"PLUS FIVE” SKIRT

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12042, 21 January 1925, Page 9

"PLUS FIVE” SKIRT

LONDON WOMEN’S CLUBS. SIR ! lAN HAMILTON’S - VIEWS. ‘‘There are clubs and clubs in London ; some I am proud to open, others I . Would be still prouder to shut "down.”- said General Sfr lan Hamilton, . in- opening a British' Legion Clubin London.. • “Tljere are the night oluhsj” he went on. “Festive places they are, with the furtive thought of a raid ever dangling like the ewqrd of Damocles,, at the hack of the minds-of the drinkers. This applies to the dancers, those gky young sparks in-plus five skirts, who imagine they are carrying on with' an' officer of the Dragoons iq mufti, and nmy, for all they know; be twirling around a welFttisguised officer of the law. They never know their luck; danger adds piquancy to their existence. , “Other clubs, other manners, and some of the grandest are based on class-consciousness l From those .Clubs, may God preserve my few remaining grey hairs. - Immaculate waiters-glid-ing noiselessly over velvet-pile -carpets, emptiness of rooms, vacanoy of mind, dreariness, deadliness indescribable! i “There .are women’s clubs, too, perched Upon tlie same exclusive eminences. Sinoe babyhood my instinct has alwayß moved me to regard women as the fountain of all goodness; and yet I must confess that there is a certain atmosphere of cocktails, scented cigarette smoke, and bridge whioh is warranted' to make a licensed victualler grow dizzy.”