Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-02-16
:farmsr's Aepartmeat.
Have a Place for Every thing, and
Everything I'm It's Place.

For want Of this, much valuable time is
lost, and by observing it much pcrplexity is
avoided. Let no one say this as stale as A,
j, c.; for A, b, c. must be taught and taught
again. and il is by repetition that primary les
sons at school are mostly impressed.
A farmer who commenced his career in the
observance of this rule, after time suffered
his vigilance to abate, and before he was thir-
ty, both his hired men and his boys would very
often leave his tools where they were last us
ed, and many of the most important moments
of their time were spent in searching and en-
quiring for the missing implements (; and as
those who had last used them were not always
to be found, he was, at times, obliged to send
some distance to neighbor, to borrow. His
children becoming addicted to the same easy
habits, they were thus entailed upon children
and grandchildren, and most have had an i'm
portant influence in stamping upon them that
characteristic want of system and thrift for
which they are now remarked
A clerk who had occasion to use his scissors
many times day, would lay them at one time
on his desk, at another in his window, some
times among his papers, and not unfrequently
in his drawer. The consequence was, that
when there was the most occasion for despatch,
then there was the most confusion and delay
all which might have been avoided by proper
care in this aud similar cases.
4 youth whose habits had not been sufi
GENTLY watched by his mother, (though most
afectionate one she was, when he retired to
bed, had no particular place for his clothes,
but would mostly throw them about upon the
floor, the bed, or the chair, without caring
which, so that whatever was the emergency
.bop bo baJ IN in nitrht
each particular garment was to be felt after
and adjusted before he could be dressed. Even
the calamties he so often read about occurring
from fires and robbery, the disturbance at
times occurring among his fathers cattle, OF
sheep, or fowls-all were not sufficient to i'm
press upon him the Importance of having a
place for each article of his clothing and each
one at all times in its place and so never ac
quring these habits himself, his children grew
up with the same defect, and it might be said
that the parents want of system in this respect
was transmitted from children to grand children
A child who had been very carefully trained
bv his mother, whdn he was sent to boarding
school, reflected real honor upon his home in
struction, by the remarkable neatness and Sys-
with which his books and other matters wer,
always adjusted in his desk and his clothing
III MS lrulk ahu MS cupOoaTu WeIe SU CaIeiui
" placed that he was never at loss to 6nC
any article he needed, even in the darkest
night A person well acquainted with his mo
ther, remarked, on opening his trunk, L" All
see in this the print Of his mothers fingers.
When this youth would undress himself at
night, you might see his shoes and stockings
at the foot of the bed post near the head o.
the bed, with garter in each shoe, his pants
hung upon the top of bed post, and his coat
and vest upon the back of a chair near by, SC
that he knew at all times where to lay his hanC
upon any article of dress he needed. Tht
same kind of order and system was to be seer
throughout the family, and in every drawer
and closet of the house, so that the daughter;
of these parents were not less thorough thar
the son, and in after life honored their mo
theirs care, and transmitted the same orderl,
habits to after generations.-FarmJ Journal.