The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-22
SOME WOMEN.
Kate Field, Jennie June and a Few Others
The Woman of the Period

The Woman of the Period.
New York Correspondence Philadelphia Times.
The world is full of funny things, but the
oldest are the people. It's great mistake
to think that women are of no conse-
| quence." The first reporter was woman,
| for Eve told Adam where to find the apple
and he found it. AS I was crossing one of
Jay Gould's L bridges to-day l met Kate
Field. She is apparently maiden lady of
uncertain age, with a visage of uncompro-
missing severity. | never knew her to sue
coed in anything, but she is great on en-
deavor. AS an undertaken she would be
fundamentally successful. Not long ago 1
noticed Jennie June, who in alleged private
| short clothes [ heard the early fashion
tales of Jennie June read by my nurse
to the nurse next door. Mrs Croly is
| about ffty-five years OF age, bright, smart
with her pen and full of projects. She does
the fashion business for the millipers who
pay her well, and she has very nice estab-
lishment, all her own. We are living in an
age of advanced thought, and please don't
forget it. When Anna Dickinson failed on
the stage she didn't hurt womanhood or
woman's right to labor a whit Her early hit
was easily accounted for. She was we'll
coached. She had good subject. Her audi
ences were crazy on the matters of which she
spoke and she wore her hair short and skirts
long l have thought that if she had gone
on the stage when she was nineteen or twenty
she would have done we'll, for she certainly
has native wit and intelligence, but she
tackled the new venture when she was well
along in the forties, and that settled it, of
course. Charlotte Cushman hadn't half
the masculinity of Miss Dickinson, but what
she had was trained and tutored in her young
womanhood. the normal result was fame
attended by pecunary emoluments of
pleasing nature. didn't know Joan of Arc,
so | won't write of her, but do know Susan
B. Anthony and Lily Devereux Blake and
although as peculiar people they have their
cranks and absurdities there is very much
in both to admire. Susan is very ancient
now. She has led a life of enterprise and
influence, unstained by any frivolity except
mild Irritation with Theodore Tilton, who
played Absalom for awhile and wrote
sonnets to the lady's ear. Miss Anthony
has a forbidding aspect but that's gam
mon. As matter of fact she is
very lamb in disposition and a gazelle
in courtesy. She is fond of snail-soup and
fresh mushrooms, which, next to canvas
back ducks, are proof of the wisdom and
goodness of an all-generous nature. Neither
Miss Anthony, nor Miss Lucy Stone, nor
Miss Dickinson, nor Miss Field is heard of
much nowadays Miss Anthony is said to be
writing book. Miss Stone, as Mrs. Black
we'll has been very busy with maternal
duties for years. Miss Dickinson is reported
as threatening fresh campaign against thea
tiers, and Miss Field is yet in the tolls of the
courts as the chief what-d' ye-clll-her in the
Cooperative Dress Arrangement limited(
But the woman of the period is among us.
As late actor would have said There are
no frivolous airs" about her. She has come
down to us-as they all have-from several
generations, with IDEAS and ideas we are
bound to have. Her name is Blake. When
my dear papa was studying ethics, Mrs.
Blake was pansy-eyed maiden in New
Haven. She knew all the students and all
the students knew her, She was well
knowed" by the entire college-nobody