Look how hard mother works, making buttonholes with stitches so fine you can hardly see them, and yet she doesn't get enough to put bread into her mouth, and but for her relatives she'd have been in the poorhouse long ago.

I'm tired of being on charity just because we are women.

Now that Jane has come home for good I am simply obliged to find something to do." "I don't mind your wanting to work, dear, I think it's splendid of you," returned Pussy, "but I do feel that you ought to work in a ladylike way--a way that wouldn't interfere with your social position and your going to germans and having attention from young men and all that." "Why don't you make lampshades, Gabriella ?" demanded Jane in an emphatic burst of inspiration.

"Sophy Madison earns enough from lampshades to send her sister and herself to the White Sulphur Springs every summer." "Sophy makes all the lampshades that anybody wants, and, besides, she gets orders from the North--she told me so yesterday." "Gabriella crochets beautifully," remarked Mrs.Carr a little nervously because of the failure of her first suggestion.

"The last time I went to see Miss Matoaca Chambers in the Old Ladies' Home, she told me she made quite a nice little sum for her church by crocheting mats." "And Gabriella can cook, too," rejoined Pussy, with exaggerated sprightliness, for she felt that Mrs.Carr's solution of the problem had not been entirely felicitous.