The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-23
THREE NOTABLE WOMEN.
How Belva Lockwood, Kate Field and
Mary A. Livermore Strike
the Beholder.
AS the First Grows Older She
Adopts the Ktttenish Ways
of the Summer Girl.
Little Kate Field and the Pride She Takes
in Her Neat Boots-Masculine
Mrs Livermore.

Three women who ave achieved or have
had various degrees of fame thrust upon
them were unconsoiously grouped one day
this week and made a curious study. says a
Washington letter in the Chicago Post.
The most noticeable in point of size, as we'll
as for the peculiar form of notoriety which
surrounds her, was Mrs. Belva Lockwood.
Wherever this would-be president appears
there is alwas q little ripple Of curiosity and
surprise. Mrs. Lockwood has changed AS
tonishinely since her face became familiar
several years ago in street transparencies
and political show bills. Her hair was then
q yellowish white and dressed a la Lydia
Pinkham. Now it is a deep, rich brown,
suggestive OF restoratives, though the lady
herself accounts for it in a miraculous sort
of way, saying that her whitened locks
dropped out and were replaced by
natures own hand by q plentiful
growth of rich brown hair. This she has
banged in front and pulled behind until she
has almost lost any resemblance to the
Belva of old. Those who fancy that the
woman's rights bee in a feminine bonnet
robs her of all instinct for wishing to be
attractive makes a mistake, The carrying
out Of the desire is usually lamentable, but
the effort is usually visible. In Mrs. Lock
woods case she has evidently fallen into
the snare of the dress reformer too, for her
dress is made on reform principles, and she
is euiltless OF corset or shaping steel. Be-
ing a woman Of considerable avoirdupois,
the billowy effect produced between the
waist and the chin is more striking than at
tractive. In manner this woman leader is
extremely volatile. and when observed she
usually adopts the kittenish graces that are
supposed to be relegated to the Kingdom of
the summer girl. Taken altogether, she is
an odd combination Of the embalmed youth
and vivifed old age.
A most complete contrast to this capa-
cious style of woman is a why, tightly
built little body. who. with bandbo1y style
and quick birdlike motions, gives a sug-
gestion of a feminine ingalls,, with more re-
pose of manner, however, and still more
dignity, perhaps, than falls to the lot of
the statesman. Who is the little lady?
Why. the doughty Kate Field. to be sure.
How little she looks likes her name, which
seems suggestive of big lines. Junoesque
contrary, she is a wee nippy' of a woman,
the only large thing about her being her
ideas and ambitions. She looks more like
a placid little grandmother than anything
else. In her thin face are innumerable
w wsIna,es ma rssn = perfect ef The sp, da;1y
Turkish bath she has taken for years
and years. Her hair has whitened beyond
an iron gray and her dark gray eyes are
fading in color, but are losing none of their
fire. She has a large mouth. which, when
she talks, imprssses one as being unusually
full of the whitest teeth. She ia the daint-
lest kind of a woman. Her nails are mani
oproS har hair locks Iila nm arfict,c modal
her gowns are of the latest cut and her BON
nets look fresh from a Paris shop. Her
laces make many a collectors heart beat
with envy.
If Kate Field has a weakness I imagine it
is her feet, and they sre certainly worth at
tention. Slim and delicate, with arching
insteps that water would flow under, they
are always dressed to look like a picture.
Dress reformers or hygienic ranters would
shrek if they could see her on the street.
The softest and finest of shoes. with
heels built up high-not French heels,
like heels, such as one sees on
Turkish %pattens, and which gives her the
mincing gait of the DANES of OLD, which is
really charming in this era of striding wo-
men. In rainy weather she wears cots
Not rubber boots. but regularly made boots
with high tops, in every way like a mans
except in the quality of the leather, which
! o IlASA ALiCh a1to u v AAugly htSiIit
ankle. They are wonderful little things
1t is Il treat to see her feet in slippers.
heard her sing a Spanish song at a news
boys benefit, when she was most appropri
ately dressed without being masqueraded
Her feet were a picture in old-fash1onet
Spanish slippers of shiny black, high heels
and big silver buckles that covered the en-
tire instep.
She can entertain a miscellaneous com
pany in more ways probably than any wo
man in America. From a lecture to a par
lor dance she is inimitable. She can repre-
sent an English ande or a Spanish CIR
equally we'll, and her age drops from hel
like q cloak. Why do not more wome1
grow old daintily?
The figure that completed the trio wa
Mrs. Mary A.. Livermore, a woman witt
a strong mind and voice. In her that love.
liest OF things in a woman, a voice low ant
sweet, has emancipated itself into a gut
teral masculine. The grip Of her hand i
strong and tense. like a mans, and she ha
the quick. businesslike way of disposing o
the people who greet her that would be-
gift to a president of the United States. Il
fact. everything about her, except the fac
that she wears gowns and long hair, smack
of masculinity. For all this Mrs. Livermor
is decidedly domestic in her tastes. Sh
said to a friend the other day that she di
not like any Improvement that interfere,
with the s~acredness of family life, for sh