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Show taken to tank iirnl the rlucH are not wrong wli 1 r-h led to the dlHCOvcry. Silent Clues. Or when there In panting to be done, arid the top Ih not replaced on tin.' lube or t!i(! cover on tin; pnnte J;i r, cIuch lire not wanting to po nt wllli liiHlHli'Iit accuracy to Homo one, not the owner of the tube or J.'ir, having been using H.'ild panto. W'lien the cracker J;ir lid Ih not I j 1 1 L on Kt r;j I trh t mother docs nol have to look In.sldi; and find the lowered contents, to know somebody Iimh had an CKpeclal treat. I'.ut It Isn't always al-ways children who leave trail of their activities In their wake. Older people Hhari; with thorn the name trails of leaving trails which Hlrn-pllfy Hlrn-pllfy detection of activities. Careless Care-less trails are untidy and make ex tra work for the homemaker. , 1333, JV-ll Syndicate. WNU Service. Extra Work Made by Untidy Hands Matters Worthy of Thought in the Home. In these (lays when detective stories sto-ries are popular, many readers, young and old alike, believe that they have Instinct, or at least finalities, final-ities, which would lead them to discover dis-cover clues leading to the solution of thefts and crimes, should they have u chance to exercise them. They seldom think of things the other way around, with an appreciation of how easy It would he for anyone to track them down. They are constantly leaving trails of what they do In the simple and Innocent activities of their days. Yet they wonder how It Is that mother, father, some one In the family, fami-ly, or one with whom they are boon companions discover what they have been doing fir "what they are up to." It may be with no wish to conceal con-ceal their actions that things are not spoken of earlier, hut opportunity opportun-ity may not have arisen or the "right time" for which they were looking, has not come. Then, when they do speak of the thing, it Is they who are amazed, for they can see the Information Is not totally a surprise to the hearer. Leading Signs. "How does mother always know when I have been at her work basket, bas-ket, even for a needle and thread?" Is the query of surprise, often voiced hy some daughters. How indeed! The needle Is left on table or bureau wherever the sewing stopped. In her rounds of straightening rooms one such needle is generally discovered. On putting it away, the needlecase Is found to be lying open and the end of the thread on the spool not fastened off. These are not characteristic char-acteristic ways of the mothers. They are of the daughters, who thus leave clues about, praiseworthy as the work Itself probably Is. Who has been writing at father's desk? Not that It would in itself be disliked, but the stopper to the Ink bottle Is off, and that is annoying. The ink gets dusty and the next time father writes he Is bothered with tiny specks on the pen, which make strokes uneven. lie does not have to be a Sherlock Holmes to know who Is the culprit and he or she gets |