Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-05

lie. C. Stanton. 2. Rena A Michaels.
3. F. E. willard. E. B. Herbert
The International Council Of Women at
Washington adjourned on the lst inst,
and the following sketches Of some Of the
leaders will be interesting to THE GA
ZBTIR's lady readers:
TWO OLD TIMERS.
Mrs. julia Ward Howe wss born in
NV York city May q, 1919. She wss
the daughter of Samuel Ward, q New
York banker. Her mother, Julia Rush
Ward, was the author OF various occ1-
sional poems. Julia was carefully edu-
Gated, partly in private schools in New
York. Her tutor in German and Latin
wss DR.. Joseph G. CJgswell. At an
early age Miss Ward wrote plays and
poems. After her fathers death she
visited Boston. and met there, DR.. Howe,
whom she married in 1913. Sne after
wards continued her studies, learned
TO speak fiuently in Italian,
French and Greek, and became
student OF Kant, Hegel,
Spinoza, Comte and Fichte. She also
wrote philosophical essays which she
usually read st her house before her
literary friends. For some time before
the civil war che conducted, with her
husband, the Boston Commonwealth, an
&nti-slavery paper. In 1861, while on q
visit to the camp near Washington, with
Governor John A. Andrew and other
friends, Mrs. Howe wrote the Battle
Hymn Of the Republic" which soon be-
came popular. She espoused the woman
anrk IN n
WAS one of the founders of
the New England Womau's Club, of
which she has been president since 1872
She hiss also presided over several SINH
lar associations, including the American
Woman Suffrage Association. In 1872
she was delegate to the Worlds Prison
Reform Congress, in London, and in the
same year sided in founding the Woman's
Peace Association there. In lS845 she
presided over the wom1u's branch Of the
New Orleans exposition. Sac he's de-
livered numerous lectures and has often
addressed the Massachusetts, Legislature
In aid of reforms. She has preached In
Rome, Itsly, Sinto Domingo, and from
Unitarian pulpits in this country
She has also read lectures &at the
Concord School OF Philosophy. Mrs
Howe has published two volumes Of
poems, entitled 'Passion Flowers" Bos-
ton, 1854, and "Words for the Hour, II
1857, 1.-THE Worlds Own" drama
which WAS acted at Wallack's Theater
New York, in 1855, 1857; ga Trip tc
Cuba," 1860; "Later LYRICS" 1866;
"From the Oak to the Olive" 1858
"Modern Society,"" two lectures. 1881
and "Life Of Margaret Fuller" 1888. Sh,
has also edited "Sex and Education," /,
reply to DR.. Edward 81. Cisrke's "Sex II
Education" 1874, and wrote for Edwin
Booth, in 1858, "Hippolytus," 8 TRACED!
which was neither acted nor published.
Miss Susan Bromwell Anthony, re
former, was born in South Adams, Mass.
February Is, 1920 Daniel Anthony, he
father, q cotton manufacturer, was ,
liberal Quaker, who educated his daugh
tiers with an ides of selfsupport, ant
employed skillful teachers in his owl
house. After completing her education
at Friends boarding school in Phils
delphis, she taught in New Yor
state from 1855 to 1850. Her fathe
removed In 1926 to Washington county
New York, aud in 1s46 settled q
Rochester. Miss Anthony first spoke i
public in 1917, and from thst time too
part in the temperance movement, or
gauiEing societies and lecturirg l
1851 she called q temperance conventio
in Albany, after being refused admlssio
to 8 previous convention on account {
her sex. Ia 1852 the Woman's New Yor
State Temperance Society was organized
Through her exertions and those OF Mrs
E G. Stanton, women came to be admi,
ted to educs ional and other convention
with rights to speak, vote and serve o
committees. About 1857 she becam
prominent among the agitetors for th
abolition of slavery. In 1858 she made
report, In q teachers convention at TROY
In favor of the coeducation OF the sexes
Her energies have been chiefly d
rected to securing equal civ
rights for women. In 1854
IS she held conventions in each county
New York in the cause Of female suffrsg
and since then she has addressed annu
appeals and petitions to the Legislature
She WAS active in securing the passage
the act of the New York Legislature
1860, giving to mIrried women the pos
session Of their earnings, the guardian
ship of their children, etc. During tt
war she devoted herself to the Women
Loyal League, which petitioned Congres
in favor Of the thirteenth amendment.
1860 she started petition in favor {
leaving out the word finale" in the fouI
b-cutu aDcuumcu'B auu WoihCu WIN IL
National Woman Suffrage Association
induce Congress to secure to her sex Il
right of voting In 1867 she went to Ksr
sas City with Elizabeth Cady Stanton an
Lucy Stone, and there obtained e0(
votes in favor Of woman suffrage.
1868, with the cooperation Of Mrs. Star
ton and Parker Pllsbury, and with Il
assistance of George F. Train, she bega
in New York city the publication of
weekly paper called "The Revolution,
devoted to the emancl patton
women. Ia 1872 Miss Anthem
cast ballots at the state and Coz
gressional election in Rochester, in ordt
to test the application of the fourteen,
snd fifteenth amendments to the Unite
States constitution. Sac Was indicte