The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-06-01
AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
Julia Ward Howe Passes Her
Seventy-Fifth Milestone.

An Honor and Ornament to Her Sex and
Race - Kindly Remembered by Her
Friends and Admirers at Boston.
Boston. May 2S.-Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe was rs years old yesterday. Three
quarters of a century have rolled over the
head of her whom an enthusiastic friend
has aptly termed 1.-THE cleverest woman of
her time" Though the once glossy and
abundant hair is snow white and thinned
though the countenance is scanned and
wrinkled, and the figure has lost its
youthful gracefulness, yet the eye is still
as bright and the soft, low, perfectly &C.
cented voice is as charming to listen to
as ever.
1t is unnecessary to relate the story of
her life to Americans; they know it by
heart. Her marriage to the noted philan-
thropist, DIR. Howe (the teacher of Laura
Bridgman), her many trips abroad,
her acquaintance with the men and
women who have made the name of
America famous in song and story-with
Irving, Bryant. Halleck, Lon9fellow, EN-
erson, Margaret Fuller Countess Dos
soli), Lowell. Whittier and our dear
"Autocrat," DR.. Holmes, of the earlier
PERIOD and Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William
Dean Howells and all the rest of the later
authors and literary men who have up
held the reputation of America in the field
of letters-all this need only be limited at
here.
Were it for nothing else, the creation of
the majestic and magnificent Battle
Hymn OF the Republic" would have suf-
feed to render her famous. What true
American of today can listen with IN
moved ear and undimmed eye to its
sonorous measures without taking fresh
inspiration and firm determination to
render himself worthy of a country which
could inspire such theme and such
songf
A Lover of Liberty.
During the war Mrs. Howe's pen, intel
lect and enthusiasm were ever at the serv-
ice of her country. With that noble band
of women, whose services to the army in
field, camp and hospital can never be
duly appreciated, she was in hearty SYM
pathy. To slavery she was bitter and |
unrelenting foe.
Since the war, few women of her gen.
Grafton have done the services that she
has for the lettering of the condition of
her sex.
In the cause of woman suffrage she has
labored increasingly, and if ever success
crowns the movement, the women of the
country will place in one of the foremost
inches the name of Julia Ward Howe.
Mrs Howe was rendered reception by
her intimate friends at the home of her
son, Henry Marion Howe, on Marlboro
street, Cd Saturday last She spent a
quiet happy day in receiving the scores of
congratulations from her mum berless
friends and admirers
In reply to some questions put to her
last evening at her home on Beacon street
Mrs. Howe said that her health was as
we'll as ever it had been, and she hoped
for many years of happiness to come.
She also said that her friends had re-
faeH4bered her with mum berless floral of
ferings and gifts. Mrs. Louise Chandler
Moulton had sent her congratulations
back by the pilotboat on her way abroad.
Colonel Higginson, Mrs. Martin Brimmer.
Judge Grant and Robert Treat Paine
were among those of her numberless
friends who had remembered her.
And now-bearing the weight of her rs
years lightly-with the fire of her youth
undiminished. giving promise of many
years of usefulness yet to come-sur-
rounded by her children and friends
loving and beloved-in the words of one
of her closest friends, God bless her!
May she live to round out the century,"