St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
Pernicious Effect Of the Writ
ings Of the Morbid Young
Russian.
She Finds an Imitator Within
the Limits Of Plain Min
neapolis.
What a Supersensitive Soul
Says Of Its Own Sacred
Feelings.
Tender Thoughts Of the Spir-
1t Exposed to the Base, Ig-
noble World.

1t is all traceable to Marie Bashkirt-
self. The condemnation of supersen-
Sltiveness, egotism. slush, morbidness
and diseased fancy which was pub
-llShed with her name on the title page
has put obnoxious ideas into the heads
OF Weak-minded individuals, and in
stead of being harmless objects of SYM
pathy they have become diSturberS of
the peace. One of them drifted into
the GLOBE Office few nights ago, and
at sight of him the braSs-bound heart of
the sporting editor melted with grief;
and he did not, according 10 his first I'M
pulse, shoe away the tender thing.
This child of all the nine muses. wore
his hair in ringlets. except where 1t was
in real sweet bang, trained over a
forehead ''sicklied DER with the pale
cast of thought" His voice was like
cross between distressed Thomas
of the East wind as it whistles through
the keyhOle of your bOudoir on 'Stilly
night in june" All! but his words !!
When he spoke, all the tenderness of his
sonl. all the sensitiveness of his mind,
all the varied convolutionS of his blonde
brain stood revealed. He was too
etheriel for this earth, as evinced by his
language. which proved him to be too
far above the clouds to be familiar with
coarse English. He spoke, and the
office clock stopped.
You may not know me. He! he! he!
How could you know me when you
never saw me betoah? But l wead
youah papah-sometimes Papahs ah
too coarse to wead much. Mamma says
Pm genius, and geniuses shouldn't
wead much that is coarse. But Pm a
veal twue genius, and | can wife just
like the immortal Mawie. How l
adOah Mawie! If she had only
not died. we could have been
been mawried and have lived on poetwy.
Heah alb some things l vote the otha
day."
His six feet of inane loneliness had de-
parted, and stray dog that had wan-
dered in sat down and howled until the
occupants of the Office recovered con-
be stated right here that the portrayer Of
his own passion was not an empfOye Of
an evening paper, but this is what he
had left on the editors desk:
May IL am genius. The world
must know that am genius and Pm
hungry. q wish had some sauerkraut
/ and beer.) l wonder if real all wool
geniuses ever get hungry. But Pm a
/ genius and Pm dandy.
1 May al went out on the street yes
terday. l saw man. He laughed at
j me. Il hate men.) Pm not man. Pm
. a genius. Papa says I'm fool. What
I does he know about it? Pm smarter
than everybody. Great Scott! Pm a
hummer!
I. May 3.-Again I say l am a genius.
Besides being a genius am sensitive.
Why, oh, why do not people understand
me? Last night / wanted some baby
food. 1t was refused me. Il cannot
bear to be Disappointed | was grieved.
l pounded my head against the wall
and had a headache. Caesars ghost
but | am smart.
May 81 did not write in my journal
yesterday. 1 was sick. Il had colic.)
Why did 1 have collie? Because | ate
cucumbers. See how smart | am.
| know everything?) Because [ know
it. If | don't know who does know?
May 6.-My feelings are hurt. Papa
said this morning that was fool. Il
know more than he does.) know more
than all the family. l am child of
poetry and of passion. (They are base,
ignOble wretches.) l am getting nerv-
Gus. l will go up to my room and chew
the rag.
May II have been roaming all over
the house. Through whatever room l
roam 1 find plenty of air. q will
scratch out that last sentence.) Some
enviouS creatures might say l had tried
to make pun. Pm genius. You bet
Pm genius. l am a loo-loo. | am
darling. | am a corker. Gam l a
corker?) Yes, l am corker. l am the
only one of the kind on earth.
May ST. will get married. Will l get
married? Yes, L will. No, 1 won't. 1
don't know whether ! will or not. (Yes,
/ will get married.) l have been read
ing Poems of Passion" by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. l can read. l will
marry Ella. Ella is child of passion.
am child of passion. [ and Ella and
May 9.-No. L will not marry Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. (She is already mar
ried.) My heart is broken. No, it is
not broken. Yes, it is. No, it is not.
will get new heart. | am sweet. l
am beautiful. | am smart. / am too
good to live. I won't die. Il en- too
tough to die.) / smoked a cigarette
once. | am getting sensitive again.
Now | will stand on my head.
May 1O.-I am getting smarter every
day. Humping Hannibal! but am an
out and outer. Il am too smart to live.)
Will l die? l will not die. Yes, will
die. No. l won't die. / will
But the Office cat, who had been in
dustriously chewing at the other end of
the manuscript, was seized with convul-
sions. and in the succeeding shuttle the
remainder of this priceless manuscript
was lost.