The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-21
-un no1Nes OF WOMEN FOLKS
-,ar's Clubs III London and
CWomen's Doings in New York.

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Uomen's Doings in New York.
yrw York. Nov. 17.-The talk of club
"a for women in New York is having its
~odic revival. IL Will co ne to nothing.
- is no organization in the city with
-, enough to shoulder such a project.
gIno or women have shown themselves thus
Ips more clubable than their American
~ ".e,.s There are two or three women's
"Ths in London which empody most OF the
GU ut',ras over which New Workers argue.
nyao,, * no pleasanter way of getting rid of
fternoon in London than by spending it
10 Victoria club, whose house on Old
~ sacl,sh street is a club house in the strict
Iao ~ the term. TIE Victoria is not
,nr,o Climb. and its rates are high enough to
ial lsss;ct its membership to women of ample
Zones, but it is thoroughly organized and
.oI,es a very genuine pleasure IN It's recep-
ron parlors, its library ana reading rooms,
" tea rooms and its pretty suits OF bed
Hoons where country members lodge on
TO-. ~ town, and where unattached
LlE sometimes board the year round.
10 in at 8 o'clock on any bright day and
~, will get an eye-llling vision of violets
~ Town bowls, yellow tulips nodding over
.ho heads of ferns in silver dishes, dancing
. .uos peeping from behind newspapers,
Gathers. furs and contentedly occupied
Ifemininity.
80 r-vomeu's clubs of London. 1t is ten years
III ord il has had q checkered existence.
Move is a superstition to the effect that no
dI,,h of women can ever maintain an exist
o once without definite plan for improving
een,nehody or something, its members or
sorne other section of humanity. The
s"meryille club in the beginning meant to
;ynnrove and to reform the world. Its
,Ixr z I Nd 2 in,
landed that working women, society
~omen. and women of every sta
Won and degree, should join ranks
~ mt out their hands for the franchise, for
5rass reform, for physical culture and ath
stics for the sex, for equal pay for equal
york for the opening OF all sorts of doors
nr the employment OF women. 1t is need
sss TO say that no such millennial union was
stained. The Somerville club languished.
last spring it took fresh start, opened a
reasant suite of rooms in Oxford circus,
md is now the largest womens club and
tbe most democratic and most Interesting in
me city. Its dues are still only 81 so
year. and its membership includes the
huchess of Portsmouth. Lady Gray and a
number of titled folk, with Mrs. Millicent
Garrett Fawcett, Frances Power Cobbe,
lady Harberton, DIR. Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, as well as contingent of medi
cal students, young literary women, book
keepers and self-dependent women of all
kinds
TEE soMERvILLE CLUB HAS FURNISHED
its rooms in the prevailing aesthetic taste.
| Ii has its shelves filed with formidable
array of books and subscribeS to long list
Of papers and magazines. 1t arranges a
regular programme of lectures and debates
for the winter, and tea is served to MEM
bers who happen in any afternoon at
o'clock. The real life of the club is in these
informal droppings in. In one corner they
are discussing Buddha, in another bonnets.
The Somerville has wide range.
London literary women have a club to
themselves. 1t is the University in New
Bond street and is practically, though not
profeSSedly, limited to tauthors and profess
sonal women. 1t attracts a visitor by Its
CHEEKY open fires.
The Bloomsbury club takes in women
fond of out-of-door life and gets up club
walks and country trips the season through.
1t has a fine gymnasium and women
practice there daily. 1t has good billiard
room.
The Lotos club is more OF less literary,
and is club of gentlefolk, as is the Alex
andra, which last is an expensive club to
belong to and very exclusive, though fairly
pleasant. The Alexandra has a house in
Grosvenor street, very handsomely fur
nished and complete in its arrangements.
There are several clubs for men and
women jointly, as the Albemarle and the
Junior Denison. London women thor
oughly enjoy club life, solitary women for
It's companionship and cosiness and mar
ried women for the chance of meeting and
drinking tea with girlhood friends.
A DIMPLED, FRESH CoLoRED, ATTRACTIVE
woman was pushing her way up Broadway
with somewhat bewildered air at busy
hour yesterday afternoon. Three montns
ago this woman was detailing plans for
migration to America at London break
fast table with Yale senior, Methodist
minister from Denver and a New York
doctor of divinity, as listeners. Her
father-in-law, so she said, was an English
squire of the old school. Her young hus-
oand was disguised with squiredom and
was younger son besides. For herself she
was a squire's daughter, but democrat
through and through. Filled with desire
to make himself useful in some honest
work, her husband, with her encourage
ment, had learned blacksmithing, but found
his position an anomalous one, because GER
tain Of the neighboring gentry recognized
them, while others cut them dead to the
annoyance Of the arIstocratic father-in-law.
She wanted to come to the United States,
Where she had understood a man might
WorK at any trade ana Stlli TAKE social posi-
ton with his family among the best in the
land.
Can go into good society if my hus-
band shoes horses" She put the question
point blank, and the Americans hemned
and hawed.
well, really it would be pity to take
such step under a misapprehenslon," said
the Yale senior.
THE case is often different" said the
Denver minister, lin villages to what it is in
the large towns.n
New York and London are very much
alike nowadays" said the doctor of divin-
Ivy.
Nevertheless her courage served her to
come. Her husband shod one or two of the
crack roadsters in the horse show at Madi-
son Square garden last week, and she is liv-
ing Ia very small fiat UP town. She had
found New York desert thus far, she said
yesterday, and she pinned for interesting
people TO talk to, but she believed her plans
could be carried out, and she meant before
spring to solace herself with acquaintance
literary, artistic, social, of as good material
as could be found in the town. She shoald
Knock at the door of the society she wanted,
ana 1t would open and lot her in. Will it,
mats an interesting question to be an
ssTered In all probability in the affirmative
new cork Is pretty sensible place after
ALL The radical blacksmith and his wife
might, If thew Thought il worth while be-