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Janice Day, The Young Homemaker

Janice Day, The Young
Homemaker
by Helen Beecher Long
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Janice Day, The Young Homemaker
CHAPTER I. WHEN MOTHER
WAS A GIRL
"Why, that is Arlo Junior. What can he be doing out of doors so early?
And look at those cats following him. Did you ever!" Janice Day stared
wonderingly from her front bedroom window at the boy crossing the street
in the dim pre-dawn light, with a cat and three half-grown kittens
gamboling about him. Occasionally Arlo Junior would shake something
out of a paper to the ground and the cats would immediately roll and frolic
and slap playfully at one another, acting as the girl had never seen cats act
before.
The pleasantly situated cottage belonging to Mr. Broxton Day stood
almost directly across the way from the Arlo Weeks' place on Knight
Street. Therefore Janice often said that, "the days and nights and weeks
are very close together!"
Knight Street, as level as the palm of one's hand, led straight into
Greensboro, where it crossed Market and Hammond Streets, making the
Six Corners--actually the heart of the business district of this thriving mid-
western town.
The Day cottage was a mile and a half from the Six Corners and the
Farmers & Merchants Bank in which Mr. Broxton Day held an important
salaried position. Besides his house and his situation in the bank, Mr. Day
considered another of his possessions very important indeed, although he
did not list it when he made out his tax return.
This that he so highly valued possessed the very brightest hazel eyes in
the world, wore a wealth of free brown hair in two plaits over her
shoulders, and was of a slender figure without bordering upon that
unfortunate "skinniness" which nature abhors as she does a vacuum.
Janice possessed, also, even teeth that flashed when she smiled (and
she smiled often), a pink and plexion that the sun was bound to
freckle if she was not careful, and a cheerful, demure expression of
countenanc