At last Mr.Higginson wrote me most kindly to stop battering on that theme.

"If any man is such a fool as to insist that women are destitute of wit or humour, then he is so big a fool that it is not worth while to waste your good brains on him.

T.W.
Higginson." That reproof chilled my ardour.

Now you can hardly find any one who denies that women possess both qualities, and it is generally acknowledged that not a few have the added gift of comedy.
As most biographers of Mrs.Julia Ward Howe dwell on her other gifts as philanthropist, poet, and worker for the equality of women with men, I call attention to her effervescent, brilliant wit.

Julia Ward Howe was undeniably witty.