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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, HA.,
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013..
estate man whose wife has been away
some time was recently tempted by
his brother—a guy yountf fellow with
no strings tied to him”—to go on
a Sunday night Joy ride.
After due consideration—or before,
I really can't say which—the married
man Joined his brother and two
charming young girls who were will
ing to go, and the party set out at a
merry clip. Sad to relate, the auto
mobile decided to go wrong after a
while and proceeded to "turn turtle.'
spilling out all four of the occupants
and imparting sundry injuries to th«
quartet.
The worst of It Is that the married
man of the party has probably not
yet heard the last of the affair, al
though he has almost recovered from
his Injuries. If what I hear Is true, his
wife, sojourning at a resort not so
very far away, heard about the auto
mobile episode and Is now preparing
to make things interesting. In the
meantime he has left the city and no
one knows where he has gone to hide
his sorrow. And all on account of an
innocent little Joy ride, too.
standpoint, and though I don’t mean
to say I doubt their word, I doubt
seriously If I would ever see a sneak
er If they were not in style.
I was quite amused at a staid old
bachelor telling a friend the other
day that he always imagined women
had small feet "until they commenced
wearing those sneakers.” Alas for
another illusion dispelled.
e • *
T HE Habersham Chapter, Daugh
ters of the Revolution, has
sponsored some very delightful
affairs this year, and, of course, they
were successful. The Habersham
Chapter numbers many prominent
women of the social tvorld on its
rolls who are all actively interested
In the work and progress of their
chapter.
I am sure everybody will be de
lighted to know that another enter
prise which will amuse and interest
the public is to be offered under the
sponsorship of this chapter. This
will be the presentation of a moving
picture drama of "Hiawatha,” acted
->v real Indians, in the far West. All
of you who saw the play acted here
two years ago will recall its charm,
and the pictured play will be even
more entertaining because of the
background of picturesque scenery In
the far West and the absolutely real
environment of the red men.
I can not tell you Just yet as to the
exact date and place of this show
under the auspices of the Habersham
Chapter, but will let you know as
soon as these things are settled. Mrs.
William Lawson Peel and other
prominent members of the chapter
vouch for the certainty of Its ap
pearance in the near future.
* • •
I HAVE in mind a promising young
Atlanta attorney, who would not
at all .be surprised some day to
hear himself addressed "Mr. Presi
dent." But now he is thought of,
and sometimes called, by intimate
friends "the red-necked beauty."
He received this name in a Virgil
class one day by coming forth with a
ludicrous description of Venus, trans
lating the Latin "as to the red
necked beauty."
Wouldn’t you think that the limit
in the discriminating taste of man?
But here comes a musical break as
bad, if not worse.
They are perhaps back In Atlanta
now, but a few weeks ago were ot
Wrightsville, in hearing distance of a
Sunday concert, where • few sacred
melodies were interspersed with pop
ular airs. The girl sat rapt in the
solemn, soul-lnsplrlnig tones of
"Adeste Fideles,” when her medita
tions were rudely broken by her es
cort exclaiming:
"My. but that’s a tine rag!"
“Yes, almost as good as Snookle
Ookums,” she said, in apparent dis
gust.
• • •
T HE town is full of "summer wid
owers” Just now, so ’tis not
surprising that some of them
get into trouble. A prominent real
FASHION
TALK
This is one of the
late "Paquin” Fall
models, made in black
chiffon oeloet; collar,
cuffs and vest made of
while brocade moire,
trimmed in "Seal;” skirt
draped in the latest style
givinga "tunic” effect.
This is only one of a
number of models of
the most exclusive Paris
ian styles shown in
the parlors of J. S.
Field. Models on dis
play can be bought or
copied at a very popu
lar price. Your Fall
and Winter orders solic
ited.
J. S. FIELD
34 1-2 Whitehall
pjnnHc I Mary All(?ood Jones, on left, and Mrs. Lnster Crane, whose strik-
I ICI IUj WIlvJ LVJVJrX /-\llr\C j ng resemblance U a matter of comment among their acquaintances.
Miss Jones is to be a debutante this season, and Mrs. Crane is a young matron who was formerly a Virginia girl, and has lived
hore two years. The two are not related, but are warm friends. (Photo by Ilirshburg & Phillips.)
King. of Augusta, who have a sum
mer home In that place. The day be
fore the marriage. 1 believe, Sophie
and her two younger sisters. Jane and
Caroline, went back to Toxaway, and
young: Coy put In an appearance.
The two motored over to Asheville—
presumably to a party.
They went instead to r Trinity
Church, and the knot was tied, thus
consummating: a romance* begun, I
understand, three years ago when
young Coy was on a tour as banjoist
with the Yale Glee Club.
Well. I am sure the young couple
have the best wishes of all w'ho know
them. They are both ideally good to
look at. both young and happy, and,
l am told, both deeply in love. What
better could one desire for anybody?
• • •
HAVE a David Harum story for
you. The modern David Harum
—at least the one who figure*
in my story—Is a noted Virginian
who rears blooded horses, and whose
stock farm is one of the wonders
oV the State. A short time ago he
sold a horse to an Atlanta man, prom
inent in society and Identified with
the contingent which rides and love*
horseflesh.
Inde^, I may *ay that he Is ac
counted or accounts himself, ac
cording to your preference—the real
authority of flne horses among At
lanta’s sporting set. Well, he bought
a horse from this wily Yirgmian, and
brought hi* purchase hack to Atlan
ta with loud praises and great claims
as to the many fine qualities of his
new purchase.
A hunter of the beat type he said
his horse was. and a Jumper of ex
traordinary ability. He loaned the
horse to two or three of the young
women who ride to try him out. They
failed to be really enthusiastic over
the horse some way, and the man
decided that he wouldn’t lend his fine
hunter and Jumper again to unappre
ciative young women.
I^ast week one of the ladies who
had tried the horse and, in her Judg
ment, found him wanting, chanced
to meet a Virginia friend at Tox-
nway, who is Interested In horses.
She told him of the new horse which
was to put the noses of all the flne
horses In Atlanta out of Joint, and
the man laughed hilariously. “Why,
hasn’t he found out that horse yet?”
he finally managed to ejaculate.
(Why is it the sorrows of otners is
so often funny to us?) And then
he told her that everybody in Vir
ginia was laughing over the way that
old horse was sold for $600 to the
Atlantan.
“That fellow' in Virginia used him
as a leader to train young colts,” said
the man. “And he never In the world
will he anything better than an in
structor for the young!”
Now' everybody in Atlanta Is won
dering when the owner of the horse
Is going to wake up to the situation.
• * *
M OBILE girls have Inaugurated
a unique anniversary, which,
I venture to assert, will not
become universally popular. It is the
celebration of their twenty-third
birthday with special observances to
which they invite their friends—
those who can not keep a secret.
And fearlessly and frankly they
avow their age, and upon the lunch
eon table they place a cake with 23
small candles, so that he who runs
may read. The reason of this ob
servance I do not know'.
When I told an Atlanta girl about
the ,, 28” birthday parties, she said:
“Well, I am not going to get married
till I am 23, and I don’t intend to
be 28 till I- get married!” So I guess
that in some such idea lies the reason
for the new anniversary parties
adopted by Mobile debutantes of sev
eral seasons ago.
However. I do not believe the move
ment will become a fad in Mobile or
elsewhere. Women must keep one
secret in life. All of which reminds
me of a little story I heard the other
day efneerning a popular unmarried
woman who Is not bo young in years,
but who belongs to the independent
bachelor girl contingent which counts
its uge by deeds, not years. That
sh© still retains the womanly failing
of concealing the number of these
years, however, Is evinced by the In
cident.
A married woman who Is altogether
charming and lovely, but whose son,
a manly youth now' sporting his first
mustache, avows her age anyway, re
marked that the bachelor maid had
been a bridesmaid at her wedding.
LRter a mutual friend in conversa
tion with the unmarried woman hap
pened to remark, “Oh, I hear you
and A— have been friends for many
years; she tells me you were an at
tendant at her wedding.”
“Yes.” replied the clever bachelor
girl, “I was her flower girl, and well
do I remember how awfully scared I
was as I tripped down the aisle with
my little basket of rose-leaves.”
• • •
I HAPPENED to be in one of our
tearooms a few days ago enjoying
j a midday lunch, or at least I en
joyed It until I chanced to overhear
! a conversation at the next table,
i Three girls were discussing the
shortcomings of some absent one. It
seemed they had another friend, also
absent, who must be something of a
goaslp. For one of them said, “Don’
tell her; she’s a regular Polly.”
Did they mean Poll Parrot or Polly
Peachtree? I have been wondering
ever since If “Polly” for gossip has
been revived, or if someone was dar
ing to use my name in such & way.
* • *
S OON a repertoire of fancy dances
originated by Atlanta’s young
folks may be used at the balls
of the season. Still another new
dance has been originated here. I
believe I’ve already told you of three
or four. This latest is called “The
Walker,” not that there are any
walking steps in it, but it is named
for the originator, Marshall Walker.
At a dance given recently by Misses
Mabel and Helen Atkisson the new-
special dance was introduced by tw-o
graceful dancers. Miss Lyndall Had-
dan and Marshall Walker. Now all
the members of that merry set are
practicing “The Walker.”
• • «
I T SEEMS as if the fall of fairy
footsteps is destined to become a
thing of the past; that is, if girls
do not lay aside those horrid, though
comfortable sneakers, for it’s a fact
that a girl can not walk around all
day In yard-wide, flat-footed sneak
ers, and In the evening Incase that
same foot in a seven-inch slipper.
It’s one of those things that can’t be
done. I ought to know, because I’ve
tried.
Many of my friends inform me that
they wear sneakers from a hygienic
AN IDEAL TRIP FOR
SEPTEMBER.
The Warm Springs Ho
tel will remain open until
September 15, and those
who are acquainted' with
this famous watering place
will find it ready and
anxious to serve them with
the best the country affords,
j This is just the season to en
joy the baths and the beau-
1 tiful country, surroundings,
Continued from Psge 1.
one of Atlanta’s well-known young
men, I have heard a pretty talc. They
aay that a summer shower was the
cause of it all. Inman Gray, long
noted among the younger men for his
lack of interest In girls and their so
ciety’, was deemed an arch enemy of (
Cupid. It was thought that he was
destined to be an “old bachelor,” but j
they reckoned without the summer j
shower—you know' Nature works in a
mysterious way her wonders to per-
form! , _
One afternoon Miss Meek and Joo
Brown Oonnally (who If quito a flll-
f.rrnt kind of bachelor—one of tho»o
who thinks so much of all of them
he can not choose one) chanced to
be passing "Clreyatone" Just as a
heavy downpour of rain came on.
They sought refuge In the home or
young (Irav, who was. of course. In
troduced to Miss Meek—and Instant
ly fell a victim to Cupid, who had
only been biding his time, you see.
• • •
CHANCED to see in the showcase
of a leading Jeweler of the city
a few days ago a handsome piece
of unique Jewelry very- similar, it ap
peared to me, to a costly trinket worn
recently by one of Atlanta’s leading
hostesses at a beautiful affair which
she gave. __
“Why, that Is exactly like Mrs.
j.—'s jewel,” I exclaimed. “I didn’t
know anyone else In Atlanta had any
thing like It.”
“Top.” replied the clerk smiling, It
is Mrs. J—’s.”
"Why, what do yon mean, ha* she
•old It to you?”
“Oh, no; she never did buy It, only
borrowed It for the ball.”
And then he told me that often the
establishment was called upon by well
known people for the loan of a tiara,
bracelet, neckluce or other piece of
Jewelry of great value and beauty,
end that they gladly accommodated
those whom they could trust It *vfts
news to me, for while T have heard
of women having hats ser.t out, wear
ing them and then returning them, I
had never before heard of Jewel loans.
• • •
S PEAKING of engagements and ru
mors of engagements, I heard
from a former Atlanta girl who
now' lives in Baltimore that a certain
excitement was created in society' cir
cles there recently by rumors of the
engagement of Esther Cleveland,
known as the “Baby of the White
House,” to one or two Baltimore men
who are chums and members of the
senior class at Princeton.
The rumors mentioned tw'o men, at
any rate, though, I suppose, rumor
intended that one or the other was the
happy man They are Herman Stump,
son of Judge and Mrs. Arthur Stump,
and J. Gordon Ewing, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William J. Ewing. The mother
of young Ewing is quoted on saying
that so far she had heard of no en-
giigement, though she knew that both
her son and his frtend, Mr. Stump,
were very fond of Miss Cleveland.
“I shall see Gordon this w-eek,” she
added, "and shall know more about
these rumors. If he is thinking of
marrying, 1 should like to spank him,
for he’s my only boy.”
Some time ago Princeton had Miss
Esther engaged to Randolph West,
another student.
Perhaps Miss Esther Is by way of
becoming a "college widow,” or is Just
testing the power of her charms on
“the boys” preparatory' to another gay
winter in Washington.
* • •
A T a etag affair given by one of
the w'ell-known young men of
the city at the home of his par
ents on Peachtree last week, the com
pany was vastly entertained by a Joke
on one of their number. Now, to set
your minds at rest, I will say that I
did not attend the stag affair, but 1
heard about this Joke, just the same.
The young fellow on whom the joke
lay heavily has an older brother, who
resembles him very much. The two
are an unlike in taste and disposition
as they are physically alike, and sev
eral times the younger brother has
borne the brunt of some blame which
belonged on the elder.
But when he was called upon to
answer for flirting with the maid who
looked after the younger sisters and
brothers of the girl he loves, the limit
was reached. It seeems that the elder
brother met the pretty maid down
town one day and asked to call. She
gave him an address* and it so hap
pened tha* the girl was employed at
the home where his younger brother
was to call on the daughter of the
house.
The man who waa calling on the
maid got there first, was met at the
door by the girl’s mother, addressed
by name to which he responded, al
though in wonderment at the famil
iarity, and escorted Into the sitting
room, whereupon he inquired for Mlae
So-and-Po—naming the maid.
You can readily xe*> the complica
tions which set in at that minute, and
can understand what happened when
th*- younger brother arrived a few
minutes after the elder had departed
suddenly and without explanation. 1
hear he was ordered out of the house
before he had time to think, and,
Judging by the lady’s manner In Issu
ing the orders, he felt that while
“someone had blundered.” it was “no:
his to make repjy, not his to reaoon
^hv.” All the same, it was hard on
the younger brother
• • •
S YOUNG fellow used his return
ticket from Tallulah sooner than
he had expected when he pur
chased It the other day. He didn't
run away, but Just decided to decamp
ao that the rest of the company would
have to find sonuYne else to “pick
on" when they wanteu to laugh
The reason? Well, he and one of
the girls of a camping party—one of
the very pretty girls of Atlanta's col
lege set—went to one of the hotels
for dinner one day—a harmless pro
ceeding of course, and done before
and often by others of the party with
impunity.
However, this young man thought
it uould be a good joke to register as
'Mr. Blank and wife,” which he did.
As things turned out, it was a good
joke, but not for Urn. The girl’s fa
ther was at the hotel that day, und
had ascertained that she, was coming
in for dinner with this particular boy.
Looking over the register for his
daughter's nan\e, the horrified parent
espied the name or her escort, "and
wife.” He would take no apology for
the Joke and made such a rumpus tha
rest of the campers hard of it. And
thereafter life wat worthless to the
hapless young fellow, so he took the
train for horns, two days later. And
now the story has followed him.
• • •
S AVANNAH folks say they knew
that pretty Sophie Meldrim had
been engaged to "Ted” Coy,
with whom she eloped last week, for
some time, and I’ve heard, since the
marriage, that a number of Atlanta
young women who have been at Tox
away this summer with the bride,
were aware of the seriousness of the
romance between this noted Georgia
beauty and the famous Yale football
star.
But I must confess that I (and I
can safely say lots of other people
in Atlanta) was confidently looking
forward to the announcement of the
young woman's engagement to an
other man entirely. In fact, the ru
mors that have attached names of
wealthy and prominent men with that
of Sophie Meldrim have been be
wildering In their number.
Since her debut, a few years ago.
this charming woman has been one
of the most widely known and ad
mired of all the Georgia belles and
beauties. She holds the reputation in
this day of having had more offers of
marriage than any other young wom
an of the State; an honor held sev
eral years back, strange to say. by
another Savannah girl, who became
the bride of Clark How’ell, of At
lanta. after her few years of bril
liant belledom as Miss Comer.
The heroine of last week's roman
tic marriage waa much admired in
Washington last season, where she
spent some time under the chaperon-
age of Mrs. John Hayes Hammond
In New York also the former Miss
Meldrim was much admired, and
many people thought for a while that
the rumor of her engagement to a
noted and wealthy publisher of that
city was correct. Then we were sure
that she was coming to Atlanta as
the bride of one of our wealthiest
young bachelors—but. alas, our hopes
were doomed to disappointment.
And who shall say how many more
and perhaps fonder hopes were blast
ed when the news went around last
week that “Ted’’ Coy had won the
prettiest girl in Georgia fof his bride.
For ten days preoeeding her mar
riage. Mrs. Coy had been a visitor in
Western North Carolina, and was in
Asheville as a guest at the house
party of Mr. and Mrs. Fendleton
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