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Show SIMPLE WAY TO KEEP CHILDREN'S TOYS IN ORDER "This can't be where the children sleep and play?" Inquired the visiting visit-ing grandmother, as she looked skeptically skep-tically around the unnaturally tidy room, with Its small twin beds, large bare table and few closed closets. "Haven't they any toys?" she pursued, pur-sued, In a pained voice. With a dainty little kick under tht bed, the proud mother revealed the explanation. It was a very flat but capacious box on rollers. Opened, It disclosed the usual pell-mell of children's chil-dren's toys, balls, blocks and mechanical mechan-ical contrivances, evidently stowed away in great haste. Not much order, or-der, but everything visible and easy to get at, because the flat box didn't permit piling one thing on top of another. "This thing slides under the bed when not In use," the mother explained, ex-plained, "but it's so easy to pull out, that the children can get their toyg and put them away themselves. Ai for books and games well, here's a closet full." The closet was merely an old wooden bookcase, with wooden doors and plenty of shelves. No need to pile one thing atop of another, ami the wooden doors kept any disorder hidden. "Of course, this Isn't so cute as having the nursery walls lined with odd-shaped shelves, and all the dear little teddy bears, books, dolls and games exposed," admitted the young mother. "I tried that at the beginning, begin-ning, but found I was a slave to neatness neat-ness spent all my spare time tidying the place up, for they couldn't be trained to put each object In Its own cubby hole. "This scheme is much better. There's no struggling and fussing ever exact places for everything, and the children rather like the idea of shutting doors on their games, or rolling them under the bed out of sight." Cleveland Tlain Dealer. |