Your mother is no more fitted to keep a boarding-house than a child ten years old.

It takes a woman who has been raised in a different school, who has different habits, and a different character." "But what can we do, uncle ?" said Miriam.
"What are you willing to do ?" "I am willing to do any thing that is right for me to do." "All employment, Miriam, are honourable so far as they are useful," said Mr.Ellis, seriously, "though false pride tries to make us think differently.

And, strangely enough, this false pride drives too many, in the choice of employments, to the hardest, least honourable, and least profitable.

Hundreds of women resort to keeping boarders as a means of supporting their families when they might do it more easily, with less exposure and greater certainty, in teaching, if qualified, fine needle-work, or even in the keeping of a store for the sale of fancy and useful articles.

But pursuits of the latter kind they reject as too far below them, and, in vainly attempting to keep up a certain appearance, exhaust what little means they have.