“I like it best, was used to it at home, and it seems more natural-like.”
“I enjoy housework more than anything else.”
“I was a dressmaker several years because my mother thought dressmaking more respectable than going out to work. But I always liked housework better, and when my health broke down I was glad to get a place as parlor maid.”
[250] A successful teacher says: “I have never liked teaching particularly, and would much rather be a good cook.”
A sewing woman says: “I should prefer to do housework, but do not wish to leave my home.”
A teacher says: “I am fond of children, and should like nothing better than to be a nurse-girl, but I will not wear livery.”
[251] Law of the Domestic Relations, p. 599.
[252] Commentaries, II., 258.
[253] Kent, II., 260-261.
[254] Story, On Contracts, II., §§ 1297-1298.