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SUNDAY, MARCH 25. 1917. SOCIETY NEWS ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦FFFFF ■f THE ANCIENT DOCTRINE F ++++++ + + + + + + O good gigantic smile o’ the brown oil earth This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To back i’ the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet To the ripple to run over in its mirth; Listening the while, where on the heap of stones The white breast of the sea lark twitters sweet. That is the doctrine, simple, ancient, true; Such is life’s trial, as old earth smiles and knows, If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clean gain, and wholly well for you; Make the low nature better by your throes'. Give earth yourself, go up for gain above! —Robert Browning. » » • GIRLS SCOUTS MET WITH MISS WHEATLEY The Girl Scouts met yesterday af ternoon with Miss Margaret Wheatley, the members of this congenial group of girls enjoying a most delightful social session, at the close of which tempting refreshments were served. Those present were Misses Naomi Wright, Mary Sue Chambliss, Mary Rose Brown. Mary Alice Lingo, Dor othy Cargill, Orlean Ansley, Pauline Brodahurst, Geraldine Payne. Nellie Worthy, Marjory Kalmon and Mar garet Wheatley. ♦ ♦ * QUIETLY CELEBRATED 48TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McAfee, Sr., celebrated their 48th w’edding annivers ary on Friday, receiving the congrat ulations of many friends. No formal social event was held in honor of the occasion, but Mr. and Mrs. McAfee, who are well known throughout this sec tion. will have the sincerest best wish es of a host of warm friends and ac uaintances. Pinkston’s 4 Pinkston’s $25 Suits Are Superior to Any $25 Suit in Americus Next week we will spec ialize on $25.00 suits and will show on the front rack a lot of fifty suits, right new, from fourteens to forty fours. They are from the manufactur ers in America and com pare with $35.00 values easilv. Ask to see the suits that are being specialized at $25.00 at Pinkston s MRS. C. M. COUNCIL HOSTESS TO FRIDAY BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. Charkies M. Council entertained the members of the Friday Afternoon Bridge Club Friday afternoon at her home on Lee street. Decorations of dogwood, crabapples and honeysuckle blossoms were most attractive and the game was played until late in the af ternoon, when the hostess served dain ty refreshments. NEIGHBORHOOD 42 CLUB MET WITH MRS MORGAN The Neighborhood 42 Club was de lightfully entertained on Friday after noon by Mrs. Willie Morgan. The hostess used carnations, hyacinths and ferns to decorate for the occasion and the pretty home on Church street pre senter a most attractive appearence. The game was played at four tables and late in the afternoon a salid course was served, Misses Edna Monahan, Ruth Horne and Mattie Lou Horne as sisting the hostess. Mrs. Morgan’s guests were, Mrs. Neon Buchanan, Mrs. Cloyd Buchanan, Mrs. Roy Parker, Mrs. Zach Childers. Mrs. G. C. Tillman, Mrs D. D. Bowles, Mrs. B. S. Mattingly, Mrs. Claude Schneider, Mrs. Russell Smith, Mrs. Linton Lester, Mrs. J. F. Monahan, Misses Madge McAfee, Callie Slappey, Jimmy Jossey and Mitch Payne. ♦ * * ♦ ♦ ♦ MUSIC STUDY CLUB TO MEET WEDNESDAY MORNING Music Study Club will meet with Mrs. W. H. C. Dudley Wednesday morning at 10:30. Miss Louise Chap man will give a delightful program The subject being Donizetti’s opera, “Elisir d Amore.” ♦ * * WON PRIZE OFFERED \ FOR SELLING TICKETS. Master Hal Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harris, Jr., won the $2.50 cash prize offered by the Woman's Club of Americus for selling the greatest number of tickets for the ben efit performance given Friday night at the Opera House. The young man de cided to donate the prize money to the fund for the maintenance of the Tal lulah Falls school operated by the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Several other children have followed his example and made contributions ( to this laudable work. fashion of high cut boots IS result of accident ATLANTA, Ga„ March 24—That the prevailing fashion of expensive high cut boots in soft colored leather is the result of an accident, like many other fashions in times past, is de clared by a man who has been in vestigating women’s footwear. He says that last year a shoe dealer at a big fashionable resort found trade dull and deliberately bought up, from a theatrical furnishing house, a large quantity of beautiful extra high cut ladies boots in various colored kids, with high heels —in fact the boots which until a few years ago, we only saw —and admired —on the trim toots ies of chorus girls and stage beauties. City people at the resort saw the display and figured that they must be advanced showings from New York. They bought, and soon fashionable women were wearing with short skirts on the street elaborate and beautifully cut and colored boots such as had never been worn before outside of musical comedy. When these people went back to the! city with their fancy boots the fashion was soon set. Manufacturers started in to meet the demand, makng high topped shoes of all the colors of the rainbow, some of them lacing half way to the knee and now everybody is buying and wearing the chorus girl shoes even though they cost from sl2 to $25 a pair. •» “BIRTH OF A NATION” WILL COME HERE SOON Manager W. H. C. Dudley stated last night to a representative of the Times- R ecorder that the great motion picture spectacle, ‘‘The Birth of a Nation.'’ will be shown in Americus within a short time, the famous production hav ing been booked after considerable dif ficulty in completing arrangements. “Americus people will have an op iportunlty to see this greatest film of modern times,” said Mr. Dudley, “as the booking has been absolutely assur ed, the definite dates to be announced within a few days.” AMERICAN SAILORS GET HIGHER WAGES THAN ARE PAID ON ENGLISH SHIPS NEW YORK, March 24—Higher wages paid sailors on American as compared to English merchant ships will handicap this country at the close of the war in its competition with England for commercial suprem acy of the seas, according to Dr. Geo. Sidney Webster of the American Sea man’s Friend Society. Dr. Webster’s opinions are based on observation in a number of American ports and espec ially in the port of New York where a large Sailors’ Home is maintained on the North River waterfront. “The increased merchant ship pro duction in this country,” says Dr. Web ster, “will not of itself give the United States a commercial supremacy of the seas, although in 1916 the output for probably the first time in history ap proximated that of Great Britain. “This increased production will not entirely fly under the American flag, but even a large percentage of the ships which should be under American J ownership will be under foreign reg-i 1 istry at the end of the war, when the. protection afforded by the American' flag is no longer necessary and the lower wages paid on foreign ships will; offer a great inducement for foreign• registry.” | THERE WILL BE NO RISE IN PIUCE OF EASTER FLOWERS CHICAGO, March 24.—You may not be able to eat the once aristocratic egg for Easter but along with the new suit or dress two weeks from tomor row you can sport a bouquet of violets or even the custom decreed Easter lily. They’re not going up in price. Florists in Chicago and the rest of the. country so announced today. At the annual national gathering here of horticulturists, wholesale and retail, it became apparent that neither the tariff, war or submarine blockade could by the most vivid stretch of imagination be ascribed as an excuse for an advance in the cost of milady’s corsage. Lilies, the florist declare, will al ways remain the flower of Easter. Corsage bouquets of violets, livened up with lilies of the valley or an orchid will also be the correct thing for Easter day. Other information of note was the declaration that the tendency of the times is to return to the old June roses of yesterday, the round petaled flowers which grow in the country. The Wieland and the Storey varieties are scheduled to become the most popular. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. M LC AZ An I JITHEATREIV | Monday 5 & 10c fl Kathleen Williams, in fl “THE REDEEMING LOVE" Five acts. Tuesday 5 & 10c I Mabel Talliaferro, in fl “THE BARRICADE” Five acts. Wednesday Matinee 5 & 10c Night 10& lac I Dorothy Dalton and Howard Hickman, in “THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES” I Five acts And a Two Reel KEYSTONE COMEDY I J ♦ FF-FFFFFFFFFFF-FF ♦ ELGIN, ILLINOIS, ASPIRES F F TO BECOME MODEL CITY F ♦ OF THE UNITED STATES * ♦ F ♦ ELGIN, 111., March 24.—This F F city, a suburb of Chicago with F ♦ 30,000 inhabitants aspires to be- F ■F come the model city of the United F ] F States. Plans along that line are r ♦ being drawn by E. H. Bennett of F F the Chicago City Plan Commis- F F sion. Even now it has no slums * F or tenements and its workmen F i *■ are all skilled and artistically in- F 1 F clined. * ’ •F Commission government, a per- F ♦ feet boulevard, park and play- ♦ i 4- ground and civic center system, F i F industrial and residental con ♦ F ing, no smoke, dual transportation * F ar.d traffic regulations are a few F F of the things on tap. F »44FFFFFFF-FFFFF MAFFETT’S Some new good values at BARGAIN PRICES LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAR House dresses, one large lot in latent patterns, neatly designed in ginghams and galateas ~ 98c, $1.19 & $1.39 Skirts, new lot ju£ received, Corduroys, pekays, linen, strip ped, solid colors and poeker dot, latent patterns, 98c to $4 Middy Suits, for the girls, sizes 36 to 42. We have two pat-1 i tems in the two-piece middy suits of latent designs $2.98 and $3.49 Muslin Underwear, corset covers, camasoles,teddys, white and flesh color, gowns, petti- ■ coats, drawers and numerous i other garments, all at bargain prices. These Goods Mentioned Above A>e Absolutely New WHITE GOODS For Skirts: Pekays,garbardine, velvet corduroy,suitings, strip i ped silk,pongee,novelty plaids, serges, all at a bargain price. 36 inch taffeta, in all shades,a bargain price for 98c yard 36 inch wash tub silks, solid and stripped, 50c yard 36 inch messiline, black and Navy blue, $1.39 yard. 36 inch novelty voiles, in silk stripped, figured and flowered, 50c & 65c yard J. D. MAFFETT Hamilton’s Store Americus, - Georgia Hans and Fritz Contest /q Zri nW V * * pT ' Cw/y \ (a a y' xisf Jr A Few Minutes Work Can Give You a Fine Seat For “Hans and Fritz” at The Opera House on Friday, March 29th Prizes in Theatre Tickets for the Best Renovation of Hans’ and Fritz’s Faces. You all know Hans and Fritz have met with an accident. Part of their faces are gone and you can help fix it up and reap the reward. As you will see by the drawing above Hans and Fritz noses and mouths are gone. Take your pencil or pen and do your best to provide them with new features. Hans and Fritz and 40 other musical comedy stars, with a bevy of pretty girls, will be at flHHBv W'W Not Since the Time S"'W w ; ' : w . Was a Musician T Has a Human Been v -**l Able to Create ‘ , Such Melodies America’s greatest violinist, proving by ac- tual cc m parisen that Edison re-creates his aS cl PC SpaldingS m asterly hewing with absolute perfection. NEW EDISON Thomas A. Edison’s favorite and probably greatest invention. This is the instru ment which re-creates music with such an absolute exactness that the living sing er’s voice cannot be distinguished from this new instrument’s re-creation of it This is the instrument which a leading New York newspaper, calls “The Phono graph With a Soul.” Recitals COME IN and let us give you an impromptu concert of Edison Re-Creations. We promise you that there will be no sales solicitation, obligation, nor embarassment whatever. You are welcome even though you may not have the remotest idea of ever owning a NEW EDISON. HOWELL’S PHARMACY the Opera House. Friday night, March 30th, and repairs must be done before then. For the best 12 drawings the Ameri cus Times-Recorder will 'give 12 seats. Get busy at once. Cut out the above and send answers to Hans and Fritz Editor, care Americus Ti.nes-Re- MARRIAGE INVITATIONS Reception and Visiting Cards Monogram Stationery Greeting Cards ENGRAVED IN CORRECT STYLE Send for Samples and Prices J. P. STEVENS ENGRAVING CO. 47 Whitehall St. 99 Peachtree St. Atlanta, Georgia i corder. Everybody invited to join— i old as well as young, contest opens Monday, March 26th, and closes Wed nesday, March 28th. Winners’ names I • will be published in the II er on Thursday, March 29th. 11 Remember twelve seats given free • to the luck winner. PAGE FIVE