New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1928, Page 8

READ THIS8 FIRST: The little yellow house never showed its true dinginess, because Mrs. Milburn refused to let anyone sce it. Her love transformed it to & shining palace where sacrificing de- votion made everything out of noth. | ing. Emmy, the only daughter, | weary of a hum drum street and Robb Hollis, the boy who lived there, and who had always loved her, excited by the attentions the wealthy man she worked for show- ered upon her, decides to rent a | tiny apartment of her own, where | her employer, Wells Harbison, and her friends. can see her. Wells is anxlous to meet Emmy's mother, | and she decides reluctantly to take | him down to Flower street. Wells Harbison commences to make lcve | te Emmy. On pay Emmy is sur- | prised at a raise. She goes to the cashier and he fells her it is for good spelling. Wells persuades her to take up music lessons. Emmy rents a baby grand piano at Wells® insistence. He tells her she can pay him back when she hecomes a great | singer. Mrs. Milburn tells Emmy she will never be a great singer. The music teacher told her mother so. 1t is quite a shock to Emmy. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLVIT Emmy flung up her bright head. “How do vou know?" she rapped out, with the scorn of vouth for its elders. What did her mother know about music, for goodness’ sake? Her mother, who never sang any- thing but hymns and a funny old- fashioned song called “Secret Love™ that she picked out on the ancient Steinway sometimes with fingers that were stiff and misshapen from years of hard work. “Well, Madame Hartzell told your Grandmather Pentland all about your voice a " Mrs. Mil- burn answered, y. a note of strain coming into her own voice. “] had asked your grandmother to lend me the money for another term of singing lessons for you, and of course she wanted to find out all about your voice before she decid- ed to let me have it. And Madame Hartzell told her then that you never would have the great big con- cert voice we all hoped you would have, . . ." She 'eancd forward In her chair. “Emmy," she asked, “don’t you know that 1'd have moved heaven and earth to have your voice culti- vated if it had been worth cultivat- ing? Don't you know that?” my just looked at her. “I never would have told you this | it 1t hadn’t heen necessa Mrs. Milburn went on. “But sometimen we have to tell the hitter truth ‘o those we love, even if it hurts, just to keep them from being hurt far more later on. And it WCULD hurt you more to find out the truth about vour volce a year or so from now. ter you had studied and workea J planncd great things for it all | along.” I She nodded her head in its rusty. old-fashioned hat. 1 know that you're growing up and getting to be old enough to do what you want to do. and pick your own friends and lcad your own kind of life.” she said. stduying Emmy’s lovely, eulky face. | “But 1 don’t feel right about your Living here clone and having no friends hut this Harbison man. 1 never have felt right about it, and | 1 never shall.” “You don’t even Emmy cried, her smouldering flame. “And T don't need to know him. ¥ saw him that Sunday morning when he drove you down to Flower strect, didn’t 12" her mother explained. “And the very minute I looked at him something just came over me— something just told me he wasn't the person for my girl. You can't fool mothers on such things, Emmy. They have some kind of instinct that tells them what's right and what's wrong for their children if they're any kind of mothers. It's Nature—and I know you ought to be home with me. Emmy took that in stony silence. “Do you ever hear from Robb?” | Mrs. Milburn asked, after a pause. She shook her head. “Never, thank goodness.” “He’s moved in with us, you | know,” her mother said. “and he’s | almost like one of my own sons. You wouldn't think that a person who isn't even related to us couls fit inte our life the way he does—-" “Where did you put him? Into my old room?" | o, indecd! We're keeping that | for yon in case you cver do decide to come hack to us." Mrs. Milburn know him!" | eyes full of each other. The only thing that keeps them uthappy 1s that Lovey hus alwaya had too much money and Perry hasn't enough.” ‘When she had gone, taking with her all of Emmy's stockings that needed mending. the girl sat on the deep cushioned window seat anae looked thoughtfully down into the street aboie the park. Some children were roller skating there, and their clear, happy cries came up to her through the still evening air. . . She remembered how she had never owned a pair or roller skates, although. she had her childhood. It had been hard enough to g:t decent shoes and an occasional pair of cheap rubbers in the little yellow house, without even dreaming of such luxuries as roller skates and bob sleds and tennis rackets. *We never had anything that oth- er children had.” she said to her- self with extreme bitterness, and the lovely, luminous eves grew round and hard as green agates. “And now that Tactually am getting a few of the things I've always wanted, why should T even think of going back to Flower street?> And why should 1 give up Wells Harbison just because Mother doesn’t happen to like his looks?" Tt was absurd and unreasonable a thing, she decidvd. As the spring dayi Harbison gave Emmy more and more of the things that her heart desired. The things, she told herself, that she always had missed. She got what young Dan would bave called “an awful boot” from the way he hought her two or three orchid,” as she remarked to herself young breast. “At eight dollars per orchid.” as she remarked to herselt with satisfaction. She liked, too, the way he picked up just the bills from a tray of change, leaving all the silver, when a waiter brought i* to him at the end of a meal in somwe glittering down-town restaurant or other. It pleased her that other women looked at him as women always do look at a man who is not only hand- some, but who looks prosperous and powerful besides. “There’s 1ot a woman in this room who wish she were in my shoes” she would tell Harbison, leaning across the table toward him as he ordered a dinner for the two of them. ‘They all fall for you.” And, flattered, he would shake his head, He had. for hcr, the strongest kind of fascination—the fascination that the rich, with their luxury and went by Wells {their air of carcless ease and indif- ference, always have for the poor and sensitive. 8he became so decply infatuated with him that the feel- ing she had for him was almost as strong as love itself, and twice as thrilling as that quict, peaceful ana lasting thing. One after another, he opcned to her the doors that she had found locked all of her poverty-stricken life. The smartest shops, and the tea rooms and resaurants along Eu- clid avenue became an old story to her., Two or three nights a weeck she had dinner down town with Harbi- son, and she began to learn about hearts-of-palm salad and Holland- aise sauce and mushrooms under £lass. The head waiters greeted her with enthusiasm when she walked into a dining room with . Harbison and led her to her favorite table. and it was havd for her to realiz: that there had been a time when she had enjoyed going into Child’s Restaurant with Robb Hollis and dividing an oyster stew with him. The only thing that she did not enjoy about the:e dinners was the end of them, when Harbison woula order black coifce and “sweeten” it with brandy from his small silver flask. The sharp and bitter smell or it brought back to her. always, her darkest memory of Flower street and of her father. CHAPTER XLVITT The last Thursday in May was a sray day, dampened by a drizzle. Emmy came home at half-past five to a loncly supper of toast and tea and omelet that she made in the tiny kitchenette, away she sat down at the piano ana ran through some scales and cxcr- cises, but her voice zounded nasa) and metallic in her cars. She turned on the radio, to its preserved music for a little while, and then turned it off agam. She picked up the first of the three fat volumes of Jean Christophe answered, quickly. “We put an extra hed into Dan's room for him. Perry has 10 have a place to himself. what | with his drawing materials all strewn ahout, and his late hours.” | Then ghe put her head to one side | and began to laugh—a light. silvery | sound as young as a girl's laugh. “Perry's making a picture of me, <he said. her face glowing pink. “In | ny old cape and this lumpy. stubbly | at. if you'll believe it! T told him | 10 one would ever want o look at 4 picture of me. but he wants to do it anyway.” It was casy o see that she was vastly pleased, nevertheless, that her firet-horn sheuld want to wake a portrait of her. | “How does ho feel about his Lovey | row 2" “Onh. she's been down to the house twice, lately. to ace him.” Mrs. Mil- buvn said. e wants him to go ! back to the Sinclairs’ to live, hut he WwOn't. of course. And he's right.” “What's he going to do? Stay on in Flo street all the rest of his! 1 life?” asked Emmy. who | cculd think of no worse fate for | anyone. | “Well, he's going to stay there | until he’s finished all this drawing | that he wants 1o do and has seen | whether it is going to sell or not.” | his mother said. “And then when | he has proved to his own sat- isfaction that he can make a lv. ing by drawing pictures he and Tovey will knoew what they T think want to An. <o he cave he frera 1o Rut cure that she =il ta fry £°1 along on what he malkes dan't veu worry ahout it Fi Things will com: out a1l right for them because they really do Ima‘ |10 tea. Where was the busy. want | and flung herself down upon the cushi@is of the window seat to read. But she could not. She was 100 rest- | Iess and lonely and dissatisfied o settle down to anything. and she wondered unhappily why Wells Har- bison had had to have a dinner en- agement with three husiness iends from Cincinnati on this par tienlar night, that was =0 wet and Mlack and melancholy Tt came 1o her suddenly. as she lay listening to the sad melody of the raindrops en the pane heside her, that there was no one left in Der life hut him She had shut her family and Robn Tollis out of it deliberately. And the Rad not had the courage o invit: Marianna and her “gang” to the fl in after the thoughticss snuhbing they had given her on the Saturday afternoon when they forgot to come happy life she had promised herself? The friendly bridge games and Sunday nikht suppers with the people whe were “her own kind”? The ‘new life come in the old lifi's stead”? “I've lot fhiags slin should have kept after Mari and the other girls until the come. and T should have had Welly Harbison meet fhem so that he'd know T'm .‘folks.’ even If T do @0 | tepewriting and filing for a living n iz offire.” she scolded herself " ‘Haclud thrangh her mind that there was mare tn the Life Tdeal than jnst Traaking awav nn: from venr yonrself in family to live by an am You had to niake veur awn lffe and your ewn pleas. | ures. You had to gn out and gather in your friends and hold them. longed for a pair year after vear in | for her mother even to suggest such | doesn't | When she had cleared her dishes | listenea | nd slide. 1/ dia | “I've made the mistake of giving up all my time to Wells Harbison,” she went on thinking. *I haven't taken the time to see anybody else—" It was his fault, too, in a way, that she had not taken it. He ! was always urging her to get lota of sleep and to do a great deal of practicing on the nights when he did not want to come out fo the flat to see her. Friends, he sald. did not | matter at all when you had set your | heart and soul upon a career. And | mmy had believed him up to this time, ‘i And yet, here he:was seeing all o1 his friends right along! He did not tet her interfere with his scheme of living. He was dining out with some fricnds of his that she did not knaw this very night! Thinking ! of thece things over, Emmy mad: v her mind all at once to go down - Flower street to see mother and . boss. For weeks she had been half rromising hergelf to go down to see how they wepe all getting along | without her, and then changing het mind about it. For one reason, she had no great desire fo go, and for another, she did not want te see Robb Hollis. these days. Withour knowing why. she felt as if she had Lroken faith with him. “It's silly of me,” she told herself, |an ghe dressed fer the street before the oval toilet glass in her tiny Iressing room. “After all, T didn't promise him that I'd never look at another man.” But what had she promised him? |. . . Something that had to do with the cheap little ring that he had given her at Christmas time. Hadn't she promised to wear it only until she fell in love with another man? . . . She could remember only {dimly as she looked down at it sparkling on her finger in the elec- tric light's white radiance. | “Perhaps T cught to give it back {to him tonight,” she said to herself, picking up her gloves and umbrell “Perhaps 1 ought not to keep it, | feeling the way I do about Welis Harbison.” 3 Just as she reached the door ot the flat the telephone rang—a shill. sharp sound above the drip and murmur of the spring rain outside. 1t was Harbison calling her. “I just got rid of those fellows 1 | had dinner with” he sald to he:, “I'll be right out” The recelves clicked In her ear as he hung it up. She hung up her own receiver ani took off the old hat and rubberized |red silk coat she had put on, She | egun to dress for Harbison. | She dressed for him very careful- |1y, polishing her bright hair. touch- ing the lobes of her cars and “er white throat with some perfume he had given her, rubbing unnecessary lip paste into her lips. Then the telephone | She hurried fnto the |and picked it up. “Emm) 1t was Ttobb's volee, | close aguinst her car! For a secona |she felt as if a hand closed around her heurt and tightened. She caught her breath. But she did not answer. Robb’s voice came once more: “Hello.” All at once Emmy was herself again, and very cool and calm and collceted. Slowly and carefully she plt the recciver back upon fta black hook and went back to her dressing closet. The bell rang aguin. i “Let it ring!” Emmy said aloud to her reflection in the tollet glass. “T don’t want to talk to him, and I'm not going to!" Tut when it stopped ringing. as it it had got tircd of pleading witn her to answer, she was sorry she had hung up the receiver. She was sorry she had not talked to Robh, after he had gone traipsing down to Burkhardt's Drug Store on a night like this, just to telephone to her. . . . “I might at least have said ‘Hello" to him when he's so good to Motn- er.” sha told herself. Rut she forzot all about him a | few minutes fater. when the souna | of Harbison's taxicab coming to a stop in the strect below came up to ther. He had not even stopped fo gev | his own car. Emmy knew. lcaning | out of the window to watch him pay | his driver and come hurrying across | the sidewalk. His quick step sounded upon the | stair His knock was loud upon the panels of her door. Emmy knew how cager he was to sce her before |she saw his fac “But you sald you were going to le tied up all cvening.” she greeted [ him. her eyes shining like jewels in I the lamp-lit room. She took his hat land his cane frmu him and hung them up. “Yes, but 1 didn't know 1 was zoing to be bored the way 1 was.” | He laughed, tacing her, his hands behind his broad back. “1 sat there | for what seemed like eternities 1n | that hotel dining room, trying to be [ polite. and wondering all the while |low soon I could break away—and | come here to yon." i | I can’t imagine that!” Emmy ! |answered quickly. “I thought men | |liked to get away by themselves | sometimes to tulk about wood pulp and nine holes of golf and how to make the most money In the short- | rang again. sitting room ithe corner floated the opening hars of Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony.” They scemed 1o spin out into the room like a8 web—a web made up of beauty and of magle. (TO BE CON{INUED) WOMEN FAIL TO GIVE COLOR DASH Congress Unusually Sombre in Opening Session Washington. Dec. 4 UP—Even the women members of the house have failed to supply a dash of color to the unusually somher setting sur- rounding the opewing days of the last session of the seventieth con- gress. In vears gone by, that is women were accorded an equal &ta- tus with men in the political wori the dress of the feminine ropresen- tatives nearly always has added a tonch of Lrightness when everything elze at the capitdl seemed submerg- ed in gr Silver Buckles Shine The nearest approach to anything hright and lively for the opening day. yesterday, were the silver buckles on the shoes of Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, the only one of the fonr women to it on the democratic side of the aisle. Bui this was all. The satin heels of her shoes were low—frankly comfort—and her dress bore trillg. The other three women members, Florence P. Kahn of Califor- nia. Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Katherine Langley of Kentucky, all were sim- ply robed in unrelieved black. occupy republican seats and two of them, Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Kahn, are filling posts held by their hus- bands before death. Fifth Member Shortly it is expected a fifth wom- an. Mrs. Willlam A, Oldfield of Arkansas, will be added to the wom- en membership of the house. She has been designated by Arkansas democrats for the place left vacant a few weeks ago by the death of her husband who was the party’s assist- ant leader. When the new congress convenes. the ranks of the woman memhers will ba expanded further. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late Mark Tlanna, is a repub- lican representative-elect from TIlli- nois, and Mra. Ruth DPratt. a re- publican leader in New York, is a representative-elect from that stafe. A Contest Still another woman, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida. daughter of late William Jennings Bryan, also is a democratic representative- clect from that state. She, however, may have a fight on her hands as her republican opponent has an- nounced that he will contest for the seat. At the opening scssion. Mrs, Owen looked down from the gallery at the proceedings on the floor. She like others in the galleries, reflected the conservatism displayed in the house M jchamber and which also was notice- able in the senate. Those who did wear bright dresses, like Mre. Dawes, the wife of the vice presi- dent, toned them down with more somber coats. The dress of the viee president’s wife was a brilliant blue but the brilllance was modified by a brown hat and wrap. Elsewhere, in spots, brighter hues showed—wine red, gold metal cloth and figured chiffon velvet showed in the galleries but the majority of the watchers were in dark” browus, ECZEMA N [TCHY_PINPLES —— On Limb. Caused Erup- 4 s tions. Caticura Healed. *‘Eczema broke out in pimples on my right limb, back of my knee. It started to itch and burn and 1 scratched it. The more I scratched it the more it spresd and caused. eruptions. The rritation caused me to wake up at night. * I resd anadvertisement for Cuti- (Signed) Jay J. Beebz, 96 Water 1., Willismstown, Mass., March 28, 1928. Use Cuticura to clear your skin. st time and =0 on. Do sit down. Iere's your pipe—you want your pipe. don't you"—and here are {the matches.” She felt as if she must kecp on falking so as= not to give him a | chance to say anything sentimental or lover-like to her. Something in | the way he was looking down at her ! |told her that he was going to make {1ove 1o her, and she was stricken | with wild, unexpected panic at the teere thought. She moved away from him and urned on the radio in the corner. “The flowers that you sent me |today are perfectly lovely,” she hur- ried on to say. touching the fresh pink roses that stood in a glass vase on the gateleg ftable. “You are a {1108t extravagant person, Wells Harbison, and 1'm beginning to see (how dreadinl T am to take all the wonderful things that ven give me ‘IH)V 1 o love flaners and things— Lthings that are—bheautiful—" Her worde came n dry. brittle Ifttie s charge of C. W. Braiverd, formerly of Clark & Brainerd fragments. From the radio in the shadowy | since for | no| black and dull green. Wives and 1elatives of the sena- tors were out in such numbers that when Mra. Burton K. Wheeler, wife ot the Montana senator. arrived, she lhad to plead with the doorman for | permission to sit on the gallery steps. The brightness of the women's faces. however, compensated for the subdued winter colors of their frocks. irs. Willebrandt There Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, in a dark tajlored suit with a blue and beige t, smilingly welcomed friends—no less fresh and vicacious for her campaigning. Mra. Joseph 1. Gann, sister of Vice President Elect Curtis, was in black satin. while Alice Roosevelt Longworth, {wife of the speaker of the House, wore a tau frock and hat, and a coat with deep, dark brown fur for cuffs. {GERMANY UPSET ABOUT CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH garding Rhineland Occupation and Reparations. | Dee. 4 (®—Political cir- “les in DBerlin appear considerably upset by a section of a statement | made in the house of commons yes- terday by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Dritish foreign secretary, on Rhine- land occcupation and reparations. The part they complain of is that lin’ which Sir Austen was quoted as , Berhn, the contention that Germany had complied with all the obligations im- posed by the treaty of Versailles as to enfitle her under Article 431 or otherwise to demand withdrawal of the occupying troops before the ex- piration of the period laid down in the treaty. You can have your choice of two-tone Green, Blue, Red or Ivory! WOODEN CAGES FREE! Political Circles in Berlin Agog Re- | saying that on the question of law | there was no legal justification for | This statement 13 comstrued to mean that Germany can demand ful- filment of Article 431 only when she has entirely carricd out her repara- tions obligations and is declared to prejudice the present international tuation. 1t is believed that when Dr. Gus- tave Stresemann meets Sir Austen at Lugano during the coming meet- ing of the council of the League of Natio the German foreign minis- ter will ask him if this “revival of the Versailles spirit” is deliberate and will express the opinion that it is calculated to jeopardize the prin- ciples of the locarno policy. The few Berlin papers which com- mented on Sir Austen's declaration express indignation at this part of it. Bishop McConnell to Be Council President New York, Dec. ¢ (#—The New York Times today says Bishop Fran- cis J. McConnell of the New York area of the Methodist Episcopal church is slated to become the next president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The counncil will open its sixth quadrennial meeting tomorrow at Rochester, N. Y., at which time the term of office of the Rev. Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman expires, Reelection is not permissible. Dr. Cadman’s sucpessor will be chosen Thursday night Rishop McConnell is 57 years old and took over his New York charge last May, having been transferred from Pittsburgh where vears he was bishop of Lurgh area. the Pitts- AIBAN S REPULSED Belgrade. Dec. 4 (A—Two bands of armed Albanians were repulsed when they crossed into Jugoslavian territory in the Prizrend district to- day. The Serbian gendarmerie drove them back across the border. 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