Diaries of Bertha Trube, 1886 January 19-1900 January 1.

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Diaries of Bertha Trube, 1886 January 19-1900 January 1.

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Bertha Trube kept a diary from age 14 to 29. On 19 January 1886, fourteen-year-old Bertha Trube and her family begin a journey back to the family's home town of Glauchau near Dresden, Germany, for a five-month visit with relatives and friends. She attends school in Dresden for about one month, takes several day trips on the Elbe River, climbs hills, takes piano lessons, walks, shops, eats, and plays. They arrive home in New York on 9 July 1886. At home, she settles into a daily routine of dressing, shopping, chores, taking care of her younger siblings, practicing piano, sewing, playing games, ice skating, visiting, writing letters, reading, and putting on plays. She takes day trips to West Point, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Fort Hamilton, and Tarrytown, and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She spends summers in the country in various locations (near Middletown, N.Y., 1887; Central Valley near Monroe, N.Y., 1888; working on aunt and uncle's farm near Mehoopany, Pa., and at Lake Oscawana, near Peekskill, N.Y., 1889; Greenwich, CT, 1891) and her diary reveals her heightened interest in boys. Admitted to Packers Institute, she finishes school at age sixteen but continues private piano, dance, and French lessons. She recounts days of visiting friends for tea and receiving visitors at home, and mentions the Johnstown (Pa.) flood. In 1891 she takes cooking lessons at Pratt Institute and studies English history. Trube joins the Chautauqua Circle in 1889 and travels to Washington, D.C. and Mt. Vernon. In 1892 she experiences her first unrequited love and becomes more introspective with fewer, longer entries. By 1893 she writes her diary entries as letters to her sister Lal, mentioning elocution lessons, acting in plays at the Germania Dramatic Club, and visiting the Chicago World's Fair.

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