Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-04-27

breakfast the girls devote to music. Miss
Alta is a finished pianist, while Miss
Edith is quite expert on the violin and
cello. They practice regularly every
week day. Their taste for music is an
inherited one. Their father is one of
the finest amateur performers on the
violin in the country, and has been so
pronounced by famous musicians, who
have been entertained at the Rookie
feller house. The father and daughters
often play together in the evening to
the great pleasure of the chosen few
of the friends who are permitted to
hear them. The fact that there are four
pianos, magnificent pipe organ and
innumerable other instruments in the
house attests the musical character of
the inmates.
After the music of the morning has
been disposed of the girls take up their
favorite studies. Prior to her marriage
Mrs. Rockefeller was a school teacher
in Cleveland, Ohio, or more properly
speaking, a professor of botany. The
studious habits contracted then still
cling to her and have been transmitted
to the daughters. Both are clever lin
gusts and deep readers. Miss Alta
favors French and Miss Edith prefers
German, although she has gained
| knowledge of Japanese, and at one time
seriously thought of journeying to that
| country as missionary. The spectacle
| of a fifty-million-do dollar heiress going
as a missionary would, indeed, have
| been an odd one.
After the reading is over the girls go
| for a ride in the park. The whole fam
! lily is passionately fond of the equine
| world, the father and son owning fast
| trotters and the girls favoring the sad
| die horse. They are usually attended by
groom and both are swift riders, fire.
quently covering fifteen miles in an hour
and half. They are usually back be-
fore -, and spend the remaining hour
until lunch time in going over their
mail Both of them have Sunday school
classes in DIR. Armitages Baptist
church, and are members of many
church societies. Their wide charities
| have made them known to toilers in
| the field of philanthropy all over town.
| and whenever a really deserving case
| is encountered the Rockefeller girls are
| usually communicated with to supply
the needed aid Luncheon is served at
/ o'clock, and the afternoon passes away
| quickly. At this season of the year much
| of the time is spent in the garden sur
rounding the house. In 1t is an arti-
fetal lake about four inches deep. 1t
freezes readily and affords a fine skat-
ing ground, which is used daily when
ever there is any ice. Their friends
also use it, and there are often many
merry skating parties hidden behind the
high green fence running along the
Fifty-fourth street front Six O'Clock
rs the dinner hour, and the meal is a
plain. substantial one, with no wines
or liquors. Prohibition scarcely de-
scribes the Rockefeller attitude on the
LIQUOR question. They spend many for
tunes annually in fighting the liquor
evil. If the weather is favorable there
is oftentimes a skating party by cleo
trio light In the evening. If not, there
is music, or entertaining a few friends
BY II o'clock the whole family is asleep
II is a hcalthful, wise, simple, anc
satisfactory day that these extraordi
nary rich young women live. Fortune
, hunters never approach them. If they
did, the memory of their reception woult
make them shiver for a lifetime.