An Old Saying

Little people, as everbody knows, are apt to forget the proverb, " A place for everytbing, aud everything in its place." This is a very serious fault, and often causes great inconvenieuee to themselves and others. A boy is sent on an erraud, aDd must go inamediately ; but he cannot find bis hat, and be can uot go without it. He runs one way and anolher, and muoh time is lost be.fore the missing hat is found. Or a iittla girl is going to school. It is but ñfteen minutes to nine o'clock; but where is her bonnet ? She can not reuiember where sbe bas put it, and looks in all directions, but in vain. " Oh, dear, wliat shall I do ? " she says; "do, Mary, help me find my bonnet." After senrching soaie time, Mary finds it behind the wood-box in the kitcheu, where it was tbrown, in baste, the day previous; and the little girl goes to school cryiug, late, and displeased with heiself aud everybody else. Another is makiDg a dress and apron for her dolí, but can not find her needie and thread, or scissors. She runs to her mother, and asks for hers ; but her mothor says, '' No, dear, you must look lor your own." At length the needie is found on the table-cover; the thread had rolled away under the table, the scissors were left where she had been cutting paper dolls, and tho thinible eannot be found. All this consumes time aud patience ; childrcn think little of the value of time, yet " the little motuents, Humble thoufjh they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity," I have a work-box which belonged to a little girl five years oíd, who has gone to the Savior. It is now just as she left it, four years ago. The key is tied to a green ribbon, and I often tnke it, unlock the box and look at the contents. Tbis little girl liked to have her own things, und was careful to keep them in their places One day a little peddler boy came in, and she asked me to buy for her some needies, thread and tape. I did so, and what she did not use is still in the workbox. In one eotnpartment are some little books, laid up earefully, the largest at the bottom, and the smallest at the top. In another nre somo poncils, and a sinall hair brush, which she used in paiuting pictures, a spool of thread and a roll of tape. In the middle are two needies and some pins upon a eusliion; aleo, a thimble and paper of needies; a koife and scissors, in places made for them. Whenever she had used them, perhaps several times a day, she always returned each article to its place again. A bureau drawer was given up to her, and each article in it was alway.-? laid smoothly ; and when two nails were driven in a particular place for her bonnet aud cape, she was careful to bang them there. It is pleasant to recall these thitigs, nowthatshe is gone. Would that all my young friends liad this habit of order, and were as careful to " have a place for everything, acd everything in ts place."