That's as bad as the boy who once possessed a desk, which he would never use, for fear of marking the blotting-paper, and breaking the paper bands round the envelopes.
No; if you can get into the way of always putting the book you read back into its place on the shelf, and the paper you want where you will be certain to find it again--if you encourage a jealousy of rubbish, and a horror of dirt--if you take to heart the proverb I quoted just now, "A place for everything, and everything in its place"-- you will be as tidy as you ever need be; and Jack Sloven's troubles and misfortunes will never be yours..