The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-05-28
SKATE COVENTRY,
A OhArmlngly Frank Lstler from q Nice
Sort OF q Girl.
She Says She 10 too Clever for the Aver.
age Man, and YET Mas Found Her
Match Spicy Comments on
tho Lords OF Creation"
Marshall, May 20, iSs.

Marshall, May ~, i76.
Correspondence OFT Herald
lfyou wont think mo either forward
or pert should just like TO say few
words about you mon that have been
dying to say for ever 40 long. am
young. not ill'favored, tolerably we'll
educated, u good housekeeper, aud
what you might call very nice sort
Of girl, with good health, fine con-
stitutlon, no nerves and rather y pas.
sable figure. There, now, you have
mo skeiched Nh | looked this morning
In the glass. I'm one OF the girls who
receive u good deal OF general atten-
ton, but, upon my word, l never had q
real downright serious beau, who
really meant business In tho whole
term OF my life. The reason IL obvious.
I'm too clever for the majority Of mon
aud Its Just my luck TO have always n
stupid man wearyiug my friendship,
Men don't like girls 10 no too clever,
and this, may be, Is the reason for my
not having been otf mamma's hands
long ago My besetting sin, too, Is
that never Eau vet serious when my
adorers do aud the more terribly la
earnest they become, the more
lnoorrIglble am. The major
ity OF young men bore me
awfully. They seem TO think
that the only way 10 make themselves
interesting TO II woman Is TO make love
to her. OF course this IL q mistake.
We had much rather DO entertained
otherwise, except In particular case.
| don't know what's going TO become
OF me. There never was IN little mar
rying going on as during the present
season. Whether TIA because the girls
are too fnstidious, or don't want to
cook, / can't say. May DO its the fault
OF the men. They are q selfish lot OF
brutes at best, and are not willing TO
make any sacrifice even to have O nice
wife. They plead poverty, the ex-
penses OF living, and yet fool away
enough money TO take care Of two
wives apiece. | know I'm nice and
pleasant TO take, yet nobody Will take
me. I'm sure I'd agree with any reas-
enable man. My sense OF the ridicu-
lous, too, Ia 30 lamentably keen that
the ludicrous element In love making
always upsets all my efforts to keep a
straight face, for there IL nothing
to my mind 30 utterly absurd
as man In love, unless
It ia monkey with the collie
Well, WE'LL how l am rattiint
along As ] was saying, though, am
lost ball. Not that am getting old
for Amt; no, not q bit OF It, unless you
call too old. l do wish | was like sons
girls, always with some fellow IN
string, but can't be, and that end
the matter. Its not In my nature;
can't 20 on enduring men, just be
cause they ire silly about me, and
won't. IL don't like them, what
the use VI sacrificing my peace TO b
polite? But there III u fellow l know
who Is awfully nice, and when Pu
with him, l act like fool. All OF M.
self.possession vanishes. 1 stamme
and blush In the most idiotic way q
nothing, and AZ for being clever, well
| lust can't. Pm smart enough Will
others, but with him have most dis
gushing consciousness OF not appearing
at my best, and ! could beat myself 10
the lack OF my habitual ease aud stool
of small talk. Then to make matter
worse, the man has got an unmercifu
way OF never taking his eye of OF m
when near me, and 10 exasperatlngl.
calm and cool, while / am fiuttering II
the most embarrassing way. Dea
me
There Is the dressing bell for dinner
aud must say an repoir.
KATE COVENTRY.