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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 6: Samuel Ward and the Astors (search)
the great world in grown-up days was at a dinner party given by a daughter of General Armstrong, married to the eldest son of the first John Jacob Astor. Mrs. Astor was a person of very elegant taste. She had received a part of her education in Paris, at the time when her father represented our government at the Court of France. Her notions of propriety in dress were very strict. According to these, jewels were not to be worn in the daytime. Glaring colors and striking contrasts were to be library of La Grange, and an admirable collection of French and German works. At this period, he desired to make literature, rather than science, the leading pursuit of his life. He devoted much time to the composition of a work descriptive of Paris. He wrote many chapters of this in French, and I was proud to be allowed to render them into English. He brought into the Puritanic limits of our family circle a flavor of European life and culture which greatly delighted me. My brother had
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe (search)
attractive person, from whom, as from the count, we received many kind attentions. Dr. Howe was at this time called to Paris by some special business, and I remained a month in Milan with my sister. We greatly enjoyed the beauty of the cathedral journeyed first to Naples, which I saw with delight, thence by steamer to Marseilles, and by river boat and diligence to Paris. My husband's love of the unusual must, I think, have prompted him to secure passage for our party on board the little steamer which carried us well on our way to Paris. Its small cabin was without sleeping accommodations of any kind. As the boat always remained in some port overnight, Dr. Howe found it possible to hire mattresses for us, which, alas, were taken llent investment, and are as handsome as ever, after much wear and tear of other household goods. We made some stay in Paris, of which city I have chronicled elsewhere my first impressions. Among these was the pain of hearing a lecture from Phil
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 9: second visit to Europe (search)
ce, nor the glee with which he would occasionally inform me that he had discovered a new and most remarkable rosso. This was sometimes a picture, but oftener a living individual. If he found himself disappointed in the latter case, he would account for it by saying that he had at first sight mistaken the color of the hair, which shaded too much upon the yellow. Despite his vivacity of temperament, he was subject to fits of severe depression. Some years after this time, finding himself in Paris, he happened to visit a friend whose mental powers had been impaired by severe illness. He himself had been haunted for some time by the fear of becoming insane, and the sad condition of his friend so impressed him with the fear of suffering a similar disaster that he made haste to avoid the dreaded fate by taking his own life. The following lines, written not long after this melancholy event, bear witness to my grateful and tender remembrance of him:— Via Felice Twas in the Via Feli
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 15: a woman's peace crusade (search)
tter from Mr. Aaron Powell of New York, asking me to attend a Peace Congress about to be held in Paris, as a delegate. I accordingly crossed the Channel, and reached Paris in time to attend the prinParis in time to attend the principal seance of the congress. It was not numerously attended. The speakers all read their discourses from manuscript. The general tone was timid and subdued. Something was said regarding the thenes represented the Commune as the result of a state of exasperation on the part of the people of Paris. They saw their country invaded by hostile armies, their sacred city beleaguered. In the despeis work of destruction. The speaker gave a very moving account of the hardships of the siege of Paris, the privations endured of food and fuel, the sacrifice of costly furniture as fire-wood to keepf Monsieur Coquerel's visit to this country was to collect funds for the building of a church in Paris which should grandly and truly represent liberal Christianity. I fear that his success in this
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 19: another European trip (search)
with warmth, Of course; we are all Home Rulers here. We passed some weeks in Paris, where I found many new objects of interest. I here made acquaintance with M. friend. It appeared to me whimsical that I should come to an obscure suburb of Paris to hear of this. At home I had never heard it mentioned. Mrs. Eustis, Dr. Chaon this wise. An English clergyman whom we had met in London happened to be in Paris at this time, and one day informed us that he had had some correspondence with southern passion in that face! I was invited several times to speak while in Paris. I chose for the theme of my first lecture, Associations of Women in the Unitefter the lecture, for having spoken with tant de bonne grace. Before leaving Paris I was invited to take part in a congress of woman's rights (congres du droit de diamond necklace, said to have been given to her by the Empress. I found in Paris a number of young women, students of art and medicine, who appeared to lead ver
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 20: friends and worthies: social successes (search)
tiful fresh voice, the air from Robert le Diable: — Va, dit-elle, va, mon enfant, Dire au fils qui m'a delaissee. These friends, with others, interested themselves in Miss Hensler's musical education and enabled her to complete her studies in Paris. As is well known, she became a favorite prima donna in light opera, and was finally heard of as the morganatic wife of the King (consort) Ferdinand of Portugal. Madame Sontag and her husband, Count Rossi, came often to the Benzon house. I New England Woman's Club, and of the Association for the Advancement of Women. I have been heard at the great Prison Congress in England, at Mrs. Butler's convention de moralite publique in Geneva, Switzerland, and at more than one convention in Paris. I have been welcomed in Faneuil Hall, when I have stood there to rehearse the merits of public men, and later, to plead the cause of oppressed Greece and murdered Armenia. I have written one poem which, although composed in the stress and stra
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
nt, 4003; becomes treasurer of the Town and Country Club, 406; at the woman's rights congress in Paris, 42 Hillard, George S., his friends and character, 169, 170. Hillard, Kate, speaks at the ent, 336; her peace addresses in England, where made, 337; asked to attend the Peace Congress in Paris, 338; attends a Prison Reform meeting, 339; her speech there, 340; holds a final meeting to furteakfasts with Mr. Gladstone, 411; goes to the House of Commons with Charles Parnell, 412; visits Paris, 413; goes to the French Academy, 414; at the crowning of a rosiere, 415; visits Doreas studio, 416-419; lectures in Paris, 419; president of a woman's rights congress, 420; at the Healys' ball, 421; speaks on suffrage in Italy, 422; visits Princess Belgioiosa, 422, 423; sees Umberto crowned, 4t his house, 412. Paradise Lost, used as a text-book, 58; religious interpretation of, 62. Paris, Samuel Ward in: his work descriptive of, 68; the Howes arrive in, 134; peace congress at, 338;