A NOVEL SET OF CLUB ROLES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4455, 16 April 1883, Page 2

A NOVEL SET OF CLUB ROLES.

After much discussion, the committee of a certain club in a remote Russian town has drawn up the following set of rules for the guidance of its members. The code seems to be as Draconian as it is original:— '•♦ (1) No onn shall enter the club with dirty boots. (2) to one shall wear his workaday clothes if; they are impregnated with unpleasant smells, such as acenj of fish, leather, pitch, &c. (3) At the club dances black cloth is laid down as the correct .dress.;" (4) Id bad weather, wh< n the streets are muddy, all members of the clnb must wear slippers, ' so as not to dirty the floor. (5) Whoever shall dare to put in an I appearance at a club ball in a velvet i waistcoat or a gret-u cravat renders himself liable to v fine of a rouble tuid ar-half, to be put aside for thn benefit of the musicians. (6) A .very ntringent rule this. Jt is expressly forbidden that any member in the course of a ' soiree dansante " shall use the ball room curtains for a pocket-handkerchief. If he does he will be ignoitiniously kicked out. (7) The man who smokes (also at a " soiree dan sante ") in the portion of the club; set aside for ladies shall be instantly fined 25^ kopecks, to go towards the purchase of — powder eau de Cologne for the ladies. (8) No member who may happen to be exhilarated,- no matter how late in the evening, shall be allowed to introduce the can-can in a set of quadrilles." The other rules prescribe that no man who is tipsy " beyond the bounds of decency " shall remain in the ballroom. The buffetier shall be responsible for such persons—which seems rather hard on the buffetier. Every drunken man shall be fined three roubles —the product to go to the formation of a library; and in case of a dispute at billiard the disputants are warned against using the cues to back their opinions, under a penalty of 40 kopecks per blow.