Orderly People

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1875

ORDERLY PEOPLE. There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order—that is, according to their notions of the matter—and hiding things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you can find it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery as well as in the gravest concerns. Sir Walter Scott complained that whenever his maid-servant had been in his library, he could not set comfortably to work again for several times.