As for old people, she declared it time wasted to try to get new ideas into their heads.
Chapman congratulated his dear wife on this new and grand idea.

He agreed with her that a woman was just the thing to straighten up a husband in need of mental and physical reformation.

But it would not do to start the enterprise until you could get people to take stock enough to insure a sound basis.

He did not care about money himself, still it was necessary to the success of all great enterprises.

And seeing that the inn had failed, though based on great moral principles, he was not quite sure that the people would hasten to take stock in the new enterprise.
It was also an objection with Chapman that with such an institution there would be nothing to run opposition to except a few beer-drinking school-masters, who got their victuals and fifteen dollars a month for driving a knowledge of the rule of three into the heads of little Dutch children.