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THE COURIER.
WOMEN AND MEN. TUB FU
TURE OF CLUB LIFE.
Here is a man's view of clubB, interest
ing both in itnolf and for tho mnn that
wrote it:
Doob the oxtremly rapid growth of
wornon'a clubs eland for futuro social
changosY eayB Mr Higginson in Tho
Bazar. Thoro is something very for
midable in tho unobserved stopB with
which tlio hithorto subject sex makes
its way into masculine privileges, when
onco grnntod tho smallest toothold. In
our ourly colonies girls woro often al
lowed to attend tho public schools only
in summer, when tho boys woro at work
in tho Held; whereas now in most placeB
tho slight majority of pupils are of the
female box, and nino tenths of tho
teachers. Even in church, at leaet
among tho Jowb, tho admission of wom
en to anything liko equal places in tho
synagocue is a thing only recently at
tempted. Ib not evon club life to bo do
fended against thesa poacoful and in
sidious invaders?
At first Bight, it would Boem, no two
things could bo more romoto from each
other than men's and women's clubs
Men's clubs aro UBUully housed. Worn
on's are gradually crooping beyond tbo
parlor, though usually reaching no far
tbor than tho vestry, but in some places
have houses of their own. Men seek
clubs for relaxation, women for at least
mental exertion. Men go thore to read
newspapers; womon, to read essays and
reports, or to hear lectures by others.
For many women the club Ib the most
strenuouB pait of their lives; for most
men it is avowedly the laziest. By the
phrase "club woman" we commonly im
ply a person particularly laborious or
UBaful; tho phrase "club man" certainly
suggests no such associations. Both
imply Borne spending of money, but
whoro a woman spends a dollar on a
club, the man usual! spends ten; where
she spends live, ho spends tifty. At
both, food is occasionally served; but
with thiB ditTerouce, that the woman's
cup of tea probably costs her no more,
all thingB considered, than it would cost
at homo, whereas the men's club dinners
undoubtedly cost considerably more, al
though commonly at proportionate con
venionco to himsolf. It is a curious
fact, aB illustrating the lavisbness of the
American temperament, that the Lon
don clubs, on which ours are modelled,
originated in the purpose cf economy;
and that to this day the American who
dines at one of them is always amazed
at the smallness of his bill. Ho Ib sel
dom astonished in that direction when
he gats back to New York or Chicago.
Vet it is to be noticed that all these
barriers of demarcation aro slowly
breaking down, The women's lovo for
leatures or "papers'' or discussions is
more and more reproduced for the men
under the moro convivial name of
Binoke-talks. Some clubs of men ha
bitually duplicate their supply of theso
for the benetit of wivos and daughters,
As such clubs have ladies' nights, so
women's clubs have special occasions
when their meetings arm opea to men
also. Again, it is observable that class
es for study begin to bo formed in men's
cluba, as in Fronch or Spanish, perhaps
as a relief from too arduous labors over
American leads at whist. '
So far aB the business management of
clubs is concerned, the great general de
velopment o womon in this direction
removoB all obstacles from that quarter.
In comparing, for instance, the list of
oflicerb in a bonovolont society of wom
en thirty years ago with today's stand
ard, one notices that men were then al
ways borrowed to preside at meetings
and to manage the finances, whereas
now it is more common to see the names
of womon in both capacities. It wub
onco universally supposed that a man
might as easily attempt to comprehend
a new embroidery stitch, as a woman to
boIvo a point of parliamentary order, or
to strike tbo balance in a complicated
account. Both these obstacles are now
overcomo, although the effect of new
knowledgo sometimes shows itself in
over-formality in both cases. It has
boon noticed, for instance, by male lec
turers before women's clubs, that the
time-honored habit of paying the loc
turer his fee on tho spot is sometimes
abandoned in order to get written
authority from several different officials,
so that a week or two of delay is smil
ingly taken for granted. Thete, how
over, are trifles incident to early prac
tice, and only show that women are
constitutionally as businesslike as men.
I am not aware that there jet exists
in America any club house, unless it be
somo of the so-called country clubB,
whem all the usual club conveniences
are provided and whore the sexes meet
on precisely equal termB. In London
there have been two or three such clubs
with various fortunes for twenty-five
years. I do not know that either the
Nineteenth Century club or the Draw
ing club in Now York has yet a club
house or even permanent roorati of their
own. They had not when I last visited
them, although they have had success
ful and agreeable careers. The Appala
chian Mountain club and the Twentieth
Century club in Boston, both having a
membership of both sexs, have suites of
rooms of their own, with limited social
advantages. In such cases the rooms
need only to be expanded into a build
ing, and the social advantages to be
continuous and universal, in order to
make a joint institution. It is worth
trying, and iB in line with the spirit of
the age, to extend such joint enter
prises farther. With reasonable pre
cautions there would be no scandal or
even suspicion, and such clubs would
tend to make all society more reason
able and natural. Probably the only
permanent difficulty would proceed from
tho fact that each would be an associa
tion not of individuals alone, but largely
also of married pairs; and that in many
cases where the husband or wife wbb
delightful the corresponding wife or
husband might be voted a bore.
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