The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-07
CHAT WITH MISS FIELD.
Daughter of Gene Field is Pleased
With New York.

Win N 9W OK
The New York Tribune gives the fol-
lowing account of a visit paid that pa
per by a daughter of the late Eugene
Field:
A bright, winsome face, a frank, nat
uraI expression, a sweet. say young
voice-an these belong to Mary French
Field, who, as she came into the Trib-
une's woman's department Friday aft
ernoon seemed like nothing SO much as
an edition de luxe of her father.
I love newspaper people, she said,
with charming tact; you know I was
brought up on the press, and always
find newspaper people delightful. How
do I like New York? Oh, it is lovely
Every one has been so kind to me- and
I found it easy to read before New York
audiences; they were so sympathetic
am coming back early in May to read
in Brooklyn
After I read in Yonkers Saturday
night I go to Syracuse and give two
readings there on Monday. Then go
to Rochester and read there Thursday,
April g."
DO you like to read?'' she was asked.
Indeed do she answered quickly.
Il love it better than anythingi I don't
believe I would do it if I did not. You
know I am perfectly devoted to chill
dren, anyway, and 1 enjoy reading
about them.
"Oh! by-the-way, here is a picture of
my little baby sister. She was three
years old last Saturday. and my baby
brother was four on the same day.
Papa used TO say mamma was so eco
nOmical she would not even afford sep
arate birthdays for the two little ones"
Miss Field broke into an infectious
laugh and passed around the really
charming photo Of the baby girl, with
her little face framed in a wide, pictur-
esque hat and an unmistakable resem-
blance to her father.
There are five of US, you know, and
myself and this baby sister are the be-
ginning and the end of the group. My
Oldest brother is 18-he will be ready
for college in June. Then my other
brother is Is. Mamma is here with
me, and it is nine weeks since we saw
the children and we are awfully home
sick for them"
Would you rather live in Chicago
than
know she added, brightly, you are
never going to get a Chicago person to
tell a New York person he would rather
live anywhere else than Chicago! Since
/ began my readings L have been to
many of the larger cities in the south,
east and west, bu5 dear old Chicago
is the best of them all-of course, your
home is always that. I shall read
twenty times during April. 1 go to
Philadelphia, BrattlebOro, Mass, Bos-
ton and Cambridge. I enjoy reading
in the university townsville boys are
so nice. I've been having a jolly good
time in Philadelphia shall go back
there tomorrow night"
Miss Fields easy, sunny ways are
exceedingly attractive and her thor
oughly unspoiled, unaffected ''camara-
derie'' is certainly charming. She is
unusually tall and has a slender. will
Lowry figure that is graceful and girlish.
There is no question of her making
friends wherever she goes.
4 wish I could make you know how
I appreciate the lovely things you New
York newspaper people have said about
me- she said sweetly. as she rose to go.
Il am coming to see you again and
bring my mother with me. She is a,
beautiful mother and I want her to
meet YOU And then she was gone!
AS every one settled down to the
desks again the Office seemed brighter,
is if a breath of springtime sweetness
had blown swiftly through it.