The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-19
WOMEN's CLUBS IN LONDON.
One Run on Business Lines Safe Four
 Per Cent. Investment.

One Run on Business Lines Safe Four
 Per Cent Investment.
 Why should not ladies have clubs? They are just as companionable as men are. only more so. A man may go about as he pleases much more freely than a woman can. especially an unmarried woman. There are thousands in Lon don who live in apartments or at board- ing houses, where they may or may not meet congenial society. So, why not try residential clubs? A start has been made. And if these club ladies do not paraphrasing the late Rev. William Rogers remark, about theology-say, hang philanthropy and if they do not at once declare themselves free of masculine patronage or assistance, it is because there is no present need for anN declaration of the kind. The brand new club which one of our staff visited yesterday is intended to be run on husi- ness lines, and to be made to pay a. safe per cent. If, however, the names were mentioned of the gentlemen who are behind this enterprise. it would be seen at once that enlightened goodness of heart has quite as much to do with the scheme as considerations of pocket, but they do not want the lady members to think themselves in any way patron ized, and, in point of fact, they are not.
 Said a principal official of the club in the office of one of the three converted town houses thrown into one for the club at Stanley gardens. Noting Hill
 feS,, hs nj work. and have had 40 men employed in completely equipping the club, and making if complete. We had social re- captions last Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, and began business on Thursday. The object is to provide at a moderate price residence and meals for lady members. We have IS sleeping apartments, for which we charge 10 shillings and siXpence a week, and We provide breakfast and dinner daily at 10 and sixpence a week. Dinner is at 7:30. When you consider cost of tn paid stuff, coals, electric light, and so on, you will see that even with the very slight extras for those who are in to lunch and tea, we shal have to be con- tent with a return of per cent We have here now 16 ladies who are teach CTS of music, ladies of great ability as teachers, six or eight who are typewrit- CTS, and some who are daily govern esses, mostly ladies of high education"
 What do you provide for meals" asked our representative. because that is really a very important considera- tion?"
 We provide tea or coffee at break fast, fish, bacon, eggs, cold ham, gelan- tine, and of course marmalade, toast, and SO on. For dinner, fish or soup, choice of two joints, or an entree. and choice of two or three swec ts. We have a professional cock from the training school of cookery. We have a house. keep and 10 servants. Gentlemen visitors are allowed in the dining room. and ladies in the drawing room, ladN members paying, of course, for the guests whom they invite to dinner. Writing and reading rooms and library are reserved for members only, and as many wish to write quietly. no talking is allowed in those two rooms"
 The prime movers in this new phasn of club life have in view the establish ment of cheaper clubs in central Lon don for poorer women, who cannot af- ford to pay more than 15s per week for board and lodgings. An indispensable condition of membership If the Twenti- eth Century club is that only lady pro- posed for election shall be in profession al oCcupation.-Fr the London Daily News.