| Show KATES ARCADIAN simplicity KATE TE FIELD Is nothing if not imaginative the intensity of that faculty enables her to draw liberally upon an exuberant fancy by its aid she ca calp sketch in her minds eye ephemeral pictures of surpassing beauty or repulsive ugliness as inclination or the hope of pecuniary profit may direct she has ba lately depicted the future ho home we of her desire in which she would fain spend the remainder of her declining years with vividness and elaboration that would put bulear lytton to the blush it far outstrips claud mel description of the home of his imagination by the lake of como we here bere reproduce the creation of miss fields fancy from the chicago news that those who read may smile miss kate field says she rhe is so tired of professional prof ess a lite life that if she had plenty of f m money one she would retire to the country 0 nty an and lead a quiet existence amid rustic surroundings it has ever been her fondest ambition she says to spend her declining years apart from the noise and bustle ot of the city anti to end an active career with those simple imp employments which are to be found anly in the rural districts if r e could have my cholee choice she says pays ir 1 I would liv live e a bout about tw twenty e nt V M kilps I 1 lips a way away from new york in sight of 61 the majestic ocean or near a bay with a view of the ocean beyond back of my abode say not more than ten mil miles es distant 1 I would have the mountains SOMI some of which would be covered with verdure and others would be snow snowe clad lad perennially I 1 would choose for my home a plain but substantial brown stone front cottage with modest green blinds and a number of ivy mantled towers I 1 would require about twenty rooms in this house douse including clu dinga a small theater a ballroom ball room a billiard ball and a shooting galle gallery tv I 1 would want to have ample stable fc and say about two dozen goor goo h horses 0 es thoroughbreds preferred ir would be my mv desire to enter entertain tait simply hut but elee elegantly antly and I 1 would have twelve or fifteen friends with me all the round we would arise early 0 ot lear a orning morning partake of a light repast of chocolate shrimp salad ete etc we would gallop off for a ten mile ride aidt over the d dewy wy country roads and by th the w way y I 1 should insist upon cedar block k P pavements pavements ave ments everywhere returning in z betimes e ti me s we would while away thi hours till I 1 noon with tennis or with feeding the swans or with angling for deviled crabs in the artificial lake for I 1 would have a large artificial lake of crystal water f reeling freezing cold and perfumed with aromatics aro matics and the choicest sabian odors divner dinner would be served either in the conservatory amid the umbrageous exotics exotica or the I 1 lawn awn in the shada of the ancestral oaks while the viands were beinie discussed a band of musicians hid bid among the shrubbery yonder would discourse dreamy languorous music the afternoon would be spent lollins lolling lazily in the hammocks th the sport of every passing zephyr at night the modest little theatre would serve for our amusement a performance of otie one of molleres Mol Mo leres lieres bright comedies or one of lopez de vegas brilliant dramas I 1 would have FL a select CO company M ganv of artists no horseplay horse play ac actors t ors hut but such representatives of theart ar t as modjeska coquelin Coquel ln sully and anci ot others h erlof of that class and how do you suppose the little littile woman hoped to leap to the summit of worldly wealth and splendor equal to those embodied in the dreamy realms of the arabian nights let her tell the tale herself we quote further from our chicago namesake but would not this kind of life be vastly expensive we asked yes said miss field it would auditing and it is this consideration alone that bas baa deterred me from adopting tt it still it Is thus that I 1 would if I 1 could syend spend the evening of my life for weary of the world and its vanities I 1 pine for the peace and tranquility which arcadian simplicity alone affords and it Is to these modest employments which I 1 have suggested that I 1 shall resign myself 1 just as soon as my lecture on mormon mo li horrors provides rae me with an ln 14 come that purpose we have heretofore intimated that miss kate was actuated in stringing together in an array of anti mormon I 1 and giving them to a raping gaping public by merce mercenary nally motives now the soft impeachment is self confessed the ladder upon which 8 he would fain climb to the pinnacle of her worldly and sordid ambition is rotten and long before she reaches the top strand it will break and let her down with a sudden splash into the mire of her own imaging this belief is based upon numerous precedents too I 1 striking to be ignored it appears to us that if mormonism were extinguished and the saints became like the rest of peo gle ele that result would be deplored by a ost of itinerant anti mormon lecturers professional bummers and a certain class of hat bat clergymen of the tae hairbreadth hair breadth escape kind for difese social excrescences the mormon question provides a means of making money and if it were abolished their occupation to some extent would be gone their crait is in danger er and they should see to it as a L business gu business siness necessity that the church als is not stamped out |
