The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-21
TO GIVE LECTURE.
Mrs Philip Snowden of London Speaks To night at College
 Street Hall,
PEEPS AT PARLIAMENT
Will Tell of Actions of That Body as Seen Through d Womans
 Eyes"

Mrs Philip Snowden of London,
 wife of the member of parliament for
 Blackburn, England, will give her
 famous lecture Peeps at Parliament l Through a Woman's Eyes" in the l University Extension course at College
 street hall, this evening, at o'clock l Young cultured and eloquent, rec- ogniaed leader in the great social
 movements in England and one of the most beautiful women in London, 1 Ethel Annakin SnoWden, Wifo of the
 popular member of parliament for 1 Blackburn, enters the field of public service maryellously equipped She
 IS tall and commanding and has a \ grand voice, at once sweet and power I full. She has wonderful grasp of
 facts, great memory and that touch l of poetry which lends glow to every argument and to every appeal. Mrs SnoWden is the personal friend of
 Lady Somerset and of Lady Randolph l Churchill now Mrs. GornNallis West names we'll known in English political 1 life, and her position as the wife of \ a member of parliament has given her l special opportunities for studying
 British politics and inc great woman's | movement which is going on in Eng 1 land at the present time. The Rev | C F. Aled of the Fifth Avenue Bap- 1 tist church, New York, John D. Rock cfellar's pastor, sat beside Mir Snowden ] M F., listening to Mrs, Snowden in i pr. Aked old church i'm Liverpool on
 shores and he wrote in the British l.Weekly afterwards She is the great I rst woman speaker since Frances Will I lard nr. Akcd atteats her success in | the following striking words Mrs l SnoWdon has q positive genius for ! public life and she has come to the ! front with incredible rapdity. A few < years ago she was college girl in l 1Nerpool to-day London, the great
 canters of population and the uniyer-
 sity towns supply her with audiences measured onh Ry thg capacity ot their
 largest halls. while the newspapers of a all tho political parties sing her ! praises
 l When not away on lecture tours in ! the provinces. Mrs SnoWden practi- l cally lives in the house of commons I with her husband and her knowledge
 of the personalities of the present
 house would do credit to the most ex-
 pcriencad lobbyist Mrs SuoWden has
 been visiting this country during the
 season If 1908 and has already lec- \ tnrcd before tlo chataudua associa- tion and several af our female col \ leges She lectures to the students of
 Mount Holyoke on october 2S. A prominent Ialc professor. Hho heard
 Mrs. SnoNdep lecture before tho Cha
 tsuqua association this summer said.
 .lIcr magnetic personality and her
 intensely interesting talk and doserip-
 tions so impressed the vast audience
 phch listened 0 her that they fairly
 Weut wild with enthusiasm over the luature
 From tho above criticisms. if will be
 seen without doubt that Mrs. Snowden's
 lecture will b. one of tho star lectures
 in tho University Extension course
 lnd lll of our citizens who can should l. themselves of the opportunity
 o' htaring hcr. as tho late excitement n London oNcr the woman suffrage
 movement in England Is subject
 with which Mra Snawden is thorough x tamiiar and she appreciates thr
 great influence which |, has upon
 English politics and the government
 of Great Britain