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He didn't brawl, he didn't sing, he didn't grow sentimental. He grew thoughtful. People who didn't know him thought that he was drunk when he was sober, because sober, he was full of song and excitement. When he was drunk, strangers looked on him as a quiet, thoughtful man who minded his own business. Francie dreaded the drinking periods-not on moral grounds but because papa wasn't a man she knew then. He wouldn't talk to her or to anybody. moncler coats on sale for women
He looked at her with the eyes of a stranger. When mama spoke to him, he turned his head away from her. When he got over a drinking time, he'd take a notion that he had to be a better father to his children. He felt that he had to teach them things. He'd stop drinking for awhile, take a notion to work hard and devote all his spare time to Francie and Neeley. He had the same idea that Katie's mother, Mary Rommely, ha d about education. winter coats for women on sale He wanted to teach his children all that he knew so that at fourteen or fifteen, they would know as much as he knew at thirty. He figured they could go on from there picking up their own knowledge an according to his calculations when they reached thirty, they would be twice as smart as he had been at thirty. He felt that they needed lessons in-for what passed in his mind-geography, civics and sociology. So he took them over to Bushwick Avenue. Bushwick Avenue was the high-toned boulevard of old Brooklyn. It was a wide, tree-shaded avenue and the houses were rich and impressively built of large granite blocks with long stone stoops. moncler women
Here lived the big-time politicians, the monied brewery families, the well-to-do immigrants who had been able to come over first-class instead of steerage. They had taken their money, their statuary and their gloomy oil paintings and had come to America and settled in Brooklyn. Automobiles were coming into use but most of these families still clung to their handsome horses an magnificent carriages. Papa pointed out and described the various equipages to Francie. She watched in awe as they rolled by. There were small lacquered dainty ones lined with tufted white satin, with a large fringed umbrella that was used by fine and delicate ladies.