Gerry, Margarita Spalding: Heart And Chart. v1. 31 Oct 2025
 

Margarita Spalding GERRY: Born : 1870: Lived : Washington, DC, USA: Died : 1939

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I KNOW now that I must have thought it little less than heroic when I made up my mind that I would go into training—“become a member of the toiling masses” was how I phrased it to myself at that period. It had been planned that I should have my coming-out tea during the winter; but it was then that my father lost most of his money in a suburban subdivision that subdivided but didn’t sell, and he began to look worried, and mother began to say that she really must go over the bills and see why they were so large. I probably felt that I was renouncing splendors, for I distinctly remember an exceedingly blank sensation at the way the family received the news.