The Archive · 1923

An Expensive Luxury

"Order," I have been informed on nursery authority, is Heaven's first law. That has helped me to understand why the majority of people dread death. There are undeniable advantages about order. It saves time. But then one has to be a comparatively idle person to start with, in order to have time to be orderly. Any time that a genius will stretch out the day a bit I will use the extra moments to put everything in its place.

The amount of System.which has recently sprung up gives one to think, One might think that ewery filing cabinet was a monument to tidiness. But is it? If. was mately and inherently tidy, wouldn't things tomatically be put away? Therefore the larger - the filing staff of any large concern, the untidier I am obliged to consider its executives. And following out the same line of thought one must regard the world at large as growing more and more untidy.

One concluding reflexion. "Dirt,'"? we are informed, "is misplaced matter." There you are. If there had not been considerable. untidiness in the making of the world where would be the farmer of to-day? Where indeed should any of us be?

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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