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Women's Clubs
Are Choosing
New Heads
for Year
k TOW is the time for club elections
and new leaders for the various
women's clubs are being chosen.
annual election of the Atlanta
1 Woman’s club this week resulted in the
selection of Mrs. A. P Coles to succeed
.Mrs. Woods White, who declined re
jj election Mrs. Coles is a well known
I club woman and will admirably All this
I Important office. The Atlanta Wom
f an’s club is a largeTand representative
I organization of the city’s active club
"omen. Another election of the week
which was of special interest is that of
Mrs. Floyd Mcßae to succeed Mrs.
Samuel Inman as president of the board
of managers of the Home for Incura
< bles. Mrs. Mcßae is one of the promi
nent women of the city, In social and
club life She heads a body of well
known women, succeeding a most ca
pable presiding officer. The ladies of
the board are delighted that Mrs. Mc-
Rae has accepted this position.
While the important club meetings
have, been held, social affairs have by no
means been neglected during th.e week,
which has been one of the gayest of the
season since Lent. Among the host
esses of the week was Mrs. Mcßae,
who gave a large tea this afternoon at
her handsome Peachtree road residence.
Seventy-five ladies were invited to meet
Mrs. Stiles Bradley, of Worcester,
Mass., the house guest of Mrs. Mcßae.
The hostess was assisted in entertain
ing by Mrs. Hentw S. Jackson, Mrs.
John E. Murphy and Mrs. W. C. Raw
son. Several of next week's most im
portant social events center around
this interesting visitor
w -Airs. Henry Johnson will be among
those entertaining for Mrs. Bradley
during the week
The social calendar shows several
large events which fall within the com.
mg six days. Mrs. E. S. Ehney issued
invitations the latter part of the week
to a luncheon which she will give at the
Piedmont Driving club next Tuesday.
Mrs. R V. Connerat has issued aards
to a buffet luncheon next Tuesday at
her home, for Mrs John Roach Straton.
of Baltimore.
Mrs. W. D. Ellis. Jr., will be among
the hostesses of the coming week, giv
ing a tea Thursday afternoon from 5 to
7 o’clock, for Mrs. W. W. Thomas, Mrs.
Hughes Spalding. Mrs. Orton Bishop
z Brown and Mrs. Frank Lipscomb of
Athens
Mis§ Anne Orme will entertain at tea
for two visitors, Misses Katherine Mer
rill, of Thomasville, and Emily Hart
Brown, of Maine, this to take place
Tuesday. Many happy informal affairs
will be occasioned by the group of visit
ing girls, among whom are Miss Mer
rill, the guest of Miss Esther Smith;
Miss Brown, guest of Miss Hildreth
Burton-Smith; Miss Eva Cone, of
Washington,. D. C., guest of Miss Dor
othy High; Miss Roberts, of L’tica, N.
Y., guest of Mrs. George K. Selden;
Miss Robyn Young, of Washington,
guest of Mrs. W. C. Humphries; Miss
Blanche Nisbet, of Macon, guest of
Mrs. J. E. C. Peddar; Misses Pearl
Sheppard, of Pensacola, Fla., guest of
Miss Ruth Hull, and Miss Mary Hull,
of Mexico City, the guest of Mrs. Her
bert Manson. There are dinner parties,
luncheons, afternoon teas at the clubs
and at the Georgian Terrace, and box
parties at the Forsyth, arranged for the
pleasure of the visiting girls, which will
make up a full calendar for the younger
set.
Os social inteiest as well as offering a
broader appeal are several of next
week's happenings. The Glee club con
cert of the Georgia boys is an affair of
moment, inasmuch as many of the
members of the mandolin and glee clubs
are well known here, some of them be
ing Atlanta boys. The concert is to be
given on Tuesday evening at the Grand,
under the auspices of the Atlanta Alum
ni association, of whicli Mr. Robert F.
Maddox is president. Messrs. Clark
Howell, Preston Arkwright, B. H. Hill
; and Reuben Arnold are vice prestdonio
Mr. Thomas Connally is secretary, and
Mr. Joseph E. Brown is treasurer. The
list of patronesses includes a number of
prominent women, and the audience will
be a representative one.
The entertainment ar Mrs. Charles
Conkiin's home for the Kindergarten
a:, lociation will be a notable event. This
ta'». is place on Tuesday afternoon and a
feature of the occasion will be Mrs.
Merrill Hutchinson's reading, with
piano accompaniment rendered by Mr.
1 Hutchinson. Tickets have been sold
7 bv Mrs. Conklin and some of the ladies
of the board who assisted her. a limited
number only having been Issued.
(BEAUTIFUL WOMEN OF ATLANTA
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Informa I Spring ’
Season Opens
With Driving
Club Dance
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BY sanction of custom, the ennus.l
Informal reception and dance
■which follows the election erf of
ficers of the Piedmont Driving club in
May marks the beginning of the in
formal spring and summer neaaon for
Atlanta*» fashionable world. This
week’s "opening” was the most bril
liant in the history of these events
Several hundred guests thronged The
pfctureeque country club, which has
recently been enlarged and Improved In
various details. The dinner parties as
sembled on the terrace and tn the din
ing room, and the ladles tn their new
est and prettiest spring attire, with
rose-wreathed hats and bright-hued
gowns, made a bright picture. The
club was in gala attire, Japanese lan
terns festooning the exterior of the
building, and spring flowers adorning
the interior. The tables for dinner
were decorated in pink carnations and
spiraea, with color details of pink and
white. The bail room was adorned with
festoons of smllax and groups of palms
and bay trees.
The Driving club opening is the oc
casion for the first display of the new
spring frocks of Atlanta women. Some
of the smart fashions of the season
were exemplified in the costumes worn
during the afternoon and evening of
this year’s opening. The younger girls
wore the sheerest of summer frocks,
with big picture hats laden with flow
ers. which are the keynote to the sum
mer millinery. Miss Helen Payne’s
charming little French bonnet, of white
lace was demurely adorned with clus
ters of tiny roses. Her gown was of a
dull blue over pink. Miss Frances
Nunnally wore one of the large flat leg
horn hats of the season, wreathed with
rich-hued pansies, her gown of white.
Miss Anne Orme wore one of the quaint,
bonnets now so popular, fashioned of
pink chiffon and small pink roses. Her
gown ■was of white lingerie, with the
smart French coat of pink chiffon.
Misses Elizabeth and Sarah Rawson,
both petite and blond, wore exception
ally pretty costumes. Miss Rawson s
was a pink lingerie creation, and she
wore a big picture hat of pink. Miss
Sarah Rawson wore pale blue batiste,
embroidered in pink rosebuds, over
which was a short coat of pale blue
taffeta. Her blue hat was trimmed in
pink rosebuds.
Pink seems to be the color of the
season, for many of the toilettes ex
ploited this color. Miss Frances Con
nally wore a. pretty pink hat with her
white gown. Miss Edna McCandless
wore a white hat trimmed in pink roses,
with a very smart toilette of marqul- ‘
sette and heavy cream lace. Mrs.
Alex Smith Jr., a lovely young matron,
wore a toilette of pale pink chiffon and
satin, with a. white hat trimmed in
pink roses. Miss Esther Smith’s toi
lette carried out the white and pink,
as did that of her guest, Mies Merrill,
of Thomasville.
Miss Mary Heletl Moody’s strikingly
handsome was of white and
black. Miss Moody is a brunette with
i exquisite coloring, and made a plctura
in white charmeuse. with a smart lit
tle coat of blue taffeta and a big black
hat. Miss Harriet Calhoun wore a tan
embroidered batiste frock of Paris
fashioning, with a French hat of taf
feta tn the same shade.
Mrs. Albert Thornton’s handsome toi
lette was in black and white. She
wore black tulle over white charmeuse,
and a white hat faced writh black vel
vet and trimmed in white aigrettes.
Mrs. John W. Grant was handsome in
white lingerie with a black picture hat
crowning her golden hair. Mrs. Willis
Westmoreland was gowned in white
voile, embroidered in black, and worn .
with a white hat trimmed in pink and
blue. Mrs. Emily Carter Divine was a
lovely guest, as was also Mrs. Ulric At
kinson, Mrs. James T. Williams. Mrs.
Dunbar Roy, Mrs. Andrew Calhoun,
Mrs Frank Adair. Jr., and Miss Leone
Ladson, the last named receiving a
cordial welcome at the first large af
fair she has attended since the auto
mobile accident on the evening of the
wedding of her sister to Mr. Charles
A. Dana, of New York.
The occasion was graced by hun
dreds of beautifully gowned women,
representing the married contingent
and the younger set.
The first dance of the Brookhaven
Country club was an event of this week,
taking place on Thursday evening. The
club rooms were artistic with their dec
orations of wild flowers and vines, and
the occasion was a notable success.
The chaperons Included Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Callaway, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Speer, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cohen. Mr.
and Mrs. T. B Felder, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Gentrj.
The dinner dance at East Lake to
night contributes anotheb large social
affair at the country clubs of Atlanta,
around which the social life of the sum
mer will centejC — — -