Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-01-25

! there the live coal has t0ucned uer lips
| fire has fallen on them from the skies
and no priestess was ever more inspired
No living woman ever figured in such 8
triumphal scene ~ that of the Southern
Convention in Philadelphia, when the
weeping delegates throngsd round her
pinning their badges on her dress; OF
when in TIE House of Representatives
surrounded by the dignitares of nation
she upbraided the President to bis face,
AID urged him to the work of emanci
patton; or that on tho battle field o.
c Gettysburg, when wandering about the
spot. with its graves, its rude records
its bones bleaching in crannies of the
rock, had wrought her to white heat
and thousands of the rebel prisoners
there. permitted to listen to her speech,
surged forward with oaths aud protesta.
tions, kissing the the old flag, and swear
ing they would never more lift their
hands against it.
Miss Dickinson is tho possessor Of ex
traorilnary personal beauty. made up rs
it is of fine features, skin with the
clear. creamy, and rudy, tiuts Of the
perfect tea rose, black curling hair, daz
zling teeth, and ewes like nothing so
much as the aqua marine jewel. Mt once
soft aud brilliant To the last degree -
She arrays this beauty after style of
quaint plcturesquenrss never atfronting
fashion, but never subseryiert TO it. la
her habits she is nice and methodical.
as the larlir gs of fortune seldom are,
and she is further characterized by a
generosity more than prodIgal. II is
plainly neither the strong minded wo
man nor the agita,or one hears IN listen
tening to her, but genius anointed 10
speak.
KATE FIELD.
Quite the contrast to any other public
speaker OF her lex, in appearance, is
Kate Ficld--rather plump. blonde, with
light bro wn bar falling i'll natural waves
aud rings from her comb, with great
wide open gray eyes, with lovely lips,
and teeth like pearl seed; mouth al
ways full of sarcastic witlicisms. bat hands
always ready for kind deeds. Miss
Field is the only chdd OF a journalist
and actor, whose uulimeIy los was
much regretted. Since his death her
moth,r-a noble aud brilliant woman
has devoted herself 10 The tsc..aghter, and
she has been thoroughly educated, hav
ing studied with tn" best instructors both
in Amerca and Europe Willis in Flor
encc she was the pet of the Browning',
the TroIlapes, and of Walter Savage
Lander; aud since her return, and her
recovery from the i'll health of some
Years. she has won an enviable reputation
in literature. and is now just entering
the lecture field where her successes OF
last winter invite her to still further
achievements. a m"re interesting
scene is seldom enjoyed than that of Der
recent lecture at the Globe Theatre, in
Boston where the charming auditorium
was filed with the elite of culture and
art; and Mss Field. dressed with ele
giant simplicity in blue and white. and
holding a crimson covered book, read
her lecture on Dickens, surrounded by
the flowers with which friends had dec
GRATED the little drawing room scene be
hind her; and the whole thing seeming
like something out of Frer CHI salons aud
the Hotel 2ambouilliet. Mss Field is
the possessor of fiue voice for speak
ing, having an almost unprecedented
gamut Of tones and infections. She is
also very finished musician, fine a,n-
ateur per former on tue stage OF private
theatrcals. and her summers al Newport
have rendered her nearly rs famous a
boat woman rs Ida Lewis herself; with
all which she maintains her feminine
charm unbrOken.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG.
1t has always been used as n reproach
to tho United States that the last and
best of the arts hsd no abode in them,
few worshipers, priests, or prophets; and
it WAS for AdeIna Pats aud Louise Kel
logg to take the reproach from us--the
first of foreign extraction and utilization,
indeed, but the latter a child of our own
soil aud traditions, born during the tenn
porary sojourn in the south OF her pa
rents, whose nativity add residence were
in New England, as were those OF their
ancestors before them for generatl"ns.-
Mss KelIogg's musical development has
been remarkable. aud has dated from
her infancy. When but nine months
old. and vet in arms, she essayed t. sing
tune that had pleased her baby fancy,
and accomplishing the first part, but
failing To turn 1t CORRECTLY, she stopped,
and was not heard 10 attempt it aga'u
till lust before the completion of the year
when she broke out in triumph, and
sang the whole mir through. AT two
years o d certain songs would OCCASION
her showers of happy tears, and some
other music was not to be played or sung
in the house on account or the nervous
paruxysns into which il threw her -
Her musical ear. also, had Always heen Q
the finest. She was not th sc years OLD
when, some one touching the keys o.
the piano and asking their names unseen
| the lltl- Louise cried out from an al
! joining room, where, of course, The re.
| board WAS invisible TO her also, Il know
| what that is, mamma; it's the httl'
white one between the two black ones,
winch it was; and something always &
be noticed IN her singing is an absoint
precision Of tone; no feeling alter ID
note, rs so often is the case but the pur