New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-07-08


Mrs. Stocker or any one else being BY.
It was when in full possession
of the solitary room, the window
open, the fresh air and vivid
sunshine pouring in, and the
whole presence Of the blue sky
filling the whole space, that the little
creature would yield to the entire
power and desire, that ever seemed
possessing her, to raise her voice in a
glorious union with the harmony of
Nature, as it might in her birthplace
have made itself heard to her. Many
time people becoming aware Of it in
the street below, had stopped to
listen whence the music came, and
more than once Mrs. Stocker herself
had paused, ere opening the door,
astonished, and scarcely crediting her
own ears that it could be the voice OF
her patient, silent, Woodworking little
assistant; but never when singing, in
obedience to request, would Ida so
acquit herself as on these solitary oc-
caslOns. ....- IT,. III. ~. -. .zr
AS one morning, when the maker OF
regalia' and embroiderer of kingly
purple, having gone out in quest of an
especial dainty on which she declared
she had "set her heart for dinner,
and which, being nothing very par
ticular in hand, they might just as well
have that day. "And, duckey, you
should come too, but must call on
Madame Annina, about anew set she's
wanting done, and your mother would
think, don't know, what was to
happen if took you to the house of
an actress, though I believe she's bet
ter than half the saints; but that's
neither here nor there; you know what
to get on with, pet?"
ooh, yes" Ida knew what to do,
and did not at all want to go out, but
would have finished that quite by the
time she came back.
"You'll do nothing OF the kind now,
pussy; you old-fashioned, hard work
ing thing! You just get up and have
a run around the room and look out
of the window, and I'll see and bring
you back a few flowers, if can lay
hands on any for next to nothing."
With this good-natured rebuke, the
kindly but careless woman quilted the
room, first putting on a thick veil to
hinder the sign manual of "Bill
Stocker, his mark" beingto apparent
in conjunction with her eye. 1t was
the other one this time; the account
was kept up pretty evenly between
the two organs OF vision, affording a
"striking'' proof that is not always
the offending member Oh which
punishment falls There was nothing
at all provocative in the glance OF
those brown eyes, faded though they
were; but you may have noticed that
the good woman was profuse in her
adjectives, and they were, perhaps,
not always OF the endearing nature
applied to ::pussy."
There was a RAY OF autumn sunshine
struggling into the room, just over the
corner where the child sat; she felt it's
warmth, and, as if to give it encour-
agement, or to draw it's welcome "a
dance to herself, she began, directly
she found herself alone, to sing in her
soft, quiet, increasing way; till, the
sound quickening the work, and the
fast fingers again strengthening the mu:
sic, she worked and sang, and sang and
worked, till she might have been weav-
ingmusic or singing pearls, for aught she
| WdS CONSCIOUS now. one never uediu
the old cracked bell on the landing out.
side the door, with it's jingle-jangle
giving signs that some one was want
ing the first floor below; but went on
in a land of her own, singing out from
her very hearts gladness that he,
fingers had found employment.
''Is Mrs. Stocker at home, do you
think? have rung several times" 6
lady asked OF the dirty maid servant
whom she encountered in the passage
II don't know, I'm sure, miss, but
think she is, and likely enuff she don't
hear the bell. Will you go up?"S
eyes, might as well,' for to say
truly the lady's attention had beer
taken by the sound Of singing; and sh,
had the pardonable curiosity of wish
ing to ascertain from what part OF tn
house and from whom it might pro
ceed
elbow very sweet!' she said to her
self as. she Went up. "Good Heavens
and she stopped; ''my own sone!-
false notes, but very, very sweet
Why, IL is in her ROOM
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