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day she found her sisters playing some childish game in the nursery perhaps she would have liked to play too but she felt that she ought to lead them to think of more serious things so she bade them lay aside their toys and improve their minds by writing poetry louisa said she could not and would not but little sweet annie would try to please sister julia so she sat down and thought hard for some time and finally produced these lines he feeds the ravens when they call and stands them in a pleasant hall when julia was still a growing girl her father built a fine new house on the corner of bond street and broadway it was considered very far up town which will amuse new york children who may happen to read this the rooms were large and lofty and julia spent much of her spare time in walking up and down the long picture gallery dreaming of all the wonderful things she would see and do some day she was generally alone for the little sisters were much younger and paired off naturally together and her brothers were at boarding school but she was not lonely for her mind was full of beautiful thoughts she read shakespeare and byron and all the poetry she could find and she wrote more and more herself among other poems of her early girlhood was one called the hi cut mantell a romaunt of the time of kynge arthur the story is an old one but the telling of it was all julia s own and i must quote a few lines i cannot well describe in rhyme the female toilet of that time i do not know how trains were carried how single ladies dressed or married if caps were proper at a ball or even if caps were worn at all if robes were made of crape or tulle if skirts were narrow gored or full perhaps without consulting grace the hair was scraped back from the face while on the head a mountain rose crowned like mont blanc with endless snows it may be that the locks were shorn it may be that the lofty puff the stomacher the rising ruff the bodice or the veil were worn perhaps mantillas were the passion perhaps ferronnieres were in fashion i cannot and i will not tell but this one thing i wot full well that every lady there was dressed in what she thought became her best the wards spent the summer at newport and that was always a happy time the boys were at home then sam and henry and marion and they all played and walked and rode together julia had a little thorough bred mare on which she used to scamper all about the country sometimes the mare a wild little creature would throw her off though she was a good rider then julia would pick herself up and run home and creep in at the back door for fear auntie should see her and forbid her riding any more so julia ward grew up dreaming and studying writing and playing and thinking grew up into a lovely young woman and then while on a visit to boston she heard the wonderful story of laura bridgman and of the man who had brought her from darkness into light she went with some friends to visit the perkins institution for the blind and there met my father she has herself told how she first saw him a noble rider on a noble horse she felt at once that he was the most remarkable man she had ever met he was no less strongly attracted by her acquaintance ripened into friendship friendship into love and in 1843 samuel gridley howe and julia ward were married julia ward howe january 18th 1897 letter to mrs ward two happy homes now begins the part of these two noble lives that i and my sisters and brother remember the happy time when dr and mrs howe were our dear father and mother i have told fully about these happy years in another book 1 but i must say something about them here for we children were a very important part of the two lives i suppose there never were more tender or devoted parents than these two people whose days were so full of work for all kinds of other people and causes i think one reason why they were able to do so much was that they never wasted any time my father was up at four or five o clock winter and summer writing his letters and reports which were eagerly read all over the world by six o clock he was ready for his ride and one of us children when i was your age always went with him he was a superb rider and he taught us all how to sit a horse how to hold the whip and reins and so forth there were many stories of his skill in managing horses once when my sister julia was a baby he and my mother were travelling in italy there were no railroads there in those days so they drove in an old fashioned travelling carriage one day they stopped at the door of an inn and my father went in for a moment to make some inquiries no sooner was he out of sight than the driver slipped in at the side door to get a glass of wine and the next moment the horses finding themselves free ran away with my mother the nurse and baby in the carriage my father hearing the sound of wheels came out caught sight of the driver s guilty face peering round the corner in affright and at once saw what had happened he ran along the road in the direction in which the horses were headed and presently rounding a corner of the mountain which the road skirted he saw a country wagon coming towards him drawn by a stout horse with a stout driver half asleep on the seat my father ran up stopped the horse unhitched him in the twinkling of an eye leaped on his back and was off like a flash before the man got his eyes afrty 6peri lie galloped on at full speed till he overtook the lumbering carriage horses which were easily stopped no one was hurt he turned the horses back and soon came to where the wagoner still sat on his seat with his mouth wide open my father paid him well for the use of the horse and he probably regretted that there were no more mad americans to steal a ride and pay for it another time this was at home the horses ran away with my father inside the carriage a carryall with a large plate glass window in front the coachman had got down to pick up his whip which he had dropped again like a flash my father did the thing that had to be done sprang through the glass shivering it to atoms caught up the reins and stopped the runaways before any damage was done still another time we were sitting at dinner when word came that the perkins institution was on fire between our house and the institution was a high hill the last remaining bit of washington heights where general washington gathered his troops in the revolutionary days the messenger had come round by way of the street wasting precious minutes but my father never wasted minutes he ran up the hill which sloped gently up behind our house but on the further side showed a steep descent like the face of a cliff down this cliff he slid reached the institution and before any one knew he had come had swarmed up the gutter spout and was hacking away at the burning timbers with an axe that he had managed to pick up on his way the fire was soon put out so were all the fires he had to do with we lived at south boston then in a very old house quaint and comfortable it stood in a beautiful green garden full of lilacs and snowballs and lovely blossoming trees the laburnum with its showers of gold and white and pink hawthorn when my mother first entered the garden in early summer she exclaimed oh this is green peace and green peace the place was called ever after my mother did not get up at four o clock as my father did but she was as busy in her way as he in his when she had finished her housekeeping duties and taken her morning walk she went straight to her desk and spent the morning and often a great part of the day in study and composition when we were children she seemed always to be studying latin and german later when she was fifty years old she learned greek and from that time on always read some of it every day she helped my father too in his anti slavery work and in editing a newspaper the commonwealth which he carried on for some time but most of the time when she was not studying she was writing poems and plays and essays which have given pleasure and help to their readers ever since my first recollection of my mother is standing by the piano in the great dining room at green peace in a black velvet dress with her beautiful neck and arms bare singing to us she had a wonderful voice and her singing was one of our chief delights she knew every song that ever was written or so we thought english scotch and irish songs french german italian and even polish there truly was no end to them she taught us to sing with her too and so we learned a great deal besides having the most delightful times but she made songs of her own also and these we loved best of all we were not allowed to interrupt my mother s study hours unless there was some good reason but there came a time in the afternoon that was all our own then mamma would sit down at the piano and we would all sing and dance together first we sang my mother leading old german student songs plantation melodies dearest may and the like and those of her own songs that we loved best then when we could sing no more the dancing began my mother playing the most delightful tunes that ever were and while we were dancing perhaps the door would open and papa come in to join the merrymaking he might come playing bear wrapped in his great fur coat growling terribly that was wonderful fun for he was the good natured bear of the fairy stories and we could climb all over him and pull him about and make him dance with us only when he was tired he said he had a bone in his leg and would dance no more they both read aloud to us a great deal these dear parents both read very beautifully from them we learned to love shakespeare and scott and dickens and we never can forget how my father read the bible in his deep melodious voice they made us read aloud too and took great pains to make us finish our words read clearly and with the right emphasis my mother was specially careful about our reading poetry and never let us read it as some people do to day as if it were prose we must always make the music of the verse evident we had plenty of good books i never saw any trash in my father s house as i have told you they were busy all day long from morning till night but they were never too busy to listen to us to help us when we needed anything when my mother took her morning walk she might have liked to think over what she had to write that day but instead she had two or three children tagging after her asking questions and telling important things about how sally bradford the rubber doll had a hole in her head or why the cover of the sugar bowl was buried in the garden and when my father was pruning his trees and gathering his pears we must go too and get in his way only we never knew we were in it and find out all about everything connected with pears or peaches we must have hampered them sadly sometimes but as i say we never knew it and oh how much we learned in this way not only a great deal about fruits and flowers but things far different that it was not honorable to take fruit without leave that we must not be greedy but must share with the rest that it was delightful to give pleasure to others as by taking baskets of fruit to the institution and distributing it among our little blind friends and seeing them enjoy it we had school of course and learned lessons out of books as other children do but no other children ever had our father and mother to learn from they had parties for us too my mother wrote plays and she and my father and some of their friends acted them for us till we grew big enough to take part ourselves and there was jose the brown donkey for us to ride on and the junk or rocking boat for us to rock in there was really no end to our pleasures all these things were at green peace and were pleasures of spring and autumn and winter in summer we went to our other home no less dear lawton s valley near newport rhode island this was another children s paradise we were always as happy to get down to the valley as we were to get back to green peace we never knew which we loved best there was the brook to paddle in and the old mill and the valley itself like a long green parlor shaded by great trees and floored with smooth turf where we used to have the most wonderful picnics that ever were there were the apple trees too not to be compared with the green peace trees for fruit bearing but far better for climbing in and the meadows full of blackberries and the salt water to bathe in we had nurses to take care of us but when we were ill i cannot remember them at all i only remember my mother tending us smoothing the aching head with her beautiful white hands singing to us softly making us forget the pain and my father leaving his work to come and cheer us up and tell us the wonderful story about jacky nory the story that had no end and when we had to go to the dentist it was much more dreadful to go in those days for there was no gas and when a tooth had to be pulled well never mind about that anyhow when we had to go either papa or mamma always went with us and held our hand and helped us to bear it as well as we could and all this time remember the great work was going on without pause or rest the blind the deaf the insane and all the sufferers were being helped the beautiful poems and books were being written every day and all day people of all kinds and all nations were coming to my father and mother for help or comfort or pleasure but the happy home was always there for the children exhibited is the book reminiscences 1819 1899 by julia ward howe boston and new york houghton mifflin and company the riverside press cambridge 1899 8vo original publisher s blue cloth with portraits and other illustrations gilt lettering 465 pp date not on title page on copyright page only so not a first an early printing on the front free endpaper of this book julia ward howe has written out two full stanzas of her famed battle hymn of the republic which she originally wrote during the civil war and which became the dixie of the north sung to the tune of john brown s body battle hymn of the republic mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored he hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword his truth is marching on i have seen him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps they have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps i can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps his day is marching on i have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel as ye deal with my contemners so with you my grace shall deal let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel since god is marching on he has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat he is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat oh be swift my soul to answer him be jubilant my feet our god is marching on in the beauty of the lilies christ was bo...