LADIES CLUB.

Evening Post, Volume XII, Issue 126, 25 November 1875, Page 2

LADIES CLUB.

The Albemarle Club has at last, after ' many months' delay, opened its doors. This is an association organised on the principle of ignoring sex, and giving to men and women together the ordinary facdities of a London Club. It is the first experiment of the kind. There is a club for women separately already in existence on a small scale, but there never has been one where the two sexes meet on even terms. Bold as the venture is, it has the countenance of some of the best women and men in England, and it begins with over three hundred members, having accommodation for fivehundred. Care has been taken to meet some of the obvious difficulties in the case. Only some of the rooms are to be used in common. There is a separate drawing-room for ladies, and a smokingroom for men, from which ladies are expressly excluded — though smoking among ladies is not unknown. The dining-room-is open to both, but if a lady likes a cup of tea in the ladies' drawing-room, she j may have that. At present there is nothing in the rules to prevent a member of the club of either sex from asking a friend of either sex to lunch or dinner. The only security taken on this point ia that the name of the guest and host shall be entered together in a book open to inspection The marriage relation gave rise to some debate, we hear, in connection with 'he question of membership; but it was decided that the club had nothing to do with it ; in other words, that a wife might be a member without her husband, aud the husband, of course, without his wife. We indicate only one or two out of several curious points of inquiry, some of which remain yet in doubt, and yet must be disposed of. The experiment is made in perfect good faith, and the club is entitled — since they would make it — to fair treatment. But it is difficult to see how its life can be prolonged without giving rise to scandal, though scandal aud entire innocence, as is often the case, go together, or to believe that its members will not by-and-bye find that they have made a mistake.

Why is a solar eclipse like a woman whipping her boy ? Because it is the hiding of the sun. hat pupil gets most punishment ? The" pupil of the eye, for it is continually under the lash. Why does the washing come home on Saturday ? Because it is the close (clothes) of the weekPrecise old party — "Conductor, do, pray, get on. I've- an appointment . " Conductor — "All right, sir! Now look alive Bill ; here's a old gent wants to meet his young 'ooman." A young man in Lancaster, Pa., Bent a dollar to a firm in New York who advertised a receipt to prevent bad dreams, and received a small slip of paper, on which was printed, " Don't go to sleep." It was the opening remark of an ebony Evangel to a congregation of his colored brethreu : " Let all de good niggahs cl'ar out. De Lawd move me dis ebeuin' to spoke only to de bad niggahs." And in three minutes there wasn't a " niggah " in the ineeting-hrtuse. — Brooklyn Argus. The Knight op the Rueful Countenance was probably a victim of the depression, irritability, and causeless apprehension, which are symptomatic of confirmed dyspepsia. There .are many such knights whose days are ' undoubtedly shortened by the misery of body and mind produced by" that harrassiiig disease. Chronic indigestion, as well as nervous debility, urinary troubles, and rheumatic affections^ are easily remedied by Udolpho Wolfb's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps — A& yi.