TIIE COUNTRY CLUB.
In respect of the deserted- country houses near towns, one wonders whether we shall not in the sequel adopt the country club, as established in the United States or Canada. One of the more typical lies just outside Ottawa, but in the less arid province of Quebec. Another is the standby of Society in Vancouver. Doubtless we possess country clubs in the neighbourhood of London. Some are equipped with many bedrooms, with spacious dance rooms, with a dozen hard tennis courts, with a golf course. One at any rate has some shooting of its own. All this is true. NeVertheless the country club, as a standard social centre, where a townsman may enjoy himself in lieu of a country house, where he may entertain his friends, has not yet found popularity in England, though the popularity of the cheaper motor car has given a certain stimulus to the idea. There has been a very rapid, some countrymen feel, a very regrettable, increase in the syndicate shoot or fishing, which after all is an approach to the same scheme of life, the substitution of a few day's dash to the country in the stead of a life continuously and essentially rural. This club may come. At any rate it is a hard fact that more than one owner of an old country house south of London and in the Home Counties is holding on in expectation of this social development.
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