Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — TO READ HER FATHER'S POEMS, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO READ HER FATHER'S POEMS,

Mary French Field Preparing for Her Pint form 'Debut This ’Fall. Mary French Field, eldest daughter of the late Eugene Field, is preparing herself to carry on the platform work

of her father, and will make her debut as a public reader early in the autumn. Miss Field, who Is known far and wide among her father's friends as “Trotty,” a pet name bestowed upon her in her infancy, is a tall, handsome girl, good figure, of rather blonde type, with fair complexion and blue eyes. She is 20 years of age and is the eldest of the poet’s five surviving children. Miss Field read exclusively from her father’s, writings and will probably give her first reading in Cincinnati iD October. ;ti

MARY FRENCH FIELD.