Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-02
WILL ALL CLUBS BE OPEN TO woMeNl
The New EYillionaires' Club, of New York
City, VIII Have an Annex.

The New rfillionaires' Club, of New York
City, viii Have an Annex.
The new and very swell Metropolitan
club, which is to be elegantly housed on
Fifth avenue, will have restaurant and
other apartments for ladies. The breach
of ancient custom, which had its most
notable beginning in the "ladies' days
at the Lotus club, is rapidly widening
and extending into a general fashion.
There are no fiuer clubrooms ON Man
haitian Island than those for the wives
of the Lawyers club in the Equitable
building, ard four of the leading clubs
of Brooklyn now maintain restaurants
and parlors for the women of the falni-
lies Of members. The ladies' dining
room on the ground floor of the Pick
wick club in New Orleans is the most
gorgeous apartment in the city-a melo-
dy of gold and white and floral fresco-
ing. Even the old Union League club
in Chicago has its gentle side. Whoever
goes to the cashiers desk to pay bill
sees maid in a fluted cap and white
apron just beyond the desk, and learns
that she is facing ladies' entrance in
readiness to take the wraps of the women
as they arrive for luncheon or tea and a
glance at the periodicals of the day,
An old New York clubman, while
speaking Of the innovation ct the Metro
politan club, made prediction which
astonished his hearers at a great Repub-
lican club up town. 81 believe" said
he, 'that all the leading clubs will soon
provide restaurants and parlors for la
dies, and prophesy that in few years
the women will go to the clubs to
lounge at night just as the men do now.
The old fashion of calling upon ones
friends at night has already died out, and
nothing has taken its place. 1t used s.
be the rule that if l wanted to pay my
respects to friends family could call
after dinner and spend an hour or two
in that way. No one does that now. If
l want to make family call now must
wait for an invitation to dinner, and in
my turn invite to dinner those whom
my wife and | are desirous of seeing.
After dinner we spend that hour or two
with our friends which we once enjoyed
with them by calling upon them after a
dinner at our own homes.
''There is good reason for this
change. 1t may happen that if call at
your house you are going out, or you are
entertaining others, or you are not iii
the mood for my call. Perhaps our
moods do not tally, and the visit is a
bore. But cannot get up and bolt
must stay a reasonable time, as good
o1,1 y .e,x
different. can go out when like.
see Jones, and talk with him as long as
please; then | move over to Smith and
try him. Perhaps we don't agree as
we'll as at other times, and move over
co third man or get my hat and coat
and go somewhere else. The advan-
tages of these conditions appeal to the
ladies equally. In time it will be uil-
derstood that on certain nights we may
meet all the women Of our circle and
their husbands in the ladies' parlors Of
our club. The women will see one an
other and will chat together as at a re-
ception or ball, and we men will move
from one woman or couple to another,
paying our calls and free to bow our
selves away whenever we find ourselves
bored or inharmonious with the moods
of those we know.
''The women will like it, Whenever
it is tried it will be adopted. 1t will
give the ladies a chance to don their
evening gowns and jewels for the in
spection of their friends, to meet all their
friends of both sexes, to mingle in q
bright scene, to sip an ice Oh partake of
a light supper, and to pay off loads of
social debts with little trouble and under
charming conditions. New York Sun.