DISPOSAL OF WASTE MATERIAL 87 



Unless you happen to be on terms of the 

 happiest and completest understanding with 

 the ruling spirit of the domestic establishment, 

 it is advisable to provide yourself with a waste- 

 paper basket, which you will keep close beside 

 you, and into which you will carefully put all 

 bits and loose ends, so as to prevent an indig- 

 nant outcry the following morning when the 

 waste products of fly-dressing have to be dis- 

 posed of. I must confess that the domestic 

 who has to sweep up pieces of unravelled and 

 clinging floss silk from a sticky pile carpet has 

 my profound sympathy. Nevertheless, I am 

 afraid I must frequently be the cause of black 

 and evil thoughts in a fellow- creature for the 

 reason that, though I always take the pre- 

 caution of having a waste-paper basket close 

 at hand, I somehow almost invariably forget 

 its existence, and in consequence allow the 

 bulk of my fly-dressing detritus to fall on to 

 the carpet, from which it has to be removed 

 but not by me at the expense of much 

 energy and vexation of the spirit. 



Whatever you do, do not allow a bare hook 



especially a double hook to remain on the 



carpet. The consequences may exceed the 



