San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-08
The Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER s, '93
MISS DAISY GARLAND.
Religious Matters and a Delicate
Constitution the Cause.

The following is from class
mate of Miss Daisy Garland:
CHICAGO, H., Oct. 3O.---There
was no dove affair."" as some Of the
papers said, nor "unhappiness at
home" in the sad and tragic affair.
The following is quoted from let
ter from her written to me the day
before she died.
| think, dear, you would under
stand this terrible lethargy into
which / have fallen, better than
any one. You always understood
me exactly. | am in just such a
state as | was our last year of
school, before the final eXamina-
ton. The moments with you were
very bright, but otherwise / was
wretched. You remember it all. |
could not arouse myself enough to
study, at the last, though my am
bition and the wish to crafty my
father, urged me on. | failed, SIM
ply because / could not exert my
self. | am nervous and want to be
let alone. They wanted me to go
to West Point for graduation week,
chaperoned by Mrs. Col. Wilson.
Think how lovely. [ really made
a violent effort to go to please papa,
and because knew | would regret
not taking the trip, but just could
not 60. | do not understand why
| feel so, with youth, position,
health papa with his usual good
sense, has nearly established my
health again, with tOnics, etc. and
surrounded by loving friends, who
do everything for me, | feel my
self a perfect little migrate that |
cannot be bright and gay for their
sakes. But | cannot stir. simply
exist. Papa and every one is so
kind and considerable, even more
than usual. | have even ceased to
care for music, and you know how
| used to love it. Cummins has
succeed so well in his music, a
thing that at one time | would
have been wild with delight over.
There is no love affair and unhap-
piness at home, thank heaven, as
the papers and so many people
suggested when | went to Balti-
more. You will be glad of that, |
am Sure."'
She was a very brilliant girl, and
her wit and personal magnetism
were marvellous, but she failed on
mathematics. There were thirteen
of us in the graduates room at
Norwood college, Washington. ]
came last, but did not take the full
course. She withdrew from the
school as soon as she knew she
would not receive her diploma, be.
ing, as she said then, the thirteenth
She left home two months ago tC
enter convent, but the sister
superior persuaded her to give up
the idea, or, at least, to reconsider
it, and write to her brother, which
she did. 1t hurts us, her friends, tC
have it said there was a love affair
or secret. The idea is absurd. She
was over sensitive and allowed re.
ligiOuS matters to prey upon hel
mind, which, coupled with very
delicate constitution, made her un,
doubtedly temporarily insane.
The Washington Post speaks o.
her success in the social world anC
the grace and tact with which she
presided over her fathers house, a
very difficult task for so young 6
girl, and the sweet interest Mrs
Cleveland, during the last year o.
the administration, took in the
pretty debutante daughter of one
of her husbands cabinet ministers
There was a mistake about hel
age; she is 23years old, not 30, anC
was by several months the young.
est girl in her class.