| Show WILL ALL CLUBS BE PF i TO the no kew alres club of new kew york city will have hae an annex the new and very swell metropolitan dab club which is ia to be elegantly housed on fifth avenue will have a restaurant and other apartments for ladies the breach of ancient cust custom oln which had its most notable beginning in the ladies days at the lotus club is ia rapidly widening wi denin and exten extending din into a general fashion fashio IL c there are no finer clubrooms on manhattan island than those for the wives ves of the lawyers club in the equitable building and four of the leading clubs of brooklyn now maintain restaurants and parlors for the tomen of the families es of members the ladies dice dining room on the ground floor of the tha pickwick club clab in new orleans is the most gorgeous apartment in the city a melody of gold and white and floral frescoing even the old union league club in chicago has its gentle side whoever ver goes to the cashiers desk to pay a bill bil I 1 sees a maid in a fluted cap and white apron just beyond the desk and learns that she eha is ia facing a ladies entrance in readiness to take the wraps of the women as they arrive for luncheon or tea and a glance lance at the periodicals of the day an old new york clubman while speaking albing of the innovation at the metropolitan ro club made a prediction w which astonished hii hearers at a great republican club up town 1 I believe sad fai d be that all the leading clubs will soo r provide restaurants and parlors for ladies a and I 1 prophesy that in a few years yeara tho the women will go to the clubs te tc lounge at night just as the men do now the old fashion of calling upon ones friends at night has already died out and nothing has taken its place it used to be the rule that if I 1 wanted to pay my respects to a friends family I 1 could call after dinner and spend an all hour or two in that way no one does that now it if I 1 want to make a family call now I 1 must wait vait for an invitation to dinner and in ray my turn I 1 invite to dinner those whom my iny wife and I 1 are desirous of seeing after dinner we spend that hour or two with our friends which we once enjoyed with them by calling upon them after a dinner at our own homes there is a good reason for abir change it may happen that if I 1 call at your house you are going out or you are entertaining others or yon ara not ot in the mood for my call our moods mooda do not tally and the visit is a acre but I 1 cannot get up and bolt I 1 must stay a reasonable time as good breeding requires at a club it is very different I 1 can go out when I 1 like eke I 1 isee bee jones andi talk with him as long as I 1 please then I 1 move over to smith and try him perhaps we dont agree as well as at other times and I 1 move over to a third man or I 1 get my hat and coat and go somewhere else the advantages adia n of these conditions appeal to the ladies equally in time it will be understood der derst stood dod that on certain nights we may meet all the women of our circle an and d their husbands in the ladies parlors of our club the women will see one an other and will chat together as at a re caption or ball and we men will move from one woman or couple to another paying baying our culls calls and free to bow our pelves alves away whenever we find ourselves bored or inharmonious with the moods mooda of those we know the women will like it whenever it is tried it will be adap adopted ted it will give the ladies a chance to don their the it evening gowns and jewels for bior the 1 inspection spec tion of their friends to meet all th their air friends of both sexes to mingle in a bright scene to sip an ice or part partake all of a light supper and to pay off loads ot DI social debts with little trouble and under cb charming ing conditions new york sun |
