The cost of membership is so slight that almost any eligible young man can easily afford it.

There is, however, a long waiting-list.

The club is controlled by a board of governors, the members of which hold office for life, and who, instead of being elected by the organization are selected _in camera_ by the board itself, when vacancies occur.
The balls given by this society are known as the Monday Germans, and at these balls, which are held in the Lyric Theater, the city's debutantes are presented to society.

As in all southern cities, much is made of debutantes in Baltimore.

On the occasion of their first Monday German all their friends send them flowers, and they appear flower-laden at the ball, followed by their relatives who are freighted down with their darlings' superfluous bouquets.