New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-22

a smoking room 4l ba4 4t" Ni-'
house? Why have a smoking room, when
We can smoke all over the place.
That was the answer Of a member Of
womans club-no. not Miss Mary Shaw's
new D. T. club. but d much more conser-
vatIye one-when an inquisitive person
asked If the residential headquarters they
are going to build or rather remodel two
old houses into. would include smoking
room.
ITS funny" this club member contin-
ued. how excited the newspapers get at
any runor OF smoking in a woman's cluo.
I suppose they represent the collective
horror at the notion Of woman with
cigarette In her mouth. Many men share
this collective horror who don't in the
least mind II their own wives smoke
behind closed doors. Certainly there are
several womens clubs in New York where
the members smoke-and why shouldn't
they?"
Yes. the number OF clubs where worn-
an can have all the privileges Of man is
growing. though so far only one In this
city. the Colony Club. has bar But
they are tasting these privileges very
quietly. very circumspectly. II is such a
little while since women discovered that
Il was actually possible for their sex 10
form z club that didn't have for it, object
the elucidation Of Browning or the reform
Of the crossing sweeper or something
equally Intellectual or phiGnthrop!c That
could be GRATED about on platform
such a little while since they found thcy
could have clubs to get together as men
do for sociality and pure physical COM
fort-that they are going slow Having
smashed the tradition that women are not
cubbable. they will respect other tradi-
tons for a while Maybe when Miss
Shaw gets her p. r club going-no. that's
rot Dutch treat" but the thing Belle
yue wots of-maybe then woman Will
prove herself indeed the equal Of man.
But even the Professional Womans
League, least straitlaced OF clubs, shakes
is head al the idea of a womans club
house with a bar.
"oF COURSE NO BARI"
"a bar IN woman's club won't do"
says Miss Alice Brown. the leagues sec
reiary "Oh. yes, in the wealthy Colony
Club. where it's exclusive and hidden
But imagine a bar in the leagues home
a. No. 1922 Broadway, with go many going
IN and out, ! won't say we don't have
drinks and smokes a. our dinners. but
that's between ourselves a bar-no' no
but bar or not a bar isn't troubling
the residential women's clubs Of New
York What Dleases the Women's Univer-
sity Club and the Bryn Mawr Cluo ana
the COSMOPOLITAN Club and the British
Imperial Club and the Studio Club and
the Three Arts Club Is that they've got
their own rooftrees, with a bedroom for
her who wants IL. Tea satisfies for the
present, thanks. These rooftrees-the
house the University Club is building, the
houses the Cosmopolitan Club is about 70
remodel and the otheTs-represent good
Zeal Of financial stress and strain
Women, as one OF the Bryn Mawr officers
Remarked haven't the means OF men at
their command. and no woman's CLUB
has emulated the Union League and es-
tablished itself on Fifth avenue. Even
The Colony Club. the Croesus of women
clubs, is content with Madison avenue.
And 50 far the Bryn Mawr $50 its
President. Miss Fife Whitridge, says
the only woman's club in New York that
owns It's home OF course, when the
Womens University Clubs new house IS
done there will be another
We're immensely proud Of the fact
That We own our house" Miss Whittridge
said-and a pretty. comfortable old house
II is, at No 1877 East iOth street. mo
other Bryn Mawr club in the country
Goes For a time we occupied an apart
ment across the street at No. rs, ana
Ne used 70 look over here and think that
mis- was just the house we'd Ike 70
have"
bryn Mawr Club has climbed from
small beginning. About 1900 the alumn@
IN New York got together and began
meeting az members homes. Then they
mad an apartment. which they gave up
presently. that they might save every
cent TO buy house. Then they took an
apartment again. and now they own the
mouse. A quiet. pleasant house II Is. with
big, irregularly shaped dining room on
'he first floor, drawing rooms above, and
On the upper floors bedrooms for resi-
usnts and transient shoppers. This sum-
ner the whole inside OF the house Is 70
be remodelled.
bryn Mawr has three classes OF MEM
oers-those who 1--we In New York city.
NOSE who live In the suburbs, and those