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Show : "New" Clubs for the Women of Gotham V AT ,aBt- t,le womnn'8 c'uo nns ar -' . I rived nt man's estnto In Now York ' ' '' at len8t- Tno now flty' woman's club I v" 1b modeled on tho samo linos as thosa . followors In tho oxcIubIvo man's or-5V or-5V gnnlzatlons, with Its own quartorB, In- eluding restaurants, library, lounging room, nnd, bo It is whlspored among thoso who dlBnpprovo tho now Idon, ',Vj r smoking and card rooms. Tho Btart In tho direction of ostab-Hahlng ostab-Hahlng woman's clubs on tho mascu-" mascu-" ' " lino model was mado n year ago, when tho Colony club, oxcluBivoly for worn- on, opened Its handsome now building, with a membership that Includes many 4t women of tho "four hundred." Now tho Eclectic club, another fashionable organization, has gono tho Colony ono bettor by loaBlng qunrtors In tho Waldorf-Astoria and announcing that it will provldo slcoplng quarters for Us mombers, so that they need not go homo at night If they fcol otherwise Inclined. This step was taken only after a bitter fight, for tho husband! of Bomo of tho membors objected strenuously to tho prospect of sitting up till tho small hours of tho morning wnltlng to hear wlfoy fumbling with tho lntchkoy. Another woman's club that has Its own houso Is the Threo Arts, composed com-posed of young women who aro studying study-ing art and music In Now York. Altogether Al-together tho city Boems to bo In a fnli way to bo as well supplied with woman's wom-an's clubs ot tho latest model r.s with men's, nnd tho women whoso husbands hus-bands hnve tho club habit will bo In a position to retnllato In kind. |