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, 68 ==========================~============~============ sunday term (old style), is a great day w.1 L M E T T E LIFE April 5, 1929 A : MOVING HABIT ORIGIN in Scotland, being that on which, for the most part, people change their For some unexplained TRACED TO SCOTCH.RACE residences. reason the Scotch 'remove' oftener It .Finds. It Started With "Flitting Day" in Scotland :-- than their southern neighbors. They Chicago Council Formed to Break very generally lease their houses by the year, and are thus at every twelvemonth's end able to shift their· place of abode. fl"' ......~ .· """ ... 4 Bedrooms 2 Baths $11,500 If you art thinking of building this spring we believe you would be interested in seeing us concerning this brick veneer ho·me, hot water heat, on SOx 175 foot lot. We would be interested in furnishing specifications which may .be obtained by calling at our office. Folks in our north shore suburbs aren't troubled with that "moving spirit." But in Chicago it is different. The origin of Chicago's habit of moving-a habit of forty years' standinghas been unearthed by L. L. Newton, Secre,tary of the Chicago Homes Economic Council, and it makes an interesting story. The Council, which was organized a year ago for the purpose of breaking up the peak moving season of May and October, found that the custom had been in vogue in Chicago for more than forty years. Why it started and where it came from were mysteries. Research by Mr. Newton, however, has convinced him that Chicago's moving day is imported from Scotland, where it was known as "flitting day." "Flitting· day" is described in Chambers' "Book of Days," published in Edipburgh. It is described as follows: "~ 25th day of May, in the Whit- VACANT WINNETKA WESTMOOR TRAIL offers everything that a home-site should offer for the better-class homes. While these half-acre plots have depth, being I 6 5 on the north side and I 7 5 on the south, "depth" is not nearly so desirable as "width." You must have width for proper setting-"space" between houses. In WESTMOOR TRAIL it will be fifty feet or more, so that your house will always have the proper setting, even though your house frontage should be 75 feet. And this openness permits you to paint your own picture, outside as well as inside. And where a finer setting than the Skokie? The great outdoors being preserved for you at your very door. Quiet-peaceful-serene. And protected, too. And you ~re entitled to protection. You know that only fine homes of the character you plan to build. and on plots of ground not less than half-acres, just like yours, make this a protected locality. All of which assures permanently sound, and at present prices, quickly enhancing values. There are so many superior features about WESTMOOR TRAIL you owe it to yourself . to have irs many advantages pointed out by one who knows and appreciates its value. 111 NoRTH DEAMORN' WYATT & COONS Sr. .'- kaltors?"- Cenl1rlL 3911 Ou'co?DO#~ <"'f"l Ol~NVIEW, ILLINOIS ~/um~ ·t;/61111ieu.J8/ EV~NSTON TO HIGHLAND PARK -where the requirements of exacting home--seekers are exactly fulfilled Call me uo and let's talk it over. Two wooded plots available GLEN C. BULL Central 6970 Winn. 1016 11 So. La Salle or 500 Maple Ave. 513 Davis Street 746 Elm Street EVANSTON WINNETKA Greenleaf 1617 Winnetka 1617 I A Beautiful Home-Site They "Sit or Flit" "It happens, accordingly, that at every Candlemas (February 2) a Scotch family gets an opportunity of considering whether it will sit or flit . The landlord calls to learn the decision on this point; and if 'flit' is the resolution, he takes measures by advertising to obtain . a new tenant. The two or three days following upon the Purification, therefore, become distinguished by a feathering of the streets with boards projected from the windows, intimating 'A HOUSE TO LET.' "Then comes on a most lively excitement for individuals proposing to move; you see .them going about for wee~s, inspecting the numerous houses. The gentleman deliberates about the rent-whether it will suit his means. The lady has her own anxious thoughts about new furniture that may be reQuired, and how far old carpets can b_e made to suit the new premises. Both have their reflections as to what the Thorn sons and the Jacksons will say on hearing that they are going into a house so much handsomer, more ambitiously situated, and dearer than their last. "Intensely longed for, the ·25th of May comes at last. The departing tenant knows he must vacate his house before twelve o'clock; consequently, he has to arrange for a quick transportation of his household goods that forc...11oon. What he is to the new tenant. the tenant of the house he is going to occupy is to him. He dreadshates-to be pushed; but on the other hand he must push, lest his penate he left shelterless on the street. There is, accordingly, all that morning a packing up, a sending off, a pushing in-upholstery meeting upholstery in deadly contention; streets encumbered with card tables and arm chairs in the most awk\vard irrelation to their proper circumstances ; articles even more sacredly domestic exposed to every idle passerby-a stra\\---andropiness everywhere. No Time for Cleaning "Each leaves his house dishevelled and dirty - marks of torn down brackets and departed pictures on the walls, floors loaded with unaccountable rubbish. But there is not time for cleaning, and in each must plunge with all his goods and his family, settle as they may. There is only a rude bivouac for the first twenty-four hours, 1 with meals more confused and savage than the roughest picnic. Nor are the drawbacks of the new dwelling much insisted on, however obvious. On the contrary, the tendency is to apologize for every less agreeable feature-to view hopefully the effect of a little cleaning here, a coat of size there; to trust that something will make that thorough draft. in the lobby tolerable, and compensate for the absence of a sink in the back kitchen. "A few months generally serve to dispel much of the illusion of the new place and show all the disadvantages of the new mansion in a sufficiently strong light. So when Candlemas next comes around, our tenant has probably becoll]e dissatisfied, and anxious for another change. If considerations of prudence stand in the way, the family must be content to stay where they are for another y ar or two. If able to encounter another change, they will undertake it, only perhaps to find now, though different discomforts, and long for other ch~ .,ges. "By an Act of 1881, the Whitsunday term was fixed for May 28th, and the Martinmas term for November 28th."