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TTEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, GA.. SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1013. TOLLY EACnrot M RS. MARTIN DUNBAR is one of the best swimmers I have seen at East Lake this summer. She is the envy of everybody out there when she goes in and swims swiftly and surely ’way out to the middle of the lake, keeping her head up all the time, too, for she swims with a broad upstroke, which prevents her from getting her hair wet. She learned to swim this way dur ing a several years’ residence in Eng land before she was married, and uses the popular stroke of the Eng lishwoman, who is always a good swimmer. Interest in swimming continues among Atlanta women, and it is grat ifying to the pride of a city several hundred miles from the sea, either way, that so many women and girls swim well. A lovely figure in the water, whom have noted particularly for her grace and charm, is Miss Elizabeth Evans, who was one of the many in East Lake the other afternoon. Miss Evans is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. W. P. Evans, a former retired army officer. She has been in many parts of the country with her parents and learned to swim in waters east and west. Miss Evans lives in Decatur, where her parents have built a pretty home. • • • N EVER was a silver loving cup more deserved than the one presented to .our good friend Forrest Adair by those who have en joyed the hospitality of his Pompeian swimming place these warm days. The fun and pleasure that pool has given to hundreds of Atlantans this summer is worth a dozen silver loving cups. The swimming party of last week at the Adairs’ was a huge success, ^f course, and, by the way, the “water wedding anniversary” of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gregg (Elizabeth Adair) was observed. The young couple had been married six months on the evening of the party, so the new anniversary was initiated. Other couples might take note of this, and carry it on to the perfection attained by the wooden wedding, the silver wedding, and so forth. Of course, one would have to time the wedding date so that the six-month anniversary came in the summer. The presents could be in liquid form, as well as the refresh ments. Don’t you think such an af fair would be a huge success? • • • S PEAKING of swimming parties, I am assured that the young woman who lost her bathing suit at one of the large swimming parties of a week or so ago has not yet heard from it. This young woman, as most of you know, X suppose, went out to the par- , ty with one of the most stunning bathing suits which has been seen in Atlanta this year. It was a pretty silk affair, with stunning "lines,” a Roman sash, and so forth. The wearer of the handsome suit was quite the loveliest lady of the lake during the swimming hour. Rater in the evening, when supper had sfirved to while away a time after bathing, the owner of the prize-win ning suit failed to find it with the suits of the other guests. Frantic and continued search failed to reveal the missing garment, and a week of “want-adding" in the “Lost and Found” columns brought no re sults. So the young woman had to buy a new bathing suit, and the mys tery of the lost one is still a mystery. . * • S AY, girls, I have noticed some thing that will interest you who do not like to play bridge and can’t dance so very well. We had always heard that a woman to be popular must play cards—simply must play, and play well, for no man likes a giri long if she trumps his ace. And, too, she must dance well, for partners are not any too many, and they must be given all encourage ment. Under my observation recently has come a popular woman who neither dances nor plays cards. Do you know Mrs. John Seibles, of Columbia, S. C., the former Bertha Willingham, of Georgia? I suppose most of you do— unless you are members of the very young set which I hear so much about these days. For a few years back Bertha Willingham was'accounted the belle of the State. She lived in Ma con, but spent mudh of her time here until she married into the prominent Seibles family of Columbia. Since that time she has been as popular in Columbia as she was while living here. The past several weeks Mrs. Seibles has been one of the charming women at Wrightsville Beach, and I have noted that she is always surrounded by a coterie of friends and admirers, and w'hile she still maintains her indifference to cards and never dances at all, she is yet one of the most popular women at the Beach. The reason? Well, I must admit, Mrs. Seibles has one great natural advantage—she is very beautiful and added to her beauty Is a cordial and unassuming graciousness, a Clevel and witty style of conversation which is never allowed to express a sting or an unkind word, and she is always stunningly gowned. Of course, all these things count, but to see a wom an who neither dances nor plays bridge carry off the palm of popularity is, I think, something worthy of note. * * • E VERY week we hear new praises of those two charming sisters. ' Mrs. Cecil Bingham and Lady Newborough, who were the famous Carr sisters, of Louisville. ~ Of Lady Newborough it is said that were she ever to lose her job as a peeress—of course, no one expects such a thing to happen—or if she suf fered any sort of reversal in her for tune, she could earn a handsome in come with little effort by becoming a modiste’s model. Her frocks and gowns have been the talk of English society this sea son. Her costume at the recent Ascot races easily won her the title of “the best dressed woman in England.” Lis ten, here is what she wore: A gown of oyster satin, narrow skirted,, with a slight pannier effect at the hips, and draped with rare old black lace in points reaching below the knees. A large emerald clasp held the gold belt. Yellow’, w’hite and red roses were massed on one shoulder. A hat of bonnet variety, weighted with roses of the same shades as those on her gowns. Shoes and gloves of rose-colored suede. Silk stockings of the same shade. The jewelry she wore was simple, consisting of topaz ear-drops and a simple bar pin at the throat, set with topazes. The rise of this young peeress has prominent society people who are In- fceen spectacular and rapid. "From bare feet to jeweled buckle shoes” might be the title of a story covering the events of her life. A LSO Atlanta is to have a polo match. I have been wondering when Atlanta would wake up to the social possibilities of a polo tournament. Of course, the game is an expensive one and can only b^ follow’ed by men of fine horseman ship, but wherever polo is played so ciety life is considerably brightened. The polo matches in the East are among the most important affairs of the early summer social season. At some of the leading resorts polo matches attract great companies of Miss Elizabeth Dunson of the younger set, and one of three sisters, all of whom are popular in Atlanta society circles. Miss Dunson often gives in formal parties, and is always a guest at .the dances and other affairs for the younger eontiugent. terested in the sport or in the society world to be seen wherever a polo match is on. Augusta has had a fine polo team for several years, and the team at Camden, S. C., is a notable one. Jack sonville. too, they tell me. has a polo team. Why has Atlanta been behind all these places? Since the announce ment of the forthcoming match in Au gust I have heard many delightful comments on the subject. Atlanta so ciety is getting ready to make a bril liant showing at the affair, and indi cations point to its complete success, socially speaking. I hope polo matches will hereafter be a feature of summer social life in Atlanta. I see no reason why we can not have polo tournaments, which will mean to Southern society what the great Pip ing Rock tournament means to New York and the East. Many fine horsemen can be found in Atlanta and near by, and the fact that the young army officers are avail able will, of course, add interest and give more efficiency to Atlanta’s tour naments. Many people of this city have attended the polo tournaments of Eastern cities and those which have been played in Augusta, and are. initiated in the social brilliancy of j these affairs. * * • I IEUTENANT MITCHELL BUR DETTE’S transfer to Fort Ni- — agara has deprived the Atlanta younger set of a popular man. The bachelor oificers at the post are popu lar with Atlanta society, as are many of the married officers and their wives. Among these. Lieut. Burdette was especially well liked, and his absence has brought some degree of depres sion to a nur .her of young women. He is to be at Niagara until September only, I hear, and then I suppose will return to “the Seventeenth." The girls tell me that they all like Wil lard McBurney very much, and he certainly se> s t have met with a r.oridal welcome since he came here to live. Newcomers are needed right now, too, for there are lots of “buds” about to blossom and they all want a half dozen “strings to their bows” this winter. » • • Old Mother Xettk-oat Wanted a petticoat. So she went down town to a More. Hut when she got there. The girl said with a stare, "They're not wearing those things any more!’’ 9 9 9 T HE OWLS were blinking solemn ly down upon the festive scene, a portly head-waiter had just slipped under ones plate a little brown card bearing certain merciless rules which have to be observed, when I overheard the man nearest me, at the tabl c on my right, ask softly: "What do you think of the way the women dress nowadays.” And the other man replied softly (but I heard because I listened). “Well. I rave at ’em—just like everybody else—and think they are beautiful—just like everybody else.’” Bo you see. Girls, that is the way men look at present-day fashions. I pass on to you the information I gained by grossly eaves-dropping men who w’ere unconscious of a fem inine ear so keen. To a man I know well I told of the “opaque petticoats” that have struck town. "For goodness sake, don’t spread that report.” he said. “I like t' kind they wear now!” After all, ^ from what i read, Atlanta girls are W& W-. ,' ” - ■ s'*#***- far behind the styles of diaphanous costuming, any way. The lapid prog ress of London society w’omen in the art of undressing has brought out protests from shocked modesty and decorum—and this, too, with the royal example they have over th^re! However, the present styles A dar ing are not altogether new. There is little difference that I can see be tween the W’oman who wears extreme decolletage and the one who wears a net blouse or a transparent skirt, and certainl> the costume seen with out comment at the seashore is more “extreme” than any street or even ing gown could e . er be! It all seems to be a matter i f what we are accus tomed to see. 1 am not saying whether I approve of these things or not—it really doesn’t matter what I think about that, you know. * • • C HARMING MRS. BEN GATINS is one of the most graceful ex ponents of the “Imperial Glide.” the latest variations of the new dances, which is the fad at Nar- ragansett. Every evening. Mrs. Gatins, as well as many other ‘beauties and belles of the East, dances the Impe rial Glide at the Casino. In the day time. she watches her husband, who is riding his ponies in the polo tour nament. I hear that Ben Gatins is very pop ular at Narranagseit, both he and Mrs. Gatins taking conspicuous part in the gayeties and pastimes of the Pier. Mr. and Mrs. Kermeth Murcheson, the latter a sister of Mrs. Frank El lis, of Atlanta, are playing in the tennis tournament now going on at Narragansett. They have a summer home there, you know', and are iden tified with the annual ‘Vottage contin gent.” Miss Madge Bannigan, who often visits Mrs. Rees Marshall here, is now entertaining Mrs. Marshall at Narragansett, where her parents have a summer home. “A UIllUll » v-iigafct-u 111 an extensive adv *\mpaign, con- RE not women nowadays, for the itd -»art and no doubt uncon ^engaged in an ceived with the object of reviving the fading interest of the male?” This is the question put by a promi- inent medical authority recently. He goes on: “Dress which involves such Incur sions into the realms of modesty and restraint must have some deeper cause than the mere desire for nov elty and artistic effect.” The discussion of the latest styles of woman's dress is present with us everywhere. Every day some new and startling mode is chronicled In the press of the countryfl and—I am ashamed for my sex when I say It—each new style 's more daring than the one preceding. Lady Duff-Gordon, the famous “Lu- oile,” w'hose fame as a designer of gowns is known on two continents, declares that the extremes of trans parent costumes, spilt skirts and oth er up-to-date features are planned oy Paris modistes expecially for English and American women. She further declares that French women of ta»te and culture would not think of wear ing the creations that the French dressmakers send to this country. A story which is going the round? of Paris tells of an Englishwoman w ho was offered a dress with the fol lowing inducements to tempt her: “Madame sera satlsfaite de cette robe, car en mettant un ruban rose dessous madame aura l’air complete- ment nue (Madame will be satisfied with this dress, for In putting rose- colored ribbon underneath she will present the appearance of being w'holly nude.)” Certainly there 1«- an orgy of un dressing going on, and It shows no signs of abating. I heard a story the other day that to my mind aptly describes some of the costumes we see on the streets these days. One woman addressed “her dear friend” who wore a very diaphanous costume, exclaiming: “Gracious, that skirt Is so tight that I can plaintly see what you have in your pocket!” “But I have no pocket,” was the reply. “Then what Is that lump?” “Oh, that is a chigger bite.” byiVVW Last 4 Days of July Pre-Inventory Sales at n 3 H iiiaa . RICH & BROS. CO. I M ISS VIRGINIA LIPSCOMB re turned Saturday from Augusta, where she was entertained as the guest of Miss Gladys Teague. Among social attention show’n Miss Lipscomb were informal parties given by Misses Pauline Verdery and Alice Hull. Mrs. Joseph Fargo gave a large bridge party for her. Miss Lipscomb will attend the Sco- ville School in New York next season, her formal debut to be deferred a year or so. Miss Lipscomb Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford Lipscomb, and In one of the popular members of the younger set. • * • T HE marriage of Miss Maury Lee Cow’les, of Atlanta, and Carroll Weislger, of Louisville, was of interest in Virginia, the home of the bridegroom. The marriage was hast ened on account of the fatal illness of Mr. Weislger, of Ashland, w’ho died a day or so after the marriage. Mrs. Weislger w r as a popular mem ber of Atlanta’s you net-• set She is a daughter of Mr. and .T7rs. C. A. Cowles and a niece of Asa G. Candler and Bishop Warren Candler. The marriage took place at the bride’s home. No. 334 West Peachtree street, on July 19. and the young cou ple left immediately afterward for Virginia. They are to live in Louis ville. • * * M RS. EVERETT GINN, of "Win chester, Mass., is being enter tained on a visit to Atlanta, her former home. She was Miss Eliza beth Lovejoy. A pretty luncheon for Mrs. Ginn was given by Mrs. Edw'ard H. Barnes on Thursday. Covers were laid for eight at a table decorated in pink and white pnlox. The company assembled a group of Mrs. Ginn’s special friends. At the Capital City Country Club dance o| Thursday evening, Mrs. W. B. Car- hart entertained a dinner party in honor of Mrs. Ginn. • * * Mrs. George Holliday, Jr., of Atlan ta, is at Wrightsville Beach. Mrs. Holliday was formerly Miss Leola Houser, of P'ort Valley, and she is very popular In Macon, where she often visits her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Houser, who now make their home in Macon. * • • N R. AND MRS. JOHN MORRIS, JR., will leave early in August for New York, where they will meet Mrs. Morris’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Conroy, on their re turn from a trip to Europe. They will then go to the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Conroy at Spring Lake, N. J., for a stay of two weeks. * * * Mr. and Mrs. William Elder, of Jacksonville:, fla.. who have come to Atlanta for residence, are at home with Mrs. Ida Howell Cramer, at No. 7 West Eighth street. * * * \ IRS. PETER GODFREY, of Cov- I I ington. entertained a party of Atlanta friends on Friday with a spend-the-day party and a barbe cue, the complimented guests being Mrs. William F. Shallenbarger. a a bride of recent date and Mrs. Wil liam Elder, a new resident, formerly of Jacksonville. The guests In addition to those two were Mrs. Rutherford Lipscomb, Mrs. Spencer Atkinson, Mrs. Haralson Bleckley, Mrs. Frank Butt, Mrs. Louis Gholstin Mrs. Warner Martin. Mrs. Hugh Lokey, Mrs. John K. Ottley, Misses Mary Brown, Marjorie Brown, Dorothy High, Virginia Lipscomb, Passie May Ottley, Margaret Hoyt, Jeannette Lowndes. Helen McCul lough. Miss Mary Brown remained over the week-end as Miss Frames Godfrey’s guest. • * • IBS MARY BUSSEY, of Atlanta, j J returns to the city to-day from a visit in Savannah as the guest of Mrs. Otto Kolb and of Mrs. L. E McIntyre. She will be accompanied by Miss Nellie McLaughlin, of Sa vannah. who is en route to Monteagle. Miss Bussey was tendered several parties by her friends in Savannah during her visit • • • Dr. and Mrs. Louis C. Rouglin are having a pleasant stay at the Ocean View Hotel. Ocean View, Va., where they will be until August 5. : Your Unrestricted Choice of Any Summer | Dress Formerly Selling to $23.50 at 5 The offer is even better than stated—some dresses in the lot were 5 priced earlier at $27.50 to $35. Rut to make the headline broad and 5= sweeping, to include “ALL DRESSES,” we had to stop at $23.50. Jp Choose, therefore, from all lingerie dresses; all voile dresses; all crepe, S’ ratine or linen dresses, whether the former price was $18.50, $20 or I $23.50, at $9.85. One hundred and twenty-seven dresses (127) in all—all new this summer; many not in stuck over thirty days. Scarcely a dress in the lot worth under $18.50; many wort i J to $23.50; some formerly priced to $.35. Choice $9.85. ft S $8.50 to $12.50 Dresses at $5.85 s Just the fresh, captivating summer dresses of which one likes to have a plenty. There g =5 are cool, crinkly crepes, dainty dimities, smart ratines and linens, lovely lingeries; just a 5» i whole host of the very fabrics highest in fashion. Styles are legion, as you would expect in ? 5 a grouping of one hundred and thirty-nine new dresses. Choice $5.85. =2 (Ready-to-Wear—Second Floor) I Up to $2.50 Undermuslins at 98c Especially noteworthy in the $2.50 gar ments is a small lot of thirteen tine nainsook gowns with entire bust of shadow lace. Beau tifully ribbon-trimmed. An extraordinary value, indicating our determination to clear all broken lines and odds and ends of garments before inventory. Grouped on the same big table are just as fine combinations, but somewhat mussed. Also many other gowns, less expulsive. The garments consist chiefly of combinations and gowns with u sprinkling of Princess Slips, Petticoats and Corset (’overs. Not a garment that originally sold for less than $1.25; many worth $1.50 to $2 uud more. Choice 9Se. (Muslinwear—Second Floor) A Trunk Sale Odd numbers and discontin- ued models of trunks that we don’t want to invoice. A11.SE sizes from 34 to 40, suitable Sg for men or women. Various models and styles. $12 to $16.50 Trunks go at $20 to $25 Trunks go at4> AD./ J; (Trunk Annex—Main Floor, Right) $9.951 75c Long Silk QQp Gloves at Continuing that amazing sale of pure thread silk gloves for 39c. Forehand ed women are buying them by the half dozen—they know such an opportunity will never come again. Gloves are perfect throughout; full fashioned and finely finished. Every thread silk. Tricot weave— firm and elastic. Not the thin sleazey silk, either, but a full plump weight. 16-button length. About all sizes in black, whjte, tan, pongee, navy and lavender. Only 39c. (Main Floor, Left) Wash Goods: The Final Round-Up i Fashionable wash goods—they’ve sold so freely that J* the lines are reduced to a piece of this or two of that. Not j] to be invoiced; hence these clearance prices: 35c to 75c Wash Goods Go at 25c §; Ratines—Plain colors In new and navy blue. 75c French Linen—45-inch, light blue, Copenhagen, green. £ 75c Homespun Linen—In brown and white two-tone. 39c White Voiles—plaih white, soft and sheer, 40-inch. 35c Voiles—silk striped white voiles, 40-inch. 3=j 69c to $1.50 Wash Goods at 49c: $1.25 Ratine—Old rose, pink, w hite, with self-colored stripes. $1.50 Macrame—Piece in white only, 48 inches wide. 3; 75c Ratine Voile—Handsome fabric in light blue and old rose. JJ> 69c to $1 Crepes and Lingeries—all white, prettily embroidered. (Wash Goods—Main Floor, Left) 3* § Clearing the Laces $7 & $8 Corsets $3.50 Small lots and oddments! Rather than invoice them we’ll clean ’em out at a loss. Pay q for 15c to 25c laces—all-linen Cluny C Jaces in edges and insertions, 1 */j to 2Va inches wide. All white. rn-for $1.50 to $2.25 embroideries—45-inch voile flouncing, embroidered in shadow and eyelet, and 27-ineb Baby Irish, 1% to 3-yard lengths. on for 50c to 75c laces—shadow flouncings, L jC 12 to 18 Inches, and bands 3 to 9 Inches. Ecru and white. OQ_for 75c to $1 laces—45-inch all-over JvC;shadow laces. Bewitching patterns in cream and ecru. ,*(Maln Floor, Right) If you don’t mind wearing a corset some what higher in the bust than present fash ions call for, you can save a half and more. Since these are the well known Madame (irace and Mine. Irene Corsets, you know that the workmanship and materials are PERFEC- 77OX. Imported materials variously in pink, blue or white. Choice $.3.50. (Corsets—Second Floor) All charge purchases for rest of July go on August Statement, pay able in September. I . HOTEL AN LEY Atlanta, Georgia Thu South’s finest and most modern hotel. Special concerts by Hotel An Kiev Orchestra on Mezzanine floor, Sunday, July 27, from 6 to 10 p. in., as follows: PROGRAM. PART I. 1. March, “Echoes of Seville”— Moret. 2. Overture. “Raymond’’—Thomas. 3. From “The Gypsy:” (a) “Little Honey Bee.” (b) “There Is a Corner in My Heart That Is Empty”—Luders. 4 Waltzes from “Quaker Girl”— Stuart. 5. Medley selection, “Remick’s Hits No. IS,” arr. — Lamp* 6. “Allerseelen” Lassen. 7. Spanish Dance in G Minor— Moszkowski. 8. Medley march, “Back to Caro lina”—Erdman. PART II. 1. Fantasy on Themes from “Mar tha”—Von Flotow. 2. Suite. “A Day in Venice” (4 parts)—Nevin. (a) Alba. <b) Gondolier!. (c) Canzone Amoroso. <d) Buenna Notte. 3. Waltz, “Skaters” -Waldtenfel. 4. “Oh, Thou Divine Evening Star.” from “Tannhauser” — Wagner. 5. Grand Selection from “II Tro- vatore”—Verdi. 6. Melodie in F—Rubinstein. 7. Deux Danses—Friml. ia) Danse des Demoiselles. <b) Danse Egyptienne. 8. Coronation March from "II I’rophete”—Meyerbeer. “Star Spangled Banner.” Special Sunday table d’hote dinner served from 6 to 8 p. m. at $1.00 i>er i**rson. Table should be reserved in advance, if possible. Telephone Ivy 1100. Soiled Table Linens Because these table linens need a tubbing we don’t want to invoice them. That, and the fact that they are odd lots, accounts for these absurdly low prices. Bargains for the thrifty. Linens are pure 100 per cent flax. All size cloths from 2x2 yards, 2x2% yards, 2x3 yards, up to 2%x4 yards. Possibly not all sizes, however, at each price. Choose from $6.50 to $8.50 Cloths at $3.90. $9, $10 to $12.50 Cloths at $4.90. $13.50 to $16.50 Cloths at $6.90. Linen Napkins in the Sale High grade qualities, atl sold by the dozen. $4 and $4.50 Napkins, 22 Ms-inch sizo, $2.98. $7.50 to $9 Napkins, 27-inch size. $5.98. $10 to $15 Napkins, 27-ineh size, $7.98. (Linens—Main Floor, Left) 50c Stamped Pillow Cases 39c z : The 39c price is for the pair. Made of heavy muslin, full size, 45x36 in. Stamped for solid and eyelet embroidery. 29c for 50c shoe bags—cretonnes and denims. Ready finished. Pret tily tinted. 39c for 50c and 75c laundry bags— embroidered and tinted on white and cream linen and colored den ims. (Main Floor, Center) 2- I ■p $2 Hand Bags &1 JQ $1.50 and $2 all-*P * • * ^ leather hand bags,leather lined, black and colors. IBsa Girls’ 75c to $1 E Dresses at 49c • S Charming white dresses in . 2 this summer's smart styles. Fine madras and fliixon in neat strli>es, ‘ m checks and plaids. All white. Low £ neck, short and three-quarter sleeves. Ages 2 to 6. Women’s 10c Vests Jersey ribbed full bleach ed vests with wiug sleeves. 3’aped and crochet trimmed. 4, 5 and 6. 5c Sizes 25c Knit Pants Children’s pants, gauze "1 On knit, perfectly made. Uni- ^ brella style, lace trimmed. Sizes 2 to 8 years. 59c Boudoir clippers A fresh supply. All de sirable colors and sizes. Genu-1 ine 75c values for 59c. I One-Strap Kid House Slippers $1,191 Low, comfortable rubber heels. All sizes now in stock. Pure leather throughout. $1.50 values. White Canvas PUMPS $1-95 A splendid $3 value. Has welt sole and leather heels. A good showing of sizes and widths. Some turn soles and covered heels in the lot. 6 Rolls of Toilet Paper 25c 1 The value means nothing to you unless you see the pa- ] per. It is the same quality which usually retails in many \ stores at 3 rolls for 25c. Full 1,000 sheets to roll; soft, ab- ! sorbent. SILK TISSUE quality. (On Sale Only in Rich's Economy Basement) , rwmwim’MNvm m. rich & bros. co. 89c Middy Blouses Balkan Middy Blouses fiCT — in all white or white with red or blue collars and cuffs. Sizes for girls 10, 12. 14 and 16.