Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-27
CLUB HOUSES FOB WOMEN.
English Women Like Tn. NJ, but Amsrics 4,
Not O ute So Familiar With Eaoh Othsr.
NOW York Mail and Exnrasa

Not Quite Sc Familiar With Esoh other.
New York Mail and Express.
The talk OF c!ab rouse for women In
New Yo,k is having its periodical revival.
II will come TO nothing. There Is no or.
ganizstion in the City with energy enough
10 shoulder such project. Eagiisa
women have sho Sn themselves thus lar
more clubAble than their American sis.
tiers Taere sre tWo or three Womsl's
cluts in London which emoody most Of
the textures over which New Yorkers ar
que. There IS DO plessaa.er way OF get
tjrg rid of an afternoon in London TEAM
in spending II s. the Victoria Clu?,
whose house on Old CSvendisl street, IL
q club house IL the strict sense Of the
term. The Victoria is not a large club,
and It's rates are high enough TO restFicF
its membership to women Ct ample in~
comes, but II is thoroughly organized
and takes vrry genuine pleasure in ite
reception parlors, its bfary aud reading
&c ome, its tea room and its pretty suits
OF bedrooms where country members
lc dge on trips to town, and where unat-
tached women sometimes boBrd the year
yound. Drop II It O'Clock on any
bright day and sou will get IN eYe>flline
vision OF violets in brown bowls, yellow
tulips Dodding over the hesds OK ferns 10
silver dishes, dsncivg eyes peeping f;cm
behind newspapers, feathers, fnrs ana
con:entedly occupied fsmiainity.
The Scmerville Club is the be5. known
Of taa WomeR's clubs O. London. 1t Is
zen Ysers Old End It has had d caecksred
existence. There is g superstition 10 the
O. Ina ~
msintein an existence without DEF 2i;e
pisn for improving somebody OK come
thing, its members or some other ssCticn
cf humanity. The SomeIyiile Cub in tie
beginning meant improve and to re-
forIo the world. Is aunasl dues were
ou,y 81 %, and 1t was intended thsl
workiI G Wumer, s0Gie.Y women sad NO
men CT every station and degree Should
| Join renSs to put out their hands for the
franchise, for dress retcrm, for physical Gull
ture and abilities for tie SIX, for eQue.
! pay for equal work, for the opening OF 6 j
sorts Of doors for the employment o.
women. 1t is needless to say THAI nc
sucn milleanisi unloa vss attained. Tx
! SomaIvi!le Gluo lsDgu!sned. Last april :
it took fresh start, opened pleasSL'
suit CT rooms in Oxford circus, and /:
nov the largest somsn's club and TIL
most Democrat and mos: Interesting Il
the city. It's dues are Sill ouly 81 SO .
year, and it's membership iuciuoss Tia
Duchess Of Portsmouth, Lady Gray az 4
6 number of titled folk, WITH Mrs.. NIL,
licent Garrett F.Hcett, lFTances Powe!
Cobbe, Lsds Hsrbertcp, Dr.. E!tzabeti
Garrett Anderson, as yell &c Z contlrgen.
OF medical students, youcg literar.
women, noukkeepers and selt-dependen
women Of al xmas.
The Somervllle club has furnished It!
rooms III the prevailing T Jthe.ic taste. l
hiss its shelves filed vita = Formidable ar
ray OF books aud suhscribes to q long lis
OF papers sud mig, zines. Il arCaIses
regular programme OF lectures and da
bates for tie winter, SID tss Is served Il
members who happen in shy etseruCon a
4. The real life OF the CLUB Is In thesi
intormal dsoppings in. In one corner
they axe discussing Badaat, in Gnothei
bonnets. Tne S3msIville has Wid,
rsrge.
London literary women lave ciu5 fc
themselves. l. Is the diversity il Nav
Bond street I'D is prUcticslly, though nc
prCfssssdly, limited 10 authors and pro.
fessiorsl women l. attracts visitor BY
It's CHEEKY open ires.
The Bloomsbury Club takes in womsI
fond OF out.oiNdoor life snd gets up Gu:
walks and country trips the sesso
through, II hss fac gymnasium, anc
women practice there dSiiy. Ii hiss gooc
billiard room.
The Lotus Club Of London Is more O.
less literary, and is a club OF geutiefo k
as is the AlexandTs, which last Is en- *
pepsive club to belong 10 and very ez'
c usive, though fairly pleasant. Tn,
Alexandra has house in Grosveno
street, very handsomely furnished Xix
complete In its arrangements.
There are several CLUBS for men an(
women Jointly, SIS the Ai0ermarle and IN,
Junior Denisop. London women thor
oughlY etioy CLUB life; solitary womel
for Its coMpsnionship and cosiness, Rnt
married women for the chance Of met tin:
and drinking tea with their girlhoo(
| friends.