Sensation Created

Chicago, Vee. 28.- JSditor W. T. created a sen6ation at the joint meeting of the Womairs club of the city at the Recital hall Wednesday afternoon. The meeting was called by the Chicago Woinan's club to confer upon plans to aid the suffering poor wqmen and children of the city. Dr. Sarah Haekett Stevensou presided and the hall was filled with representativea of all the leading women's clubs in the city. Mr. Stead, who had been invited to address the meeting, said that he chiefly welcoined the opportunity because sitting side by side with those active workers before him were some of the most disreputable people in Chicago. Nothing was more obvious to anyone who paid any attention to the teaching of the gospel than the fact that the conventional judgnient about reputable and disreputable was quite foreign to the Christian ideal. Who were the niost disreputable women in Chicago? They were those who had been dowered by society and provided with all the gifts and opportunities, and who lived entirely self-indulgent. Theae women, who 'had great opportunities only to neglect them, were more disreputable in the eyes of God and man than the most abaudoned women of the streets. Mr. Stead's actual language was something stronger than that quoted above. After his speech he retired from the meeting and the women went into executive session in a discussion of his remarks, excluding the press tives. Many of the ladies present were exceedingly wrathful over the editor's remarks and the meeting after Mr. Stead withdrew was very storruy. Nothing was done, however, and no resol ution concerning Mr. Stead's remarks was adopted. After the meeting many of the women declared that under no circumstances would they again attend a meeting at which the Englishman was present.