New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1928, Page 16

Shut within the doors of every home there is the warm and glow- ing story of a mother's incompar- able love. Mra Milburn had come te 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, Mra. 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 Mra, Milburn's 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 asks Emmy to take her out to her ear. Grandmother warns En.my 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 & moment of depression, Emmy decides that she is not going to spend her days in the little old house. She wants something finer. Emmy has brought home a pair of white gloves for a birthday present to her mother. Perry, the son, ar- rives home with a new lamp for his mother. Early in the evening Char- lte Milburn arrives home in a taxi- cab. He is intoxicated, as usual, but Mrs. Milburn always tells the chil- dren he is §ll. Charlie has no moncy to pay his taxi bill and Mrs. Mil- burn takes the fitty dollar bill, which she had intended to use for ng the rent. The taxi bill is ten dollars and Emmy tells her mother she is foolish to put up with Mr Milburn, Her mother tells het never to speak of her father that way again. Emmy is all the more determined to get away from Flow- er street and its 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 s 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 big 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 so much. Robb has agreed call for her after the party in his old roadster, the “struggle-buggy.” he calls it. Emmy is ashamed of Robb's old car and his working clothes. They have a quarrel and Emmy tells Robb she doesn’t care for & day laborer. Bhe did not see him again for a long time. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER X The ‘little square backyard was still beautiful with its heavy velvety flowers and its bit of lawn just touched with the brown-gold of au- tumn. White clouds. flattened along the bottom of the wind, salled across the sky above the distant smoke-stacks and roofs. But Em- my’s eyes saw only the black chim- neys and the ugly roofs that Sund:y morning. In the next yard the McMyler ehildren were bringing in a load of wood on an old wheelbarrqw. Most of it was lath, and Emmy knew that they had stolen it from some house that was being bullt or torn down. They got most of their firewood in this way, “Lumber draggin,” they called ft. Somewhere, farther down the street, came the sound of a tin- panny plano and a girl's nasal voice singing that she'd “sail away to Mandalay.” “I would, myself—T'd sail ‘most anywhere this morning,” thought Emmy, in the depths of despair. “Ma has forgive the sis- ter-in-law that told a fib on her, but she’s still bitter to- ward the one that told some- thin’ on her that was true.” (Copy=ight. 1928, Fuolimeers Syndicate) We Have Several Industrial Sites For Sale. “Well, aren’t you getting t0 be the first-class little snob!” She walked into the dining room and wondered how it could ever be made to hold twelve girls comfort- ably, She had had only a “lap lunch” when she had entertained the Friday Club here before. And those spots on the wall paper! The cracks in the shades! The darned places in the old Axminster carpet! . . . It all looked s0o mean and poor in the searching sunlight, It was in that moment as she stood alone in the dining room that the ghost of an idea first came into | her mind. . . . She would be carn- ing money of her own very soon. Why couldn’t she have a little place of her own somewhere when that time came. Only a room perhaps at first, but in somne sclf-respecting street where she could ask her friends. There was no reason why she had to stay in this Slough of Despond forever, was there? Not if | she could pay her way out of it, certainly! Plenty of other girls who worked had homes of théir own. Long ago Emmy had dreamed of the time when she could earn enough money to move her whole family out of the littie yellow house. But those were the days when she had counted upon her voice to make a | fortune for her. She knew, now, how | impractical that dream had been. Tt took money to train a voice to the place where it had any carning Toney. coming down | the stairs now. “Time to get ready for church, Emmy!” she called. “Is Robb going to drive you there this morning ?” “No,” said Emmy shortly, and the: We had a fuss last night. We're through with cach other.” Upstairs, dressing before her dim old toilet glass she thought how little of a fuss there had been. Robb | had sald almost nothing. Well, it was all over and she'd better put it out of lier mind. It had been the thing todoanyway. No use letting him et it into his head that she was going to marry him as soon as he was able to support a wife in Flower street style! Better for him to know the truth as he did know it—that she couldn’t face a life of poverty even for love. And did she love him, anyway? For an instant the memory of that moment under the sycamore Emmy’'s mind. Surely she had been in love with Robb then, when she had lifted her face to his in the warm, throbbing darkness and wait- ed for him to take her in his arms! “But last night I didn’t want him to kiss me,” she argued it all out with herself, brushing the coppery gold of her hair and slipping into the plaid suit Marianna had given her. “And even if 1 had wanted him to, how do I know I won't want oth- er men to do the same thing later on? How do I know I won't be in love like that a dozen times before I'm really in love? After all, Robb's the only man who's ever made love to me. Probably that's why I im- agined I belonged to him for Kkecps.” And so she settled the thing lier own mind. At eighteen, how is one to know that moments like the moment un- der the sycamore tree come only once in a lifetime—and with only one person? . . . How is one to know? . . . But then, how are we to know anything in this world un- in i til we have come to the very end of the road that winds down the years? The door of Perry's room stood open as Emmy passed it on her way downstaire. He was sitting at Lis table with a Greek textbook cpen in front of him. But he was not studying Greek. He had a pencil in his hand and he was idly sketch- ing the head of a girl on a sheet of cartridge paper, Emmy looked at it from over his shoulder. Something about the rough sketch, something about the shape of the face he was drawing made her think suddenly of little Lola Sinclair. “T saw a frlend of yours yester- day, Perry,” she said, buttoning her gloves. “Lola_Sinclair.” “Lovey Sinclair?” he asked. “Where did you see her, for the love of little green apples?” He covered the drawing with his hand and looked up. “At Marianna's yesterday. She's always belong to the Friday Club, JUST KIDS tree eight days ago swept through AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN “I owe Sallie a letter, but it's hard to write girlhood friends except when you're blue an’ wishin’ for the old days when you wasn't mar- ried. (Copyright. 1328, Publishers Syndicate) e THE COMMERCIAL COMPANY INSURANCE REAL ESTATE Comemercial Tras Company Building Tel. 6000 DONTCHA FEEL GOOD | was shy of girls. Painfully shy of { eyed, earnest-browed blonde named | the Leisure Clat i been stuck into one side of Perry's | thrust it out of sight in his table You must have heard me speak of her, Perry.” But he had not, s0 he said. Or, if he had, he had paid ne attention. He was more or less wrapped up in his own hard-working life—going to college morning, working for Up- still and Unger in the afternoon, studying at hight for hours here in this small room.that Jooked out into the branches of the sycamore tree. He was proud of Emmy as most older brothers are proud of a pretty young aister, and he was good to her tod. He had bought all her books for her the last year of High school. He had given her her little signet ring when she was graduated in June, and he had paid Drl Harms' bill when she had sprained her ankle winter before last. But he did not know very much about her. Vaguely he had known all along that she belonged to a cer- tain Friday Club — a girls’ club of some sort—and he had always stay- ed away from'the house on the aft- ternoons when they had held meet- | ings there, from time to time. He them, The only one Emmy had ever ! heard him talk about was a goggle- | Edna Shelby. e had met her at a | college lecture at Channing Hal and she had lent him books to read | at different times: “The Theory of | and “Habits That Handicap.” A snapshot of her had | shaving mirror for a long time. Emmy looked for it now. It had been there a few days before when she had laid some shirts away fin his chiffonier drawers. But it was | gone now. His hand still lay over his pen- cll sketch of “Lovey"” Sinclair, as he called her. His long fingers tight- ened on the paper suddenly and he | drawer, “She asked me to her house for supper tonight,” he said heavily. “I'm not going.” “Don’t you want to?" “Sure. I want to go—T want to go more than I've ever wanted to do anything for a long time.” “Then why don't you?" But Emmy saw through him. A girl of eighteen is often far sharper than a man of twenty-two—about some things at any rate, “Lola asked me to her house, too, Perry,” she said. “And she's coming here to lunch in a couple of weeks. I'm not going to keep away from my own kind of people just because they happen to have more money than I have. Anl I think yor're foolish if you do." He gave her a quick, questioning | look, and she knew that she was hitting the nall upon the head. “After all, we belong to the Parkses and the Pentlands,” she went on smoothly, “even if we do live here in Pigtall Alley. Everybody knows we're ‘folka.'” 8he threw her soft little pointed chin up with a proud movement. Perry let out a bark of laughter. “Well, aren't you getting to be ! the first-class little snob!" he said with an appreciative twinkle in his | blue eyes. “You sound as if you'd been talking to Grandmother Pent- | lad lately. That's her line—all about the ‘new poor’ and the ‘new rich.’” | (TO BE CONTINUED) b e ROSE KUCZYNEKAS va. ALEX KUCZYNSKAS Superior Court, State of Connecticut, County of Hartford, the 18th day of Oc- tober, 1928, SECOND ORDER OF NOTICE Upon complaint in said cause brought to sald Court. at Hartford, in said Cou ty, on the first Tuesday of May, 1328, and now pendi claiming a divorce, custody of minor children, alimony, and changs of name, it mot sppearing to this Court that the defendant has re- ceived notice of the pendency of said complaint and it appearing to this Court | that the whereahouts of the dofendant is unknown to the plaintife. ORDERED, that notice of the institu- tlon and pendency of sald complaint #hall be given the defendant by publ ing this order In the New Britain H ald, & newspaper published ia New Brit- aln, once a week, for twe succesrive weeks, commencing en er before October 26, 1928, By the Court, RAYMOND G. CALNEN. YES-I FEEL ALL RIGHT-, IM TRYING TO THINK OF WHAT TO HAVE Assistant Clerk of said Court. POLLY AND HER PALS “HATS A LOTTA HOOEY, PoLLY_BUT| IF IT'LL MAKE THE- MRS. SLATTERY SUES Hartford, Oct. ) UPM—Mrs. Del- phine 8. Slattery of West Hartford has retained Lawyer Benjamin Slade of New Haven and brought suit against her husband, Edward A, Siattery, a silk merchant of Hartford for $1,000 a month for her support. Papers have been aerved and the action is to be tried in the Wholesale The Stamp superior court. 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