The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-03-05
LEFT OUT IN rme COLD.


snow fell dreamily outside, dewp.
down, over the earth Ike a white nan
tie of Charity.
One Of those seft, midwinteT rights
ben to stand at The window and
look cut is a luxury-all seems 81
white and peaceful-wbeH 70 Pot ou'
The band and feel the cold snow fakes
rouch it aud melt thrills one With g
refreshing sense Of life and vigor, but
10 be obliged TO go out, alone and
on foot, is net go deiig ghiiGl q pres
pect-
Aud inside. on this night, we're
warmth and light, the odcr of foN
ers, and the elegant appointments
e hich bet, ken wealth and tsste-ia-
,ide this pleasan; home-measion 90
". avenue, Cbicego
A young girl stood OF lhs windo p
Of ber bouGoir, snd iaToWiag back
the shutters leaned oat iirils was
into the night and down fellIug
snow.
She raised her fsce. besu;ifal "a a
day lily. and the snow fakes kissed il
lovingly--tbe face, the hrowh, braid
I'd hair, and the richly embroIderea
sack.
IL wss a beautiful picture she raede
from the outside darkness. standing
there in the half open window, light
and beauty cleaning behind Der, AID
snow drops like feathery we'd fan
ing between her and The cold, chilly
night
So though. the little. dark robed
girl opposite, tripping along through
the snow, on the side street.. sad
looking up st the picture, frame d
10 the dusk and shadow Of the even
ing.
TIE little girls name was Rernice
Floyd, aud ber grandmsmms, among
The old New England bills, had been
wont to call her Brownie, aud she
was certainly brown enough. ~iia
her dark, curling hair, grea5 brown
ewes, and rounded brown face. with
au-b Of red at the lips aud cheek
ike Autumn stains Gu the forest
leaves.
They bad lived in Boston 10 those
iormer days, and bad bfe1 gealiby,
AID Brownies mamma had dressed
her aiways in soft raiment. warm col
rs. that bropght forth the bsaaty
and brightness Of the dark face gben
came other days, sben misfortune
stepped e; the do5F, aud they had
c3me ives; TO the great city, sid
prospered vel bot be darkest dsys
Of all came with the dre Of II whicb
swept nfarly all they tad away, aad
Mr.. Floyd had contracted q cold
froa which be aeger fully recover
ed.
lie bad rever been able % d mech.
but had obtained a small eleskship
AID they bad lived ia very pnpfe.
tsHtious way--almSst shA6py-eoU-
pared to the cid l.fe.
Mr Floyd had one ffiend-Jemss
Rnzsell-w ho lived in Boston, and
DO bad come TO them once since
heir trouble, when Berliee SIS four
teen years old. aud had been pleased
nth ber dark beauty aud bright,
you hful Viyaciiy.
He had wished 10 help bis friends.
6ut Floyd wss proud AID V oli usi
allow it, and Indeed they set tmed 10.
be getting on better then, bgt al last.
ne bad prevailed upon bin 70 eccep'
az gift to bis i!iils lsagbieF, the
price oi her musical ilsgEaciign for
ane mere year. and very beautiful
piano.
Then he hsd gone abroad, sa5
they hsd scarcely heard ff n him
siuee. nc; even when Mrs Floyal
wrote to bim 0. i5s death OF her ba-
baud. And SO, in those long, duh
days. Bernlce had her music to con-
sole her.
1, was Der especial delight, and she
studied il With application and erdor
So when her father died and Ieft
hem but little to battle against a
soFld Of p,se-ty, hungry and cold
he bad taken the baIden upea her
i,lle, strong shoulders sni taught
music to small class Of pupils. " bile
her mother did braiding snd en-
b,oidery for Madame LIS establish
nent.
q iney had got on quite eomfef;ably
IN their small way, and lived in
bat they were bright and
honey, with The piano. few flowers
and bird 10 the southern widow,
v which was white-drsped by dsitI
iiDeers-
Bernire ofea ran srssrds for Mad
sne L ,for even her lessons aud prac
lice did not occapy all her time, and
-he liked to do il. for il was change
for her, with a glimpse OF the I'D life
which seemed to her now like dream
Of The dead past. never to be her
any mere. and she accepted heF fate
bopsinlIy, AID spert 10 iiae of 1es
busy life 10 useless regrets or bitter
easy ings Of those girls whose dsy
we're giadder, or whose fortune seem
ed more rosy than bers. She was