Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-04
JULIA WARD HOWE.
An 8dmirer or the American Lady
Abroad" Tells the story OF Her
e-Educated for "A Purpose.
She has Pursued It

St. Paul Pioneer Press: That little bit of
Florence correspondence, from the New York
Times, under the head of AN American
Lady Abroad, which appeared in the Pho
neer Press of Sunday, the twenty-frst, mas
given me and my friends here so much pleas
ure that beg .eave to call to 1t the attention
of my friends throughout the State. Mrs.
Howe is indeed a woman of whom any
American may well be proud. The record OF
her life ought to be familiar TO every woman.
She is one of the brightest stars In the galaxy
of American women whose lives are, and
have been for years Consecrated for the
cause OF freedom for women. In a book
entitled Eminent Women Of the Age, we
ind the following relating TO her ear
ly life: Her father beng wealthy banker,
weil-bred and scholarly, determined that his
pet daughter should not be merely fashion
able girl. He gave her teachers and books,
appealed to her ambition, aroused her artistic
instincts and kindled her religious nature.
Her quick spirit responded to every touch.
French and Italian she readily mastered, and
In time leaving behind her the German gram
mar, she came into such a shining inheritance
OF German literature, as seemed 10 create IN
her new faculties of conceouon. Her
German studies had made he's Indifferent to
the formal worship IN which she had been
bred, and no vital belief offered itself to her.
In this dark mood of hers came the Kindness
of death. The idol of her heart-her father
died, and within brief Etime a brother,
and the questioning heretic became a relig-
ious enthusiast. One day friend put into
her hald GHieOt'S History Of Ciriij=atiOH,
and then her new life began. She studied it
with all the force of her vigorous mind, and
its large thought aroused her from
her dream of holiness to liz of
use. She was now liberal In politics, in re-
igion a thoughtful inquirer. AT twenty
three she married DR.. Samuel G. Howe. of
Boston. They went abroad Immediately. She
came to the OLD world as a queen comes to
her own. Rome, magnificent and desolate,
male her life rapture. She lived IN this
divine atmosphere for many months, and
then came back to New England, and set
tied down into the prosaic round of house
keeping. In spite of household cares and
baby hands Juggling at her priceless hours,
she found time for that hard study which
was the breath of her lite. In 1850 she again
went abroad, where art and books and her
precious children made that winter her gol-
den prime. Coming back to Boston, Dr.
Howe undertook the charge of the Common
iCeGlth, a newspaper dedicated to free
thought. And now Mrs. Howe's opportunity
came. She wrote literary articles and verses,
contributing also those brilliant paragraphs
for which the paper WAS famous IN its day.
Ihls success opened the way for the publca-
ton of her book of poems, entitled Passion
FlOoeyS. Also for her Words fo, the Hour.
Visiting Cuba in 1859, she soon
after published book of trav-
els, entitled 4 Trip to Cuba. Among
her poems published in book form in 1866
vas her Battle Hymn cf the Republic, Among
her published essays is one on the Ideal
Church, and one On the Ideal State That
the natives of the south should know of war
no more, is one of the objects for which Mrs.
Howe has labored and written much of late
years. Let it be added, gratefully, tNa', re-
gardless Of unpopularity, she has labored
during all the years of her later lie for
woman's enfranchisement-has been for
many years Jealous member of the Ameri-
can Woman suffrage association for the adj
vancement of women, aud has, since 1870,
been one of the editors of the JYOmGn' s
Journal, a paper published every Saturday
in Boston. and devoted TO the interest of
women. Her letters from Europe during the
last year have added much to the interest of
the journal. May safe and pleasant voyage
bring her, ere many months, home again to
continue, as of old, her labors of love. Sim
carety, SARAH b. sTEARNS.