New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-10-24
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Shut within the doors OF every
home there In the warm and glow
ing story Of mothers incompar-
able love. Mrx. Milburn had come
to the Little Yellow House, on Flow
err street. owned by Uncle Bill
Parks, twenty-five years before.
when she and Charlie Milburn were
married. Through all these years
they had only known poverty. Mrs.
Milburn 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 Mrs Milburns birthday.
Grandmother Pentland. who had
never approved of Mrs. Milburn's
marriage to Charlie. has arrived.
Grandmother 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 Milburn.
Mrs. Milburn finally takes the
money. As Grandmother is leaving
she ask Emmy to take her out to
her car. Grandmother warns En-
my to pay not attention to Robb
Hollis, young mill worker. who is In
love with Emmy. Emmy wants
"vhite collar" man and Rohb wears
working clothes. In moment OF de-
nression. Emmy decides that she is
not going to spend her days in the
little old house. She wants some
thing finer. Emmy has brought
home 4 pair OF white gloves for
birthday present to her mother.
Perry. the son, arrives home with
a new lamp for his mother. Early
in the evening Charlie Milburn ar
riyes home in a taxicab. He Is in
toxicated, as usual. but Mrs Mill
burn always tells the children he is
i'll, Charlie has no money to pay his
taxi bill and Mrs. Milburn 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 she is fool
ish to put up with Mr.. Milburn
Her mother tells her never to speak
of her father that way again. Emmy
Is all the more determined to get
away from Flower street and its
poyerfy
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER vi
All this has happened in the year
OF mercy, 1924.
Eleven months had slipped by
since then. 1t was the autumn Of
1875 now, and Emmy was eighteen
Changes had come to her. She
had given up all thought of singing
lessons from Mrs. Hartzell for the
present, and she was finishing
yecretarial course at the Larchmont
School Of Business down town.
Grandmother Pentland had ungra-
ciously provided the money to pay
for II.
Don't ask me to say think it's
KOOu luiL6, ioI uOh I. SIN NV
snapped. handing over 4 check to
Mrs. Milburn. Il don't approve OF
handsome young women going to
work with a lot Of men in offices.
Heaven alone knows what goes on
in them all day long"
Nothing very dreadful imagine.
Most people are pretty decent and
we'll behaved" Mrs. Milburn had
answered pracidly. Besides. I can
trust my girl. no matter where she
is-no matter whom she's with. And
she's got to earn her own living in
some way"
Grandmother Pentland's only
comment had been a terrific sniff
So there the matter had ended. and
Emmy was busily learning the
shorthand and typewriting that she
hoped would eventually pay her
way out OF Flower street. It-and
its poverty-had become an obses-
sion with her.
1t had changed In the last year.
too, ana for the worse. 1t was older
and dirtier than ever before, and
there seemed to be fewer leaves on
the trees this fall than last. Mrs.
Milburn said that the smoke was
killing them. Only the sycamore
tree at the side OF the house stood
the onslaught Of SCOT and grease.