Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-04-18
.PIERRES FOUNDING.

and Blerre was creole, ana IeHCet hls
wife, was a creole, aud so they both
said, "Snow wide" but then they meant
ASnow white, and everybody called her
That. And very white she did look 10
Pierre that morning in the early spring,
many years ago now, when he found her
uing on the doorstep, fleecy white
shawl all around her, and only her little,
pound, baby blue eyes showing out Of
he whiteness.
''See what tho good God has sent me,
Fehce," said Pierre, taking the little,
soft, white bundle in his big, brown
bands and carrying it in TO Lis wife, 90
httlo snow white baby"
And Felice turned back the shawl
from the baby's head, and there, pinned
70 her little dress, was a card and as
Pierre bent down to see he read, For
Pierre aud Felice."
"Did not say, Felice, he cried. "See,
II Is for us-the good God has sent it."
When Felice bent down TO kiss the
rosy lips that coood and smiled up at
her she smolt the perfume on the little
baby's clothes, and then she thought Of
She sweet, pale, gentle lady whose hair
she had dressed a few nights before, and
Of the tall, dark man whom the lady had
not called her husband, but her friend
Dat ahe did not tell Pierre all this.
What she did tell him was that they
would take their new treasure and show
a TO the priest, and Pierre-good. simple
aearted Pierrc--went along very close
beside Felice, wishing nightly that he
could take the little white, soft bundle
" his own arms
And Pere Martin, when he looked into
the little baby's eyes, remembered the
slight, graceful woman who had knelt
70 long Mt vespers the evening before,
aud tho sweet, gentle voice In which,
when tho service was over, she had
questioned him about the Coiifeuse,
Belioe, and Pierre, her husband, who
hvod in room Ia the crwmbling gray
house beyond the church. He rcmem-
bered also that the hand that dropped
into his the heavy purse of gold, telling
him it was TO be given to this same Felice
and Pierre, IL they should need IL, had
no ring upon the third finger, and Pere
Martin sighed as no looked into the
baby's face aud murmurcd, another
lamb into tho fold" But he, too, did
not speak Of what he remembered In
stead, no told them he would himself so
with them to ths Office Of the old uotaire
sn the corner and that all would be ar
ranged, and that the next day after
mass they might bring the child to be
ehristeued
Aud so they did and gave her the
Eame Of Snow white No other name
would have shifted her half SO W. II.
Snow white sine was when they found
aer, and snow white Felice always tried
10 keep her. She was mover too busy to
put few dainty tucks in bahy's little
whitG slip, or to wash her face OF to curl
her golden locks, Aud Pierre never
game up stairs without stopping to wash
bis hands at the big tub down in the
court so that he might not soil the baby's
dress when he took her in his arms, and
when he kissed her he always looked te
see that he had not left the impress Of
ais lips on hers. Il was marvellous to
900 what a change the baby's coming
made in the lives of the two, Pierre and
Felca Somehow Picrree step grew
tighter and his laugh grew cheerier
His fellow workers noticed it down at
Me big warehouse whore he hauled cot
bon on the dray, turning and pulling the
bales with his sharp hook.
ooh, I must not be SO rough, ke said
to them, "Since there Is now little one
tmay disturb with my big stepping
And Eel ces songs were gayor rs she
sr'pped about at her tidy homework,
t1tl her fingers were DIETER as she did her
Inir dressing. and her coiaues wers
more elaborate and graceful than ever
before.
at makes difference, is it not so.
aadalneg" she said as she WAS dressing
the hair of fond young mother, who
tat the while gently swinging the cradle
Of her first born; lit makes a difference
that there is now a little heart for your
biz one to hold. / know. 1t is all
shsnged with me. now that the good
God has sent us "a little one. 1t does not
matter so much now that | must 10 up
aud down the stair. that / must bring
che water from the cistorn in the court,
that / must be forever crinping and
curling and sticking in hairpins,'
1t did seem that all the little house
hold was changed There were not many
10 be sure. for besides Pierre and Fehce
there were only Marta, and Babette and
sleur Antoine in the Little gray house,
Marta lived iii the Grst floor, and from
her apartments there came always the
pleasing oior of burnt sugar, for 1t was
u her own little back room that she
made the white and golden ropes IF
candy that she sold upon the street every
aay. Mar,as delight knew mo bounds
when Suow-Whlte WAS able 10 sit ;tloue
nd hold Z. the little chubby fs, stick
Of her whitest and erispest candy, suck
ing it till il ran down her wrists aud chin
and upon her white dress in streams of
sticky sweetness
1T i By the reason that tho little one
dkes ii that make this cream candy.
Marta would say to her customers re-