Show KATE FIELD The Pair = Lecturer Scoreu > L by Wanderer f J v + BELFAST June 151885 Correspondence of THE HERALD I have just learned that the adorable effulgence of beauty who rejoices under un-der the name bf Kate Field has taken exception to the synopsis made by me of her Washington lecture on the Mormon Monster I am pained deeply pained She says the epitome is sickeningly vulgar Well I admit that Ii I have not reached that enviable position I posi-tion enjoyed by the lady in question 1 compared with whose writings the works of English classical authors pale into filthinef j nor have I attained that perfection which enables me to give a truthful synopsis of a vile and vulgar lecture and yet omit all that is vile and vulgar I hope i am too much oft gentleman to contradict a woman however how-ever lost to selfrespect she may be Now 1 also think the eptiome vulgar but it was a decided improvement on the lecture for chasteness The corrections correc-tions the little darlipg makes may be just I listened to a rambling incoherent inco-herent thing by courtesy called a lecture for over two hours and am free I to confess I could not remember it all and she may be right but I cannot see admitting the alterations made where I the effect is changed She avers If I undertake to correct all the errors in J that eptiome I shall write it over Before this she admits that a great I deal of this epitome is true as to facts and at the close she declares its perfect truthfulness in this delicate and 1 subtle manner Miserable as is the epitome there is so much more truth in it than is usually found in THE HERALD that I almost rejoice at its publication In all modesty I would like to ask if any one hit a literary acrobat such as the journal to which Miss Field writes her grievances can reconcile the first with the last two quotations They can be explained only at the expense 6f truth or sanity or both In this instance the probabilities probabili-ties are that investigation would show a loss of both The dear creature must have an exalted opinion of her own reputation re-putation for veracity when she cannot write twothirds of a column without contradicting her eIf and when she is forced tCJ defend that reputation among her friends from the harmless epitome written by game that is not worth the candle I admit thatshe had a fairsized audience but I saw no enthusiasm and heard little applause She cannot deny that the lecture was ignored by the press Can she deny that she expected to make her reputation reputa-tion in this lecture and that on the strength df that reputation she hoped o travel over the United States Can she deny that after its delivery in Boston and in Washington her managers were actually afraid to put her on the road with it If she can deny these sayings then perhaps this charming little body will explain why she left the lecture field Can she deny that she promised a lady in Salt Lake before leaving that city that the would not lecture on theM the-M rmon question If she can deny that then she can deny anything whatsoever what-soever Miss Field charges me with maligning her Iii public and in private This 1 most emphatically deny The lady herself knows this is a trifle outside the truth If Ibad doubts of her veracity they are forever settled by the tender epistle in which she has pillared me I have doubted her sincerity and her sanity in private and I do so in public I am not alone in the former and have the best of backing for the latter If as high authority as the New York World dares tp intimate that she is mentally disjointed a woman with oneMdea and that a very indifferent idea too scarcely scarce-ly such a presumption can be overlooked over-looked in game not worth the candle whatever the tallow illuminator may have to do with the huntsmans sport There are innumerable evidences of absence of a sound judgment in this adorable creaturebut far be it from me to expoe her to ridicule A lady needs not to be told what is a confiflential communication Miss Field it seems does With a lady or a gentleman gen-tleman private communication no matter what bitterness may arise afterwards after-wards are ever held jealously sacred Now Miss Field not only shows herself superior to a rule that is recognized by all true persons in her willingness to reveal re-veal a thing which on its face bears the evidence of a confidential utterance but she acutally goes to the length of giving as my words an utterance to which I never gave expression She must establish her own veracity it would seem by proving that I am a hypocritical liar Well every person to the weapon she is most skilled in t You cannot blame the ox for using its horns the ass for employing its heels nor a certain person for resorting tolies It is said that children and fools tell the truth but this lady is a shining illustration illustra-tion of the fact that there is an excep tion to the rule so far as regards the second class rhave no reason to fear any revelation that Miss Field may make concerning any utterance of mine to her Bad as reputation may be it has never been so lamentably depraved de-praved that I need tell the world what I did say in order to satisfy my friends that I am not a liar WANDERER |