"Little scraps of paper, Little crumbs of food, Make a room untidy Everywhere they're strewed."

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Gelett Burgess, "Tidiness" (a parody of Carney's "Little Things") in Goops and How to Be Them, A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1900), p. 37