Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-23
WHY NOT A WOMAN'S CLUB.
Washington Lady Suggests an Easy
Way to start One.

r. DON'T see why the ladies in Washing
d ton don't get up little Climb Of their
y gown said society woman the other
~ VI day on flying summer visit to her
sHs" home in this city This is a great
club town FOR the men. and l can't see
any reason why We should not have a social
rendezvous of the kind for ourselves. Phila.
delphia, New York. and other cities have sue.
cessful women's clubs, and there is no doub,
that we cOnId get up a first-rare one here.
understand that there is already project on
foot, and the scheme reduced to the basis OF
an incorporation with capital stock. to establish
gigantic CLUB for women at the capital, to be
ill measure national affair and to provide q
headquarters for all the female suffrage and
other such organizations in pettlcoats in the
country. What want il a very different
sort OF trlnS-a distinctly private and reason
ably select club with modest but nicely ap-
pointed house IN convenient location.
WHAT THE CLUB HOUSE SHOULD BE.
such a club need not be at all an expensive
affair. Fifteen hundred dollars year would
hire satisfactory house, or one thousand dol
lars to modestly begin with and the furnishing
once done expenses would be comparatively
small. For service We should only need good
house keeper, a man servant aud u neat maid
III cap and ribbons. We should not want a
cafe. but only such small appurtenances as are
requisite Tor making a cup of tea or coffee and
perhaps three or four chatting dishes Tor little
plculcs at hungry moments. You can cook no
end OF good Things, you know, with a chatting
dish and . spirit lamp. A Welsh rarebit for
two and bottle OF beer to 60 with il makes
one feel delightfully."- dissipated OF course in
such club We would have no bar. but there
would be no harm i'll having u bottle or two of
tod oil.
and a few bottles of beer in the ice box for
similar emergencies.
How TO START IT,
ITO start a club Of the sort would be 10 sasy
that can't understand why it has not already
been done. Let dozen women who like one
another get together and incorporate them
selves as club. At once there would be ever
so many applications for membership-so
many, in fact. that a limit would quickly have 10
be set upon the number. Twenty dollars for
the initiation fee and $50 year dues would be
about right. Initiation fees would nav for the
furnishing OF the house and 20 would not be
hard TO pay each quarter. Certainly the ad-
vantagcs would be we'll worth the money to auy
woman. Women equally with men find social
together and gossip and read tho magazines
and funny papers. Candy, Of course,
ought to be on sale by the house keeper
and the house committee should be
particularly chosen for the skill OF
It's members IN the selection of confectionery
/ should think that a great many ladies in the
departments would be delighted to Join such a
club; in fact. there is not the slightest doub, of
it. Necessarily, admission to membership
would be only through election by board Of
governors. One hundred members would run
the club nicely on a modest scale, and the two
hundred members who would doubtless be OBJ
tanned at once would provide an income of
$1,000 a year-quite enough to run things
handsomely. That is my notion Of what ought
to be done in Washington. IL ID high time that
We had a women's club here, and look to see
some such suggestion AZ that have made car
ried out practically before long"