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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. 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C7 Q % Price for Thursday 1 < ' Southern Suit & Skirt Co. j ‘'Atlan ta’s Exclusive Wromen’s Apparel Store,’ 43-45 hitenall St. ( _■ / 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 nF T wEMi 3 I : ■■■ll i i •Wi sSb \ ' / Gertrude Atherton. 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 KEEL Y ’ S 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 KEEL Y ’ S 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 11