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Show men, for whom the club bids fair to prove as much of a household adjunct as n social pleasure. Naturally, as a fashionable fash-ionable uovelty, the Ladies' club would be a success, but it would be undiscrimi-nating undiscrimi-nating to leave the impression that its success has depended on the fact that it is a fashionable novelty. It is in its way to prove a stop gap in so many helpful ways that women eagerly appreciate and avail themselves of its advantages. The membership has. in fact, outgrown the clnb house, and in the fall it will probably remove to larger nnd more accessible ac-cessible quarters on Madison avenue. Its now niisured popularity has brought a corresponding change in the dues, which were at first modestly set at $10, and which are now $20, and in the fall will be raised to 30. Mary Gay Humphreys Hum-phreys in Harper' Bazar. ) Tli Now York Ladies' Club. A woman's club was inevitable sooner or later. It was in the air, with straws of tendency blowing from this way .and that way. Yet no oue could tell from what direction it would finally come. There was no potency in the fact that women wanted a t.lub, or that there were clubs in other towns. It required the formality of a reason; and when this was thrown among the hopes, desires, and longings floating about jelly like snd inoperative, crystallization at once tegau. Tb reason sounds paradoxical enough. I The New York woman needs a club most when she is out of town. New York lifo is led half the year, with steady en-croachmouls en-croachmouls on tho other half, oat of town. When a Nsw York woman is out of town she needs to come to town: rhe requires n place to rest over night; she must hare some place to leave her chil- ; Jitu whan she is shopping: she deiiircs a wlw to moot few Wends: che nnt headquarters b;i'?fly, she needj a club, and now sho 1ms it. i , Tho moiiibwiiliip lias increased beyond j expectation. The roll now numbers j tvr three hundred, mid for a long time I applications came in at thf rate of from i in to five a day. There was a fash- j ionable inrrh. nnd. as it hns proved, by far Hie larger uuincer aro married wo- j |