Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-08
AN EVELESS EDEN.
A Woman Visits the Algonquin Club
House in Boston, the Favorite
Haunt of the Bachelor.
The Tales Of the Arabian Nights Outshoue.
Famous Buildings in the East Riyaled.
Very Paradise.
Correspondents OF the Gazette.

correspondence OF the Gazette.
BosToN, MASS. Nov. 2s.-Algonquin
club! What pinnacle of glory these two
words represent. Everything that man Is
ingenuity and various taste can do has
been done to beautify this palace, in
tended largely for men alone; for while
there is ''ladies' entrance, - "ladies
dinSins hall, and in fact, an entire side
of the house given up to "ladies, - and
the permission granted members TO give
n limited number the entree, how many
of us will probably ever again see the in
side of these lovely halls?
With the usual magnanimity of a seS
which is sure to have the good thing uH8
disputedly 10 itself forever after, to
club has opened its sacred building to tn
curiosity of its Iady friends fof
two afternoons. The halls, reading
rooms, billiard card and dining rooms i,
all designed to please the eye, body and
soul of the lord of creation, for few
short hours, swarmed with fashionably
dressed women eager to see the charms
which hold their brothers night after
night.
So not TO be Outdone in curiosity my
friend and ate hurried lunch, put on
our best bibs and fuckers, and presented
ourselves and our card of admission at
the door, which was opened by page
glttering with huge buttons. Indeed ),
all the boys employed about
THE BUILDING WERE so BRILLIANT
in their large silver buttons that we won
dered if some manufacturer of the same
had not made an assignment just as the
house committee was looking for suitable
adornments. But these reflections
are the result of repeated en-
counters with the glittering little fellows
who were to be found all over the house
Meanwhile we are entering the softly car
peted ''ladies'' part of the club, catch
ing our reflection from long mirrors and
envying the people comfortably lunching,
seated in those luxuriously upholstered
easy chairs. A long room holds table
grooming with goodies. But we will see
the house first
And so We mount and march. Our
heads are bewildered by the glittering
brasses, shining marbles, polished woods,
rich hangings and altogether luxurious
splendor of room after room. Such
chairs! Such convenient tables, with
ash tray and matches! What can that
lower part-sort of shelf under
meath eaeh-be for2 But it is
best not to hazard guess.
so we wander on and up. How many
card rooms and "private dining rooms''
we passed, how many stairs we mounted,
we had no clear idea. We're we not
dreaming of Aladdin IS palace? Could it.
be that this is real, and only for men?
Yes, we are awake, and in the nineteenth
f. yu1nI Mr. Dnll, t,l-
pleasure in bersting. The width of
everything gave the rooms a much lower
effect than doubtless they are. But the
dining room did away with that. 1t +
two stories high, wainseotted in mahog-.
any, and the ceiling is finished in massive
oak beams, SO far above one as to seem
near the gates of-he can t finish. In
the center hangs huge chandelier of
dull brass, which is so like
THE BEARD OF THE MEDusA
that our smile is lost. When those can
dies are lighted, each gracefully curry
ing branch must hold tongue of
fame which weak head a little under
the influence OF a stimulant could easily
transform into the living, writhing beard
and hair. .
But we housekeepers are more inter-
ested III the delicate glass and lovely
china under which the little tables glitter
ike 80 many gems. On the floor above are
the Kitchens i'll marvellous perfection
Anyone could keep house there Those
great store rooms, cold rooms, pastry
rooms, everything to make work easyl
Yes, but see those two white capped and
aprOned men cooks spreading sandwiches
with melted butter.
And again on and up. Our feet are
weary and our heads tired. Never mind
we will see it all. It's our last
chance. So we investigate the
fifteen dainty little bedrooms, with brass
head and pretty curtin hangings. The
bells, decorated with ribbon and cord
which says: tChambermaid once, valet
twice -
We are tired. Lets go down and have
an ice. In course of time we seat our
selves in corner and wait for buttons 20
serve us. We are now five tired hGffgry
women, dazed with all we have seen.
Alas, buttons has found others as hungry
as we. So two of us start on 4 foraging
expedition. One waiter is helping some
one, and lone woman is hanging back,
WISHING, But HARDLY DARING
to go forward and help herself. We,
strong in each other, march boldly to the
pVuliiou uisil Help our IElPUUS, return TO
help ourselves. The woman has taken
heart-and so have others-and several
are coming up.
''If that man sitting over there with his
hands nervously clasped and straining his
neck for waiter, would get up and for
age as we did, he and the woman with
him would not look so starved,' re-
marked my friend as she comfortably |
slipped her bouillon.
just then he was lost sight of by half a |
dozen women crowding after fresh brick |
Of cream. They were thicker than bees |
about honey pot in n few moments, |
and it was going in large slices.
"John, why didn t you cut it down |
the middle?'' asks one funky of |
another.
Didn't have chanee,'' replied |
John, and in moment it is all gone!
"This is almost as lovely as the pillars |
n Rome some one said, looking at q |
beautiful cut of some almost transparent
stone, highly polished, in the main hall. |
Well, that s comfort, TO be sure.
But the real life of the house seemed |
gone, even though every room was well
illed. 1t was as if some large machinery
lad stopped or like wandering in Pom
oeii. You were only a spectator, had no
part in it after all. However, we are
very grateful, and humbly beg leave to
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