of prospective tenants who come to
see her apartment either before she has
risen In tha morning or after she hat re
tired at night.
She haa determined to move somewhere
near Broadway. At the end of another
week of Incessant search she has acquired
three items of positive knowledge. One is
that there are plenty of comfortable bache
lor apartments, reasonable in rent and
with every convenience for a happy home,
but they are not for the sex which sha
believes herself to honor and adorn. There
are apartments which answer her most
fastidious requirements, but they are ab
solutely beyond her means, and there are
plenty of places In which she cannot live
for obvious reasons.
Having digested this Information, she
moves her sky line and decides that she
will go anywhere so long as It is not
farther north than Eightieth street or west
of Amsterdam avenue. Later on she moves
the sky line again, studying subway facili
ties. Four days before the end of the month
she has reduced the problem to three pos-
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HIS PROBLEM.
A Parallel for the Earle Case
one of
HE Earle case, in which Mrs.
Earle surrenders her husband so
that ha might wed his affinity,
finds a hlstorla parallel In the
celebrated case of John Ruskin,
tha world's most famous authors
and art critics.
It is more than halt a century ago
that the beautiful Euphemla Chalmers
Gray, the wife of John Ruskin, abandoned
her husband to become the wife of J.
Everett Millals, who later became presi
dent of the Royal academy of Great
Britain.
In the case of ths Earles It Is the
woman who makes the sacrifice, which is
even greater than that made by Ruskin,
who cheerfully handed over his wife to
a man he thought loved her more than he,
could. .
John Ruskin married Euphemla Gray
on April 10, 1848. He had been ill, und
his parents believed that hla health and
spirits were to be cured only by matri
mony, and picked out the beautiful daugh
ter of their old neighbor In Perth as his
bride. The ceremony was decided upon
somewhat suddenly.
In October the pair set up housekeep
ing, and Ruskin fell with fury on compil
ing his ".Seven Lamps," which occupied
him the winter of 1848-49. Ho much of
his time was devoted to writing that his
wile tired of her husband.
She craved the social life, while Lon
don and society bored and irritated the
author. He once took her to a ball at
Venice and to court at Buckingham pal
ace. In the summer of 1S53 J. Everett Millals
stayed with the Rusklns and painted both.
One day the wlfo left her husband ami
returned to her parents. A suit in tha
Scotch court for nullity of marriage wm
brought by the wife and was not de
fended by the husband.
.Euphemla Gray then married the bril
liant painter and was well-known as trie
Lady Millals in tho world of London, while
John returned to his purents and remained
with them till their death.
Neither the marriage nor the nullifica
tion of It seriously affected his hublts or
his books. St. Louis Republic.
corner.
, THE) CHARM OF THE POST CARD.
You can pay one month's rent In advance,
or give proper business references and
have a lease for a year."
v The man looked at his watch. Ha must
be at tha office In ten minutes. It was all
light, of course, but the Idea of the lease
bothered him. He told the blond youth so.
"Tba leas is for your protection, not for
ours," waa the answer to this objection.
"S'poslng you don't take a lease, what
then? Like aa not before the year's out
you'll find yourself married. It's for your
protection, ain't It? You can't take a
wife In a bachelor apartment to Uva
and you won't break a lease if you're a
man of honor, so there you are, ain't you?
I've had young fellers come In hers and
thank m with tears in their eyes for them
lsaasa."
Thera was Just two minutes Uft for tha
man to decide In. Ha could think of but
one objection. He voiced It.
"I suppose It s rather foolish to dicker
about trifles, but I'va been living for along
time in. a red room with a green one ad
Joining. Blame It. I've got ao used to
those two colors t: at I II feel lonesome.
I expect. In any other kind oi decorations.
I don't suppose you've got any green and
red in atock?"
"Qrs.ii and red? Why. of course. We
oi noining eise. wve got green
aad red rooms to burn I mean there are
flra escapes front and rear. You can have
tha parlor red and tha bed-room green or
wlca wersa. Cheerful colors, ain't they?
Green goes with everything and red's all
right; there ain't anything tha matter with
red. You have a red room and you won't
ba lonesome if your girl goes back on you."
He hands the lease through tha bars;
tha man stgas It and hands it back. Then
ha takes his check book from his pocket
and makes out a check for tha first month's
rent. Th process has been short and
satisfactory to both sides.
"The place", be all ready for you at U
o'clock," aays the blond yuuih. "iiow
you'll Ilka It; 'alnt never had no complaint.
You'll find tha lease a great protection."
Then he, turned to tha next in line, a
young raaa In a brown suit and green tie.
taa shoes and stockings, who carries an
alarm- clock and a suit case in either hand
ioj under his arm aa oblong picture,
through a gash In tha wrapping of which
tha ngaxa of a ballet girl In acarlet and
gold It aaally disowalbU. Aa tha maa goa
tha
roof
Ho
ouses right
Thank you."
At t o'olook the man changed his
collar In tha office and went to din
ner from there. Late that night
he separated from his companions
and started for home.
Aa he turned the corner down the
familiar street something about the
old house struck him as being
strangely new. Then ha discovred
.reason for the phenomenon the
and four sides were missing,
thought . it over. They were cer
tainly on tha night before. Then ha rt-
The woman decided to move for so many
reasons that to. catalogue them all is In
advisable. She didn't decide all at once,
out her state of indecision rendered the
latter part of her summer outing unsatis
factory, and she came back to the city a
week earlier than she had Intended in order
to give proper attention to the matter.
me nrst two weeks of her ruturn she
vacillated. All things considered, wouldn't
an apartment hotel be better than a flatl
The studio Idea obsessed her for a time
ene visitea an agent and her experience
there was duplicated fifty times In other
places.
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