New Britain herald., 1928-10-31
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 Shut within the doors of every Aome there is the warm and glow snx story of a mothers incompar- able love. Mrs. Milburn had come to the Little Yellow House. on Flow er 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. M-s. Milburn had kept everything neat and looked after her three children. Emmy, eighteen; Dan. thirteen, and Perry, twenty -one. While the httle yellow house, on the ugly street near the mill. was now sooty ana begrimed, it had never lost its charm for Mrs. Milburn. The story bpens on Mrs. NIilburn's birthday. Grandmother Pentland. who had never approved of Mrs. Milburn's marriage to Charlie, has arrived. .Erandmother urgers Mrs. Milburn 10 accept fifty dollars as present from her to pay the long overdue rent. Grandmother takes the oppor- tunity of again scolding about the shiftlessness of Charlie Mllourh. Mrs. Milburn finally takes the money. As Grandmother is leaving she asks Emmy 10 take her out 10 her car. Grandmother warns Emmy to pay no attention to Robb Hollis, young mill worker. who is in love with Emmy. Emmy wants white tollar" man and Robb wears work sur clothes. In moment Of depres- hion. Emmy decides that she IS not going to spend her days in the httle bid house. She wants something finer. Emmy has brought home bair ot white gloves for a. birthday present to her mother. Perry. the Ion. arrives home with a new lamp Tor his mother Early in the evening Charlie Milburn arrives home m kaxicah. He is intoxicated, as usual, hut Mrs Milburn always tells the khjldren he is i'll. Charlie has no money to pay his taxi bill and Mrs. htilburn takes the fifty dollar bill. which she had intended to use for having the rent The taxi bill is ten dollars and Emmy tells her mother She is foolish to put up with MT. . Mi,burn. Her mother tells her never ko speak of her father that way beain. Emmy is all the more deter 2 mined 10 get away from Flower . ktrcet and its poverty. She is par k,cularly ashamed because she fs forced to wear the cast-off clothes Of her wealthy cousin, Marianna' who is her own age and lives with Grandmother Pentland. Emmy IS hroyoked because Marianna chooses flo bring her some clothes while she hs talking to Robb in the little gar hen spot back of the little yellow house. Tn the darkness under the big tree in the yard. Robb tells Emmy again that he loves her' hJarianua invites Emmy to come to a party and sing and play for the xuests. Emmy has wonderful time at the party among the girls whom she admires so much. Roop has agreed to call for her after the party in his old roadster. the struggle buggy" he calls it. Emmy i' ashamed of Robb's old car and hi' working clothes. They have a guar xel and Emmy tells Robb she doesn't care for a day laborer, She did not see him again for a long time. Emmy decides to have part,
 It the little yellow house and ha' invited Lovey Sinclair. who is in love with her brother. Perry. Perry thinks Emmy is a little snob because she is always trying to be some body" On Sunday, at the dinner ta' ble, Mir. Milburn. growing expansive ns he was sometimes wont to do braRs to Mrs. Mllburn that the! haven't done so very badly by theil children. Emmy is provoked at heI father.
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 CHAPTER XII
 "You'd think to hear him talk ltl,at he'd paid for us to go to schoo
 himself. by jinks! Wouldn't your
 Emmy asked Perry g. half hou
 afterward. He certainly is card!'
 She had come into F. ..o,n to se'
 herself in the mirror set in the do1
 of his clothes closet. It went tn whole length and width of the door
 and Emmy and Mrs Milburn used
 when they wanted to see themselve from head to foot-the hang Q
 their skirts, the straightness of thei