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Show Beaux Arts Club program features Harriet B. Stowe Members of the Beaux Arts Club met recently at the home of Mrs. B. H. Stringham. Mrs. Doyle Landon had arranged the program and Mrs. Alvin Bowden was introduced as guest speaker. The club's theme for the year, has been "Women Worthy Wor-thy of Emulation". So in her most delightful way, Mrs. BovVden, reviewed the stirring life of a great woman liberator, "Harriet "Har-riet Beecher Stowe," a biography by Noel B. Gerson. "So this is the little lit-tle lady, who made this big war," Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln said, when he met her. Others who complimented com-plimented her were Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens, and many many more. She was known as the woman who changed the world's history concerning con-cerning slavery. She was born in New England, into in-to a deeply religious family, fami-ly, which was a most important im-portant force in her life. She remembered her mother saying "Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy." In her husband's last days, she sat and read to him from the Life of Christ and the Bible. She was very well educated at the age of 15. Her most notable book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was read by millions around the world and published in 40 different languages. Her tireless crusade against slavery and other social evils won her the great admiration of the world's great leaders. Her life and work proved a woman's right to ambition ambi-tion and ability to achieve for the good of mankind. She married Prof. Calvin Stowe and had three sons and three daughters. She died at the age of 85 in her sleep in 18!6. |