Invercargill Athenaeum

Southland Times, Issue 13060, 7 November 1894, Page 3

Invercargill Athenaeum

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—l notice in your issue of this morning a letter signed “Old Member,” finding fault with the committee for calling the smoking room a chess and draughts room. As a matter of fact those who frequent the Athenteum go there for one of two purposes, namely, either to read, or to play one of the two games abovementioned. The readers read in the reading room and must not smoke there, and if they wish to smoke they can take their magazines into the smoking room and read and smoke there. Those who wish to play chess or draughts go to the smoking room and play their game there, but need not smoke unless they like. Silence is pretty well preserved in that room as in the reading room, and this is quite right. But “ what’s in a name,” call it smoking room or chess and draughts room, it is all the same and it is open to all subscribers, and I have never seen the chess players hustling out a nonplayer yet. I frequently smoke there but seldom play chess, and I have never experienced any treatment that I can object to.—l am, &c. Another Old Member. 6th Nov,