Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-05-18
CLUB WOMEN
IN n. Y. SMOKE
PERMITTED IN EVERY ROOM, BUT
ONE, FORMER ORDER BEING
REVERSED
CHANGES IN TnREE SHORT YEARS
In Blue Haze of Cigarette Smoke
Members Discuss Great Re-
forms OF the Day


New York-Timcs are changing, and
step by step woman is climbing to
plane of equality with man. True she
didn't get the vote yet, but the vote
is not all. There are other things in
life. For instance there are cigarettes.
The day was, and not so long ago,
when women's clubs frowned on the
habit of smoting-frowned publicly,
at least. Doesn't everyone remember
how the entire city, yes nation, was
shocked when it was announced that
the Colony Club had installed a smok.
ing room in its building on Madison
avenue? And when it was rumored
that the new building of the Women's
University Club, erected a short two
years ago, was to have den for mem
bers who enjoy the fragrant weed
what a shudder there was No ono
who doesn't belong to the club, in fact
has ever succeeded in locating that
mysterious smoking room.
When the Gamut Club took its new
quarters on West Forty-sXth street,
the actresses who form the organiza-
tion bound reporters by stern oath
not to reveal the fact that smoking is
permitted there. Miss Anne Morgan's
Vacation Fund restaurant was nearly
ruined at the start by plan to permit
smoking and the plan was promptly
Quashed. That was three short years
ago.
Now at the Woman's City Club just
organized and installed on the eight
eenth floor of the Hotel Vanderbilt
there isn't one smoking room, but ev-
cry room is a smoking room, and a
few members with tender throats who
have made an humble appeal for
room, where women may not smoke,
are afraid that they are going to be
refused.
Miss Majorie Driscoll, who was
| asked to come and manage the Wom-
ems City Club because she is an cx-
pert on clubs and municipal politics,
having been doing secretarial work at
the Mems City Club for more years
| than one would think from her blond
and youthful face, said that she had
no patience with one who harbored
any prejudice against women smoking.
NO one has expressed such pre-
judice here" she remarked in her Of
flee on the nineteenth floor. IL should
hope not. few women who say the
smoke tickles their throats have
fused little and l did have fleet
ing thought of setting aside the little
room that opens from my office and
naming it non-smoking ROOM"
She indicated a pretty little room,
furnished with deep couches and
chairs, with pensive chintz stork
rerching on the back of each.
81 was rather inclined to do it be-
cause it's nuisance to have women
coming up here to smoke-they take
my matches and ash tray. / do believ+
they've got it now. oh, no here it is"
She rescued the smoking outfit from
behind a filing cabinet and proceeded
you know, I've been so used to real
politics, real life in the mems City
Club, that this seems like playhouse 10
me. But the Women's City Club will
grow, will develop, and one good thing
about it is that the house committee
has made absolutely no rules. i hesi'
tate to take the conservative step OF
installing a non-smoking room" >'-'-as
On the eighteenth floor in the GRIM.
son and mahogany dining room, in the
mauve restroom, the round table, in
fact, in every apartment quite little
parties of women were gathered, and
from most of them rose the blue haze
of cigarette smoke. The ways that are
popularity supposed to accompany
cigarette smoking in women were not
there.
In the quietest of voices the smok
ers were discussing prison reform
rure milk, better schools, clean streets
and the various objects to help which
the Womens City Club was formed
Several men were there, for Mrs
Marcus NJ. Marks and the rest of tho
800 members frequently bring theiI
husbands and brothers in 10 luncheon
and dinner. And the men didn't seem
to be the least bit shocked.