Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-08
Night Clubs for Women Planned

San Francisco CalL)
The saying gave me food for much
thought, particularly the emphasis
placed on the term mid lie class, and
I brought the subject up to a bride of
fourteen months standing. To my
surprise she agreed with Mrs. Blum
absolutely.
Eyes, 1 do. She knows what she is
liking about. 1t is all right for the
wealthy women, the women of the alb
sclute easy class" she argued in JUS
tiication of her point "They have
change of thought during the day;
they are not tied down to the manual
care of house and, If they have them,
the personal .perintendence of chill
dren No woman of brains was meant
for the dishpan. You could pay a per-
son, who couldn't even write her name,
to do that for you IL you had the
money Women of means can seek
company and diversion, and when night
cones they have the theater or some
other form Of amusement, until an
evening alone with tn ir husbands be-
comes a treat. We of the just corn
Portable middle class aren't so situ-
ated It's grind all day and no change
of thought at night. No money for
I.easures and nothing but routine
routine, till it sickens you. And club
dues 2'ould be nominal amount, even
within my reach"
/ felt like telling her she wasn't
very much in love, but I thought 1t
wiser to let we'll enough alone. But I
! went off marveling. For there was
| Just enough truth in what she said to
make me understand and, In a way,
sympathize with her restlessness. Her
husband, big. lazy good natured
man. is content just to loll around the
house when he comes home from his
| hard days work. bending over a desk
| for nine hours. Before marriage there
were little theater parties and down
| town suppers on q simple scale and
| they laughed over them and had a
| glorious, free, happy time, and there
| were little out OF town excursions and
| long companionable hours together
when they both thought the engage
ment times werye great With mar
riage the long life of all that she had
looked forward to suddenly ceased.
| Household expenses took UP q little
more than he anticipated and he felt
besides that some must go in the bank
for rainy day And while he Is
good natured and happy and proud of
his home she is growing restless and
discontented and is thinking a
woman's club open nights would be the
| best way out. She never seems to think
| Of the other side and that the home
they have built up together might go
| TO wreck on tne rOckS.
Any right minded person, II seems
to me, would heartily disapprove of
the club idea for her or for any mar
ried woman. There must be some
other method.
"Have a fad" a married man of
many years standing suggests. "If
you have some taste, literary or mu-
sical or artistic, you'll never be a
bore to yourself or any one else. and
yoa'll always have something to fall
back on"
That NAV be one way to solve the
problem, but 1t seems to me that there
| is scarcely home in the middle
classes where little money could not
be put aside for pleasure, If only once
month. as after all a very little
change of thought can go a long way
and some of the simplest pleasures are
| the pleasantest. But take a woman's
club with its enticements and it would
soon be goodby to home. 1t takes both
parties to the contract to keep it up
And in the long run, when sickness OF
trouble comes. II is the one place we
crave. so why not as a city put out
| hand to save it?