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Show Ellta A. Howen. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. ' .There are few scientiflo women in the south. Among those who have given their attention and study to deep subjects Miss Eliza A. Bowen, of Georgia, stands easily first. Her father was a native of Rhode Island who moved to Georgia in early life. He was a remarkably remark-ably accomplished man in languages ami mathematics. Her mother was a I member of tho well known Andrews family of Wilkes county, Ga. a family fam-ily that has given to the state the learned Judge Garnett Andrews, Miss Fanny Andrews ("Elzey Hay"), the popular novelist and successful teacher, and Maude Annulet Andrews (Mrs. Jos. K. Old), of The Atlanta Constitution, oneof tho most versatile uud alert women on the American press. Miss Bowen's youth was spent in tho hospitable home of her uncle, Judge Andrews, An-drews, aud she met there the most famous fa-mous lawyers of tho state, who were entertained en-tertained there in large companies during dur-ing the term of the county court. And sho profited by the forming influence influ-ence of their wit and wisdom. Miss Bowen commenced to write for print at an early age, and received the impetus of complimentary encouragement encourage-ment from William Gilmore Simms and N. P. Willis. For many years she wrote anonymously. As she says, she "had the old fashioned southern notion that a woman's name ought not to get into the papers." At the close of the war she was possessed of a comptency, but soon lost it all in a business venture. She was then over 40 years of age, but she took heart and commenced to teach, being I fully equipped by her early training for imparting a clear knowledge of Latin and the higher mathematics. Her best appreciation came from The New York Sun. Mr. Dana proved an admiring and helpful friend. Her highest high-est achievements have been iu the science sci-ence of astronomy. She wrote in 1S83 for The Popular Science Monthly an account ac-count of her method of teaching elementary ele-mentary astronomy, for which she received re-ceived considerably more than the usual rates of remuneration, because, as Dr. Youmans stated, "the article was rather better than we are accustomed to get" that from The Popular Science Monthly! Miss Bowen has since published a work on the subject which has had signal success, aud is used in every state iu the Union as well as in Japan. She is GO years of age, and says of herself: "Few women are so hearty as I; I am sound as a dollar, and walk two or three miles a day. Ido not believe there is a sounder woman physically i Georgia," |