Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-02
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The BarSeT's Daughters-Truo story OF
Two Noble Girls.
Five years ago Il well known Italian
merchant and banker Of New York city,
Mr. Bergamini, died, leaving two daugh-
ters and what was supposed to be n
large estate. The young ladies had
been highly educated and spent much Of
their tins in Italy. They had &20,0 GOO
and some personal property in their own
right when their father died. They had
not been educated to anything practical,
however, aud they knew no more Of real
life than falls to the lot Of the ordinary
fashionable girl. After Mr.. Bergainini's
death his business went down from one
cause and another. Two firms failed
that owed his estate large sums, and tho
| Bergamin. bank was forced TO suspend.
! Hundrcdsof poor Italians, fruit vendors,
laborers and rag pickers, had deposited
all their savings in the bank. and their
case was pitiful one Then II was the
girls showed the true blue blood
there WIS in them. Their prop
erty had been given TO them WHOM
their father was prosperous. 1t was.
moreover. oil they had to live On. There
was no law that could have made them
surrender cent except the moral one.
But Tercsa and Rachel Bergamini did
not hesilGt9 q moment. They turned
over all tllsir possessions for the beneiitof
the depozitors Of their dead fathers bank.
1t made soon after his death dividend
Of 25 PEI cant. Then tie tcnderly reared
girls started to earn their own living.
Miss Racstel became a teacher Of Ian
| guages. Hiss Teresa did clerical work
for tho executor Of her fathers estate.
Above ail, they wished to clear their
dead parents memory from any sus-
picion Of dighonor Tor this they toiled.
| They we-3 Invaluable Ia aiding to I'M
ravel tho tangled accounts Lately thero
was a soccDd dividend. this tiine Of II
per cent, and that fact brought tic two
brave sisters into public notice again.
They themselves stood behind the CASH
ier's desl when the dividend was paid
that they might identify the depos!t0rs.
many Of whom they knew BY name and
sight. Then they went back TO their
work again, one to teach. the other ~
keep books, quite unconscious that they
are two Of the most heroic girls alive
1t was praiseworthy for your grand
mother and your great grandmother %
knit becaEco there was need Of it. II ia
waste Ct time for you 70 knit. Go out
doors and cultivate health and flowers.
ride bicycle, learn music IN the even
ing or stray some Of the thousand won
derful Branches Of learning that lie al
about yea, inviting the attention Of ey-
erybody wish brains. Tie empress 81
Germany kaits and ernbroiders, but the
empress q Germany has not brains
enough 70 read or study. She IS just too
utterly domestic to live at the end u the
nineteenth century.
DO nos be satisfied merely % belong
TO a club and read and listen 70 japors.
Do something positive, either usefu1 or
ornamental, and add to the worlI's aolid
work. II ct the end Of each year wo
have not made at least one life better
and nobscr, il we have not given steady
assistance 10 at least one person who
needed f, II we have not mastered az
least ons department u knowledge Of
which we were ignorant before, then wo
might better haze been dead during that
whole year and left room for somebody
who woSid have used the time 70 adyan-
tage.
Mrs. George d. johnson has Invented
a most beautiful bicycle costume and
brayeIy appeared in it upon her wheel.
She Is bicycle enthusiast. Some tims
since while riding she caught her dress
skirt in the sprocket wheel Of her ma
chine, and the result was fall and a
dislocated shoulder. Then she said, Il
never viii ride In a skirt again, and Slio
kept her word. On her wheel trips she
now wears full Turkish trousers gathered
in at the knee. Below them are tan eol-
cred leggings reaching from the knes
and covering the ankle and the insiep.
coming down over the low bicycle
shoes. Shs wears with these a neat
shirt waist, belt and sailor hat or cap.
In this natty and unique costume she
looks as striking and pretty as some Of
the oriental ladies' at the wosid's con
| gress Of women did. What Is more. siis
viii never catch her skirt IN the wlietl
again. The Turkish trousers h4Ye ID sf-
feet shs appearances of short b;eycEs
skin. ELIZA Akc<AGp Cce;xEa.