Perfectly simple.
But--did you say _Liberal_ Club ?" He used to sit on the Board himself, too! A visiting Scotch socialist proclaimed it, without passion, a "hell of a place," and some of its most striking anarchistic leaders, "vera interestin' but terrible damn fools"! But he was, doubtless, an eccentric though an experienced and dyed-in-the-wool socialist who had lectured over half the globe.

It is recorded of him that once when a certain young and energetic Village editor had been holding forth uninterruptedly and dramatically for an hour on the rights of the working-man, etc., etc., the visiting socialist, who had been watching his fervent gesticulations with absorbed attention, suddenly leaned forward and seized the lapel of his coat.
"Mon!" he exclaimed earnesly, "do ye play tennis ?" Just what is the Liberal Club?
You may have contradictory answers commensurate with the number of members you interrogate.

One will tell you that it is a fake; one that it is the only vehicle of free speech; Arthur Moss says it is "the most _il_-liberal club in the world"! Floyd Dell says it is paramountly a medium for entertainment, and that it is "not so much a clearing house of new ideas as of new people"! The Liberal Club goes up, and the Liberal Club goes down.

It has its good seasons and its bad, its fluctuations as to standards and favour, its share in the curious and inevitable tides that swing all associations back and forth like pendulums.
There is a real passion for dancing in the Village, and it is beautiful dancing that shows practice and a natural sense of rhythm.
The music may be only from a victrola or a piano in need of tuning, but the spirit is, most surely, the vital spirit of the dance.

At the Liberal Club everyone dances.