Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-06-08

breakfast the girls devote 90 music Miss
Alta IL finished pianist. while Miss
Edith Is quite expert on the violin and
cello. They practice regularly every
week day. Their taste for music iE an
Inherited one Their father IL one Of
the finest amateur performers on the
violin In the country. and has been 50
pronounced by famous musicians. who
have been entertained ut the Rookie
fcllcr house Tho father and daughters
often play together in the evening TO
the great pleasure ~ the chosen few
Of the friends who are permitted TO
hear them The fact that there are four
pianos. a magnificent pipe organ and
innumrrablc other Instruments IN the
house attests the musical character OF
the inmates
After the music 81 the morning has
been disposed ~ the girls take up their
favoritr studies Prior 90 her marriage
Mrs. Rockefeller was a school teacher
IN Cleveland. ohio. or more properly
speaking, a professor of botany. The
HtudinuH habits contracted then Htill
cling 20 her and have been transmitted
To the daughters. Roth are clever lin
gusts and deep readers Miss Alta
favors French and Miss Edith prefers
German. although she has gained a
knowledge II Japanese, and at one time
seriously thought ~ iourncying 60 that
country ne missionary. The spectacle
~ fty-million-dulfar hcircss going
as a missionary would. indeed. have
been an odd one
After the reading r. over the girls go
for a ride I'm the park, The whole fam
NY is passionately fond Of the equine
world. the father and son owning fast
trutters and the girls favoring the sad
die horse They are usually attended by
groom and both are swift riders. FREE
quently covering fifteen miles I'm an hour
and a half They are usually back be-
fore II, and spend the remaining hour
until lunch time IN going over their
mail Both Of them have Sunday school
classes In Dr Armitage's Baptist
church. and are members ~ 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 az
/ o'clock. and the afternoon passes away
At this season OF the year much
OF the time Is spent IN the garden sur
the house. In Il is an arti-
fetal lake about four inches deep, II
freezes readily and affords n 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.slkating parties hidden behind the f,
high green fence running along the
Fifty-fourth street front. six o'clock
is the dinner hour. and the meal Is a
plain, substantial one, with no wines
or liquors Prohibition scarcely de-
scrlbcs 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, IL not, there |
Ia music, or entertaining a few friends. /
by II o'clock the whole family Is asleep. 1
II Is healthful. wise. simple. and |
day that these eNtraordi- |
nary rich young women live. Fortune
hunters never approach them. II they |
lid, the memory of their reception would ,
make them shiver for a lifetime.