Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-11-27
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WOMEN IN MEMS CLUBS.
Barriers That Excluded the Fair Sex Ar.
Fast Breaking Down.

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Barriers That Excluded the Fair Sex Are
Fast Breaking Down.
Although it is only in the down town
clubs that one may dine and absorb the
beautiful views above the city, the treat
is not reserved for men exclusively. The
merchants clubs, which have topside
dining rooms, all admit women who are
introduced by the members. The Law
yers' club, not yet on the root of its
building, the Equitable Life, was the
first to extend it's benefits to the wives
and lady friends of its members, but the
others have followed suit, and the men
must now withdraw to a single smok-
ing room in each club in order to hold
stag parties and to be free of the gentler
SEX But though the dining clubs are SO
liberal the regular up town social clubs
are still for masculines only, with yery
few exceptions. How very backward
New York is in this respect one easily
discovers by travelling around the ooun.
try. Very little travelling will yield the
discovery.
In Brooklyn, for instance, almost ey-
cry one Of the great clubhouses is now
the nightly resort of women, who have
attractive quarters as we'll as frequent
days for enjoying the entire buildings.
In Cleveland the solid old Union club
has fine quarters for ladies. In Detroit
the Detroit club has been at great pains
and expense to make the women feel at
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go is a little more backward, yet even in
the conservative and old Union League
club you may find side entrance for
women, and you may see a maid in cap
and apron ever ready to receive them
and to show them to the section of the
great clubhouse that is reserved for their
use. As far away as San Francisco also
I found that the women were welcomed
to one Of the big clubhouses at least,
so that from ocean to ocean and lake to
gulf have everywhere found women
admitted to mems clubs. refer to the
Pickwick club in New Orleans in speak
ing Of the extension of the custom to
the gulf.
1t may be that the multiplicity of
clubs in most of the cities has led to this
breaking down Of the old barriers that
excluded women from these stag meet
ing places as religiously as all of them,
except perhaps Mrs. Lease, have been
kept out Of the Masonic lodges. should
not wonder if it has been done as much
to make the clubs more attractive as to
follow our national adherence to great
gallantry toward the lovelier sex. But
whatever the reason it must have helped
the clubs in capturing and subduing
their strongest opponents. 1t has robbed
woman of her sting, and domesticity
has been shorn of the armor with which
it fought those men who dared to find
pleasure away from their fireside Per-
haps the present innovation foreshadows
the glad time which an old c1ubman in
New York insists is coming to destroy
the old club life altogether.
He is very gallant to them when he
encounters any ladies in the clubs Of
which he is a member, but in his secret
heart of hearts he ''views them with
alarm. He sees the devil in them as
truly as did the monks of the middle
ages, who taught that women were the
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society which demand after dinner calls
and calls in response to calls and calls
of many sorts are already SO numerous
and monopolizing of time that men have
given up making them, and even the
women complain that for one who is in
society no time is left for anything but
society on account of the merely formal
calls that are exacted of society's vota-
ries. So he says he foresees that the
clubs will be utilized by the women.
He says that to great degree each club
represents set or social circle, and
that presently the women will hold their
receptions in the clubs ON certain days,
either all agreeing ON the same days
or at least large number coming to
such an agreement. Then, he says, the
men and women will be able to pay off
dozen debts Of politeness at one stroke
by going to the clubs and meeting a
dozen, maybe 20, women at once. At
that time, my friend says, he devoutly
hopes that we will be under the sod, for
the best use Of mans club will have
departed from it. Julian Ralph in Prov
idence Journal.