The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-11-19
Somebody Loves Ne.

intendent Of the Little Wanderers
Home in Bosten, received one morn
ing request from the judge that he
would come up to the court room. He
complied directly, and found there a
group of seven girls, ragged, dirty,
and forlorn, beyond even what he was
accustomed to see. The judge point
ed to them, and said:
"Mr. T, can You take any OF
these ?"
Certainly; will take them all, "
was the prompt reply.
"All. What in the world can you
do with them all ~
''I'll make women of them"
The judge singled out one, even
worse in appearance than all the rest,
and asked again:
What can you do with this one p
EN- make a woman out of her."
Mr.. - firmly ana hopefully. He
took them all home. They were wash
ed and dressed, and provided with a
good supper and beds. The next
morning they went into the school
room with the rest of the children
Mary was the name OF the little girl
whose chance for better things the
Judge thought poor.
During the afternoon the teacher
said to Mr.. T, in preference to her:
II never saw n child like that; have
tried for an hour to get single smile,
and failed"
Mr.. r said afterward himself
that her face was the saddest be had
ever seen, sorrowful beyond express
sion; yet she was a very little girl
only seven or eight years old.
After school he called her into his
Office, and, said pleasantly; Mary I've
lost my pet. used to have little
girl here that would wait on me and
sit on my knee, and | loved her very
much. A kind lady and gentleman
adopted her, and she went to live
with them. | miss her and | should
like you to take her place, and be my
little pet will you?"
A CLEAN of Ii, ht fitted over the
poor cbild's face as she began to un-
derstand him. He gave her ten
cents and told her she might go to a
store near by and and buy some can
DIV. While sic was gone he took
two or three newspapers, tore them
in pieces, and scattered them about
the room. When she returned in a
few minutes, he said to her :: Mary,
will you clean up my Office for ma?
pick up them papers, and make it
look real nice"
She went to work with will. A
little more of this sort of manage
ment- treating her just like q kind
father would-wrought the desired
change. She went into the school
room: ::after dinner with so changed a
look and bearing that the teacher
was astonished. The child's face
was absolutely radiant; and half
fearful of some mental wandering,
she went up to her and said, Mary,
what is it? What makes Won look
so happy"
"Oh I've got somebody to love
me-" the child answered earnestly, as
if it were heaven come down to
earth.
That was all the secret For want
of love that little ones life had been
SO cold and desolated that she had
lost chlldhoods faith and hope. She
could not at first believe in the re.
ality of joy or kindness for her. II
was the certainty that some one
loved her and desired her affection
that lighted the child's soul and glo
rified her face.
Mary has since been adopted by
wealthy people, and Lies in q beau
tiful home in New England; but
more than all this comfort and beau
ty. running X golden tn ID through
it all, she finds the love of he father
and mother.
Shall we who have many to love
and to love us. refuse to be cOmforted
to see any value and use in life, any
work for our hands to do, because
one of our treasures may be removed
from our sight-from our home ant
care to a better?
And Oh !! shall we let any of thes'
little ones go hungering for affection
go up even unto Gods land before
they find somebody to love them"