Evening journal., 1895-10-07

W ii ritUIfus 4 DikAu eltUklnk ntIA
Monday night, at tho residence of Mrs. o.
&. Bull, in Cambridge, and will conhne
my remarks to woman's suffrage. / shall
not speak in Boston until later.
81 have nothing to say at present about
the criticism of Tho Pall Mall Gazette
touching my connection with the social
purity campaign. | go from Boston to
Baltimore TO speak Of tie social purity
congress.
Mrs. Chant will be welcomed by many
womcn who have placed themselves i'm
prominence because OF their progressive
views and while she is hore Is likely TO be
heard several times on the lecture plat
form.
Tho Failure of Her Crusade.
The recent failure of the crusade which
Mrs. Chant led against the Empire Music
hall and its rivals in popularity by the
action Of tho London county council in r0-
storing their Licenses, makes her visit all
the more interesting, because the English
newspapers have not hesitated to declare
that, like the wise warrior, Mrs. Chant
ran away that she might live to come back
and fight little more Her explanation
of the revulsion Of feeling in London con-
oerning the work of the Social Purity
league may have an important bearing on
the manner in which recent occurrences
IN this city will be regarded.
Mrs. Chant is by no means stranger
here She has visited this country three
times and has many devoted friends. She
was one of the women delegates to the
Chicago fair, and was also one Of the rop-
resentatives to the womens parliament
which was held In Washington in 1898.
She is described by her friends TO be a
x.s,t,,nr ~ fuH,t,,ffnhIn plfrt- aud narcn
yerance. She reminds one very much in
appearance Of Mrs. Kendall, the actress,
though Mrs. Chant is Of much slighter
figure Since she has been freed from
school duties she has devoted herself Co
matters which were intended TO reform
certain portions Of society, or at least
ameliorate their condition.
Mrs. Chant first served as a governess
in young ladies boarding school and
then became interested in mission work
in India and decided that before sailing
for the Orient she would become prac
tical nurse. She served considerable time
in the Nottingham hospital and subse-
quontly i'm the London hospital. Then
she made up her mind that she would like
to become woman ds1tor and apply her
self TO insanity, and with that end in view
she became an assistant manager in an
insane asylum.
How She Became n Lecturer.
But then her marriage diverted her
mind from purely philanthropio thoughts,
and she became a lecturer When i'm the
heat of the Empire crusade, she expressed
herself on tho question of amusements in
this way:
81 like music halls immensely, and I
do not think it wrong to have legs, and |
don't object to tights, as such, nor do
object TO the ballet
When. however, tights are only the
medium for the exposure Of the body, and
| those bodies belong TO women, then the
whole thing is wrong and should be
stopped. A self respecting woman would
not care 60 exhibit herself in public in this
way and il ballet girls think nothing of
| il then they have lost something which
humanity cannot afford to lose. We have
no right to sanction on the stage what, II
done ON the street, would cause a police
man 20 lock the offender up.
Mrs Chant has published two volumes
Of poetry and has written yoluminousy
on matters I'm which she Is interested
She numbers among her close friends
Miss Frances Willard, Lldy Henry Somor-
set Miss Helen Taylor, Mrs Elizabeth
Cady stanton and Miss Susan b. Antho-
ny
Her primary object in coming TO this
country this time is 20 go on an extended
lecture tour, chiefly in the west.