> And their landlord/building manager is a friend of theirs who mops his floors by tying dishtowels to his shoes.

Whoa, I remember that! They have tea parties for one another and their mothers compete by sending party invitations on very fancy stationary, right? I feel certain I read it at my grandmother's house, which means my mother owned it when growing up, which means it was probably published in the fifties or sixties....