not a gentleman. By
this action he fastens upon her the most disgraceful odium one of her
sex can bear.

The name of a woman should never be whispered in a club unless it is to
say something complimentary of her. Even this is not in good taste.

It is not club etiquette to "treat." You can do so if you desire, but
you are not obliged to follow this inane custom, which is born of
bar-room ethics.

All the affairs of a club must be regarded in strict confidence. Under
no consideration should that which has occurred within these sacred
portals be divulged to outsiders.

Once a year--usually at Christmas--a subscription is taken up for the
employees and servants. From five to ten dollars is the proper amount to
give.

A few clubs have a ladies' restaurant attached, where members may take
their families or give dinners, or where the wives of members have the
privilege of giving luncheons or other entertainments. Otherwise ladies
are not admitted to the privileges of the clubhouse, except on ladies'
days, and where there is an "annex" they can only avail themselves of
that part set aside for their convenience upon the authority of a
member.

These rules pertaining to the general government of clubs have been
compiled from the constitution and by-laws of the Union, Metropolitan,
Knickerbocker, Calumet, and Manhattan Clubs of New York. The
constitutions of the Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Chicago, San
Francisco, and other clubs are almost identical.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE SPORTING BACHELOR.

_Driving._--Driving really comprises coaching as well as the tandem.

A man who has any pretensions whatever to keeping his own horses or
driving should be judged by the appearance of his traps. He submits
himself to what one, to-day, might call the X-ray of criticism. He
enters a field, and he must be weighed in the balance and his position
defined by the standard of his associates. I know of no other city in
the world where there are better groomed horses and better turned out
equipages than in New York. The American in Hyde Park is shocked at the
appearance of the traps in that famous driveway of fashion, and his
national pride is gratified by observing that the smartest are of
American makes. As to Paris, it is simply beyond the pale of criticism,
the private turnouts, such as they are, being almost lost in a sea of
dirty, disgraceful _fiacres_.

In the first place, your horses must be well groomed, their hoofs