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Show Jul Ik Ward Howe. Mrs. JuMa Ward Howe has been writing poetry for nearly 60 years. Although Al-though this remarkable woman has passed her seventy-fifth year, she has the presence, the demeanor, the expression, expres-sion, the voice and the step of 50. She has a handsome face, is in vigorous health, gives heed to the art of dress and is far more lively than are most women at her time of life. She is the mother besides of Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott and the late Mrs. Julia Anagnos, eaoh of whom is well known in the world of letters. Mrs. Howe is also the sister of Marion Crawford's Craw-ford's mother quite a galaxy of talent to be related to by immediate ties of blood, not to mention the late Sam Ward, epicure, and Beau Ward McAllister. McAl-lister. It was of Mrs. Howe, by the way, that Oliver Wendell Holmes happily hap-pily remarked on her seventieth birthday, birth-day, "She is 70 years young. " |