Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-01
A Club for Ladies'.

Club for Ladies'.
THE RUSSELL CLUB OF LoNDoN-ovER 500
MEMBERS.
The London NelrS of a late date SAYS: 1.-THE
example of the Albemare club, in the street
of that name, has been followed by the estab
liShment of somewhat similar Institution.
The Russell Club, in Regent street, will help
It's predecessors 10 remove one of the grounds
OF inequality between the sexes which has
formed practical grievance. The Russell is
called club, but it would be doing injustice
to those tor whose comfort and convenience il
is designed to attach TO il the meaning which
the word car les i'm its accepted application
Clubs, as hitherto designed and conducted,
have had their social character marred by
the selhs hines peculiar to the sex which has
appropi lated them. Mans club il, of his life,
hing apart. There are occasions, gener-
ally peIsoL al in tn, ir character and historical
III their recurrence, when laGieS are specially
| invited to a club and are privileged 30 SiI in
the bay Window. But there is SO much fuss
mae aboui II, and the understanding is made
50 distinct that special favor is being con
terred, that the hospi. atty loses much of its
grace. Ladies, however, are above prejudice
Of sex and when they establish a club they
magnanmousy repay a century OF exclusion
by assigning special wing OF the building for
the use OF gentlemen. A portion of the club
IN Regent street contains billiard, card, Smok-
ing and dining rooms, set apart for gentle
men, and it is Significantly enjuined that in
| no other part of the club will smoking be
| allowed But, as We understand the ar
| engagements, gentlemen being members of the
club are not excluded from other and more
| attractive rooms. As the gentlemen have
| their particular wing the iauieS have their
| private drawing room, sacred from the tread
| of man: But for the rest, The reading room,
! the vii ing room, the dining room, the muse
room and The larger drawing room, may be
used In C m non, as are the public rooms in
well-urdered hotel.
But while gentlemen are not forgotten in
the arr ange mentS of the Russell Club, il is the
| "a les who aIe chiefly remembered. The
| Principal object in establishing club has
| uetn TO supply temporary home in a cen
| trail position for ladies engaged upon the
Il. duouS duty OF shopping. Tue pleasure of
hopping has hitherto been weighted with the
| sorrow of foregoing luncheon, or, at best, of
| >na ching haSty and unsatisfactory meal in
| public restaurant. Members of the Russell
CLUB cut Tor days shopping, or sightseeing
| Or round of visits, may cali in at their own
| club. and feel as much at home as if they hal
| been dropped al their own doors. In point of
| comfort and elegance, the Russell Club will
! bear comparison with the most favored homes.
| No expense has been spared upon the decora-
| Iois or the appointments. Each room is a
| ma vel OF combined luxury and good taste
| Blu. pei hal the drlwing-room would take the
DrlZe in a competitive examination. Under
! the PEI SOal direction of Mr.. Birch, MeSSrS.
| NooOttl have in this room accomplished what
they might be content to regard as heir cb 7
| dUucfe in the way of room decoration. The
| yle is the now familiar Japdneoe, bat the
| work is carried out with com pieteness and
| originality which make the drawing room
quite exceptional. An obvious difficulty in
| establishing such a club as the Russell is that
| IF Keeping it secret. This essential point is
| cared for 10y committee, on which are to be
| found the names of The Bishop of Aberdeen,
| Bishop Jenner, the Ven. ArchdeacOn Dunbar
| The Rev: Prebendary Morris, the Rev. chan
| cellor Tisdall, and many other weIl-known
| gentlemen. The club was opened yesterday.
| when it was stated that the convenience Of
| such an establishment has been recognized by
| The Subscrp ions of 500 members"
| Mr.. Gladstone on the Economics of
Cookery.
During recent inspection of the KenSing
ION School of Cookery in London, Mr. Glad
| stone in the course of a speech said:
Il think great deal of our cooking is most
| admirable, and that We have had no reason TO
| complain at all; but comparing country with
| country, there is no doubt that some countries
are very much more economical than others.
| am afraid it is the truth that We are the most
| WaSteful people on earth. | remember once
| healing curious story worth telling of the
| Americans. / heard from person who tray
| eled in America that one day in the yard of
his hotter he saw great heap Of OK tails. They
| thrown away, and was surprised at that, and
| [ began to imagine, oh, oh! then there is one
| country that is more wasteful than we are, and
| chat is America That is the conclusion was
| disposed to draw, but afterward heard the
| explanation, which is very curious one. The
American habit of throwing away OK tails is
| an old English habit which they carried with
| them from this country when the American
settlements were formed. But you all know
that at the time of the French revolution
| great number of priests and others came over
| as refugees. and were kindly received i'm this
| country. They spread their views all over the
country, and am told that these pries.s, long
| fOrmed-indeed, after America had been sep
| arated from us pOlitically-brought over the
habit OF making soup from OK tails land taught
| it to the English people Probably the way
would be this: They would see OK tails thrown
| away, and being people to whom the saving of
| every faIthlng was important, they would buy
OK tails and make soup for themselves. The
| people would initiate them, with the conSe-
| quence that we get in that shape most excel
lent soup, for there can scarcely be more excel
lent soup than OK tail, and that's the very rea-
son why In one point We are more economical
than Americans.
81 believe it is also true that good cookery is
| a great deal more wholesome than bad, and
that it contributes very much more to health,
| as well as to saving, than bad cookery The
French are undoubtedly on the whole the best
| cooks in the world, and believe it is also mn
den1able that they are the most economical
| cooks in the world, and that with them of all
which can possibly be turned to account there
| Is the least possible waste. / hope We shall al
ways be-, as people and as individuals, dis
| posed to initiate our neighbOrS in those things
| In which we can improve in initiating them
believe we have great deal still to learn in
this respect, judging in rough manner from
what L see-that things will be done more
wholesome and soundly than now, even
The whole the sources available to mankind
for the purpose of food will be made to pro-
duce more of what is food, and give Satisfac-
ton in the support of life"
THRILLING TALE OF THE SEA-The cast
away, whose rescue from raft by the schoon-
erCarrie Z. Long was reported, proves to be a
Brazilian convict who escaped with two com.
paniOnS from the penal colony of Fernando
NOrOnea. four hundred miles from the main
South American coast, about the LIST of Feb
| ruary. Before they were two days out one of
| lis comrades was washed overheard and de-
youred by sharks before his eyes. The second
died from exhaustion on the fourth day He
threw his body to the sharks, thinking In that
way to cause them to quit following the raft
but after they had torn his comrade to frag
ments they only followed him the more intent
ly. He dared not sleep, for fear of walking off
the raft into their open jaws. Water gave out
on the sixth day, and thirst was added to the
loss of sleep. His only food was bread which
had become musty from long confinement i'm
| the kerosene can and the eating of which con
sequently only added to his thirst without sat
iSfying his hunger. On the tenth day his suf-
ferings had become SO intense that he was
about to cast himself to the sharks when the
Carrie Z. Long hove in sight.
TAR WALKs.-A late writer thinks that to
make walks with gas-tar as a component part
| is the only effectual way to exclude weeds
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