Arizona republican., 1906-12-07
A PLACE WHERE LlFE
 Is WORTH THE LIVING
A Few Observations on the Usefulness
 of the Yavapai Club of Prescott.

There are a great many things be- side mountain scenery that make Pres colt a nice place to visit The town Is attractive in many ways. and not the still life merely but the people. have a great deal to do with it. A town with out good people in it is not much of a town, and Prescott is a good town. Good people know how to live and not few of them in Prescott have banded together to make the institution known as the Yavapai club the inner circle of good living in northern Arizona
 The wayfaring man who is bidden to enter the portals of that hospitable re- sort has never been known to refuse when he was in his right mind, and after the first invitation he is crazy to get back again. If he wasn't crazy on this point there might be good reasons for believing him insane. No sane man when self possessed, could recline in an easy chair with the worlds best liter atUre at his elbow while toasting his shins at the open fireplace of the YavG- pal club. any time between November and Ground Hog day, without feeling that the winter season has some virtues the spring poets have entirely over looked. Nor can the most fastidious epicure put his feet under a table in the club dining room without being i'm pressed that in Prescott Thanksgiving is a perpetual feast day. When he wearies of plainysoup. spuds and beef steak. he may regale himself with "Potage Aux Rig Tomato" "Pomme De Terre En Puree.' or fall to with zest after helping of "Bouilli De Gigot De Mouton." which literally interpreted. means that whatever else it is. it is Bully Good Mutton. That Is not all there is to eat at the club. by any means. but it is enough to show that the Prescott people know a good thing when they see 1t and they have a better opportunity to see things than most people. for the club management is alive to its mission on earth and does not perform it's duties in a merely per- functory manner
 Charles Desmond. on whom devolves the duties of manager. has fitted him. self into his particular niche in this local temple of fame. as snugly as though he were made for the place. It happens to be a good big place. and he happens to be just big enough to fill it without spreading out any. And as for the chef. he can cook in just as many languages as his guests can eat in. and when the delicious viands are served it puts the guests to ruminating over that old question of whether man eats to live or lives to eat. One thing certain. the eating at the Yavapai club is worth living for
 The pleasing feature of all this is that the Yavapai club is not an exclusively exclusive institution. It is the ideal of good fellowship. good citizenship and good living. One has to pass reason- able requirements in these qualities but the caste is not so exalted that mo- body can gain admission except an adept. It is an institution supported generally by the business people of the community who recognize its useful ness as well as its pleasurable enter tainment and it is the very proper birthplace of a public sentiment that makes Prescott prosperous and cul- tured business center.