The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-08-08
LOVE CROWNED.
The Result of Taking for Lodging
Seven Rooms and Bath-By Belle
Moses.

Seven rooms and a bath.
''Good locality; three flights up
steam heated. Inquire on premises, "
added Dorothea after announcing the
above title with much impressement.
Rosalie set down her coffee cup with
an animation which threatened serious
damage To frail china, while Evelyn in
her sunny corner looked up from the
cluster of ferns she was painting, full
of the liveliest interest.
THAT sounds very plausible, " she
observed, leisurely mixing two shades
of green upon her palette. 'What do
you think oft, Dorothea ~
"What do You think of it, Rosalie ~
inquired Dorothea, parrying, as was
her custom, one question with another
''Seven rooms are really too many for
our needs" said the prudent eldest sis
ter $50 much To keep in order without
a servant
Don't worry, wen keep the place
tidy somehow. Evelyn can dust on
dark days when the light i poor for her
pictures, and | during those black
periods when inspiration fails, and 80
bctwixt us both, like Jack Sprat and
his wife of ancient fame, well lick the
platter elean,'" interposed Dorothea.
And with you at the helm, dear, we
can't get stranded" remarked Evelyn
insinuatingly.
''But seven rooms" grinned Rosa
lie; ''and two are not always what
they should be"
"Don't fiatter youself that fate has
reserved for Us seven barns the size of
this apartment" said Dorothea with
fine scorn. Prom Flora's description
| should Judge that an ovcrabundance
Of space was not a leading feature ofour
embryo establishment. Then I've cal
culated, with the necessary parlor, din
ing room and kitchen, bedroom
each maiden unto herself, and little
den where You can make your mud
pies in peace, Is not too much to take
care of, and move that We set our seal
upon FlOra's discovery Is soon as pos
sible."
II second the motion, cried Evelyn
springing up with alacrity.
.'Weli, - be it," said Rosalie, with a
resigned air, "a she put on her hat.
And so il was in less than q week.
The three sisters with their numerous
belongings had taken possession Oftheir
new quarters, well satisfied with the
change from the dull monOtony Of their
former life.
1t was novel sensation 10 these girls
To find themselves once more i'm a real
substantial home, however, small and
unpretending, for years since their
mothers death they had struggled on
in their dreary lodgings, ekeing out
their meagre income bya practical ap-
plicatiOn OF their various talents. RO-
sale fashioned cornices and artistic
plaster moulding for the interior deco
ration of buildings, while she waited
for the golden opportunity for which
she longed-the leisure To model the
figure of IA woman that should only
lack the breadth of life TO crown her
perfection, a creation that should pos
sess more than the SENSUAL beauty
which caused Pygmalion to fall in love
with his own work She wished to
show the world a woman in all the
glory of her nineteenth century devel-
opment and a foreshadowing Of future
possibilities.
D0rothea wrote short newspaper ar
ticles, with her treasured novel hidden
in her desk await ng the few crumb,
she was able to fling to it from time tC
time, some of her best thoughts proba-
bly,, but in crude state, just a. they
Slipped off her ready pen. She had
longings, too, though her ambition took
no definite shape, like Rosalie's- Itwa'
not one woman that she wished 10 pict.
ure, but men and women without num-
Der, who posed in many positions be
fore the world. But ali this would
take time, which could i'll be spared
when the monthly bills came down
upon them like - many crows to pick
the bones of genius.
And Evelyn, Il passionate lover OF
nature, was ambitious, too She want
ed to scatter the Odor of garden and
fields through the flowers and grasses
she 30 skiIlfully painted. ''If could
make my roses smell l believe ! should
die happy" she would often say, when
her sisters OF friends expressed their adj
miration of some specially good effort,
Meantime, the dainty creations found
ready market, and practical Evelyn
went eheerfully ON with her work, ad-
ding more than her share to the fami-
ly exchequer and patiently waited for
the happy day when she might roam
through the smiling country under the
blue sky and paint nature at her best.
And such was the trio that settled
down 10 enjoy life in seven rooms and a
bath A truly remarkable family, one
might say. Not at all. They were
merely anxfoGs each TO reap the benefit
of her one gin, and working truly foI
that end succeeded, as earest worker.
often do, and enjoyed with all the zest
Of youth the fruit Of their labors.
But the space was eramped, as Doro-
thea predicted, and when genius SIM
mered Il was apt TO be brought 10 a
sudden halt by some bodily bump, the
result OF personal contact with odd cor