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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1917. • SOCIETY NEWS ; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * THE MALCONTENTS. ♦ “His head is heavy,’’ the young wife said, As she straightened up when her babe was fed. The old wife spoke: "When babes be men, . j It’s their mothers’ hearts be heavy then.” liisxnte “My arms ache so,” the young wife said. Ase she moved and shifted the tousled head. The old wife x said: “There’s pain that's more When arms be empty and hearts be sore!” “It’s tired I be,” the young wife said, As she crept to the side of the trundle bed. The old wife spoke: “There’s weari ness new That’s different from this, in store for you!” “1 never get done,” the young wife said, As she patted and smoothed the said, As she patted an smoothed the siowy spread. The old wife spoke: “At set of sun For me ’tis lonely with my work done.” “I’m glad he sleeps,” the young wife said, As she left the side of the trundle bed. The old wife spoke: “Ah, yet, but then, What if he never woke up again?” “But life is different,” the young wife ’ From the life I dreamed—or the life I led.” And the old wife spoke, “Acushla achree, I wish—dear God—you might change with me!” —Mary W. Shippy. Pinkston s 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 be& manufactur ers in America and com pare with $35.00 values easily. Ask to see the suits that are being specialized at $25.00 at Pinkston s ► HISS CHAPMAN’S PUPIL ! WINS Ml SIC HONORS. ► The preliminary contest in music was held at the High school auditor-; ’ ium Friday. Those contesting were Miss Pauline Bell, Miss Alice McNeill I ! and Miss Hazel Horne. The judges were Mrs. T. B. Hooks, ' Mrs. H. O. Jones and Mrs. C. D. Ter-! rell. When their votes were handed' ' in Miss Horne had won the coveted' place. , Her artistic interpretation of “Polka s de la Reine,” by Raff, gave evidence of the careful training she has received, I from Miss Louise Chapman. The same composition having won a piano in a , contest at Brenau several years ago. Americus is justly proud of her jun- , ior representative in the High school meet to be held in this city. * ♦ * GORDON BROOKS, JR., . ( ELEHRATES BIRTHDAY. » Gordon Brooks, Jr., the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Brooks, ■ celebrated his birthday this afternoon with a delightful party, which was at- ► tended by about a dozen of his young friends. The color scheme of pink and white was Observed for the event, ( and after the delicious ice course, the young wolks enjoyed an egg hunt. The * guests were Nona Claire and Etta Ruth Brooks, Raymond Morris, Doro- } thy Morris, Charles Smith. Melvin Jones, Floyd Braswell, Wade St. John, Coleman Speer, Florence Speer, Ma bel and Bertha Sawyer, Charles Bost wick, Frances Franberry, Ardel|e Stanley. * * * 3 I D. (’. WILL MEET AT CARNEGIE LIBRARY The Americus chapter of the U. D. C. will meet Tuesday afternoon at t 3:30 o'clock at the Carnegie Library. The winners of the two U. D. C. med als for the best essays by Miss Macey Gray and Miss Loulie Howard will be ready by these interesting young la -3 dies. The members are urged to at tend. j JEANNETTE RANKIN,FIRST 1 WOMAN MEMBER OF HOUSE SATED IN CONGRESS TODAY a __________ WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2. Representative Jeannette Rankin, of ft LCAZAD | fl I HEATREI\ | Monday 5 & 10c 0 Paramount Picture Blanche Sweet, in “THE EVIL EYE” Five acts Tuesday 5 & 10c I Metro Pictures Viola Dana, in “THE MORTAL SIN” Five acts Wednesday Matinee 5 & 10c Nlgbt 10& 15c I Triangle Pictures Louise Glaum, Dorothy ■ Dalton and Chas. Ray ■ —IN— “THE WEAKER SEX” Five acts and a 2 reel comedy Montana, when she walked into the house today, marked the formal change from the old to the new order of things. She invaded a floor that has tetr, kept sacred to man ever since its inception. Naturally her etrance was regard ed with trepidation as well as with interest, mostly by the republican ones, with whom she must fraternize more or less, by reason of her party affiliations. There was some speculation as to whether she would venture into the re publican cloakroom. It was generally decided she would not, unless she har dened herself to the accessories— swear words and mingled grades of tobacco smoke from the 5-cent weed or briar pipe to the perfectos and cig arettes. Miss Rankin’s entrance, incidental ly, was expected somewhat to cleanse the debate in the house, which on oc casion, in the case of backwoods ora tors, has been sometimes indecent. NlftflKETT 4 KENT IS NEW AUTO SHOP Markett & Kent is the new' firm to do garage work and general repairing of automobiles. They are now next door to the Times-Recorder in con nection with the rooms of the Hooks Motor Co. Both Messrs. Markett and Kent are well known in the automo bile life of the city, and many friends predict much success for them iin their new business. SOUTHERN CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION BEGINS MEET ATLANTA, Ga., April 2.—Drawing live stock men and farmers from Vir ginia to Texas, including osme of the foremost breeders and authorities on cattle raising in the country, the fifth annual convention of the Southern Cattlemen’s association will convene i; Atlanta on next Wednesday, April 4. for a three-day session. In addition to a very interesting and helpful program of addresses, the convention will take steps to make a systematic investigation of the South’s resources in beef cattle to determine the extent to which this section can provision itself when the United States goes into the war, this problem being one of the gravest concern to the na tional authorities in Washington. PROPERTY OWNERS ARE URGED TO TAKE NOTE The tax books of the city of Ameri cus will be opened at the office of the undersigned on April Ist to July Ist, and all property owners are requested to make their returns. The matter is important. E. J. ELDRIDGE, 2-ts Clerk and Treasurer. OPEN MEETING OF A. S. CUTTS CAMP, SONS OF VETERANS You are invited to attend a meeting of the A. S. Cutts Camp, Sons of Con federate Veterans, No. 681, at the courthouse, Tuesday, April 3rd. at 10 o’clock a. m. Election of officers, the Washington reunion and other import ant business to come before the meet ing. We shall expect every member to be present. E. A. NISBET, FRANK J. PAYNE, Commander. Adjutantt. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. Female Trousers Has Become A Stern Reality for This Year BY MARGARET MASON. The busy housewife pants these days As she does up the chores, You see she’s cast her skirts aside For trouserettes indoors. NEW YORK, April 2.—ln a class with the hoary and decrepit mother in-law joke the one about the ad vanced female donning the trousers has done equally long and faithful service. But lo and behold the latter wheeze has now ceased to be a joke and in these days of 1917 become a stern reality. Dr. Mary Walker blazed the trail for the wearing of masculine neither garments, I believe, but it took a heap of red tape to keep them on. Mme. Curie more recently gained the permission of her government to wear ’em after a great deal of trou ble and time, but now everybody’s do ing it with the greatest ease and non chalance. Along with the high cost of living and other evils', of course, this fem inine penchant for trousers must he blamed on the po6r old war. Only this time it is no evil, but a blessing in disguise of pants. With the women forced to take over the tasks of males in all the fighting countries, naturally it was meet that they should take over the cut of their clothes as well. One can’t very ad equately oil engines, plow, drive mot ors and run elevators all done up in skirts and petticoats. Sitting on the sidelines, Maiden America and Matron America as well, have calmly appropriated, as they do all imported fashions and fads, those bifurcated garments ofr their own and pant no longer merely with emotion or exertion bht with gingham, denim, chambray, silk and satin. By a quaint whimsey of fate it isn’t the advanced female of the joke who is now wearing the trouser ef fects however, but the dear, domestic little wives and mothers, the “Queens of the home” and “the housewives of the hearth.” As a first aid to baking, brewing, sweeping and chores of the home in general, nothing could be neater, sweeter or fleeter than one of the new pantalette housedresses. They are made with a blouse waist, American Automobiles Have Made Fortunes Among Spanish .MADRID. April 2. There are some curious features of the increase in trade between Spain and America which has resulted from the submar ine war and the cutting of Germany’s trade with Spain. While American au tomobiles are having a great boom in Spain, they have one curious draw back in not being able to bring along the American tires, as these are rub ber and contraband of war, subject to all kinds of restrictions and regula tions. The American auto-trucks are caus ing a revolution in Madrid along three distinct lines: first, doing away with the huge antique carts which labor along the streets; second, supplanting the long tandem teams of oxen and donkeys, covered with jingling bells; and finally, changing Madrid from one of the worst paved capitals of Europe to one of the best. The Spaniards look with awe at the disappearance of their ancient methods before the march of progress. A complication has arisen over the shipment of American meat to Spain. I Tbs Spanish ships were glad to get this class of freight, but the ships were not provided with the necessary refrigerating plant. As this is essen i tial for shipping meat long distances, I many Spanish ships are being over ' hauled to put in the modern cold-stor age equipment so as to handle this new class of American product. Once equipped this way, fresh Spanish fruit will be going to America, and fresh American meat coming to Spain. American flat-irons and other elec trical novelties are now being used for the first time, and the Spaniards say these articles are so much better fin ished than the German goods that used to come here that they will hold the market permanently even if Ger man trade gets a footing again after the war. Even American drugstores with American medicines have made their appearance along the streets of Madrid. Besides stepping into the place of France and Italy In supplying Amer ica with antiques, curios, etc., the war is also having the effect of giving Spain a good deal of the American trade in perfumes, to’let articles and soaps, which used to go from France in large quantities. Some of these articles, such as castile soap, have their origin here in Castile. > with sailor collar and loose, three quarter sleeves. They have a neat little belt, button down the front and' there are two dandy, handy big patch pockets, one on each hip. Thus fhr they are no different than the little old last year’s model house dress. But below the pockets comes the great divide into cunning little trousettes that clasp the ankles with an elastic headed frill or else hang straight with a stitched band of the materiall bounding them, like an honest to goodness regular male trouser cuff. On some of the prettiest models this band around the bottom of the pantel ettes like the belt, collar, pocket and sleevecuffs, is of contrasting shade of material. These sensible and saucy suits come in chambray, gingham, denim, and khaki in pink or blue or white or tan. Then there are the regulation over alls, the female of the species re sembling much the male. These are of course for the more strenuous walks of workaday feminine life. Skating overalls are cutting some ice th'ese days too, let me tell you. Fair skaters find they can cut a much better figure eight or any old figure at all in the smart new tailored trous ers of novelty suiting and tweed cut generously wide with the big flap pockets on each hip and cunning sus penders of the same material holding them securely in place. I Milady of elegant leisure is panting to be in in a trousered class with her sisters the sporting girl and the busy housewife. So she affects the straight, black silk trousers of the Chinese wo man, topped with a gaily embroidered Chinese coat for her “robe intimate,” or the full trousers of a Turkish tro phy under a flowing coat of silk. Wearing trousers has indeed become such a fascinating habit that the 1917 female cannot even doff them at night and so she dons; when the shades of night have fallen down and the win dow shades are down as well, cutay , little suits of pajamas with feminine V cut decollete and short sleeved up pers and masculine, straight cut ankle length lowers. So you see it keeps lovely woman panting twenty-four hours a day to keep up with these strenuous times. It is in the American demand for their art treasures that the Spanish are taking their chief interest. Buyers for the big American department stores are now coming here for the first time instead of to Florence, Mil an, Paris and other art centers from which it would be risky to ship art treasures now.. America w r ould have received a num ber of the paintings of the great Span ish master Goya if it had not been for a recent complication at the New York custom house. The pictures ac tually went to New York, were held on the pier for some time because of ir regularities in making out papers, and were finally sent ack here unopened. The owner had meantime made two trips to New York, but at last gave up the shipment as hopeless. One of the pictures was Goya’s study of Madame Haro, another his Virgin painted on a panel of wood, and a third a peasant dance, on wood. Another artist is now taking to America a Titian, called Salidad (sol itude). The value recorded is 500,000 pesetas. THE ALCAZAR Blanche Sweet. the ever popular- Lasky star, who will be seen at the Alcazar Theatre Monday in her latest success, "The Evil Eye,” a thrilling drama written especially for her by the noted author, Hector Turnbull, and prepared for the screen by George D. Proctor, has had a promotion. Miss Sweet has played servant girls, nurses, crooks, etc., but now rises in the social scale and is seen as a phy sician, practicing her profession among a lot'of superstitution and sus picious Mexicans. The story of "The Evil Eye” has to do with the adventures of Katherine Torrance, a young woman doctor who is called in to help suppress a dipth eria outbreak among the workers in Leonard Sheldon’s vineyard in the famous wine growing districts of Cal ifornia. When she arrives at the vine yard, Sheldon wants her to return im mediately to the city as he prefers a man doctor, but Katherine convinces him that she can handle the work. She visits the Mexican hovels, prescribes for the children and cleans up the in teriors. Tom Forman, the clever young Las by leading man, is seen. Others prom inent in the cast are Walter Long, Ruth King. Webster Campbell, J. Parks Jones, William Dale, and other members of the Lasky all star organ ization. PRO-GEHMANS ARE URGING MEXICO NOW LAREDO, Tex., April 2.—Travelers arriving today from Mexico City say the so-called “civil group,” which is now urging Gen. Carranza to maintain strict neutrality toward the United States, is merely a strongly pro-Ger man faction that secretly has been urging Mexico to make war on the United States. ‘•FAGfiED-IHJT” WOMEN Will Find a Helpful Suggestion in This Letter- Overworked, run-down, “fagged out” women who feel as though they could hardly drag about, should profit by Mrs. Carter’s experience. She says: “I am the mother of six children and I got so weak and run-down that I couldn’t eat anything and it seemed almost impossible for me to get around and do my work. I tried different doc tore’s remedies without benefit. I saw Vinol advertised so much benefit to take it. and it has built up my strength and made me strong and well. I con sider Vinol the best medicine I have ever taken, and advise all weak, run down women and try it.” Mrs. Bessie Carter, State Road, N. C. If all the tired, overworked, run down women in Americus could only realize how our delicious Vinol, which contains beef and cod liver peptones, glycerophosphates, supplies the vital elements necessary to build up blood and strength, we wouldn’t be able to supply the demand. Hooks’ Parmacy. Also at the lead ing drug stores n all Georgia towns. SxMcotS.atve> REMOVES SKIN AFFECTIONS On* package prove* it. Sold and guaranteed by above Vinol druggist. AMEKILPS FISH H IIVSTFH M.IHMI ’ ———— 216 FORSYTH ST., WEST Phone 778 N. BOLDE & CO., Prop. iVe wish to announce the opening of our up-to date Sanitary Fish Market Come and look over our stock. REFRIGERATORS REFRIGERATORS We now have on display one of the nicest and most complete assortment of Baldwin and Leanord Cleanable Refrigerators. We have them in the Porcelain and White Enam el Linings, also with the separate Water Cooler at tachment. Call and let us show our line while the stock is complete in all of the different sizes. s.sum TiTrnjture iunpini MAFTETTS NEW PRINCESS SKIRTS $1.50 -T054.98 $4.98 New shipment fresh from the market, in plain stripes,poeker dots and in the latest patterns. J. D. NIAFFETT Hamilton’s Store Americus, - Georgia PAGE FIVE