New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1928, Page 34

READ THIS FIRST: Emmy Milburn, at 17, wanted to 1ift herself from the sordidness of the little street she lived in, to the heights where she felt she properly belonged. After a party given by her rich cousin, Marianna, she resolved to better herself some day. Mean- time she took a business course, paid ' Grandmother Pentland, for by her and snubbed, as well as she could, Robb Hollis, the boy down the street, who worked in amill, and who represented the life she determined never to let herself sink into, Marianna tells Emmy she is going to marry Jim Baldwin next day, and to keep it secret. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) e CHAPTER XXVI At 10 o'clock Robb left and Emmy went out into the kitchen to her mother. She was sitting in her red rocker, and her needle flashed in and out of the pearl-gray chiffon stock- ing she was darning. “That was Frances Baldwin's boy with Marianna, wasn't it?"” she asked, snipping off a thread. Emmy rodded. “You don't suppose Marianna's getting ready to elope with him, do you?" she asked. "It seems very odd, her rushing in her with these things tonight and wanting them by to- morrow noon. I have a feeling that I ought to go down to the drug store and telephone your grand- mother about it.” Emmy, sworn to secrecy, perfectly silent. “8till, I don't suppose it would do any good if I did,” her mother's voice ran on. “Marianna's 22 years ‘old, and if she wants to get married it's her own business. I'm sure I don't know what to do.” She picked up another long silk stocking from the suitcase at her feet. “Nobody could stop me when ¥ wanted to marry your father,” she sald with a toss of her head, and Emmy had a fleeting vision of her as & young, defiant girl. “Everybody told me I was ruin- ing my life—and just see how wrong " She was quletly d have ruined it it I hadn’t married him!" 8She meant it with all her heart and soul, that ‘wag clear. The next afternoon at four o'clock Marianna married Jim Baldwin in & Jjustice’s office on Lakeside avenue opposite the courthouse. 8he mar- ried him with her hand clasped in his and a look of blind adoration in her proud face. When the short business-like cere- mony was over she walked across kept the sidewalk to the green car with |.. the smooth, light tread of a woman walking on clouds, her good-bye. Her face was as pale as the orchids on her shoulder, but the high, exalted look of a bride was in it. “You tell Grandmother that I'm the happlest woman in this state!" she said, and the car slid away from the curb, leaving Emmy feeling that in some way or other she had been a traitor to her grandmother. { Her heart was like lead as she started up Bixth street with Jim Baldwin's brother, Stewart, who had “stood up” with him. He was. older than Jim—about 30, Emmy decided —and extremely handsome in a blond, lackadaisical sort of way. “I supose we ought to go some- where nd celebrate,” he said to| Emmy. “Dinner or tea or something | —maybe a show afterward.” He seemed to take it for granted | that Emmy would be pleased as | Punch to go anywhere with him. His | face was comic in its open-mouthed | astonishment when she shook her head and left him. “No more of the Spaulding-Bald- win boys for me!” said Emmy to herself, 8Bhe went straight to Prospect | street to break the news of the wed.- | ding to her Grandmother. But Ro- setta, who came to the door, said she was not at home. “Matthew done drive her down to | you-all's house an hour ago, most nearly,” sald Rosetta. “Shc's all NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928 “You don't suppose she's getting rcady to elope, do you?" broke up about something, sure!" It was dark when Emmy reached Flower street. Just as she stepped from the Cedar avenue car an au- tomobile flashed past her. She had | just a glimpse of her grandmother's white, drawn face, behind the shin- ing windows. Then it was gone. Mrs. Milburn met her at the doo: “You knew about this, Emmy |she said the instant she saw the | girl's face. Her blue eyes dropped to |the tell-tale nosegay pinned on |Emmy's red slicker—the nosegay |that Mananna had given her that afternoon because, she said, a maid- of-honor must have flowers. 'What could I do?” asked Emmy. farianna had made up her mind to marry Jim Baldwin, and somecbody |until it was all over. What could 1 |do?" She threw her small hands out helplessly. | “Well, your grandmother's heart- broken about it, anyway,” Mrs. Mil- burn said, following her upstairs. *T never saw her like this before, Emmy. She just cried and cried this afternoon. Matthew showed her the marriage license in this morning's { paper, and she came straight over here with it to me.” Emmy, feeling more guilty every minute, took off her coat and hat. “It's so lonely for her there that big gloomy house, she say: her mother's volce ran on. “Of course, Marianna never was at home very much, anyway, and goodness knows the house always was big and gloomy enough; but your grand- mother was all broken up about Uncle Bill, anyway. And then t coming right on top of it—" She sighed and shook her head. “I wanted her to stay here with us. I offered her Perry's room. But she said she’d rather be at home in her own feather bed. And, of course, she would miss her hot water and al her comforts—" Her voice stopped, and, looking at her, Emmy saw that tears were coursing their way down her cheeks. “She’s so littie and old—my moth- er, Emmy,” she said unsteadily. “She’s so lonely there in that big in POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “Wives wouldn't be un- happy if they could be satisfied with the kind of husbands they deserve.” (Copyright, 1528, Putlimwers Syndicate) Real Estate in New Britain and vicinity. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN wants ’em to respect me. She feels like she's done {| enough for 'em to earn re- spect for us both.” (Copyright. 1428, Publishers Syndicate) \ “Ma tells our children she | i THE | COMMERCIAL COMPANY INSURANCE REAL ESTATE Commercia! Trest Compeay Building Tel. 6000 barn of a place. Eighteen rooms, and all of them empty but the kitch- en, now that Marianna's gone. And she's had Marianna all her life. It's like losing her own child, to lose her.” “I can't be sorry for her,” said Emmy in a hard, bright voice. “With all her money, she could hire a com- panion who'd be with her all day long. She could hire ten companions if she wanted them! It's her own fault if she's lonely.” On the last Friday of the month | Emmy found her position. It was not a very good one, from her point of view. It was a steno- graphic job with the Harbison Brothers Paper Company, whose of- | fices were in the Parks Bullding, and nd she scarcely | oo 1" taminy i 1822 8 w i y had to stand by her. |it paid $22 a week. seemed to see Emmy as she kissed |gpe 1540 me promise not to tell | “But it's better than nothing," she !said to Robb that night, *and I !suppose I was lucky to get it. Mr. Larch says the Harbison people are nice to work for.” On the first Monday in February 1 Emmy started work for the Harbison Brothers Paper Company. She had set her alarm clock for 6:30 the night before, and it was | pitch dark when she opened her eyes to the new day. The most im- portant day of her life so far, she told herself, as she closed the win. dows of her room and stood shiver- |ing with cold and excitement on the | bare painted floor. But early as it was, Mrs. Milburn was up ahead of her. Emmy heard iher shovelling coal into the tem- | peramental furnace, and three min- utes afterward she came toiling up the stairs with a big teakettle of hot water in each hand. “More English country-house | stuff, eh, Mother?” Emmy chaffed | her, following her into the chilly bathroom. | “Exactly so, Emmy!" Mrs. Mil- JUST KIDS HAVE 10UT IN THE |BI6 wooDs, tied the steaming water into the tub and spread a clean faded bath- mat on the floor. She Jaid an outstretched hand over the hot-air register set into the wall. “I've been firing up Old Jumbo in the cellar, and he'll be sending up some warmth pretty soon,” she said hopefully. She always spoke of the furnace as “Old Jumbo,” as if it were some unmanageable wild ani- mal that she was training to behave. For a second Emmy’s heart gave a twist of pain as she looked at her standing there in her gingham dress, with a teakettle swinging from each of her chapped work-worn hands. Wasn't it cruel to even think of leaving her? Wasn't it? “Just now when I'm starting to make some money and could help her,” she went on thinking; “after all these years while she's scraped and slaved to send me to school— to get me ready for this.” It was; it was cruel. about it. / But a quarter of an hour after- ward as she stood brushing her hair before the windows of her room, her mind changed once more, (TO BE CONTINUED) OUTLINES BENEFIT OF PLATODN PLAN |Miss Campbel Explains Cit's Education System to Parents Children in the public achools, trooping from one room to another, coming under the jurisdiction of a variety of specialist teachers, are be- ing educated according to the platoon system. Last night Miss Mary Campbell, acting supervisor of the elementary schools, addressed the Parents and Teachers' associa- tion of the Lincoln school upon the merits of the system. 8he said it benefited the child, increased his de- F‘ht in going to school, enabled eachers to give individual attention to pupils rather than mass instruc- tion, taught him self-restraint, in- culcated social responsibilities, ad- Ivanced him more quickly in his lmme. wtihout cramming and tedi- No doubt ousness, and enabled teachers to be specialists and the child from such specialization. The platoon system has been adopted in New Britain because it represents the flower of present-day pedagogical accomplishment, she de- clared; it is not an experiment, but a success wherever tried. An alert- ness to the progress of school ad- ministration caused it to be adopted in this city. Removes Drudgery That it takes the drudgery out of school work—turns it into a sort of play—of itself vastly benefits the child, she stressed. Instead of sit- ting at a desk all day the child en- joys more motiol here is a thrill and interest in oving around;" the child is less apt to suffer from fatigue, is eager to absorb what the next teacher has to impart, sees and learns with less effort and some- what unconsciously. There is much of child psychology imbued in the system. Teachers are chosen to instruct the subjects which they are best equipped to teach. An instructor | Who delights in teaching any of the three R's is not at the same time forced to give perfunctory instruc- tion In a subject to which she does not take a natural liking. An in- structor who delights in teaching art who has natural talents in hygiene, or who s similarly naturally equip- ped for any special study and would prefer to concentrate upon imparting her knowledge to the young mind, is certain to be of better service to the child than under the old system where one teacher taught the entire curriculum of a grade. Individual Instruction Platoon teachers can give indi- vidual instruction because.they will be more interested in how a child to gain | burn's voice was brisk as she emp- | progresses in her specialty; she is MOM-COULD T HAVE oF cou ["NELEPHUNT rcrue NG l BAG, WHEN YER naturally stimulated to take pains that each child progresses, and un- der a system of a careful individual record of each child those who have difficulty in keeping step with the average of the class din easily be 'given special attention. Members of the association had an opportunity! to discover how carefully each child is looked after by talking with the teachers before the gathering com- menced. Each parent was able to discoved the rating of his or her child from any of the teachers in any department of the achool. In the question and answer per- fod, which followed the discourse, Miss Macpbell was asked as to the deportment of children under the system. She replied that deportment improves because the child gains in self-restraint. At first the system might seem chaotic as the children g0 to another room, but soon an in- stinct for social responsibility as- serts itsel? and the change to an- other department becomes a short and pleasing relazation that serves a good end and is not to be spoiled by bad conduct. Under the system and unsocial child {s likely to be noted quickly and given special at- tention in the inculcation of proper deportment. The platoon system is the product of the best minds of modern educa- tional administration, Miss Campbell said, and is our contribution to ed- ucational progress. Each age contri- butes to the sum total of such knowledge and the platoon syastem is evidence that educators are not standing still. A Musical Program Prior to the address, President Farl K. Bishop of, the association announced a mui program pro- vided by members from the New Britain Musical club. ‘Warren Hale, pianist, played com- positions from Jenson, Chopin and Grainger, all of which were well re- celved, his last number, the famed “Country Garden,” being particul ly liked because of its lilting chi acter. Tine and technic was ade- quate. Albert Kuhl, violinist, with Mr. Hale at the piano, played a Chopin transcription by Wilhelmj, and com- positions by Granados (a Kreisler arrangement) and Borowskl. Mr. Kuhl had good tone, grasped a mul- titude of double stops with cer- tainty, and handled an extended cadenza with brilliance, amply earn- ing the warm reception accorded him. Mrs. Laurence C. Edwardson gave a reading of Oscar Wilde's *“The Nightingale and the Rose,” the pi- ano providing the soft background from & score by Paul Blis. Mrs.| Edwardson delivered the poem to good effect, emphasizing the poig- nant story with an artful and sym- pathetic delivery. SBhe s the first reader added to the rolls of the musical club. T ————— Special Notice The Eddy-Glover Post, American Legion will meet tonight at the Elks Hall on Washington street. Com mander Avery will submit his an nual report and there will be elec- tion of officers for the next year. State Commander Seaton will also be | in attendance.—advt. 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