The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-04
CHAUTAUQUA CHATS
BY KATHERINE HOPKINS CHAPMAN.

Mixture; or whether she was determined that wild horses should not drag from her the fact that she had never trayeleo abroad. Then Sister Solomon Ant hau to butt in and let them know she Wouiu take magazine and look at pictures IL she couldn't be a globe-trotter!
 But here Betsey and Mrs. solomon Ant put a stop to further teasing by the tine- honored, boarding school method ot pil- lows applied to the offenders head ana sat upon.
 As they were not doing any regular class work. they began to attend the rec lures so enthusiastically that, after near ing six discourses in one day, they hau a severe attack of mental indigestion UT congestion. On recovering from thls lh- tellectual spree they learned to look over the daily program. pick out the things they simply couldn't resist; go to one lecture, then take a launch ride; attenu another, they walk through the maghlll cent forest awhile, absorb the essence ol some new theory then go rowing. Ihs see-saw of mental and physical actlVltles brought them to the close Of the day III just the proper condition to enjoy the evening concert; if the music were slow and dreamy they could reflect in all the glories of the past; if it were fiery ana martial they would plan something equally as fine.
 Womans Week had the attraction or novelty to these Alabamians, for while they each belong to some literary or charitable club in their respective homes' they were not familiar with women as public speakers along argumentatlVe lines-say on political equality between the sexes. They heard Rev. Anna Shaw on this subject and were agreeably sur public speakers along argumentative her motherly face and feminine trllis and laces. In reply to a comment to thls effect at the table Washington lady who has known Mrs.--beg pardon-ReV. Anna Shaw many years, said that time and experience had softened the speak, er's views and appearance wonderfully. Mrs Lillian M. w. Stevens one Of the present leaders of the Womans Christian Temperance Union, is nearer the popular conception of female orator, her mas culine gestures and rantings up and down the stage detracting from her eX- eellent cause, at least in the eyes Of these old-fashioned southerners
 Another woman who aroused general l interest was Mrs. Armiston Chant or | London, who told us of America as Seen Through British Eyes" First she assured us she had shown her admiration l of Americans by leaving all the attrac- l tions of a busy life in London to pay
 us eight visits, Then she proceeded to
 criticize our private and public life, our l over-worxed men, our frivolous women, 1 our precious children; in fact all the well known defects that are so con-
 stantly pointed out by our own best writers and speakers. But her British l complacency never questioned how a
 vell-bred well-dressed American audi
 ence might look upon her-a woman be- 1 low medium height, weighing about two l hundred pounds clad in loose white
 empire gown her hair plastered down ] and her face glowing with soap and in- 1 dignation as she criticized the American
 people who had entertained her during 1 those eight visits Possibly Mrs Chant ] finds American dollars more attractive 1 than American dwellers.
 All Alabamians were proud of their
 only representative on the platform dur
 ing Woman's Week, namely Betsey Ham ilton, for she is an Alabamian, though Georgia likes to claim her from her short | residence in Atlanta and her long con