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Calendar Shows
Large Affairs
For Coming
Week
SEVERAL affairs on next week’s
.calendar stand out as events
of especial social interest.
Notable on the list is the Nine
<) Clock dinner-dance Wednesday
■veiling. This will take place at
rhe Driving club, which has been
lie scene of much of the season’s
•ntertaining.
As 1. dinner-dance will take the
place of the u-.ua! german, the Nine
i> Clocks will have no additional
:t of chaperons for the affair next
eek. other than the married mem
bers, among whom are Mr. and
dis. Forrest Adair, Mr. and Mrs.
I 1 rank .Adair, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Harman, J.., Mr. and Mrs. Clar
■ nee Haverty. Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Alston, Colonel and Mrs. Lowry,
Air. and Mrs. John Marshall Slaton,
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hatcher, Dr. and
Mrs. Leltoy Childs, Mr. and Mrs.
Phillips McDuffie, Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall Johnson. Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Smith, J.„ Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
Felder-, • Mr. and Mrs Robert Lee
''ooiiey, Mr. and M s. W. A. Speer.
Debutante to Enterta n.
•lies Helen Hawkirs. one of the
’r’outantes of the season, will en
tertain. jointly with her sister, Miss
Mary Hawkins, next week, with a
buffet supper on Tuesday evening,
if Lie home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Hawkins. Au informal dunce will
oP'iw U. s.:; per. the debutantes
uid their hour.- guests t.» be the
onoree-. Among the prtt lies' af
' l.s of the week .will be the pur
for Miss Edna .'."et'anuless.
'Jr.?. Hoiiald Ransome gives a
bridge tea for Miss McCandless and
Alls'? Helen Pavne will eutertnln at
■ dinner tarty for her next week.
H-r>m Dargan will be the
guest of honor at a buffet supper
on Monday evening r.i Driving
Am. given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward
C. Peters.
Tin calendar Is not so crowded
hi-i.' been the cr.ae so ■ the early
01 November. Many of the
debutante 1 ) have had their beautiful
■abut parties Miss Hi: let Cole
'■ll’ Hi-.- Hr. riot Calhoun having
c n th- horn ■■ guests at this work's
most brilliant events. Miss Cal
oun was tendered a beautiful ca
tion at the Piedmont D iving club
b; Dr. and Mrs. Phinizy Calhoun
on Tue-da;/ evening. The unusual!.'
■ labors tc and artistic decorations
. ■.!• i l.i'.imd by the young hostess
of the affair. The ball loom was
eon cited into a semblance of
fairyland with twenty full bloom
ing cherry trees, which alternated
■' itl; green columns, entwined with
oink clirysantnemums down the
ngth of the ball room, a canopy of
green st tdded with lights veiled in
. Jllp shades covering the entire
'■ -iiing.
Club Elaborately Decorated.
\ favor cotillion with many novel
:’gures was led by Mr. Thomas B.
Paine, dancing with Miss Calhoun.
Miss Cole was introduced by he.
aunt. Mrs. Harriet Cole, at the Cap
ital City club, on Wednesday even
ing. The club was elaborately dec
or.; bed with quantities of cut flow
■ i s and palms.
l arge white chrysanti emums
-md American Beauty roses were
med in the ball room, which was
garlanded in smilax, caught with
large gilt baskets of the beautiful
lowers, with American Beauty rib
bons tied on the handles. Tall ped
stals bearing similar baskets were
.'laced at the entrance of the ball
oom, which led into a small room
•'inverted into a formal Italian
garden, where punch was served.
'. white lattice was covered with
■ink wistaria, starred with myriads
of tiny electric lights, and the
punch bowl, sei. in a,mound of Kil
-I‘i.rney roses and valley lilies, was
under a canopy of smilax and pink
chrysanthemums.
Dinner was served at tables dec
orated in Killarney roses, the de
butante and her special friends be
ing seated at a table elaborately
■cot sited with Killarney roses and
valley lilies, arranged in three large
mounds and surrounded by many
pretty decorative details in pink
and white. The many gorgeous
bouquets sent the debutante were
placed near her and the jolliest
spirit prevailed during the dinner,
and the dance which followed.
Mrs. Willis Westmoreland's
luncheon on Thursday was one of
tin- delightful affairs of the week,
given for Mis- Helen Dargan. Mrs.
Westmoreland is the chatelaine of
one of the many handsome new
comes which have been added to
the city’s list within the year. Tin
affair of this week was the first
large; social event given by Airs.
Westmoreland in her new home.
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(.inly members of the younger set •!'
were entertained.
Miss Mignon McCarty gave a
"pretty tea yesterday afternoon for
sevn.u visitors, and this morning
Mis•; Annie Lee McKenzie was
hostess at a beautiful luncheon for
Mrs. Robert Woodniff Winship, a
recent bride, ami for Miss Helen
Dargan and her house guests.
Misses Rose Brisco , of Knoxville,
and Martine McCulloch, of Owens
boro. Ky. The luncheon was given
at the Piedmont Driving clqb and
was churaeterized by many pretty
details, the hostess being very ar- |
tistie and original in planning her
entertainments.
Mrs. Orton Bishop Brown’s co
tillion for Miss Hildreth Burton
Smith was a. beautiful eVent oil
this week, taking place at the Cap
ital City club on .Honday evening .-.
American Fashions For
IN previous articles on this sub-,
ject I have said that the effort
that is beirfg made to establish
American fashions for American
women should meet the enthusias
tic support of all of the women of
the country, because:
It’s patriotic. AVe believe I ha,
American brains and American lin
gers are just as clever as any in ill .'
wide world.
It’s good business. It keeps mil
lions of dollars at home an I that
makes for universal prosperity’.
It prevents our being, swindled.
Most of the imported gowns and
hats we buj’ were imported only
from the work room to the sales
room, and we are paying S2O or
S3O extra on the article for the bo
gus Paris label on it.
It opens up an immense and
profitable field of occupation for
our girls. There is no better busi
ness a talented j’oung woman can
go into than designing and making
artistic hats and dresses.
If still another argument in favor
of patronizing home industries-wcr :
needed, it lies in the hope that when
practical, level-headed, wholesome
.American women and men get •<>
work on devising garments for their
compatriots, the national spirit will
make the dress question less of x
nightmare than it is at presenu
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The decorations, ivere beautiful ami
elaborate, and the occasion, a nota
ble one in the number given for this
lovelj- young v .iman, who maxle her ;
formal bow t :i reception given by
her mother. Airs. Burton Smith, a
.> l> w weeks ago.
Some color is given to this hope
by Hie fact that the only two dis
tinctive garments that American
ingenuity has so far put forth have
been a boon to enslaved woman
hood. These are the shirtwaist
and the short skirt, and what they
have meant to the sex tfiat has
been going around for ages swel
tering and panting in tightly boned
bodices and basques and vainly
trying to clutch up yards and yards
of trailing and microbe-gathering
skirts as it walked, no tongue can
tell, nor typewriter set down on
paper.
Talk about emancipation' Some
dayjve will all rise up as one wom
an and build a monument to Susan
B. Anthony, and the dressmaker
who first dajred to shear off the bot
tom of a-skirt, and there Is a niche
in the Temple of Fame right next
to these two liberators, for the
fashion designer who originates a
costume that won’t go out of style
In three weeks, but that>you can
wear in peace of mind until the
garment is worn out, without being
conscious that you look like a last
> ear’s birds nest.
This permanence in fashion is
the most crying need of the day. It
would enable us to buy better
ulothes, moru artistically designed
!• November lias been pre-emim ntly'
the mom!’, of bridi s and buds. The
• aii ndar has been full of brilliant
ev>. ■■ ts without < xception for either
debutante <»'• some one of the sev
eral young women who have been
mm led during the month. For the
American Women gy oorothy dix
■ otlu s, clothes of finer quality, be
cause then when we got a dress or
a hat we would be sure of getting
good se vice out of it instead of
having to east it aside in a few
weeks because skirts had suddenly
widened or narrowed, or hats
changed from peach baskets to
Merry Widows. To a person of re
fined taste nothing seems more
vulgar than to see a woman decked
out in coarse lace, and sleazy satin,
and near velvet. Yet, women justi
fy themselves in wearing these
atrocities by saying that the styles
change so quickly that it doesn’t
pay to get the real article.
he Most Economical.
This is a fruitful source of ex
travagance, for there is no wear to
shoddy goods. Every woman’s ex
perience teaches her that the
cheapest dress she eve had was
some fine cloth or silk that wore
like leather, that came home fr'om
the cleaner’s or dyer's as good as
new, and that stood being made
over half a dozen times. There’s
not a poor woman that doesn't long
for some such gown, and she might
have it if she didn't have to be for
'•vei changing the fashion to keep
up with the vagaries of some crazy
I' '•tieii dressmaker.
Another reason, besides economy,
probably suffer u lull. ;ts just befon
Christmas is ;l busy time with every
one. and social wi] be some-
I what in abeyance until the holi-
days come on, bringin.-: their at
tendant gaieties. Tin return of
' Why then is an insistent demand
for some permammer of fashion Is
that women arc getting so many
different interests now that they
haven't time, nor inclination, to
spend their lives in the buying or
making of clothes.
The woman who is in business,
the woman who is in politics, the
woman who is devoting her ener? ■
•ties to philanthropy or any other
great cause wants to be well
dressed and attractively dressed,
but she doesn't want to devote all
of her best energies to shopping, or
‘pend hours ami hours of her valu
able time in dressmaking establish
ments. It doesn't seem to her that
it makes a particle of difference
whether sleeves are an inch’longer
or shorter tills season than last, or
whether there is one plait or two-in
a skirt, or a hat is turned up in
front this year, whereas it was
turned down last yea.-.
Her demand is for gowns that
are intrinsically beautiful and suit
able in themselves, that ate made
of fine material and on lines that
are as unchangingly beautiful as
the lines in the drapery of ;> Greek
statue. She wants to be able H» go
| to a dressmaker who is an artist,
who will study her color and figure
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•• tlie college girls and the closing of
local institutions are always fol
lowed by renewed social activity,
especially with the younger ele
ment. Several large, parties are
1 being planned for some of the col-
I lege girls, and within the next few
weeks others will be announced, as
dates for the return of these young
j people are definitely fixed.
For the grown-ups. the Cotillion
<'lub affair is one of the happiest
j in prospect for the holiday season.
The Nine o’Clocks will also con
tribute to t.-1 ■• iioliday calendar with
their. Christmas ball.
and peculiarities, who will be told
lor what purpose a gown is wanted,
and who will design her a costume
that will be above fashion and have
ail times and seasons for its own.
Some few women there will al
\a\s he whose brains are cut on
tlte bias and filled in the middle,
and hobbled around the bottom,
ami who will always believe that
the c hies end of woman is to change
her c loth ■» but the great majority
of women are weary and sick of
this eternal rush to the dress
maker.
They yearn with an unspeakable
yearning to buy good, sensible,
durable clothes, such as men have,
tfiat will be appropriate for the oc
casion, and that, having once got
ten, they can wear without change
until they wear out. thereby leav
ing them money and leisure to do
some of the other th rgs they would
like to do, if it were not for the
eternal dress proposition.
if this sort of a rational fashion
for women—and by rational I don't
mean bloomers nor Mother Hub
bards —is ever invented, it will be
by an American. It will be the
sartorial expression of our practi
cal national spirit. It's up to our
• iwn dressmakers to devise the
fashions that, are suitable for us.
December Bride
Now Interests
the Social
World
Si nJIETY is looking forward to
the December weddings,
which will be of unusual in-
I terest. although few in number,
compared to the fall weddings.
The first of the young women to
marry in the last month of the year
is Miss Edna McCandless, who will
become the bride of Mr. Albert
Thornton on the evening of Decem
ber 4. The wedding will take place
at All Saints church and will be
graced bj- a number of lovely young
women attendants. Miss Jane
Thornton, sistar of the bridegroom,
will be the maid of honor, and the
other young women of the bridal
party will be AT s. Pembroke Pope,
of Washington C?r. Mrs. Austell
Thornton. Mrs. Alex Smith, Jr..
Misses Helen Payne, May Atkin
son and E’lz i-beth Adai' - . Air.
Thomas Thornton, of LaGrange,
will act as best man. Among the
groomsmen will be Messrs. Janies
Ragan, Arthur Clark. Joseph Ga
tins, Dan McDoucafl and Alex
Smith Jr. A number of out-of
town guests will be here for the
wedding, wlm ii is one of the most
interesting of the season.
Another December Bride. .
Miss Sarah Coates will be a De
cember bride, her marriage to Mr
Robert Barnes, of Macon, being
dated for December 18. Mies Mar
• guerite Beck is another interesting
bride-elect on the short list which
remains since the autumn weddings
were solemnized. Miss Beck, how
ever. will not be married in 1918.
the date of her marriage to Mr
Hamilton Block having been set for
January 2.
Most of the November brides have
returned to tin city, and are being
cordially welcomed to the ranks of
the young matrons at the social
affairs of the week. Air. and Mrs.
Clarence Haverty (Miss Elizabeth
Rawson) are the exceptions, as
they are on an extended Western
tour, which will include a trip
through California. Recent letters
from the young couple were posted
in Kansas City.
Mr. and' Mrs. John Rudolph
Thieson (Miss Mary Traylor) are
still in the East on their wedding
j journey, but are expected home
next week. Air. and Mrs. Daniel
Pressley Yates (Miss Julia Rich
j urdsoiD have returned from their
wedding trip to Asheville, N. C..
and are now keeping house in a
charming bungalow in West Fourth
street.
Army Society Active.
After the social quietude of the
summer, the residents of Fort Mc-
Pherson have resumed their de
lightful social life, in which many
of their friends from the city par
tlclpa te.
General and Mrs. Robert K.
Evans, ii ho have been so cordially
welcomed since General Evans as
sumed command of the Department
of the Gtflf, have been tendered a
series of beautiful dinner parties
among those entertaining for them
being Major and Mrs. George W
Martin and Alajor and Mrs. Ed
ward N. Jones. Mrs. Thomas Good
man complimented Mrs. Evans with
a luncheon at the Piedmont Driving
club, and she has been an honored
guest at many of the entertain
ments in town. A series of dinner
parties, luncheons and bridge par
ties are enjoyed by the officers and
their wives, and the weekly hops
given at the Officers club are al
ways largely attended by many
young people from the city.
The dress parades given each
Monday and Friday afternoons, at
tract many visitors, and following
the parades the officers and their
wives are always at home infor
mally, the post presenting a gala
appearance with the brilliant mili
tary movements, the long row's of
motors drawn before the parade
ground and the groups of people on
each piazza of Officers row. Mrs.
Henry Bankhead, who has been
greatly missed during an extended
absence, has been most cordiallj
welcomed since her return, and she
and Captain Bankhead have at
tended many of the social affairs of
the season, being equally popular
both at the post and in the social
circles ot the city.