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Show Tho Attic Instinct. The attic instinct hangs on surprisingly, surpris-ingly, and an observing eye can tell how many years a person has lived in the citv by" merely glancing under her bed. ii there are three hatboxcs one will contain letters, ono scraps of ribbons rib-bons and laces if it's a man it's nowspaper clippings and ono anything from a broken lock to old road maps. If besides theso there aro bundles of magazuDCS and piles of newspapers, not to mention a bicyclo seat aud a green umbrella that one might usot in private theatricals if all thoso things havo been placed under tho bed against the protests of the family, if they aro patiently pa-tiently moved every cleaning-day and clung to through a moving, then their owners have tho attic instinct to such an extent that there is not tho slightest slight-est hope of thoir ever being cured. They will think from an attic point of view for the rest of their lives, and their family might as well become re-' signed. When people are willing to make thomsolves disagreeable over a bit of string, and absolutely objectionable on tho subject of stray pieces of brown paper, they should not be accused of having bad dispositions, nor should they bo suspected of doing it to annoy ono; they aro merely suffering from the attic at-tic instinct and cannot help themselves. Their characters were formed, and havo now hardened, for a scheme of life where certain things were always kept in the cellar, others in tho wood-shod, wood-shod, othors in the pantry and the cupboard cup-board on the first floor, still others m the closet3 on the noxt floor, and everything ev-erything and anything that overflowed from any of these places was .iust taken up to the atic And now these poor, dear souls live with a cellar, three stories, stor-ies, and an attic still lodged in their miuds, aud, though they will in time disappear, like all unnecessary mom-bers mom-bers soventh toe, tails, an appendix in the meantiino they aro having trouble trou-ble with them, they are suffering and fighting for them, and it takes a serious seri-ous operation to remove so much as one scrapbook'if the owner thinks he may like to rend it over in his old age. A. modern young thing who was con-' ceived and planned for a flat can tear up her own and her grandmother's love letters -without a sigh merely bocause she hasn't room for them. She eliminates elim-inates everything from her life except what will go in a small hand-bag and h steamer trunk, nnd then, gazing at those of tho last generation with a cold, orderly eye. she gives them clearly enunciated convincing reasons why it is folly to have "associations" with old pincushions and hand-painted satin bauncrs, Sho is a horror to her pa-routs, pa-routs, and stray corners know her to bo pitiless. Harper's Weekly. |