Freak Clubs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 1, 3 July 1912, Page 45

Freak Clubs.

Mention of the fact that a snuff club has been started in Leeds reminds an “Answers'” scribe that the list of similar extraordinary organisations is a long one. Of course, one of the oldest purely social clubs was the Everlasting Club," limited in membership to a hundred people, who divided the day among them in such a way that some of them were always on the premises. Solely for the purpose of keeping in the fire from which members lighted their pipes, an old woman was kept, and during the fifty years of existence the club members smoked fifty tons of tobacco. No one who had not killed an opponent in a duel was allowed to be a member of the Man-killing Club, where the conversation was confined to wounds, bullets and slaughter. Curiously enough, most of the meml>ers were executed. Very different in character was the Six o’clock Club, whose raemlwrs, nuinltcring six only, met at six in the evening and separated at six in the morning. Mooting early in the evening, and sitting smoking until midnight, the curious

people forming the Hum-drum Club observed the strictest silence! But perhaps* the most curious club of all was the No-Nose Club, which was founded by an unwilling follower of the Egyptian fashion of flat faces.