Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1915 — Cultivate Neatness. [ARTICLE]

Cultivate Neatness.

Tidiness is one of the most attractive of feminine qualities. It is also one of the rarest. Early and persistent must be the training which carries the girl into womanhood with her “bump of neatness” well developed. Unless inherently fastidious during school days, she is liable to drift into careless habits which she never outgrows. One girl may have a trick of leaving shoes about her room. As a child she was permitted to do this, and as she grew older the untidy custom was never abandoned, for the simple reason that she herself did not notice anything unusual about it, and probably nobody else took the trouble to correct her. Another slovenly habit is leaving a bunch of combings in the comb or on the dressing table. Constant vigilance on the woman's part is necessary in these small matters if she would be thought really tidy.