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The Story
 of Julia age By Kathleen Norris
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To Emeline. wife of George Page, there came slowly in her thirtieth year, a sullen conviction that life was monstrously unfair. From a resent ful realization that she was not happy tn her marriage, Emeline's mind went back to the days of her pert, preco- cious childhood and her restless and discontented girllfood, and she felt, with a sort of shouldering fury, that she had never been happy, had never had a fair chance. at all!
 It took Mrs. Page some years to come to this corsclusion, for. If she was ehrewd and sharp among the women she knew. she was. in essen tial things. an unintelligent woman, and mental effort of any sort was strange to her. Throughout her en- tire life, her mind had never been truly awakened. She had scrambled through grammar school, and had followed it with five years as sales woman in a millinery store, in that district of San Francisco known as the Mission, marrying George Page at twenty-three, and up to that time we'll enough pleased with herself and her life, ..,-,.-s-,s-s .,... .=..
 But that was eight years ago. Now Emenne could see see mat % she had had prime. She began to see that the moods of those early years, however violent and changing. had been fed upon secret springs of hope, hope vague and baseless enough, but strong to color a girls life with all the brightness of a thousand dawns. There had been rare potenttalities in those days. anything might happen, something would happen The lit tie Emeline Cox. moving between the dreary discomfort of home and the hated routine of school, might sur sdhooln1ates some day! She might become an actress, she might become a great singer, she might make a brilliant marriage.
 Az of,A al nr nYNd a f. tier, these vague bright dreams strengthened. Emeline's mother was an overworked and shrill-voiced women, whose personality drove from the ShotweM street house whatever small comfort poverty and over crowding and dirt left in it. She had TO personal message for Eme1ine. The older woman had never learned the care of herself, her children, her hus- band, or her house. She had natur- ally nothing to teach her daughter. Emenne's father occasionally thun- dered a furious warning to his daugh- ters as to certain primitive moral laws. He did not tell Emeline and her sisters why they might some day consent to abandon the path of vtr- tue, nor when. nor how. He never dreamed of winning their affection and confidence. or of selecting their friends, and making home a place to which these friends might occasion ally come But he was fond of
 
 Stella pinned on their f1imsy little hats for an evening walk, that if ever a girl Of his made a fool of herself and got into trouble, she need never come near his door again! Perhaps Emeline and May and Stella felt that the Virtuous course, as eXempliffed by their parents, was not all of roses, either, but they never said so, and a1- ways shuddered dutifuIly at the pa ternal warning.
 School also failed with the educa- ton of the inner Eme1ine, although she moved successfully from pro- cess known as "diagramming' sen tences to a serious literary analysis of ''Snow-Bound" and ''Evangeline," 7" and passed terrifying examinations in ancient history, geography, and ad- vanced problems in arithmetic. By dhe time she left school she was a tall, giggling. b1ack-eyed creature, to De found da4g walking s up and oIva down and chewing gum on almost any sunny afternoon. Between her mothers whining and her fathers S pleasant, but at least there was noth- ing unusual in the situation; among all the girls that Emeline knew there was not one who could go back to a clean room, a hospitable dining-roonl, a wel1-cooked and nourish1ng meal. All he friends did as she did: wheedled money for new veils and new shoes from their fathers, helped
 
 fully when they must. slipped away to the streets as often as possible. and when they were at home. added their complaints and protests to the general unpleasantness
 Had there been anything different before her eyes who knows what plans for domestic reform might have taken shape in the girls plastic brain F3meIine had never seen one example s1f real affection and cooperation be- tween mother and daughters, of work quickly and skiIfu1ly done and for gotten: she had never heard a theory Otherwise than that she was t. poor, her friends were poor, her parents were poor, and that born under the wheels of a nionstrous social injustice. she might just as well be dirty and discouraged and dfscontented at once and have done with it. for in the end she must be so: Why should she line knew that. with her fath ITS good pay and the excellent salaries earned by her hard handed, patient-eySd, stu Did young brothers. the family income
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