The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
A WOMEN'S CLUBHOUSE.
Women Open Their New Home
 Restaurant and Other Features.

This was q field day for the college alumnae of the city. Hitherto, as z class, they have been without a loca habitation or a name. Now they have found both in the Womens University club at 13 East Twenty fourth street which was opened this afternoon witl a houseWarming Translated it meant an opportunity of inspecting the club. house. Hundreds of guests responded to the nvitation-college graduates ol every shade opinion and profession members and those who wish to be- come members, as well as many curious people who have no more intimate con nection with cap and gown than a de- sire to see what a women's university club is like.
 The new house is four-story and basement brownstone front, very con veniently arranged for the needs of the club, A large assembly room, where the different alumnae association may meet, occupies tWo-thirds of the first floor, and separated from it by folding doors is a charming dining room with a wall background of dark green and tshg it,k 70 cosikf q OH aldha
 chairs and small tables of black Flem- ish oak. This dining room, which will accommodate 32 guests at time, is the most attractive feature of the club to many of it's members, offering as it does a quiet place and congenial com pany as substitutes for the rattle and bang and push and hurry of the aver age downtown restaurant! It makes the problem of entertaining an out-of town guest and above all lends d feel ing of comfort and good cheer which no club house should lack
 We wish to make the dining room appeal to all pocketbooks." one member explained. But everything is to be as dainty as well served as a refined wo- man would have 1t in her own home !" Table d'hote luncheon and dinner will be served at moderate rates for the member who must count their pennies. Beside the regular menu there will always be dainty and expensive extras, for the fastidious members, who can pay for epicurrean tastes, or for the who wish to show a favored guest special attention. No dlscrimina- tion will be made in the sex of the guests. Men accompanied by members will be admitted on sight.
 We are planning to be very good to the men, q married member said, with a smile. q don't believe we shall shut them out as they do us in some of the men's clubs" The few masculine who ventured to pres ent themselves among the best gowns and bonnets of the graduates this afternoon did not look altogether at they will not be outnumbered by such an -whelming majority, and they will doubtless look forward with eager ness to the first gentleman day" of the club,
 Besides assembly rooms and dining rooms the club provides for it's mem oers an ample reading room and ibrary with cherry yellow-brown wall paper and floor covering, couches and easy chairs enough to rest the weariest llumna. On the upper floors are a lullDeT Ol fUOlllS IUl tidilSlSIilS dilu TUT he members who make the club house heir home The house was in gala at ire. Masses of flowers and palms were everywhere. Coppers and brasses bor- owed for the occasion shone bravely, md pictures on the walls, lent by some man interested in the move nent will be left all the year for the members to enjoy. Ornaments, indeed, eem to be the crying nead of the club ust now. and suggestive list If the mes that would be acceptable was 'osted in a conspicuous place where he who ran might read.
 The club Is due to the untiring inter- st and effort of a small group of fomen who began to feel strongly lore than a year ago that such an was distinctly needed in the ity, and that the demand for it was lrge enough to warrant the experi- | rent. Three hundred members were eeded to insure it, and there are al- by q guarantee fund, The | ues are BIO year for resident mem CTS and S5 for non residents.
 The advantages of the club, given by ne of the members most interested in are these: First, that 1t gives a eeting place for the alumnae associa- ons of the city where no card of en- rtainment or refreshment falls heav- 7 upon some kind-hearted hostess, as
 inevitably did under the old regime; cond, that it brings about a desra- e community of feeling and interest nong college women; third, that it akes a pleasant center for visiting and their friends; fourth, that cheeriness and homelikeness and so- al possibilities are inestimable bene- $ for the army of college girls who me to New York to study or work, ithout acquaintances or friends and ith no home but some dreary boarding use.
 But we are not trying to emphasize e difference between town and grove, aven forbid" concluded this ener tic member. Aren't we all women? lis idea that because girl goes rough college she is mysteriously anged is all poppy-cock. But in un- l there is strength, you know, and we n accomplish much more as body of llege women than as separate units" Teas formal and informal will occur
 the club frequently. To these and her social functions of the club Miss eanor Ruthrauff, the superintendent the club, who combines much social