New Britain herald., 1928-10-29
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 shut within the doors of every home thers is the warm and glow ing story of . mothers incompar- able love. NrA Milburn had come te the Little Yellow house. on Flow CT street. owned by Uncle Bill ParkA twenty-five years before. when she and Charlie Milburn were married. Through all these years they had only known poverty. Mrs. Mtlburn had kept everything neat and looked after her three children. Emmy, eighteen: Dan. thirteen. and Perry, twenty-one. While the little yellow house, on the ugly street near the mill. was now sooty and begrimed, it had never lost its charm for Mrs. Milburn. The story opens on MrA Milburn's birthday. Grandmother Pentland, who had never approved of Mrs. Milburns marriage to Charlie. has arrived. Grandmoth urges Mrs. Milburn to accept fifty dollars as a present from her to pay the long overdue rent. Grandmother takes the oppor- tunity of again scolding about the shiftlessness of Charlie Mllburn. Mrs. Milburn finally takes the money. Az Grandmother is leaving she asks Emmy to take her out to her car. Grandmother warns Emmy to pay no attention to Robb Hollis. young mill worker. who Is in love with Emmy. Emmy wants a white collar" man and Robb wears working clothes. In 8 moment of depression, Emmy decides that she is not going to spend her days in the little old house. 6he wants something finer. Emmy has brought home pair of white gloves for birthday present to her mother. Perry. the son. ar- rives home with a new lamp for his mother. Early in the evening Char lie bfilburn arrives home in taxi cab, He is intoxicated. as usual, but Mrs. Milburn always tells the chill dreu As ts i'll. Charlie has no money to pay his taxi bill and Mrs. Mill burn takes the fifty dollar bill. which she had intended to use for paying the rent. The taxi bill is ten dollars and Emmy tells her mother che is foolish to put up with Mr. Milburn. Her mother tells hel never to speak of her father that way again. Emmy is all the more determined to get away from Flow CT street and it's poverty. She Is particularly ashamed because she IS forced to wear the cast-off clothes of her wealthy cousin, Marianna, who is her own age and lives with Grandmother Pentland. Emmy IS provoked because Marianna chooses to bring her some clothes while she is talking to Robb in the little gar den spot back of the little yellow house. In the darkness under the biz tree in the yard. Robb tells Emmy again that he loves her. Marianna invites Emmy to come to | party among the girls whom she admires 90 much. Robb has agreed tA call for her after the party in his o{d roadster, tho ''struggle-buggy. he calls 1t. Emmy is ashamed Of Robb's old car and his working clothes They have . quarrel ana Emmy tells Robb she doesn't care tor . day laborer. She did not see him again for a long time.
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 CHAPTER x
 The little square backyard was still beautiful with its heavy velvety flowers and its bit of lawn just touched with tho brown-gold Of au- tumn. White clouds. flattened along the bottom of the wind, sailed across the sky above the distant smoke stacks and roofs. But En- my's eyes saw only the black chim- neys and the ugly roofs that Sunday morning.
 In the next yard tho McMyler children were bringing in a load of wood on an old wheelbarrow. Most of 1t was lath. and Emmy knew that they had stolen it from some house that was being built or torn down. They got most of their firewood in this way. Lumber draggin," they called 1t.
 Somewhere. farther down the street, came the sound of a tin- panny plano and girls nasal voice singing that she'd 'sail away to Mandalay."
 "I would, myself-Td sail most anywhere this morning." thought
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