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Show Ways to Keep Neat. "My children were becoming dreadfully dread-fully careless about leaving their tilings around," said an original mother, moth-er, "and the older members of the family weren't any too tidy. So I made up my mind that I wasn't going to be a 'pick-up' drudge for the rest of the household. I set up a big fine box, a box with an oblong hole in the top, into which I put every single thing hat, coat, toy, pipe, no matter what that I found lying around in ihe way. And to get his or her property prop-erty the owner had to pay a penny if it was one of the children; ten cents in case of the older ones. As the children have only an allowance of ten cents a week each, they didn't naturally want to pay it out in fines; so they began to be careful. Gradually Gradual-ly the whole family mended their ways, and now my fine box is generally general-ly empty, and the house is as tidy as you please." |
