The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-11-24

likely to be quite outshone by Nazimo-
vas. the accent but adds to the piquancy
/ Of her speech.
Aged Suffragist BIue-bIoOded.
Julia Ward Howe belonged TO the Suf-
| frage Old Guard for years, but is best
/ known, of course, as the author Of THE
/ Battle Hymn Of the Republic" Impor-
/ tant as it has been in creating her fame
and keeping IT alive. however. the writing
Of these verses should be considered only
an incident in her career She is a mem
Der Of one of those old American families
which made up the aristocratic element.
| so-calIed. in colonial and sub-coloniaI
days, that now is being submerged by the
! ever rising tide OF the new "aristocraey"
! of great wealth.
Her personal memory covers more than
| half of the life of this nation. but in
! spite of her age. she is n new woman"
in the best sense. She is at once a sur
vivor of sub-Colonial days-a living link
| with the simpler past-and a member OF
the advance guard in the movement for
| the progress of her sex.
Julia Ward was born lightweight years
! ago, on May q, in the city of New York
in a house fronting Bowling Green Her
/ father was Samuel Ward. banker, scholar
! traveller, art cQnnoisseur, and friend Of
| the great" a pious man withal, who was
as proud OF his ancestry as he could have
been had his descent been royal. His
! forefathers on both sides included hardy
! Colonial pioneers. Revolutionary soldiers,
and statesmen OF New England, where his
noted daughter has spent most of her
| life. although he chose New York for his
/ field Of action.
SAM Ward Her Brother
Julia Wards mother died when the child
was only five, and her father was so
/ overcome that he closed up the beautiful
Bowling Green house and removed TO the
| corner Of Broadway and Bond street,
then on the remote edge OF the city.
where "A fringe Of new houses Joined a re-
gion still mainly given over to farming.
There We're several children. one of whom,
named after his father, became known
on the continents as a typical man Of the
world of his time, and the best Judge
| alive OF things TO eat For Sam Ward,
the bon viviant." was a brother Of Julia,
| although this has been forgotten very
] generally.
when she was twenty-five. She had
been educated by tutors and in a fash
| ionable boarding school under the close
1 supervision Of her father. who was con-
! servatism personifed, but she was i'm
| bued already with the doctrine Of equal
rights for the two sexes, although #
was long before she made known her
views. In 1871 she and her father passed
the summer near Boston. where she met
Longfellow. Charles Sumner, Oliver
/ Wendell Holmes, and other young men
/ OF Ideals. One day, a some gathering
Of which she was a member. Sumner ex-
claimed:
"oh. here comes the doctor on his
black horse!"
Meets Her Affinity.
Miss Ward looked and saw. as she said
! ingeniously in print. "A noble looking
man, riding a noble black horse" 1t was
Dr. Samuel G. Howe, expert in teaching
the blind, and az least twenty years older
than herself. They fell in love speedily.
and were married two years later On
their wedding journey they drove all over
/ Europe In a carriage, there being no rail-
roads then. Horace Man. the educator.
was their travelling companion. They
met Dickens; the poet, Tom Moore. Car
| lyle, Sidney Smith. and about every one
else worth knowing in the Old World
Or. Howe knew Europe already: he had
fought dramatically with the Greeks
against the Turks, along with Lord By
ron, in 1924. He was himself known in
! Europe because it was he who. with in
finite patience and ingenuity. had awak-
ened the consciousness and trained the
Intelligence of Laura Bridgeman, born
blind, deaf and dumb Her education
was greater wonder even than that OF
Helen Keller. born similarly afflicted in
our own day, who has been similarly
| educated.
Dr. Howe died in 1876 some years after
his wife had won her fame with the pen.
although she began TO write for print
| when seventeen. and was counted so in
| tellectual that a then popular woman
writer expressed the hope that some dav
/ little Miss Ward would lift her dainty
! skirts just enough to let the public know
whether her stockings really are blue or
I not" Her first book was published in
1854 She has been a leader in her chosen
| circle ever since
EspOuses Woman Suffrage.
She took up the suffrage cause in ear
nest in 1858. She has made many ad-
dresses on many topics since then before
public meetings, on the lecture platform.
and from the pulpit One of her most
noteworthy talks was delivered in italian
in 1906, when she was eighty-seven. at a
! celebration by Boston Italians of the
400th anniversary of the death Of Column
bus. She has written poems, essays. and
| newspaper articles. She organized the
/ Woman's Ministerial Conference twenty
| five years ago, and for more than twenty
years was at the head of the women's
clubs Ct New England.
One OF her daughters married Michael
/ Anagno, Greek, who is now superintend-
ent OF an institution for the blind. as DIR.
! Howe was before him. Maud Howe. her
literary daughter. married John Elliott.
the English painter. Her brother. the IA
nous Sam Ward, long since dead, mar
ried a daughter of the first John Jacob
Astor.
| Mrs. Howe lives in Beacon street, Bos-