Show 11 4 pvn 0 YOUR JL OUR HOME 0 0 J i 0 and YOU p 0 by BETSY CALLISTER TOO NEAT FOR COMFORT IT SEEMS a pity to have to 1 breathe a word of 0 protest against houses that are too neat since neatness and tidiness are such admirable qualities wherever you find them and add yet there ore are houses where callers never seem to be entirely comfortable and where parties are always a little too for mal mat all because of the air of ex neatness and tidiness that pervades them then they are like peo deo plo who are a little too prim and precise you feel constrained in their presence the trouble with the too tidy hous house Is that the housewife who over it usually has an ob session on the subject she Is con scantly worried for fear something will get out of order and if it you put down a book or a magazine any place but in the nook or cranny especially dedicated to magazines yon you may add to her anxiety in houses where there are plenty of well trained servant servants tt it ie is dot not difficult to maintain that air of cas ual ness that mingling of orderly ness and disorderliness that Is eo to comfortable the tenants servants are trained to go the rounds putting things in order emptying asb tray trays putting back books and ninga magazines arranging cushions where they belong and carrying every ones purely personal belongings to the rooms where they belong if you bare have a hobby bobby that calls for clutter and most hobbles bobbles do a good plan is to permit yourself an untidy corner of your room for this purpose clutter in a it room especially consecrated to that particular brand of clutter ought to annoy the precise housekeeper no more than a certain amount of cooking clutter in the kitchen when meals are in preparation a 1932 ker litro newspaper paPer syndicate service |