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Show Habits of Neatness. Here are some habits that may also turn into grievous faults if carried to excess. You fnay be so neat that the term "nasty nice" will, indeed, be ap plicable. In your house there can be no comfort; com-fort; you are too particular and render life a burden for all sojourning therein. there-in. Every chair must set "just so;" every spot upon the polished wood of floor or table assumes the proportions of a mountain in your eyes; the fraction frac-tion of an inch difference in the hanging hang-ing of a shade of a curtain gives you a fever. Don't, my dear; don't be too neat, but just neat enough for cleanliness. cleanli-ness. Too punctual people sometimes make great mistakes; an old saw calls punctuality punc-tuality "the virtue of kings," and it may well be cultivated into a habit But to be on time is just as well as to be before time, and you may make many extra moments by realizing this fact. It is hardly possible to be too clean, neither too careful, yet habits make faults of these in place of virtues. vir-tues. Watch -the growth of small habits hab-its and strangle them while possible. |