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and takes a leading place in the season’s social life. She has a box at the opera, and will en
tertain Mrs. Louis Schley, of Augusta, next week. Mrs. Cooney is a popular young matron,
who is gifted musically. Miss Ellen Meek, a sister of Mrs. Cooney, lives in Nashville, but
spends much of her time here, and is at prsent the guest of her sistr for next week’s gayeties.
waist with four, buttons—either of
mother-of-pearl or fancy buttons, as
the wearer may desire; with-a very
thin watch chain across from pocket
to pocket; a stiff-bosomed white shl't
with two pearl studs; a standing col
lar or a collar with bat wings and a
white necktie, tied by hand and not
made up In a bow by machinery.
AI90 he must wear black silk hose and
patent leather pumps; a silk hat and
white kid gloves, and an overcoat of
b’lack. He may or may not wear a
boutonniere, as he desires. Anything
other than this Is not evening dress.
"And above all,” my brother says,
"everything depends upon the waist
coat. The trousers may fit, the coat
may fit, but if the waistcoat does not
fit and is not very, very snugly pulled
In at the waistline, the man looks Illy
dressed."
Men unaccompanied by ladies and
not expecting to Join supper parties
after the opera may wear dinner
coats, soft-bosomed shirts, oxfbrd pat
ent leather shoes and any sort of an
overcoat or hat they may have at
hand.
But a dinner coat—vulgarly called
In America Tuxedo—is never worn
by the best dressed men in the world
—Englishmen—except at clubs and
most informal stag parties.
The well dressed Englishman al
ways carries his full evening dress
suit with him when leaving for a trip
or a week-end, and even when at In
formal dinners in his own home, with
only the ladies of his own family
present, he always appears lir full
evening dress.
1 had my brother read this over
and he says It is correct. The Lord
only knows whether It Is or not. If It
Is not correct, I hope none of the
young gentlemen of the University
BY POLLY PEACHTPEE
qulry: "Mrs. B.
hour; she is i
And sometimes,
I Not that the South is the only *eo-
tion of this country where idiomatic
errors of speech are prevalent; for
instance, no Southern woman would
ever have participated in the follow
ing dialogue, related by a Cincinnati
girl: “When In a department Itori,
the other day. I happened to oaerheer
says call her in an
i the garden now.”
an hour afterward,
Mrs. B. stays another hour Jaecord-
in^ to the phone). Weil, it’s hard on
Polly Peachtree, but certainly fine for
milady’s complexion. Many Atlanta
women make it a practice to spend
the morning hours with their flow
ers, and some of the practically-
minded ones cultivate cauliflowers
and pnions as well. Mrs. John D. Lit
tle, who has one of the famous flower \ not that sort,
gardens of the city in the rear of her
Peachtree Street residence, owns with
pride that she knows something about
farming also, and can give points on
the rotation of crops and the cause
for the cotton blooms turning from
white to a beautiful rose color as its
age advance^. Mrs. Little has an ex
tensive “plantation” in South Geor
gia where she visits every little
while, and often entertains house par
ties of intimate friends. Mrs. Robert
Maddox and Mrs. Morris Brandon
have extensive gardens laid' out in
the formal English style. Mrs. Rob
ert Alston walks in her garden much,
and Mrs. Burton Smith is familiar
with her flowers through daily in-
Rlx Stafford has
I SHALL write very little about the
coming opera week In this de
partment, because I am told that
all my associates on The Sunday
American are preparing a beautiful
Opera Section for this issue. There
fore, If you want news about the
song birds skip this page, please,
and turn to the Opera Section.
Personally, I am glad that the mu
sical week is here and that it will be
over soon. ' l
My! what heartburnings there will
be in the Auditorium when certain
dames walk in wearing new gowns!
I hate to think of ltl Some women
are unpity*ng.
They will be gueffts of Mr. and Mrs.
Clark Howell, who will entertain
them at the opera and at the various
supper parties at the clubs. After
their visit here, General and Mrs.
Mills go to Fort Oglethorpe for a
visit to Lieutenant and Mrs. Erall
Laurson, the latter being their daugh
ter.
"AcCra
RS. BAXTER TEVIS,
I read,
IV/1 was one of the most admired
of the gay butterflies of fash
ion at the recent Longchamps races,
where the fashion of the world gath
ers to see apd be seen. Mrs. Tevis,
on this occasion, “was all in black,
with her hat relieved by a tilleul
feather.” I do not know exactly what
a “tilleul feather” la, but perhaps
YOU do. Mrs. Baxter Tevis Is a for
mer Nashville woman, a sister of
pretty Margaret Baxter who mar
ried this spring, and who has often
visited Atlanta. Mrs. Tevis is a great
beauty and Is considered one of the
best gowned women In Paris, where
she spends most of her time, only
visiting the “folks at home" every
now and then In the summer.
I SUPPOSE that Mr. and Mrs. Bar
ry Wright, of Rome, wOl be
coming to Atlanta for the opera.
They passed through the city this
week without telephoning their
friends, going on directly to their
home In Rome. Mr*. Wright was
Miss M. A. Phelan until her raoent
marriage, and one of the very popular
young women of the city. Mr.
Wright, a son of Hon. Seaborn
Wright, is as well known here as in
his home town, and it is the consola
tion of the many friends of his bride
here that Rome Isn't far away, and
that Mrs. Wright will be a frequent
visitor.
T HE one question everybody in
society Is asking:
Who will be the best dressed
woman at the opera next week?
How I wish I could answer that
now. Next Sunday I will tell you
who I deemed to be the best dressed
woman, and why.
There will be stunning gowns—do
not call an evening gown a frock—
and pecks of jewelry, for the Jewel
caskets of some Atlanta women are
filled and overflowing, but it requires
something more than a beautiful
gown and a ton of jewelry to make
"the best dressed woman."
tercourse. Mrs.
made the desert of her rear yard
bloom like the proverbial rose, and
W ORD comes from Macon that
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Artley
have a little daughter who
will bear her mother’s name, Imo-
gene Thorn. May the little lady
grow up to be as sweet and pretty
an “Imogene Thom” as was her
mother, a former Atlanta girl! It’s
a charming custom, that of preserv
ing the name of mother or father In
the first born, and Atlantans are par
ticularly addicted to the custom. A
list of “those present" at a “kiddies' ”
party reads like those of the grown
ups, except for the Junior on the end
names and the paternal
A “mere man” sends this for pub
lication:
H AVE hope! The buds were blow
ing *
In dark o' yesterday.
The primrose and the pansy
Were out in full array.
The violet and jonquil
Beside the lily stem—
How do I know? I MET them.
And I had lunch with them.
G overnor-elect and mrs.
JOHN M. SLATON are visit
ing in New York, and I hear
that Mrs. Slaton has been greatly ad
mired at the numerous social func
tions she has attended and also that
she is bringing back a number of
very stunning gowns for the opera.
Mr. and Mrs. Slaton on Tuesday even
ing were the guests at a dinner and
theater party of Mr.-and Mrs. Wil
liam Randolph Hearst at their River
side Drive home. Mrs. Slaton will
open her country house soon after
her return and remain there until the
meeting of the General Assembly,
when, of course, she will move Into
the Executive Mansion.
T EN young bachelors who keep
house on Westminster Drive in
Ansley Park have disproved the
universal application of spring's turn
ing a young man’s fancy to thoughts
of love. These young men are busy
with an elaborate garden, wherein
each has a favorite bed—or row—of
the vegetables he likeB best, inter
spersed, by the flower-loving, with
hardy blossoms of the summer.. 1
have my doubts as to the success « r
profit oT this garden-plot, but so did t
have about the “bachelors’ hall,” when
I first heard of its proposal. The
home has been kept up now for over
a year, and the young men often en
tertain the girls and their married
friends in the Ansley Park neighbor
hood at jolly “Dutoh suppers" and
“Turkey Trots.” Recently one of the
men forfeited his place for a bride,
and Indications point to his successor
doing the same thing. The young
men, who have named their home
“Paradise Hall," are Messrs; FVank
Montgomery, Tommy Stout, Jlmmy
Wells, Archie Lee. Archibald David
son. Fred Rogers and Dr. Archibald
Elkin. They claim to know all about
making salads, ordering ice, etc. So
any of you girls who are Inclined to
the suffragette movement might try
for a housekeeper at Paradise Hall.
of the boys’
patronym, on that of the girls’. With
in the past year or two we have not
ed the arirval of Maybelle Swift
Dickey, Anne Caverly Tye, Helen
Payne Smith (Mrs. Alex Smith’s lit
tle daughter who bears the name of
her young aunt), Inez Wilkerson
Lowndes, Mary Meador Goldsmith
and Elizabeth Hughes Shroder (both
grandmothers’ namesakes), Phlnizy
Calhoun, Jr., Roy Collier, Jr., A. D.
Adair the Third, Phillips McDuffie,
Jr., J. J. Spalding, Jr. (named for his
grandfather), Hugh Dorsey, Jr.—but
my space is limited, and I can not
pursue this fascinating subject to Its
end to-day. More anon.
“Pan,” who seems to have knowl
edge of the godless as well as ac
quaintance with the gods, sends mo
the following lines entitled:
TO TERPSICHORE.
T HE worst Is over, Terpsy, *
The deed Is nearly done;
The birds are getting chirpy,
The folks are on the run.
I know how they have shamed you
Throughout a winter mild,
But ’twasn’t I who blamed you,
Oh, Zeus's’s child.
My heart was filled with pity
To see your sorry lot.
Within a wicked city
That does the "turkey trot,”
YOU—kin to Grecian Grace*,
The Muses’ sister fair—
To think what now you face Is
‘IThe grizzly bear!”
But things are better, rather.
The mountains and the seas
Will soon begin to gather
Your self-styled devotees.
Their ways they will not soften
(That were too great a tug);
But we’ll not see so often
“The bunny hug."
Though they have not repented,
Though still they let things rip
And think that YOU invented
The “one step" and the “dip,”
Don’t Terpsy, crossly crimp up!
Come “aviation glide"
With me back to Olympus
And spare your pride.
S O Atlanta furnished the “Beauty
of the Cabinet.” Of course,
Nona McAdoo left here at a very
tender age, and also, of course, Ma
rietta, her birthplace, is not identical
with Atlanta, strictly speaking; still
we know that all the folk from Ma
rietta, Decatur and as far off as Grif
fin claim Atlanta as their home when
they wander afar. And why shouldn’t
they—It saves a lot of (explanatory)
talk, at any rate? Using this license
of speech, we can proudly say that
Nona McAdoo is one of our far-famed
Atlanta beauties. Miss McAdoo will
spend the summer on the Continent,
chaperoned by an Atlanta kinswoman,
Mrs. DeGraffenreid McDonald. She
has been invited to visit here, by her
cousin, Mrs. O. S. Nunnally, and will
probably accept the invitation before
going abroad.
Miss Marian Acheson Is a Nashville
belle who has been warmly received
into Atlanta society, having been
formally introduced by Mrs. Robert
Maddox, one of the city’s most prom
inent women. Mrs. Rutherford Lips
comb, Mrs. Dudley Cowles and oth
ers gave parties for the Misses Lamb,
former Norfolk girls recently come to
live here. They have quickly become
Identified'with Atlanta's younger set,
to the advantage of that same “young
er set." Among the popular young
matrons who are newcomers and so
cial favorites Is Mrs. F. E. Knelp,
who is not only an unusuaily pretty
woman, but Is a beautiful singer.
Mrs. Robert Small is a comparative
newcomer who has many friends.
Mrs. Charles Remsen, Jr , formerly
of Baltimore, is now ono of this city’s
most popular young married women.
Hammond. In "The Cottage In the
Air” Miss Meldrim took the part of a
lovely but capricious princess who ran
away from home and tried the ex
periment of living the life of an or
dinary woman for two weeks, which
was as long as “the princess" could
stand the experiment! She was an
Ideal princess, with her pretty golden
hair and her air of girlish dignity.
Atlanta is expecting Miss Meldrim
to be here opera week. She was in
the city as the guest of Mrs. John D.
Little for last year’s opesa season.
It has been announced that the de
butante sister of Miss Meldrim will
also visit Atlanta soon, as the guest
of Miss Harriet Calhoun. The two
young women, Sophie and Jane, are
as quaintly sweet and pretty as are
their names. They are daughters Of
Colonel Peter Meldrim, one of the
State's wealthiest and most promi
nent men.
apartment in Washington
near the White House until the com
pletion of their new home. The La
mars have spent the past two years
supervising the erection of a beautiful
villa, in the Italian style, on the
Paces Ferry Road, near Atlanta, the
grounds of which are adjacent to the
Maddox estate. When the Democrats
“came into their own,” Judge Lamar
decided to return to Washington, and
as a consequence their Atlanta home
Is on the market. It Is a magnificent
T HE gathering for opera remind*
me that many of the popular
young girls went out to the
opening of the ball, season at Ponce
DeLeon and when I asked one girl
how she oould care enough for the
game to brave the possibility of pneu
monia, to say nothing of tile certainty
of u red nose and blue lips, she re
plied that she did not oare so much
for the game, but after the papers h*U
called on Atlanta so strongly to go
out and help the team win the at
tendance cup, she decided to do her
part. Some of the boys say she was*
most enthusiastic in "doing her part/*
after she got there, too. "You should
have seen those girls rooting for the
home team,” he said. There is not
a more ardent “fan” In Atlanta than
Laura Lee Cooney, one of next year's
debutantes, who attends nearly all
the games here, and knows the enact
worth of every man on the teagn.
Other fair supporters of Atlanta*
team and regular attendants on tbs
baseball games
MSS’ £/I/L£/ir
I AM willing to admit that I do
know considerable about wom
an’s dress, although while mak
ing this^admission 1 might as we!)
say that I am not the best dressed
woman In Atlanta, Still that Is neither
here nor there. Let it go for what It
Is worth.
And, parenthetically, let me add that
I do not believe any girl who wishes
to consider herself well dressed can
parade up and down Peachtree Streot
in rubber-soled and rubber-heeled
shoes. Shoes of that kind are all right
for the mountains and seashore, but
they have no place lii the city's prom
enade.
-*■ comers of late. There’s pretty
Miss Eula Johnson, who, with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, have
been cordially welcomed to Atlanta
as kinspeople of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Johnson, and others of that promi
nent family. Miss Eula Johtoson will
be a debutante of next year, and her
exquisite beauty would assure for her
a great success, if she .did not have
the additional advantage of being a
member of a family of prominent
hostesses who pride themselves on
giving brilliant panties for all of
“their debutantes” and “their brides.”
Club will take the trouble to write
letters to me correcting my brother’s
blunders.
to appear in during the performances
of the opera next week?”
Think of asking me—Polly Peach
tree—such a question! How do I
know?
But it so happens I have a big
brother here from Harvard and there
fore am able to give the information
desired. Here goes.
A man, young or old, who wishes
to consider himself properly dressed
for the opera must wear an evening
dress coat and trousers of the same
material; a low-cut white waistedjat,
buttoned very, very snugly across/the some on* rep It
most of the work she has done her
self. Many other Atlanta women
have adopted this health-giving and
beauty-making fad.
are Misses Ainwt
Hunnieutt, Alice May Freeman, Ooy
rle Hoyt Brown, Franoes ConnaUy
Muriel Hall, Caroline Mtnre, Hath*
rine Gordon, Marion Goldsmith, Qmafr
Kate Amorous, Mary Bines, OoMiQ*
Vaughan. Sarah Raw son, A&taqp
Battey, Lula Deaf) Jones and 19*4};
Winsblp. Mr. and Mrs. Bother Dm
ser, Jr , and Mr, and Mrs. Baity Bat
man, Jr., have regular Boats at Bswt*
1 DeLeon too the nmw at the mmMi
the recent production of “The
Cottage in the Air,” by Savannah’s
dramatic club, has thereby displayed
another charm to the bewildering ar
ray with which she has won the title
| of the South’s most widely known
'beauty during her short social ca-
! j eer of about two years. l>ast season
Miss Meldrim had the time of her
j life In Washington and New York,
while the guest of Mrs. John Hays
TLANTA
children have their
L\ “teacher in expression," quite
as a matter of course, these
days, even as they have their music
teacher and their instructor in
mathematics. So, gradually, it has
come to pass that *‘TUe Southern ac
cent’ does not mean grammatical or
elooutionary error, as in former year*.
A lL this is preliminary to reply
ing to a note from a “Young
Gentleman” Who asks me:
'What Is the proper dress for a man