HOARDING TRIFLES.
Discarding trifles, both mentally and physically,, is becoming more and more common; a few years ago people used to hoard mementoes of their earliest youth Nowadays we are less sentimental. Seriously, hoarding trifles, even "good" ones, is the ruin of a pretty house or a good housekeeper. Y r ou must not keep things because you once admired them. Admit that your taste has changed, and make a clean sweep. If you are too ten-der-hearted, lay the smaller things asida in a box in a disused drawer, in lavender as it were, "my medal for swimming," "the photograph of the first actor I was in love with " . . . and so on. Tins will satisfy your sentimental side, though it may never he your lot to look again into the box of,;bid memories. People have less and less space in houses than they used to have; so that emptiness, rightly so much admired now, is very difficult to achieve, unless we decide to part with everything neither beautiful nor essential..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19143, 8 October 1925, Page 17
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