Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-15

BE has no neck, but he sports pair of
trousers which liz point of size and gen.
eral development suggest the wings of
sea gull. He has short legs and cheeks
that descend into a mass of flesh. For
some reason or other the young man fan
cies that he is destined to shine as the
king of the dudes, since the dethrone-
ment of Berry Wall, aud he spends q
fortune on his attire every year. He
boasts that he has thirty suits of clothes,
which he wears in succession every
month, and that he has six dress suits in
active use. When his clothes are taken
off they are always pressed and iToned,
and hence he is not so wrinkled as he
might be. He has recently been wearing
a new glazed shirt front, deliberately
worked with silk figures, and aside from
the fact that it looks like oil-cloth, the
bosom is very attractive. 1t is a sight
anyhow, as far as that goes, because
when he is in theater and sits far for
ward IN the most pronounced box, the
footlights and the glare of the chsnde-
Iiers are caught by his linen and reflected
in such mastery fashion that he rivals
the stage al a production of the evening.
Western men say that what New York
needs more than anything else is a big
proprietary club or two, after the style
of such establishments in London. 1t is
true that they partake more or less of
the character of hotels, but they have
many advantages which a hotel cannot
offer. The great trouble with New
York clubs, according to Western visit
ors, is that they are run in such an e6-
elusive and snobbish fashion that an or
binary business or commercial man does
not feel at home in them. The rules of
club life here are too strict for man
who has TO earn his living, and who
looks upon a club as a comfortable place
to lounge about in and not as a parade
ground The proprietary clubs in Lon
don are managed in such a liberal fash
ion that any reputable man visiting the
city can get admitted to them upon the
payment OF some such fee as three
pounds, have the use Of the club while
he is in town and drift out when it is
over, with no trouble over social ques-
tions and no dues to pay while he is away.
The ceremonies for obtaining visiting
mem bership tickets are so light that it
only takes a day or two to fix it up. In
New York on the contrary, man must
be elected to nonresident membership,
pay heavy fees, submit to q delay of
thirty days and then probably to rejec-
ton at that. New ! Ork CIuDS are 4u-
merOus and popular, but they are too
snobbish. The perpetual bother over
their rules makes simple men long for
the free and easy clubs of the West,
where a man can smoke in the drawing
room without being suspended, und speak
above q whisper in the dining room with
out receiving a repTimand from the house
committee. The popular idea of a club
is q congenial house with lot of good
fellows, where man can enjoy himself
and throw off some Of the cares of bust
ness, and not a place where one must
dress up, subdue his voice and step on
tiptoe for fear of breaking some one of
the ten thousand regulations which gov
eru the organization.
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A very painful scene occurred in one of
the clubs the other day. A young fellow
who was known TO have married highly
desirable old English lady during his re-
cent long trip abroad, walked in to the
smoking room and was greeted bolster
ously and affectionateIy by his friends
assembled there.
"Welcome home, Harry, old boy
cried one. "Let me offer you my con-
gratulations on your matrimonial plunge.
was fortunate enough to see your wife
yesterday when you arrived home on the