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Mrs. J. It may be a good plan. We ought to make money; but when I consider that we have a large rent to pay, I can’t help thinking that there is some risk about it. You know we were able to live comfortably on the money your poor father left, and without any care or exertion on our part.

A. (scornfully). Comfortably, mamma! You know how we had to pinch ourselves. I could hardly afford one bonnet a year, and, as to dresses, I had to wear them so long a time I was positively ashamed. Other people make money by keeping boarders, and why can’t we?

Mrs. J. You may be right, Amanda. But about the advertisement. How shall we express it?

(Amanda sits down at the table and writes.)

A. How will this do, mamma? (Reads.)

Wanted.—A few first-class boarders, by a genteel family whose object is to surround themselves by a pleasant social circle, rather than to make money. Address “Boarders,” Herald office.

Mrs. J. But, my dear, my object is to make money.

A. Of course, mamma; but it sounds well to seem indifferent to it.