Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1900-06-08

contributors. Last winter manu-.
script reached the Office which struck
us all as something quite extraordin.
airy. It was in the form OF a diary,
purporting to have beeu found In the
room Of an unknown girl who lost her
reason from sheer starvation In a
well.to.do quarter OF Gotham. She is
Down East girl. with literary ambi-
tons, and In her loneliness keeps one
OF those voluminess journals that no
one really writes nowadays with won
derful freshness aud country wit II
might have been written for her
mothers eyes, or q lovers, perhaps /;
Il reveals her follies and her virtues
both with such perfect spontaneous
ness. When literature fails her she
tries sewing, and even posing for art
students, and she hits off the fine
ladies' and sisters OF your craft with q
most delicious mixture OF satire and
enviousness But through 1t all runs
the tragic sense Of the rushing POWER
OF her environment closing upon her
like the remorseless jaws Of a trap.
The last four entries describe her SEN
sations on four successive days with.
out food, after q grand dame fails to
pay her for the work she has done,
and II breaks of with the first inco.
her ent rawlings Of coming insanity. I
never read anything more weird or
powerful in its way than that last cry
for help"
"Teli us who wrote II, quick |" OK.
claimed Grace, who felt light break
ing in on her
The sketch was unsigned, and the &C.
companying slip giving the authors
name and address was accidentally
lost We had II put in type aud de-
cided to publish II, thinking that the
writer would see and claim II. have
the advance sheets here, but yester-
day, by good luck, the missing paper
turned up and / determined to run in
and explain matters to the presum-
ably irate lady III person. The adj
dress, / believe, Is In this neigebor.
hood tho name" - Mr.. Phillips took
out a memorandum slip and regarded
il through his eyeglasses - "Miss
Honora Graves. Why, what 10 II 2
Do you know her 2" &
Fortuna ely Nora was IN the kitchen
during the ensuing conversational
scene.
She took her laurel, very quietly
when they were placed tumultuously
on her brow. Sitting ainong the girls
who welcomed her now as q sister
"artist," she told them how the idea
of TRANSPORTING her diary occurred to
her as last resort In the midst Of o
starving week, which Dame near to
ending as tragically 10 reality as on
paper.
When no reply was received she
gave up oil literary projects, and
grasped the first oprQatpnity that
than Miss Eiizabeth's d.
But,upon being halle ls Q promis-
ing "lion," with career opening be.
fore her, our Honora very frankly and
emphafically disclaimed the idea. ~
might nevei succeed again, she said.
"This wasn't art hut plain truth,
which was forced ouI OF .me BY the
pinch Of reality, aud don't want to
have the screw put On o second time.
No; il New York has done nothing
else for me, at least II has tanned my
ambition and taught me my place."
"But what shall you do? You
can't expect to travel incognito and
laugh at US in your sleeve, now that
We know you 2"
"Do? I shall 10 home and have II
out with dear old Dick, "cried Honora,
impulsively, and that brought down
the house. Springfield Republican.