Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-19
Misrellarreons.
Kate Field.

Among the notable women of the day
no one attracts more Of public interest. or
of private and personal regard. than does
Miss Kate Field. AYtIsts and siNerdteur;
the elegant woman of the world (though
in no sense a worldly woman the writer,
the accomplished scholar.-Miss Field
blend, all 10 her wide and varied attain
ments, her crystalline truth and sincerity
OF character. her fidelity to all that is gen
erous and noble in life. She has studied
and read and thought; she has travelled
in many lands. and ''sipped the foam OF
many lives and polished and various
sided culture has added its charm to
woman singularly charming by nature and
possessed of the indefinable gift OF fascina-
lion. Yet from all these,-the woman OF
letters. learning or sOciety.-one is apt TO
come back to Kate Field, the woman who
in every purpose has the courage OF her
convictions, and whose life presents Sc
ries Of varied and advancing achievements.
Of these. the latest is the tour which
Miss Field is now making through the pic
turesque and historic regions of the South
West In literary aspect the fieldi won
derfully rich. and almost wholly unexplor-
ed. Miss Field. with that genius OF COM
nonsense that so pre-eminently character
lies her, was swift to perceive the posi-
biities that here await the interpreter,
and it is quite in the eternal fitness OF
things that the hand which has given US
the brilliant and graphic Ten Days in
Spain'-in which the author sees and ex-
periences more than some people would
in ten years-should chronicle for US, as
il is hoped will be done, the strange and
IF tb1. kar Wpst Ahnuf
the middle OF last August Miss Field lett
New York en- route for Denver, where she
remained "A month. receiving distinguished
social attentions, and where she gave. by
special request, her charming Musical
Monologue" and the Evening with Dick
ems" literary entertainment of the finest
character OF this lecture Western
journal said:
Charles Dickens was the novelist of
humanity, and Kate Field is to-day his
most sympathetic and intelligent interpre-
ter. Those who were SO fortunate. as to
attend her reading last evening enjoyed
an intellectual pleasure not soon forgotten.
We saw slender, graceful woman,
dressed in creamy white, with delicate
laces falling about her; with low, broad
brow snd sympathetic eyes, under cloud
OF soft brown hair. With rich and finely
modulated voice of remarkable power OF
expression, she held her audience for two
hours spellbound by the magic of her gen.
ius"
Miss Fields tour is a very remarkable
one for woman delicately born
She has gone into the subterranean
depths of mines; ridden on horse
back % miles day; camped out, with a
party from New York, on 1.-The Needles, :"
sharp mountain peaks in Colorado; and
made protracted visit to San Juan sill
ver-mining district PicDcs, excursions.
and special trains have been gotten up
and run in her honor. and her progress
has been series of ovations that, as they
are given to woman. all other women
may be pardoned for taking pride in.
Among other diversions Miss Field had
the honor of naming new watering
place. located on The Divide" an hour
by rail from Denver. to which. in recogni-
ton of General Palmer, who has practi
cally made" that region. Miss Field gave
the name of Palmero, the Spanish tor
Palmer. So unique and picturesque a
tour. made by a woman, is a notable event
IN American life, and the special and dis
tinguished consideration everywhere ex-
tended TO Miss Field-the reception that
greets her as woman and as artists one
most gratifying both to her personal
friends and to all who are interested in
the higher development and larger OPP
portunlties for women.-LILIAN WHITING
ia WOmdn'S Journal.