The sun., 1919-06-16
Little Journeys to the Haunts OF
the Useless.

This, we are reminded by the plac-
ards on the sides Of the Street Clean
ing Department wagons, Is Clean Up
Week. 1t Is another OF the many
weeks In which New Workers. are
asked to give something, but with the
happy difference that In the present
event You are to give something that
you really don't need.
OF course there is no cleaning up
for men to do at their Offices. The
efficiency experts have seen to It that
places Of business are Uttered with
nothing but system. There isn't a
thing to throw out except the effi-
cheney expert. But at home, where
the man is not efficiently guided, he
will find a number OF articles that
ought to 60. In his desk, behind his
books, on his chiffonier are defunct
objects ready for the city refuse dump.
A brief search will discover time tables
to suburbs that would never do TO
live in, odd coupons from brands OF
tobacco that never will be smoked
again, maps Of fishing regions that
never can be visited until the cost Of
railroad tickets falls. bent pennies
that no newsman will accept, halves
of pairs OF cuff links, pipes that
burned the tongue and odd lots of
smoking mixtures put aside for days
Of poverty. keys that fit no lock and
padlocks that have no key, shirts that
never will be worn and collars that
might do once more" but are in the
yellow II not the sere, ties that have
been picked up and laid down again,
with shake Of the head, twenty
times; motor goggles with a missing
pane, socks a size too small and shoes
size too large. last years commuta-
ton tickets, wicked looking leather
bound flask, and, worst OF all, fash
light photographs of dinners Of the
Blank County Association, the Home
State Society and the Jolly Jeremiah
Bowling Club.
Women have no such house clean
ing to do in their boudoirs. for the
female Of the species Is more orderly
than the male. Even in the kitchen,
place of thousand and one things,
not much is to be discarded; practi-
cally nothing, indeed, except hat
boxes full OF old busting cloths, q
dozen abandoned pickle bottles, head
less tack hammers, wireless egg beat
ers, little group of dead rubber
preserve jar rings, some wheatless re-
ceipt books, a wabbly stepladder, a
length Of leaky gas hose, a sparkless
gaslighter, a pointless potato knife,
three rusted bread tins. some broken
cups. nine pounds of old newspapers,
a Jungle of saved string and castor
without cruets.
II the son of the house can be
persuaded to join in the spirit OF the
week there may be contributed to the
city wagons one ball, suffering from
mortal internal injuries; racquet as
warped as a Bolshevlst's mind, a
microscope without lens, two birds
eggs collected by Uncle JOE in 1888
and not blown, the absolutely noise
less insides Of an alarm clock, q copy
Of SANFORD and Merton" (inherited) f,
a game Of cards. with half the cards
and all the directions missing, and a
superb collection Of Christmas greet
ings from distant and unappreclated
relatives.
Approached properly, this week
may be made useful by the elimina-
ton Of the useless. And what a pic
ture 1t will give to the swarthy men
who trim the dumps" Of the kind
and quantity Of junk that Father
Knickerbocker buys and wears out or
let's 20 to Wagtel