The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-06-05
ONE OF AMERICAS FIRST
WOMEN PASSES NINETIETH
YEAR ANIL MANY HONORS
Will Robinson Reviews the Life Of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
Picturing Her World Of Usefulness, Both at Home
and in the Affairs Of the Country

1t tails to the lot OF but lew wo.
men in any part OF the world to be
accorded such honors as we're heap.
ed upon Mrs. ulia Ward Howe,
upon the occasion OF her ninetieth
birthday, which occurred last Fri.
dav at her home in Boston, sur
rounded by her children and grand
children. In the first place at the
strenuous gait at which woman OF
advanced thought 20 nowadays,
1t is a miracle when one OF them
lives even to the script raj period
OF three score and ten.
Mrs. Howe is not an ordinary
woman, however. In many re-
spects she rs in a class all los her
self. and about the best possible
proof that a women to he really
great must he a oman in all that
the name means. 1t is proof that
the long years OF child bearing and
hard work does not OF necessity
wreck the mental woman OF the
physical oma either, unless she
is willing Ninety years is a long
time to live, and the measure OF
usefulness, OF Mrs. Howe is lot
easily measured by human stand.
ards. Forever an advocate not on
Is OF woman liberty but also OF
all other forms OF liberty, she has
been ever busy. Born Ut the most
moderate circumstances, she was
compelled 10 work hard tor the
royal education she attained.
Believing that the emancipation
ut woman did rot mean that she
was to be relieved OF any OF the
duties OF witehood and motherhood,
she married early and began her
greatness by proving herself an
ideal mother and wife, caring Tor
home and babies. and helping in
the struggle tor a competence.
Born IN 1919, she devoted the years
OF early womanhood TO these noble
tasks and was in her prime when
the issues leading up to the wal OF
secession arose. She believed with
all her heart IN the abolition vi
slavery, and her first public work
was done as co-edItor with her
husband OF the Boston Common.
wealth, a pioneer abolition paper.
~ this time she contributed volum.
iuously also to the New York Fri.
bune and the Standard, as we'll a.
many other papers devoted TO the
cause, and when war was declared
she was enc OF the greatest helps
IN recruitment in all OF the north,
while her Battle Hymn OF the Re.
public, was thought by many TO
be the greatest OF ali similar poems.
Certainly II established the immor.
tally OF the woman, though it was
but an item in a sea OF other writ
ings, Just happening upon the IN.
spiratlon and the touch that made
1t lay strong hold upon the Am-ri.
can people.
Mrs. Howe was one OF the found.
ers OF the New England Woman's
club, the lrSt organization OF its
kind in the country, and the parent
VI thu vast net work OF similar
bodies that are now doing such
great service IN the understanding
Ut the correct lite. There were in
those wears OF activity, nothing
strldeni in the lite OF Mrs. Howe,
nothing OF the rant and ianatlcism
that mafred the character OF many
OF her compatrlots, and that is not
missing wen IN this modern days.
She had a message and the courage
and the wit TO deliver it, teaching
that FIRST OF all 1t is the duty OF
woman to he a good wife and a
good mother, After that she has a
right TO believe in all the reforms
she pleases, and 10 work tor them
all that she pleases, never forget.
ting that God created the woman
as the mother and the housekeeper
trs ST, as man is the provlder and
and protector, and that after those
duties are discharged, both have a
right to follow any intellectual line,
neither having precedence over the
other, which is alter all the true
and the correct way 10 look at this
matter OF the emancipation OF wo.
man and the rights OF woman. In
all OF that ninety years she has low.
ed little children more than con,
querors, and idealized the Ameri.
can home and sanctihed the Amen
can woman. No trace OF bitter,
ness, and no element OF rancor ha.
ever entered her work. Calling :
spade a spade, she remains sill
the most glorious type OF the Amer
lean woman OF letters, after two
hietImes. Surely It is a great anC
a wonderful giit I live such a lii,
as that, oil truth.
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