Ken
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So how does a cigar club differ in membership, facilities, etc, etc?
Ken
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Ian Dundrillon said:THE PERFECT CLUBMAN
In most West End clubs, especially those of an old-fashioned sort, there is to be found some member who is generally recognised as an institution of the place. The confirmed frequenter of clubs knows everything that is going on, and imparts such information as he feels inclined to give with none of the mystery and importance of semi-ignorance, but simply and naturally. He is well acquainted with the latest good stories about town. In fact, his conversation is generally amusing, and occasionally instructive.
The life of such a man is centered in his club, and he sees members and lives come and go with an imperturbable equanimity; indeed, it would take an earthquate to make him effect any change in his habits.
So he lunches and dines, till the sands of the hourglass have run out , and the moment comes for him to enter the great club of which all humanity must perforce become members.
Ralph Nevill, London Clubs, (1911)
Ian Dundrillon said:All of the London clubs have the same general purpose, that of providing a meeting place for like-minded men, so each has its own special flavour. There is the well-known saying, "you can judge a man by his friends", so too with clubs. You can, to a very considerable extent, judge a man's tastes, possibly even his character, by the club to which he belongs.
The London clubs were, and are, an epitome of the high civilisation which produced them; a civilisation now under siege and in decline. Gentlemen's clubs in the West End have fallen on hard times and as a consequence some have gone to the wall, while others have opened their doors to ladies. In this respect, I am unashamedly a male chauvinist pig. Gentlemen's clubs are meant for men; by all means let ladies have their own clubs, but I view with dismay the steady progress of the female sex into what once was, and should remain, a male preserve.
They are unique, providing a background for civilised conduct and a civilised world, in that men of distinction, ability and culture can can meet to talk and to listen, to eat and to drink, and to partake and to share in the felowship of their peers.
His Grace The Duke of Devonshire
Gordon: I recently joined the Montauk Club. We'll have to meet up! I've been trying to get some of the Loungers to stop by. Scroll up to see yours truly and GF there recently.gordon said:
dhermann1 said:I don't know which Duke of Devonshire this was, but there have been a couple of COOL Dukes of Devonshire. The family seat, Chatsworth, is one of England's very greatest houses.