Show Something About Clubs In London there are several very elegant ele-gant and prosperous womens clubs where thefairsex entertain their friends and find the latest periodicals and newspapers news-papers If friends come too suddenly to luncheon or dinner friends who might not be entirely congenial to the husband hus-band all the wife has to do is to take them to the club and then they say there are social advantages woman can meet her friends at the club with only the trouble of paying one visit instead in-stead of many There is no disguising the fact that club ICe is undermining home life A number of persons club together and build a large structure for a club house It is designed to Imitate as far as possible possi-ble a private house The rooms exceed in elegance and appointments anything which could be afforded at home The dming room is a marvel of taste and luxury and the cuisine is presided over by the fines genius that can le found Thera are luxurious salons where one can receive friends and rooms where a private game of cards can be played ort or-t private conference had Is all this calculated to satisfy either a man or a woman with his or her home on the individual in-dividual scale Thereis not a grain of doubt about it that these club houses are calculated to break up happy home life on the part of married men and to discourage unmarried men from wanting want-ing homes of their own when extravagant extrava-gant ones can not be afforded An enthusiastic club man said one day I have many business acquaintances acquaint-ances whom it is to my advantage to entertain also other acquaintances whom I would not care to introduce to lily family so instead of taking them I home I simply give them a dinner at the club If it is advantageous to the husband to entertain business friends or dubious friends is itnot also advantageous advantage-ous to the wife If she happens to have no cook would the restanranteor charge more t3 send in the dinner than the club treasurer At least a simple home dinner is generally better annreciated than an elaborate one at a club or a restaurant Well if I you must have the truth of it he continued it is a relief for me to get away from home My wife is occupied with her children She is tired gloomy prosy has ceased to be interesting She is in a perpetual turmoil tur-moil about servants and then the I cooking l How can I invite a friend It is a relief to get where alinins smoothly If the wife cannot so systemize her time that she can give her evenings to her husband witnout neglecting the i chile ren or does not understand cook I ing or cannot cater to her husbands taste to the extent of a cheerful game of cards a sprinkling of congenial company com-pany etc etc the aflair is bad indeed Women should consider these things and if they have themselves to blame we si are sorry for them But r said a lone wife I do my best to make my husband happy Our house is cheerful and comfortable and there is no reason why he should not be happy at home and yet I dislike to say that I am beginning to lose faith in him The club Is weaning him from home and when he comes late at night how do I ever know that he has been at the club It makes me wretched and you know wretched people are not interesting interest-ing Would it not be better ti invite some young man to entertain me when I he is amusing himself at the club How would it do to go to the theatre every him night That might be diverting to I I |