Show JULIA WARD I 1 HOWES 1 SALON I 1 As Ho hostess etwas it was said of her with truth that she delighted in I 1 contrasts I 1 I 1 when I 1 think of it J I 1 believe that 1 I had a salon once upon ulan a time I 1 did not eal call I 1 it so nor nor even thin tiling of it as such I 1 V yet within I 1 it w were er e gathered pope people who represented I 1 many and yai various aspects of life they wera were genuine gennine people notley not I 1 lay figures distinguished by names I 1 and clothes the leftri I 1 est humanitarian i interests of my husband brought r to our bomea n number of persons interested in reform education and progress jt it was my barf to ib m mis x in w with alth tats graver element clement as much of social grace and geniality y ns as I 1 was able to iq gather about nia me I 1 was never nevern afraid fr ald to fo bring to together re ther persons who rarely met elsewhere I 1 I 1 than at my house confronting theodore Pitr parker ker with some archpriest of the old orthodoxy or william lloyd llod garrison with a decade perhaps of beacon street dames A friend sal said on one of these occasions I 1 I 1 our bo hostess stess delights in contrasts I 1 confess that I 1 did but I 1 think that my greatest pleasure was in III the lessons I 1 of human com compatibility which 1 I learned in this wise I 1 started indeed with the coni conviction ithon that alint thought and character 11 are the foremost values in I 1 society and was not afraid griham or ashamed eato to offer these to my guests with or without the stump stamp of fashion and do position julin julia ward howe |