Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1914 — Allow Them to Smoke at Women’s Select Club [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Allow Them to Smoke at Women’s Select Club

NEW YORK.—Just off Fifth avenue, in the wonderful new section of town which is growing up around the Grand Central terminal, is the Women's University club. At 106 East Fcrty-second street, to be precise, its nine neat

stone stories loom up briskly. I was convoyed thither by a Smith college alumna, writes our New York correspondent. , “Oh, dear me, how distressing!” she exclaimed at the entrance. I had thrown away about half of one of my favorite cigars. “You don’t think we'd be as inhospitable, as ihat t ?” she continued. “Men guests are always privileged to smoke here. We can, too, though few of the girls do.” So I lit up a fresh butt and we in-

vaded the sacred precincts, leaving in our trail an odor of burning tobacco “Each section is furnished by a different college,” explained Miss Smith. “We did the library on the third floor. Vassar the living room on the fourth floor, Bernard the reception room on the first floor, and the “U” of Chicago the dressing room on the first floor. Wells gave the silver, and so on." This was certainly a real club. But there was a different atmosphere than that of a man’s menage. Everything was bright and sunny. The man’s club is dull and somber. Here the furnishings were gay and Warm, positively cheerful. It was not a place to while away a fit of the blues, but a place to forget them. “I don’t think this club will break up any homes,’’ I observed sincerely. “That tired wife and mother ought to come back to father and the children with a new bundle of sunshine after an hour or two here.”