The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-11
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club in Fifth avenue. New York. Will vary
the general custom of g%entlemen's clubs by
having a restaurant and other apartments
for ladies. 1t is not the first to make this
innovation. however. several other clubs
having gradually extended their ladies
day" to include all days. The Lawyers
Club. of New York, and four OF the leading
Brooklyn clubs maintain restaurants and
parlors for women Of the families of men,
bers. The Union League Club. of Chicago,
follows the same fashion. and the ladies'
dlning-room in the Pickwick Club. of New
Orleans, is it's most gorgeou apartment. A
New York clubman predicts that it will not
be many years before women will frequent
clubs in evening as well as day thine az
much as men do. Their purpose will be to
enjoy the companionship of their friends
without tho formality of visiting them at
their houses, or Of entertaining them at
dinner or other elaborate function. Social
entertainment and visiting, In even the
most intimate circle of friends, becomes q
burden in q large city, and already women,
in self-defense. seek means of tightening
their responsibilities. They can pay social
debts with little trouble at q club, meet old
friends and new acuuaintances, wear their
best gowns il they choose. and can come
and 60 rs it pleases them without RESPONSE
bility for those wh0 remain. It 10 a fashion
that conservative women Will be slow to
adopt. but, as they become accustomed
to it, they will recognize it's advan-
tages, just as women in Indianapolis
who first felt misgivings over the pro-
priety of giving private Dinners and other
entertainments at the Propylaum now
hesitation. sure that 1t will he regarded as
the correct thing" Men will be slow. too,
to see the benefits of this phase of club life,
but the average man ia amenable to reason,
and when he reflects that his wife is not
less q social being than himself. and tina
she might enjoy Cropping into the club for
an hour" in the evening az we'll as himself
if she were sure of meeting pleasant people
there he will. in time, modify his preju-
dices. And he will reflect, also. that it will
be better, for many reasons. that both
should drop in" to the same club. The
club period of modern civilization has ar
rived. but it's development has but inst
begun, and the next few years will show
manifestations of this social institution
hardly thought of at this time.
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THE fortune of S25, COO said to rave been
left to a trained nurse by q wealthy and
grateful California widow who recently
died, will HAYES tendency to create a boom
In the nurse business. Heretofore these un-
expected bequests rave usually gone to po-
lite young persons who have rendered some
tritling favor to elderly strangers whose
wealth and easy gratitude they did not sus-
pect. Fairy tales fit themselves to all con.
ditions of life.
THE Boston Transcript thinks that one
of the strangest revelations of the election
returns 10 the Official announcement that
6s. O45 voters in Massachusetts, cast their
ballots In favor of the retention IN the
Constitution of the requirement. that the
Governor shall be seized in his own right
OF a freehold within the Commonwealth Of
the value Of 81. 0o0. There was q large ma