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Show pLUTTER, NOT DIRT, is the real w housekeeping bugaboo of most mothers. But how can a mother keep a neat house without having to be constantly yipping at the children, chil-dren, "Pick that up! Clean up this; mess!" One mother managed it by enlisting the help of the whole family. Together they made a study of the spots In the house where "junk" Just naturally seemed to collect for all the world to see and proceeded to eliminate them. The result has been a mucn more peaceim family life U around and, amazingly enough, the children have a spirit of tidiness their parents never dreamed they bad. Here's how this family went about reformation: The first step was to see that each of the three children had places of study, with good light, drawer and shelf space. This eliminated living and dining rooms becoming study-and-clutter areas. The next step was to make the enclosed, heated sun porch off the dining room into the children's sitting sit-ting room rather than a general family room. Here they have their own radio-phonograph (secondhand but adequate) and their stacks of hair-raising records. Here they have an outsized low table, strongly strong-ly reinforced to allow sitting upon, painted black and waxed highly to a hard finish that doesn't show marks. There's a couch and easy chairs to give each child a comfortable com-fortable reading place where he can sit on his feet, munch pop corn, peanuts and apples, and swig milk and soft drinks without a single "don't" from parents. This leaves the living room strictly for adults omTT"" ' Hy gatberings-a rooming; i general loaflne If ' roughhousing and "kkL" by the young are sS ;?; bidden. This Mother J : say It's wonderful! 1 I The next attack In thi, for family living J "junk gatherers"-the 2 -and shelves which presented tY tationstothechUdrentodJ belongings after school n!' 5 The front entrance hall had . 1 I ered radiator which offered . ' did place for unlo.din, books, caps, mittens and UCh cellany. The "don't" was 4 ' simply and easily by remoZ7 ; temptation. The shelf now J,"1 -! large driftwood and ffij" j plant arrangement. Now ft, tered, for there just isn't an, , r to dump. ' ",CI In short, by removing - availability of the living ,MB J-u J-u a dumping puce m b, handicapping convenient Ubte : tops and shelves In hall Z dining room, if, practlca Impossible for the children U ; drop belongings any pUc, ljt -. where they belong-in their m rooms, In the kitchen close s! (now equipped with coat hat,. '' ers) or In their sitting tK1 Part of the whole scheme I, ft, way the children have becoo, more Inspired toward neatness ate' seeing how pleasant their pareutf v orderly quarters can he. Inugh,' this mother's amazement when . cently she came up on her tw daughters Industriously cleatia ;;' the windows In their sitting rooni "because we expect company m want it to look good." "" |