WOMEN’S CLUBS.
THRIXHNG IN ENGLAND. While many of the men’s clubs in London are suffering severely from the financial depression, the women’s clubs are remarkably prosperous, writes a woman from London. In recent years many middle-class women have learnt the desirability of having a second home in town, where a. meal may be had, or where a friend can be entertained. Moreover, not a few of the clubs have added dining-rooms for men friends, so that a woman can “dine” her husband if she pleases. The Lyceum is the biggest of the women’s club in London, but there are others, each with its special clientele. Thus, the Writers’, in Norfolk-street, appeals to women journalists and others who make livings with their pen in Fleet-street and the Strand —the newspaper and magazine centres of London. It includes a smok-ing-room among its attractions. Debate nights are a feature of the Writers’ Club, as they are at the Forum, which has its headquarters in Grosvenor-place, hard by Buckingham Palace. Members of the Forum have the privilege of joining any of its eighteen sections, each section being devoted to a special hobby or pursuit. Thus artists can hobnob with artists, gardeners with gardeners, musicians with those who play or like to hear others playing. Each section meets peridQically- Though its entrance fee is seven guineas, and its annual subscription the same amount, the Forum has a membership of
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1922, Page 11
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234WOMEN’S CLUBS. Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1922, Page 11
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