The Archive · 1937

Women Versus Men's Clubs

Will the staid portals of the Shanghai Club be the next to swing open wide in, welcome to feminine Shanghai?. Whe knows? Even this may come to pass now that women are free to come. and go.as they like—almost—at. the-American Club.

Some 80 women already are registered at) the club, having been put up by husband members. They now may play bridge and mahjongg, read and rest in' their own Yotinge-library and have tiffins teas and dinners there. One entire section is wholly theirs. a The club is no longer man's4 sanctity' in Shanghai; "OQ tempora! O mores!"

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

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