Once get a boy into the habit of working for a stipend, and, depend upon it, when he arrives at manhood, he will think that if he can secure so much a month for the rest of his life he will be perfectly happy.
How would you like him to be a subservient old numskull, like that old Robberts of theirs ?" Here Esther interrupted Mr.Walters by saying, "I am very glad to hear you express yourself in that manner, Mr.Walters--very glad.

Charlie is such a bright, active little fellow; I hate to have him living there as a servant.
And he dislikes it, too, as much as any one can.

I do wish mother would take him away." "Hush, Esther," said her mother, sharply; "your mother lived at service, and no one ever thought the worse of her for it." Esther looked abashed, and did not attempt to say anything farther.
"Now, look here, Ellen," said Mr.Walters.

(He called her Ellen, for he had been long intimate with the family.) "If you can't get on without the boy's earning something, why don't you do as white women and men do?
Do you ever find them sending their boys out as servants?
No; they rather give them a stock of matches, blacking, newspapers, or apples, and start them out to sell them.

What is the result?
The boy that learns to sell matches soon learns to sell other things; he learns to make bargains; he becomes a small trader, then a merchant, then a millionaire.