Show i i TWO JWO QUEENS Ninety years ears ago tomorrow May 13 31 U there was wa 88 born in England a little girl baby who was destined to rule over the theland theland land of her birth and go down into his history h tory as a model queen wife wICe and moth mother er or The TaB nineteenth century marked the worlds longest stride forward In the Ute history of DC mankind It was wali Victorias good fortune to reign over a country whose people represented the highest type hpe and during the sixty and odd years ears of her magistracy many names were added to the long list of 11 1 Englishmen Perhaps the sue suc success cess cea of her reign was due clue in a great I measure m ure to the statesmen of one party or the theother other who ho alternated at the helm of state state Nevertheless Victoria over ev r battled for the right kept her court ae as astree tree free from scandal and intrigue as pos pea possible sible sibie and acted as a balance wheel In Inthe Inthe Inthe the complicated machinery ml O of govern government mont ment The names of many queens have h vo come down to us from former fonner ages some of them distinguished and others ot ers notorious but none nOno more fit tit to adorn the deathless es page than Victoria of or England Three days after the late British monarch was ushered into the world work or orMay orMay May 27 7 7 1819 another little girl came to gladden the hearts of her parents in New York City On Thursday of this week she will win celebrate her ninetieth birthday and loving messages will be besent besent besent sent to her from all over the world Her children her grandchildren and her Iter will be with her and the Ute cup of happiness of the grand old woman of the western hem hemisphere hemisphere will fit be tilled filled to overflowing The name of the little UUIe girl who has lived to tobe toH tobe be H signally honored In extreme old age was as Julia Ward Tard and among her ances ancestors bra tors were Roger Williams and Governor Ward of Rhode Island In after years yean she ehe became the wife of Dr S Samuel Semuel muel G GHowe GHowe GHowe Howe of f Boston ton Bo Ute the famous physician I who was us in charge of the blind asylum where here w an attempt wax was made to educate a deaf dumb ariU blind girl girt Laura i I The Th parents of If Julia Ward Want were I wealthy Haith and she was carefully edu educated educated i I under the ablest ablett instructors When only onh 18 l 1 years old lid she began writ writing writIng writing ing for the press pres and may be said to have hae launched upon her career at that early age ag During her girlhood dancing i iwas was forbidden by her Mr parents and card paying aying was regarded as a pastime in invented vented by b the Incarnate fiend but the daughter of the house did not inherit the thc family beliefs belief and while still a ayoung ayoung young woman she wrote wrote a tI poetic drama entitled The Worlds Own which was I produced in theatre New NewYork NewYork York with the elder eider Sothern in the I i leading role rol roli i Julia Ward Howe will be chiefly re remembered remembered remembered for fur her h r Battle Hymn of the Republic written at the outbreak of ot the civil chII war but she would have been distinguished and loved even without It out that inspiration Her life has been one long Ing battle baith for the right and it wa was largely largE ly through her efforts that th first tint I congress assembled in London Lundon m iq 1872 18 An ardent advocate of the ballot for women omen she joined with Lucy Luy Stone Stunt Elizabeth Elisabeth Oady ady ad Stanton Susan Su n B An thoin thuy ant and others other of or f her ex all alt pf of if tru ru womanhood manhood ir in thc mi i nt IH ii h 1 ha lid to Ti vr 0 e iral eral ra v v liH j sm gu elates Late of Or the Ln I recognize the truth and justice of ot her j earnest plea of half a century and more I ago The oppressed all over the tile world have hae I alwa always s found a e in Mrs Howe and she has ha ever been In the vanguard an guard of those w who ho hl brought succor both phys phS physical physical ical and moral in time of deep trouble One Greek G k poet has hu bestowed upon her herthe herthe herthe the title of ot Best Beloved of the World In her girlhood she ahe was ardently in interested Interested Interested In the freedom of ot Italy Years Tears afterward she prompted the organization tion known as a American Friends of Russian Ruellan Freedom Fr om and anil at this time she shela Is la president of ff the Friends Friende of Ar Armenia Armenta Armenta menta menia There are those who fancy faney that a woman interested In literature and re reform reform form fonn has hal no time to devote to her fam fain family famIly ily but the whole life of Mrs Howe proves the fallacy of or such a theory Though uncrowned by mortal hands she reigned a queen In the hearts of those of her hr household and her beautiful ful fui songs of motherhood have h Le appealed to thousands thou of mothers and many who have lost their own children have read road with eyes the beautiful lines linea In 1 her poem Little LIttIe One written after alter the death of her little boy at tile Ufe age of 3 I years yrs While are being b ng made to celebrate her ber birthday Mrs Howe still stilt keen keon in intellect and possessing great bodily vigor notwithstanding her har ad advanced vanc d pea is busily bu lb engaged In writ writing writing ing In a magazine article She Is still the gifted poet lecturer reformer preacher and champion of or the oppressed d of ot all nations Long may she live lIvo and happy be he her declining years yea |