The Van Buren press., 1893-12-02
Tie Cause Which Induced Miss Garland
to Commit Suicide.

AnC O6ucV sthASh AAhNssNS~ >-~eA~ 49,
to Commit Suicide.
A recent issue OF The Dallas News
prints letter written by Miss Daisy
Garland prior to her suicide. The
letter was written to Miss Gorham, OF
Dallas, Tex. a schoolmate, and given
by her to The News. Miss Gorham
says.
There was no Glove affair."" as some
of the papers said, nor "unhappinsss
at home," in the sad and tragic affair.
The following is quoted from q letter
from her written to me the day be-
fore she died:
II thirk, dear, that you would un-
derstand this terrible lethargy into
which 1 have fallen better than any
one. You always understood me ex-
actly. lam in just such state rs l
was our last year at school, before the
final examination. The moments with
you were very bright, but otherwise l
was wretched You remember it all.
I could not arouse myself enough to
study at the last, though my ambi-
tion and the wish to crafty my father,
urged me on. failed simply because
I could not exert myself. I am nerv-
Gus and just wantto be let alone. They
wanted me to 60 to West Point for
graduation week, chaperoned by Mrs.
Col. Wilson. Think how lovely. I
really made violent effort to 60, to
please papa, and because knew I
would regret not taking the trip, but
I just could not 60, do not under
stand why I feel so, with youth, posi-
tion. health tpapa, with his usual
good sense, has nearly established my
health again, with tonics, etc., and
surrounded by loving friends. who do
everything for me. l feel myself a
perfect little migrate that cannot be
bright ana gay for their sakes. But
1 cannot stir. I simply exist Papa
aud every one is so kind and consider
ate, even more so than usual. have
even ceased to care for music, q thing
that at one time 1 would have been
wild with delight over. There is no
love affair and unhappiness at home,
thank Heaven, as the papers and 10
many people suggested when I went
to Baltimore. You will be glad of
that, am sure"
She was very brilliant girl, aud
her wit and personal magnetism were
marvellous, but she failed on nlsthe-
matics. There were thirteen of US in
the graduates room at Norwood Col
lege, Washington. came last, but
did nut take the full course. She
withdrew from the school as soon as
she knew that she would not receive
her diploma, being rs she said then,
the thirteenth. She left homo two
months ago to enter convent, but
the sister superior persuaded her to
give up the idea, or, at least, to recon-
slider it, and write to her brother,
which she did. 1t hurts US, her friends.
to have it said there was love affair,
or q secret. The idea Is absured. She
was oversensitive and allowed rellg-
Gus matters to prey upon her mind,
which, coup cd with very delicate
constitution, made her undoubtedly
temporarily insane.
The Washington Post speaks of her
success in the social world and the
grace and tact with which she presid-
ed over her fathsr's honse, a very diff
ficult task for SO young girl, and the
sweet interest Mrs. Cleveland, during
! the last year of the administration,
took in the pretty debutante daughter
of one OF her husbands cabinet minis
ters.
There was mistake about her age;
she is % years old, not 20, and was by
several months the youngest girl in
her class.
IONA OAKLEY GoRHAM.