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* WOMEN ‘PROGRESSIVES’
TO HOLD MOOSE RALLY
A T PIEDMONT TONIGHT
Many of the prominent women of
t f, e city and those actively interested
In club work, patriotic and civic or
ranizatlons and other lines of endeavor
have received cards from the state
committee of the Progressive party, re
questing their presence at a meeting
of the Progressive women in the au
ditorium of the Piedmont hotel to meet
Mrs. hong, of Camden. N. C., and New
York, this evening at 8 o'clock. This
assemblage will be significant as the
first purely political gathering of wom
(n of Atlanta.
The meeting will not be a Suffragette
gathering, but it planned to give At
lanta women an opportunity to hear
Mrs Long, a noted speaker and chib
woman, expound the measures which
the Progressive party proposes to adopt
toward equal suffrage. A genial invi
tation is extended by the committee
t o all women interested to be pres-
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HERE FOR DIVORCE
EVIDENCE AGAINST
HIS RUNAWAY WIFE
A. A. Lineberry, of Birmingham, the
Southern railway engineer who re
cently found his wife in a hotel in
Atlanta after she had been missing for
two weeks, is here today obtaining evi
dence and making preparations to en
ter suit for divorce.
Mrs. Lineberry, who. when found,
persistently refused to return to Bir
mingham, is said to be living in Cin
cinnati. Lineberry says he will make
no effort to induce her to return, but
will sue for divorce within a week.
VOTE OF FIVE COUNTIES OUT.
Secretary of State. Philip Cook, who
is compiling the state election returns,
has heard from all but five counties.
The missing counties are Habersham,
Pierce, Screven. Worth and Stephens.
OMEGA BANK CHARTERED.
The Bank of Omega, in Tift county,
a $25,000 concern, was chartered by the
department of state today.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDA Y, OUT OBER 9. 1912.
Gertrude Atherton Advises Girls on Marriage
DON’T WED UNTIL THIRTY
Trend of Women Now Toward
Independence, Declares a
Famous Novelist.
By GERTRUDE ATHERTON.
Recognized as One of the Greatest Lit
erary Women of the Age.
I think the tendency of the modern
woman is a greater and greater leaning
toward independence. The modern wom
an, perhaps, will not marry unless she
be a woman who wants a family. Here
tofore in years gone by woman was
taught by tradition to bFlieve the cul
mination of ideal womanhood was mar
riage—an ideal that has undergone a
vast change within the last ten years.
It is a sort of natural climax brought
on by modern evolution of, well, any
commercialism, perhaps. The strife for
livelihood makes necessary the secur
ing of employment by girls and women.
They are simply compelled to support
themselves—a condition that is as much
of an ideal to some as a tragedy to
others. ’
That is why they won’t marry merely
for the sake of being supported. A
woman, of course, whose soul Is yearn •
ing for a home, naturally will marrj
earlier than a girl whose ambition im
pels the seeking of a career, whether it
be art, music, the stage or any other
goal.
To me it seems there Is nothing more
tragic than for a woman who is not
domestically Inclined, has no particular
yearning toward motherhood, whose
innermost soul strives for. perhaps, a
career, where her individuality can as
sert itself, to be shackled by wedlock
and her ambition and talent die of in
anition.
More Careers Are Opened.
Tet, these same women will do their
sacred duty, and live on with men
whose evening home coming is dead
ened by a day's toil where business ex
hausts them. I believe careers are
open to a very great number of women
that heretofore were denied them solely
to this so-called feminine movement.
Matrimony has been the ideal for so
many years that woman has been led to
believe marriage was the apex of her
existence. Anybody knows there are
many families where happiness is not
what it should be, where neither the
wives nor husbands are happy, to say
nothing of the children.
Now they find their walks of life
where they will develop in comfort.
Man wants a variety in business to
keep from becoming stagnant; the
same should apply to the wife, for cer
tainly domesticity will have a tendency
to dwarf as much as a business office.
That is why I believe woman is becom
ing more of a factor to be reckoned
with, tor she is finding her place.
As for the effect on home life, I don't
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think there will be a material change.
Aside from the servant question, which
is far more important than the question
of whether a woman should vote or
not. a woman that wants a home will
have a home.
Even at that, if she wants to vote,
become broader through public contact
with important events and national af
fairs and become interesting in general
I can’t see where the world is going to
suffer such a shock. '
"Childless Woman Not Worthless.”
A woman who is homeless or child
less should not be put on a shelf as
worthless. Some are far more equip
ped for general usefulness after having
passed the 30-year mark than when
emerging from their 'teens.
I know one woman in England whose
wealth would permit her to have every
care of her eight children attended to
by servants or maids, yet she gives a
part of ther time to suffrage, has been
jailed for the cause, and yet attends to
all her children herself and fairly wor
ships them.
Os course, there arc some men who
neglect their homes, or would from any
cause, but. generally speaking, man
does not slight his home for the sake
of voting.
Take the woman’s club, for instance.
1 he rich and fashionable follow sports,
so to speak—the golf links, boating!
motoring, etc. —and have other count
less diversions. Should the domestic
woman simply live on in idleness’
That is the blessing of clubs.
A woman may have any number of
children, who in time marry or leave
home. It is a godsend that such a
woman should have a club to relieve
the monotony of merely living in the
past. No, I do not beiieve woman’s
clubs are going to be the means of
breaking up many homes, regardless
of a few beliefs to the contrary.
In thg past woman could not take
any initiative in politics, art, music or
other development of her talent, be
cause men did not uphold it; but now
suffrage has aided materially in dis
pelling this fallacy. If her individual
ity craves for hearing, she not only Is
justified, but men actually uphold her,
and this, I believe, will do much to
ward woman’s enlightenment—not as a
medium of breaking up homes.
Suffrage as Aid to Romance.
Rather than a destroyer of romance,
suffrage should tend to bind a husband
and wife more closely together—pro
vided there exists a proper devotion be
tween the two. You have heard men
say they could not talk of certain sub
jects at home, because their wives were
not Informed. On the other hand, many
a man comes home from business cares
in a state of physical exhaustion Such
men would not gain much by having a
wife to continue the day’s work in a
political discussion. Yet if such a man
did desire to have wife interesting and
well informed the question is open as
to whether she would act as a bore to
him or the contrary.
Knowledge is diffused tnrough so
many mediums that one can not but
help gain by wisdom. Constant associ
ation. rubbing elbows. If you will, with
the opposite sex has had much to do
with this dethroning of romance.
A girl is but human, the same as the
boy, and,she likes athletic sports and
follows them with equal interest—in
fact, they become pals, so to speak
Golf links, rowing, motoring, etc., may
be said to be the means of killing our
old-fashioned romance, but I can't be
lieve it that way.
Perhaps in a large city, where a girl
Is naturally shut up and denied com
panionship, she will adhere to such ro
mantic ideals, but to girls who come in
constant ass relation with life as |t
really is. the siirne old-fashioned ro
mance taints with sentimentality,
I believe young couples would be far
better off if young girls married at from
25 to io, and the rum from 30 to 35.
for at thee ages their minds have de
vr loped, >nd maturity aids materially
In ch< ung a lifelong matt I
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W ilton Rugs
Beautiful Royal and French Wilton
Bright skies and beautiful Indian summer
weather are helping us to people our third floor
with pleased customers, and we are extending a
welcome to home-comers. Possibly you have been
to the mountains, mayhap you have been to the
seashore or you may have been abroad—wherever
you were—we welcome you home. Every wo
man returning from her vacation has found that
“there is no place like home.” She is glad to be
back and is now ready to take up her house-wifely
duties. She finds here and there a want. It may
be curtains here and draperies yonder, rugs in this
room or portiers in that. Foreseeing the wants of
our customers, our third floor has prepared and is
now unfolding for your pleasure and purchase.
Royal and French Wiltons
Room Sizes
The Keely rug display is meeting with appreciation from
all lovers of the beautiful, and the collection embraces the
finest examples of rug art. In fact, visitors to our third floor
are loud in their praises of the assortment shown.
Os course Wilton Rugs are
put in the highest class and
take first place in the display.
They represent all that is
new and good and are only
equaled in their beauty by
Eastern Rugs.
Among these Wiltons you
will find exact copies---Ker
manshaw, Serapi, Mousoul,
and Ghorovan productions
from the East. Indeed, many
of the original, from which
these are copied, are not now
in the market, but are to be
found only in the hands of
collectors.
All of these are adapted
and variated by our best
American weavers, and this
collection will be found to em
brace genius in color, paint
ing and pictures in design
that you would not expect in
domestic manufacture. High
grade Wilton Rugs are best
adapted for general home use,
in fact, no other rug takes its
place in the average Ameri
can home. For a special room
you can use a rug of Oriental
design, but for general floor
coverings you will find the
French patterns in dining
room designs, hall designs,
library designs and Queen
Anne effects are all included
in our large assortment, and
you can choose for your own
particular want.
Wilton Rugs
9X12 $35-00, $37.50, $40.00, $45.00, $55.00
Axminster Rugs
9x12 sl7-50, $18.50, $22.50, $25.90, $27.50
Brussels Rugs
9x12 SIO.OO. $12.00, $13.50, $14.25, $16.50
Smaller Rugs at Lesser Prices
Every rug in this collection is new, no left
overs, no discards, no make-shifts—but all are
clean and fresh and shown for the first time at
Keely Company
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Os course, you will find the
collection of conventional
floral effects and medallion
styles in the greatest variety.
We are also showing in very
liberal assortments two-toned
effects with solid centers, in
fact the assortment of de
signs and color combination
is so immense and variated
you cannot fail to find the
Rug exactly suiting your own
individual taste and wants.
Added to this beautiful col
lection of Wilton Art Pieces
we are showing a very strong
assortment of fine
Axminster Rugs
In this collection Oriental,
Conventional and Floral de
signs predominate.
Brussels Rugs, too! In the
best standard makes are
shown in large variety. Os
course, we have all the rug
sizes, from the smallest hearth
rug to the largest room size.
Beginning with 27 inches
length to 54 inches, 4 ft. 6in.
x 6 ft. Also 7 ft.x6 and the
popular room size 9x12 ft.
Note also---that we have
10 ft. 6x13 ft. 6 in a very
strong assortment.
Give our rug section a visit,
it will repay you. Once you
begin to look you will hardly
know where to stop. The as
sortment is so large, patterns
so varied, and tone pictures
so attractive that you would
not fail to be led into tempta
tion.
KEEL Y ' S
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