Show WILL ALL CLUBS BE OPEN E nt the new nerr club of york city will have an annex the now new and very swell metropolitan club which is ia to be elegantly housed on fifth h ay avenue en u e w will i U h have av 0 a r restaurant esta u r a n t a and n d fiat other t e r apartments p t m en t s f for 0 1 ladies ad i e s T the h e b breach r e a e h of ancient custom which bad its most moat not notable 1110 beginning aogi nning in the badiea lad iea balje at the lotus club is rapidly widening and extending into a general fashion there thera are no finer clubrooms on manhattan island than those for the of the lawyers club in ia the equitable building and four of the leading clubs of 0 f brooklyn nov maintain restaurants find parlors for the r kamen of the families of members the ladies dining room on the ground floor of the pickwick club in new orleans is the most gorgeous apartment in the city a melody of gold and white and floral frescoing even tho the old union league dab caul to in chicago has its gentle side whoever goes to the cashiers desk to pay a bill res eres er r es a maid in a fluted cap and white apron just beyond the desk and learns that sh she e is facing a ladies entrance in readiness to take the wraps of the women as they arrive for luncheon or tea and a gladce at the periodicals of the day an old new york clubman while speaking of the innovation at the metropolitan club made a prediction which astonished iii hij i hearers at a great republican club up town 1 I believe faid be that all the leading clubs will provide restaurants and parlors for ladies and I 1 prophesy that in a few years the women will go to the clubs cluba to t lounge at night just as the men do now the old fashion of calling upon ones onea 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 cau call after dinner and spend an hour or two in that way no one does that now if I 1 want to make a family call now I 1 must w wait ait for an invitation to dinner and in my t turn urn I 1 invite to dinner those whom my 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 t hl change it may happen that if I 1 call at your house you are going out or you are entertaining others or you are not in the mood for my call perhaps our moods do d 0 not tally and the visit is a bore but I 1 cannot got 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 ont when I 1 like 1 see 6 ec jones and I 1 talk with him as long as I 1 please then I 1 move over to smith and try him perhaps wa 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 of these conditions appeal to the ladies equally in time it will be understood der stood that on certain nights we may meet all the women of our circle and husbands in the ladies parlors of our club the women woin en will see one an other and will chat together as at a re or ball and we men will move from ono one woman or couple to another paying g our calls and free to bow our oar delves calves away whenever we find ourselves bored or inharmonious with the moods mooda of those wo we know the women will like it whenever it is ia tried it will be adopted it will give the ladies a chance to don their evening gowns and jewels for the inspection spec tion of their friends to meet all their friends of both sexes to mingle I 1 in a bright scene to sip an ico ice or partake of a 11 light supper and to pay off loads of social bobial debts with little trouble and under charming condit conditions iori new if york sun |