No party worthy of the name will submit, permanently, to any regime which ostracises its best men and selects the worst, which has become an epidemic condition of party politics, and may take off most of what is worth recognizing in the pride of our boasted institutions.

The immediate benefit for me as we began Marie-Kondoing our house (there’s the verb!) was eliminating clothing.

Bidwell is not the only one who feigns paralysis; many poison their flesh by inserting in it copper-wire or worsted; others swallow ground glass, eat poisonous insects, swallow soap and soda, or slightly maim and disable themselves. Anything by which they can secure a skulk, and escape from what Mr. Carlyle has wisely called the “sacredness of work.”

Bluebirds on multi-box territories had shorter intervals between broods than bluebirds on territories with only one nestbox, but competition between eastern bluebirds and tree swallows was more intense at multi-box sites.