The Professional Aunt

A boy's profession is not infrequently chosen for him by his parents which perhaps accounts for the curious fact that the shrewd business-like member of a family often becomes a painter while the artistic unpractical one becomes a member of the Stock Exchange in course of time naturally. My profession was forced upon me to begin with by my sisters-in-law and in the subsequent and natural order of things by their children-my nephews and nieces.