London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
A RECIPE FOR CLUB-MAKING.
To justify the title of this chapter, I jot down the of starting a social club. Get a small committee (say a dozen) of really popular men. Get each of the committee to secure twenty really popular candidates. Elect them, and they, with their proposers and seconders, will form the list of original members. Make your annual subscription as small as you can. Take rooms well within the resources of the club, and furnish plainly and comfortably. Get a good paid secretary (honorary work is never quite satisfactory), and let him labour his hardest. Pill a few doubtful candidates, inclusive (if possible) of a questionable peer. And when you have got to this stage you will find that the club is self-supporting. | |