| Show SCARCELY COMPETENT THAT ancient but lively female who is known as kate field has been figuring lately around the national capital she is so furious over the downfall of eli the gallant who was just to herstyne her style that she has blood in her eye and goes for everything mormon with all her characteristic vehemence and indifference to veracity her ceranti anti mornion lecture or rather dish of scandal made up of scraps of gossip and tag ends of worn out fabrications seasoned with a dash or two of semi pungent salacity is clayed played out in washington so she is button holing members of congress and interviewing press reporters that she way may get in a lick at where sue she can but she is pretty well known in those regions and so her talk is received with several degrees degree of allowance the following wb which c a appears in the washington crit critic shows in what light her efforts are viewed editor critic I 1 am not a mormon nor a believer in polygamy out bat I 1 have a strong leaning towards the eternal fitness of things in public agitations as well as in clothes I 1 was one of the most marst earnest sympathizers in the recent movement which you so ably advocated voca ted I 1 refer to the effort to have colonel kate field appointed governor of utah but I 1 have in view of ef that eternal fitness of which I 1 am an admirer changed my mind and colonel kate field has out of her own mouth convinced me that she would not be a good governor of utah there are several ladies from salt lake city now in washington who are attempting to prevent a great injustice to the women who have taken joint stock in ill a sin single ae man as a husband and from their memorial which has been presented re to the senate I 1 can see 9 how ow th evand their offspring may be greatly wronged but that is not my point miss kate field says of these ladies that they are bright good mothers of lively disposition and in every way estimable they preside over their homes with womanly grace and tact she says but they belong to the mormon church and there she must draw the line sow I 1 submit that colonel field would not make a good governor for them and also that she has taken u upon pon herself a mission without the fundamental experience that all missionaries sion aries to be practical should have no colonel field does not fit the situation what does she know about babies and paregoric does she know when teething time is liable to set I 1 in and what must be done when it does arrive Is she au fait in feeding bottles and flannels and things does she know what is best to be done when the young one bawls aloud in the still watches of the night and refuses to be comforted I 1 wot not and does colonel field know how to make the seductive fla flapjack or how to do corn beet beef and alt cabbage to that turn where they will do the most good would she think of having the old mans slippers warmed and his dressing gown read ready y when he came home would she know exactly how to muss his hair so as to be the most pleasant to him we wot not again she has not had bad the experience what does she know about that increasing and multiplying which is a divine injunction she has never done dene anything for the census As between the two I 1 think those mormon ladies know what is better for them than does colonel field they have been there and know their ground they have certainly increased and multiplied they are the very best friends that the census h has a s miss field has lived to herself alone a as s far as man is concerned when miss field tackles the question of matrimony slie she is getting beyond her depth under all the circumstances I 1 submit is miss field more qualified qua a lined lifted to speak of these mormon ladies than those ladies themselves once more I 1 wot not paterfamilias 1 A S |
