The Archive · 1897

THE WIGWAM CLUB

Bohemian visitors to London connected more or less with journalism, literature, or the arts, usually tax their resources' in the way of personal introductions for the sake of spending a Suturday evening the Savage Club, and the entertainment usually well repays the stranger for his visit. But the stranger never find himself at the dining table of the Wigwam Club, which is an offshoot from the Savages. The reason is a simple one. It is one of the fundamental lowe of the Wigwam Club that no guests are admitted. To dine in the Wigwam one must be member. And by way of a further differentiation from the parent Club, whose evening dinner entertainments are very famous, it is a rule, though an unwritten one, of this club that there shall be no music or recitation, or other entertainment than conversation or an occasional amusing little speech

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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