![]() ![]() It is almost THE BEGINNING OF BETTER THINGS. It is very important to them, and they count their small social successes very tenderly, for instance, the evening when the mother has to deputise as chairman of the local meeting of the Women's Club, is a red letter day. The little family are always struggling to come up in the world socially. The girl, herself, is often swayed by public disapproval and yet she clings half-heartedly to their engagement just because the future is so empty. The instinct throughout town is to fasten blame on him whenever possible. As a result, whenever anything goes wrong in town, when a small local holdup finally attributed to tramps empties the cash register of the local drug store, town gossip at first ascribed the holdup to the ne'er-do-well. He is always half in trouble, footloose, discontented, often railing in speech against the humdrum respectability of the smug little town. ![]() She takes on much of the burden of housekeeping in the little household, trying all the time to spare her semi-invalid mother the work which seriously affects her health, She has become engaged, half against her own better sense, to the town's ne'er-do-well. Given the right chances one feels she could develop her real natural intelligence and make something out of her quite considerable beauty. The daughter is a girl of about 18 with great potentialities of charm. The son, about 10, has a job but not a very good one, and there are very few prospects for him in the small town. The father is a small and rather timid employee in the local bank. They are little people, leading unimportant little lives. In Hanford lives an unimportant little family of four - father, mother, daughter and son. The story is set in the little town of Hanford in the San Joaquin Valley, a typical American small town almost lost between the desert and mountains.
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