Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-08
(Margaret Doyle IL

(Margaret Doyle
with the advanced ideas existing in
regard to women and their rights,
would it be a feasible plan for women
to have downtown clubs, with all the
comforts, warmth and luxuries OF men 5
clubs, open at night? Would 1t not
destroy utterly the home life and at
mosphere that Is every mans due after
a. busy day in the world of men? OF
would II tend to make women broader,
more interesting, In touch with the
game of life and so more companion
able. with the nights at home soon
growing to be a dearly priced luxury? ,
There Is a coterie of young married
women in this city who are agitating
the question and are anxious to estab-
lish one or two clubs of the sort where
women, married or single, can drop in
for a couple OF hours at night and en-
Joy q thorough relaxation. They claim
that Ii would solve the matrimonial
problem of today, and while giving
their husbands the range of their own
homes at nights or their clubs, should
they prefer, also gives to them a like
liberty of action, with nothing but ben
eficial results.
But would the results be beneficial?
Granted that a woman needs a
change of thought after busy home
day, a club is scarcely the best place
to get IL. For most of the women VINO
would seek it's shelter for precisely the
same reason would be leading just as
narrowing lives as she, and would nave
little intellectual food to give IN ex-
change beyond the usual string of do
mestic woes.
While a few repetitions of the trouble
of getting ready would prove interest
ing enough, by the time the nightly
program would begin to pail huopy
would have begun to revel in his new
found bachelor freedom. The first two
or three evenings might go hard on
him, poor fellow, but after that he'd
manage to kill time at the thousand
and one little pastines open to men.
And while he might lament his cozy
home and the books and the flowers
and the music, he'd soon grow consoled
and begin to find the club chairs sorter
and more comfortable. the men all de-
cent chaps, the liquors good and the
library 10 per cent better than his little
struggling home one.
It would be the women who would
suffer in the end. The first taste of
freedom and breadth of view and the
feeling of independence would never
make up for the sacrifice in the end and
the breaking of the household gods
| Home life must be nurtured and made
bright to hold a man. There are toe
many counter attractions in THIS ad-
vanced era, and when a woman as
sumes the responsibilities of welded
| bliss she might as we'll resign herself to
the making of her four walls her world
and strive to make it the best world
within her capabilities. Once she mar
ries that is her part, sjust as the wage
earning is the mans. though women
no longer are willing to concede this
| point.
These ideas were suggested to me
by a remark made by prominent loca
ciubwoman the other day, Mrs. Leh-
man Blum, who is herself the mother
of two dear little boys, and years
of age.
women do not altogether have a
square deal in this world" she said
1--WE are just as capable of enjoying
the good things of life as men, and
! here we are always relegated to the
background. If I had my way every
city would have its club for women OF
thI middle classes, a place where they
could go evenings to enjoy little quiet
reading, a game of cards or couplt
of hours chat. If man has the free
dom of a club at night, so should
| woman"