A paragraph in your issue of the 13th February, drew my attention the other day toa would-be sweeping commentary on the "Kobe girls" by some individual anxious to enter for the matrimonial sweepstake. The verses one can see are meant to be most sarcastic, but, I think I read them some six months ago in one of the American comic papers, Life or Puck, when. they were supposed to represent the American type of the modern girl; it would have been more generous on the part of the Kobe Herald correspondent hac owned his indebtedness to the particular paper, whence he obtained his inspiration. I would like to assure him, could I only accord it, of my unbounded sympathy; the Kobe fair ones must have treated him very unkindly. Reading between the lines one can easily imagine the state of his feelings, after numerous rejections, prompting him toseck solace in the bitter sweet potations of "Yankee humorosity," and the bilious nature of the condition that led him to find the counterpart of his sentiments in the verses beginning:—
'The grounds of the Kobe girls' unfitness to share (O happy lot!) the joys and sorrows of the poet-copyist are evidently their red alleged incapability of making a hat, a pie," of mending socks, if I remember correctly, and I should imagine that the best place to find a happy combination o the above eminently desirable would be a general domestic's Regis Office, or would it not be better to defer matrimony for a little while until the mexicans roll in sufficiently to allow of the supporting of, three separate luxuries viz., cook, servant, and wife, to give the three their relative importance according to the aforesaid correspondent. It might not be out of place to mention here that from certain information received it seems the Kobe maidens more particularly look across the seas for husbands, going on the statistics of the last few years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.