We were quite ashamed to be seen walking with him sometimes, he looked so disreputable, but no reproofs or persuasions could induce him to take more pains about his appearance.
"A place for everything, and everything in its place," was a lesson Jack could not learn; the result was constant and incalculable trouble.

If people could only realise the amount of time lost by untidiness, I think they would regard the fault with positive horror.

Why, Jack Sloven, at the very mildest computation, must have lost half an hour a day.

Half an hour a day, at the end of the year, makes a clear working fortnight to the bad, so that in twenty-five years, if he goes on as he has begun, he will have one year of which it will take him all his time to give an account.
But not only does untidiness waste time, and render the person who falls into it a disreputable member of society, but it seriously endangers his success in life.

Jack Sloven was naturally a clever fellow.