The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-04-13
VIII AL CLUBS Dc OPEN TO WOMEN,

rhs New sfiiiionaires' Club. OF New YORK
City. win 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 general fashion.
There are no finer clubrooms ON Man
haitian Island than those for the wives
Of the Lawyers club In the Equitable
building, and four Of the leading clubs
Of Brooklyn now maintain restaurants
and parlors for the women Of the faini-
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 It's gentle side. Whoever
goes to the cashiers desk to pay bill
sees maid In q fiuted cap and white
apron just beyond the desk, and learns
that she Ia facing ladies' entrance In
readiness to take the wraps OF the women
% they arrive for luncheon or tea and
glance at the periodicals Of the day.
An old New York clubman, while
speaking Of the innovation at the Metro
politan club, made q prediction which
astouished his hearers at q great Repub-
lican club up town. II believe" said
he, .that al the leading clubs will soon
provide restaurants and parlors for la
dies, and prophesy that in q few years
the women will 60 to the clubs to
lounge ct 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. It used to
DO the rule that II wanted to pay my
respects to 9 friends family / could call
after dinner and spend an hour or two
in that way. No one does that now. II
I 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 DESTROYS Of seeing.
After dinner we spend that hour 81 two
with our friends which we once enjoyed
with them by calling upon them after
dinner ct our own homes.
sThere ID . good reason for this
change. II may happen that II I call at
your house you are going out. or you are
entertaining others, or you are not In
tie mood for my call. Perhaps our
moods do not tally. and the visit IL q
bore But ! cannot get up and bolt. !
must stay reasonable time. % good
breeding requires. At club II Is very
different. lean 60 out when like. l
see Jones, and I talk with him a. long n
] please; then ! move over to Smith and
try him. Perhaps We don't agree a.
we'll q ct other times. and l move over
to . third man or get my hat and coat
and 70 somewhere else. The advau-
taSes Of These conditions appeal to the
ladies' equally. In time II viii be IN
deestood that on certain nights we may
meet oil the women OF our circle and
their husbands In the ladies' parlors Of
our club. The women will 80 one an
other and win chat together - at Q re-
oeptioa or ball, and we men viii move
from enc woman or couple 10 another,
paying our calls and free to bow our
solves away whenever we ind ourselves
boesd q inharmonious, with the moods
-oe those We know.
'sThs women will like It. Whenever
Il u tried Il win be adopted. II will
eise tbs ladies Q chance to don their
evening gowns and jewels for the In