Here is a housewife who cannot afford help to keep her house as spotless as her instincts and her training desire.

It is simply impossible for her, personally, to go over the house daily with rag, duster and dustpan.

If she attempts it, as she does sometimes--she overworks, and a breakdown is the result.

What, then, is the sensible, the reasonable, the only thing she should do?
Sit down and "worry" over her "untidy house"; lament that "the stairs have not been swept since day before yesterday; that the parlor was not dusted this morning; the music-room looks simply awful," and cry that "if Mrs.
Brown were to come in and see my wretchedly untidy house, I'm sure I should die of shame!" Would this help matters?
Would one speck of dirt be removed as the result of the worry, the wailing, and the tears?
Not a speck.

Every particle would remain just as before.
Yet other things would not be as they were before.