Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — Who Are Slovenly ! [ARTICLE]

Who Are Slovenly !

It is a curious fact, which bas not escaped masouliiiß attentfan, - that while > l|diM aiteoften seised with a passionate diaSl to put their hnshank’s :in otdW| mwn belongings is less sedulously cared for. One author noted the inoonatQtency, and points out that Mr. Pepys haa observed it two hundred years ago. She oitesiaii extract Ilia diary under the dated‘October 13, 1669: “Home, where I was angry with my wife for hpr things lying about, and in my passion I kicked the little fine basket I bought her in Holland, and broke it, Which troubled me aftqy I had ft. “ Some close sanasT ssss -MS? She admit where a young woman is not naturally orderly, where slm has an instinct, when she cotn» frit* the house, to put her hat on fabio# life sfiSwl on a sofa, her gloves somewhere else, and to try each day a new place for her rubbers, that to overcome this iemlcaoy involves efforts equal to those made when striving for heroic virtues. She deems it no more di file flit for such a person to acquire habits of order than to perfectly learn a foreign language, which, however, is one of those feats we can not now remember to have ever seen accomplished. It is with melancholy satisfaction that we find the writer dwelling on the sad truth t hat the little disturbances occasioned by disorderly habits are not so uuimportant as they appear, and that it is a great deal easier to express impatience and discontent a second time than it was the first.