The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-14
ABOUT JULIA HQNE

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The long and beautiful life on earth
Of Julia Ward Howe Is ended, but her
influence will endure and her example
Will live, and the earth that was made
better by her presence will treasure
the memory OF her name. That name
to thousands of persons recalled. as
the name of none who is left living can
now do, the literary past Of New Eng
land. In her own person Mrs. Howe
represented the distinguished tradi-
, tion Of national Inheritance by way Of
the Puritan emigration
Mrs. Howe was the friend of the
good and the great men who estab-
lished and maintained, by their "plain
living and high thinking" this fine
tradition. She listened not merely to
the pulpit discourse OF William Ellerv
Claiming, but she heard his table
talk and his familiar conversation; Ol
iver Wendell Holmes was her friend
and neighbor, and her strong sense
of humor was not unlike that of the
sunny-tempered Autocrat. Longfellow
and Lowell, Whittier and Aggasiz. and
in particular Emerson-these who
were then the Olympians of the Ath-
ems of America-were actual person
alities to Mrs Howe. To most of us
they are authors of books, to her they
were living men. We know their
names on the bacl>s of subscription
editions or in the encyclopedias; she
new them from her own day-to-day
visiting list.
The life of Mrs Howe was many
sided. She thought no humanitarian
interest outside the scope of her clear
and fine intelligence, her benignant
womanly sympathies. She believed in
an all-wise, all-directing Power, and
she had abiding faith in the eternal
purpose manifest in this universe of
His creation. Her philosophy sounded
the cheerful clarion of persistent
hopefulness and courage. She had no
patience with those who preach the
futility of continuing the struggle In
all that she said and did, she seemed
to feel a high sense of her response
bility to that
'one great society alone on earth,
The noble living and the noble dead"
society of which she was, in life
and in death. a member.
Mrs. Howe was an Abolitionist in
the day when ignomlny or virulent
abuse were the portion of those who |
advocated the enfranchisement of the !
slaves. The Greeks still gratefully |
recognize her assistance in their !
struggle for independence. She gave
invaluable assistance to her husband |
in his successful scheme for educa- |
tion of the blind, at time when it !
was thought hardly worth while 70 |
enlighten the darkness of their un- |
fortunate condition She has advo
Gated reforms in the management of |
prisons, and of late years her voice
has been heard on the lecture plat
form in a rational plea for the exten-
sion of the industrial and political op-
portunities open to women.
The authorship of THE Battle
Hymn of the Republic" though it
brought her fame, was one of the
least of the services rendered her
country by this great and good wom-
an. She lived to the age Of more than
81 years, and her days were filled to
the very last with beneficent activ-
ity. Her friends who grieve that she
has gone to join the choir invisible
are comforted to know that at the
end she was spared protracted suffer
ing, and that for her
there lies not any troublous thing
before,
Nor sight nor sound to war against
thee more,
For whom all winds are quiet as the
sun,
All waters as the shore" e."-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
The crusade in France against the |