Show I mt I I 11 Mt i wl i i Wl Jf Q I t fI t A i rii 1 2 11 I Ar A an Ej Example cample of the Splendid Splendid did American cod of the Lan Century She Ir I ISil Still Sil Conspicuous stilt still blooms In 11 tho thoS 1 S heart of cit Mrs Mr Julia Tulla Ward ard Howe Ilowe although next May Maywill will bring brine to her tho anniversary o of her hr birthday nine nino IH If almost III most four tour fourscore score coro ten len yours At threescore und ten len It was the fashion to tobo tobo bo ho anti tottering mid to nun mum blo bio with toothless gums and sad face tace the tho aged Solomons plaint of vanity ot or o vanities Vanity of Well It be wise to talk lalk In that way to Mrs Sirs Howe She Is ii the last ast of ot a II re remarkable group of ot thinkers und writers who have havo made New England famous S She Sho knew Ime Charles Sumner Theodore Parker Vendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison larrison Bronson Alcott Margaret Fuller Nathaniel Hawthorne Ralph Waldo Val do Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes HolmeR Henry W V Longfellow Henry David Thoreau and amI all nil of ot that brilliant circle A only by hy adoption she sho was Wall familiar with tho the bright social and lit literary crar circles cIrcleD of early New York which Included ed Washington Irving KHz FIt Greene Oreene Halleck Nathaniel P 1 Willis mid and their contemporaries Intellect tins has lent some of the tho charms to in her placid old ol face but Its Us magnetism Is In due to sonic some something thing more potent A thinker and a writer Mrs Howe Is l endowed with a 1 ae e soul Illumined by b her love of ot humanity That Is hi i one olle reason she ahe has always found the world worth while I Li Born Horn to 10 wealth and social position In Ina Ina a 1 handsome old fashioned house on the Ihei i Bowling Green when the tho lower part of ot New Now York was Willi the home homo of oC fashion she sho 0 1 was iia the daughter of Samuel Yard Ward a arich arich rich banker who had liberal Ideas In regard in io o the education of girls He Do DoI I hail had three of or thorn them and Julia and her ller i sinters sisters became tho the most accomplished as IIi well W eli us as most attractive young worn wom women en en of their time lime They rhey were et e taught by b private tutors and French German Italian and Greek GIeck were vere among their studies Mrs Irl lr Ward lId died hii hr her children were young and aitI their training devolved on OH tile the father and und an aunt who 10 was a II woman of ot Wiland vt it and high cul culf cu f From Irom these two the Iho lovely J derived some of those thoe Ideas in re to imrI rd to o Independence which c later made her so earnest an advocate of or the thu rights of or her sex flex Though young men mell ot or wealth and fashion fluttered lI about her It was WM hot until Dr Samuel G 0 Howe appear appeared ed 01 on OIl the tile scene on the occasion of or a L Visit to that thorn ther was the slightest Indication that Ilia tito heart henrt of ot ottile tile the brilliant belle hud luni been beon touched The fhe couple wore were wedded In III 1813 and 1111 the tho marriage Wils an tin Ideal Weal one nile Husband wife hall had the same serious views of life the same Iame zeal to serve their tel Let fellows lows laws Ot DC the Howes us as Indeed of ot all ull great ut souls sout ROU the tile motto might InIght have been Ich kh tHen dlen Ien The Tho famous Laura man was the pupil of Dr Howe who Will was Will n IL pioneer In Ill the LIlO work york for the edu education e u cation of ot the blind III n Laura Laurn who wan WILli deaf dumb thumb and blind by hv means ot oC the Howe system was vis taught to read and write and communicate with those about her It was the most splendid achievement of ot Its kind und unil tho the entire civilized world marveled For years Dr Howe Hows was wan chief of the Boston nos ton Institution For the Blind und and a II aman man film of distinction In Ill the scientific and literary world Of Ills hI personal charac character ter ler It Is enough to say Aay that those who ho knew him hili were wont to 10 speak of him himas as us our Bayard BO so and chiv chivalrous chIvalrous airous was he ho t Before her marriage Mrs Howe had done some literary work The honey honeymoon honeymoon moon ot of a n year was spent abroad and I the social position of or the bride and I groom was Willi ns sufficient sullie lent to admit them Ihen to I Ithe the tile most exclusive circles circle In London There Thero they met Sydney Smith Land Lund Landseer Landseer seer eer Dickens Wordsworth Miss Edgeworth UnIt and that other oIlier wonderful woman Florence Nightingale to whom although now a ft pate pale and fragile Invalid of ot the king of England with u a courtly message sent recently tile the most splendid order which It IL Is In his power to grant to 10 any woman not of royal blood The Howes HoweR visited Rome nom and It IL was ns while there that their first child a n daughter was born horn nomo flome seems al always ways WhYS to have fascinated the gentle po poetess etess etes for one of her most beautiful poems poem rho Tho Dead Christ verses that breathe the deepest suffering as liB well as IUS the most beautiful resignation worn were suggested by the tile visit to 10 tho the Holy City A second vIsit to Europe I In 1850 result resulted ed In u a volume of oC poems PassIonFlowers Passion PassionFlowers Flowers and since Ince then Mrs Irs Howes HoweR I contributions to 10 literature have follow followed I ed cd one olle another quickly Not nil all have been In III verse erRe Sho She has written a n life of Margaret Fuller 1 edited tho tile memoirs of her lIer husband and Jn various vol volumes tallies umes of or travels One Ono of her IWI dramas was staged slued and und III In litter later years she sue has hns given the tile world a glimpse Into her life Ufo In Reminiscences r 1 Moving In the tile circle In ill which she did didIn didIn In Boston she tie became interested led In tho the thoa abolition a movement tit at nn on early date She tho knew know and talked with John Brown BrownIn In Ism Sue she he went Oil on n a visit to Washing Washington ton toll Already the preparations for fOI war were stirring the land lInd One November day she he went out driving end passed line Ulle after line Une of ot soldiers gathered for exercise In military tactics and na uti she saw them thim march mardI countermarch and listened to Ui tile tho it well swell of ot tile the music tho or of many voices singing martial martinI with itil the tue beat heat of or the tho drum and auth the blare ot of the trumpet for tor tIme the first time she Bhe he began to realize that Illat war was 1111 nt lit haild Driving bark back through the tho lines s the vas II de tie delayed layell by n a 1 detachment of men mn moving to 10 some somo new position As they swept past her lIce with their rapt flushed tacos faces and sparkling eyes yell the Lime strong young I voices keeping tIme to tile the tread of marching feet fet with the tho words of oC John Johll Browns Brown Body Dod nn On Inspiration fame caille to 0 her hur In tile the same caine plaintive rhythm She hurried home CUd And wrote her Immortal poem Tile The Battle Hymn of the tho III It was waR at nt once accepted by eager that mAde It their creed and war song lIong Mrs Howe Howo was ivan years old when pile rhe wrote the hymn and anti became ne famous ivery vry r young wom woman an Just out of ot collI ate te literary hut ht I Iii those days there were no mb with energetic press preM agents with a genius for or making reputations When Wilen the Iho civil war ar was vas over oer the tile who Will had hlll become grimily greatly Inter Interested interested ested In the Greek fight for or liberty vis vIa visited Hed that country To Io this tills day the Greeks ot of Boston remember tile the mutt aid which this noble liable couple strove to ii give glI their struggling and on her hor birthdays a 1 bouquet subtly suggestive of ot the tile east cast and It 11 pit loveliness Is 18 laid at lit the thu shrine of ot the dear ilear little old ol lady Ind In sired by b some level om lad hili ft fr r m tn the tic little Greek Irek settlement near U Hak k naY hay BayOn On 01 their return from til th migi In ill favor fl vor of ot suffrage at lit attracted Mrs Howe attention Mrs MrM Lucy IlIc tone Stone was Willi one on of her hH friends and noon had lieu her enlisted In favor toor of the time new nev reform Her faith In It n OR itS n It rem remedy remedy edy ed for many of the evils In Iii the tue body b ted d politic and nud as nR n II measure of ot protection to helpless womanhood has never wa wn wavered voted vered Mrs Howe Hoe I j today 10 11 as aM stanch rt ii 1 woman suffragist II mis she Rhe he was WOR In lS S Susan B it Anthony Stone Slone Eliza Elizabeth I beth fady ady nd anti and all 1111 those brave and splendid women who wh boro bore the tile 4 f t 1 m tt t t tr r I j 1 r 1 t s Copyright 1907 1 by br i Underwood 1 c Underwood MRS JULIA ULIA J WARD HOWE IN HER Tn YEAR |