Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-12-13
Club OF THE FUTURE
ATE FIELDS IDEA OF AN ORGAN
IzATloN FOR BOTH SEXES.

Reasons Why Women should Enjoy this
R-Uefits Of Club Life ms Well as MeR.
life WIN BE PIsasanter for All
Some of us were startled while ago
y reading that certain New York wom-
en- had founded woman's club. was
very glad to learn of the innovation, and
have been fighting in its defense private
ly ever since, as the idea seems to be par
ticularly obnoxious to the average intel
fect. Why should there not be clubs
not for men only nor for women only,
but for men and women, which could
become social centers in the elongated
babel Of New York? Only the very
wealthy can now afford TO entertain.
Well to do intelligence starves for lack
of natural interchange of ideas and
synpathies. Occasional theatre parties
and suppers, while significantly expen-
sive, no more nourish healthy friend
ships than lightning nourishes the grow
ing grass,
Confine the healthy ebulhtion of social
instinct, and explosion ersues. If women
are to be helpmates to their husbands, if
they are to be wise mothers, they must
know the real world by actual contact.
Without freedom there Is no intelligent
virtue. Many 3 man, from inherited
habits of thought. entertains oriental
ideas without knowing it.
FEATURES OF THE CLUB.
Rank treason. dare say. Hence am
prepared for many feminine shrek of
disgust, for the howl that will rend
many a manly bosom. for the scorn that
will sit upon many manly counte-
nance. for the Rnathemas against the
unse=.Eg of the sex that will proceed
from many manly tongue; but howl,
scorn and anathema are not argument,
and argument is what want,
Women require relaxation as well as
men; women need the friction of intel
llgent minds more than men, for the
reason that their lives are more secluded;
women. especially those who live in the
suburbs. need a place of rendezvous
where they can read papers and maya
zines and encounter their friends I'M
tremendously. More particularly do
they need restaurant where they can
obtain palatable meals for reasonable
prices, and where they can invite friends
to breakfast, lunch or dine without max
ing great inroads upon theiT purses.
Year by year the army Of professional
women increases. All Of these women
are more or less clever; few are blessed
with fortunes. An feel the necessity OF
club, but to start one is not feasible.
What is less impossible and more nat
ural is such an addition to the present
system as will give women all they de-
sire without depriving men of their in
alienable right to smoke, drink and wear
their heels higher than their heads.
Avivid imagination can picture club,
consisting of two or more houses, with
rooms exclusively for men, rooms ex-
clusively for women, n general reading
room and restaurant, private dining
rooms and general reception rooms.
IT IS COMING.
Men who hate women and women who
hate men need never encounter one an
other, while men and women who be
heve that two halves make whole could
exceed the Century club Of New York il
the brilhancy of their Saturday nights
Society is becoming more and more com
plex, and today there is far less chanc,
of clever men and women meeting il
big American towns than there is il
London, because people in this countr!
rarely have leisure.
Unless they give themselves up h
dinner parties-never knowing besid,
whom they are to sit, and general.
longing to be at the other end Of the ia
ble-they are frequently doomed to g,
through an entire season without an in
terchange of ideas with their hes
friends.
Suppose all this changed. Suppos
women know that ON given night il
the week they are almost certain to en-
counter not one but many male friends
who are things Of beauty and joys for
ever; suppose men know that on thi
same evening they are sure Of seeini
many women who are never at hom
when they find time to call: how simpli
fed society becomes! And where Is til
unwomanliness of this proposal?
In the club of the future only sue
persons will be admitted as are in til
habit of behaving like ladies and gentle
bnSus Ldll W peIIcAfo why hleu III
women of acknowledged position an
intelligence, who conduct themselve
properly III drawing rooms and publ
balls, should become transformed b
occasional contact at clubs
In all probability the club of the fut
ure will not be born during the reign G
the present generation, but that societ
viii eventually resort to some such d.
vice as have suggested is as certain o
that lunches and . o'clock teas are deaf
10 digestion aud impossible for worker
Kate Fields Washington.
A wonderful Picture,