Beautiful but Poor

Fancy a dingy old brick house on B--street, New York city-dusty outside and moldy in all its ragged, papered walls inside-a dreary house with small, poorly ventilated rooms-these rooms wretchedly furnished, and I have made you at home in "Miss Scrimp's Boarding-House for ladies only-no gentlemen boarded, lodged, or admitted." For this was the inscription on a faded tin sign nailed over the front door.