London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
IN AUXILIARY CLUBLAND.
EVERYONE of any status in Town (especially if he has remained a bachelor until years of discretion) has a And that he has what may be termed proves the customary proprietary right in a first or principal co-operative palace. As a matter of course, a youngster, when he leaves school or the university, is put up by his father or some near relative for some appropriate survival of the old coffee houses of the Georges. If the boy is destined for the Church his name naturally appears on the books of the Oxford and Cambridge, or the in Suffolk Street. If he is to belong to either of the Services, he chooses the Junior United Service, the Naval and Military, or the Rag. If he is simply to remain a country gentleman, then the doors of White's, or Brooks's, or Boodle's are open to him. Of course, if he is to be | |
94 | a fervent politician he must choose the Carlton or the Reform, the Conservative, the Constitutional, the National Liberal, or (perhaps) the Devonshire. And having got himself elected to any one of the establishments to which I have referred, he is in a position to look about him for a |