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MAIN SHEET-Part II.
ALL THE LATEST NEWS.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913.
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V ERY interesting Indeed la the
news that the beautiful Duchess
of Roxburghe ia the mother of
an eugenic heir. The Duchess has
many relatives scattered over the
United States. She was Mary Goe-
let, of New York, and took a $15,-
000,000 fortune to her husband, who
was by no means poor himself. Still,
the more money an English Duke
has the more he needs. For Dukes
are prodigal indeed. It was this
thought perhaps that passed through
the brain of King Edward when he
heard of the engagement.
“Good for Roxburghe!” the King
was quoted as saving. “We need the
money!”
The Duchess Is very generous to | 7 V
her relatives and friends. She is ^
compelled to keep an enormous ward
robe. Her gowns are all made in
Paris. She can not wear them more
than once or twice—particularly
evening dresses—and then they are
expressed away to those whom she
loves and remembers, to be worn at
swell functions in other cities.
this tour he will seek a peaceful
meeting in New York upon its termi
nation. He is too happy to worry
over anything while he is oik his
honeymoon tour.
The young couple say they would
have invited the Meldrims to their
hasty wedding ceremony had they not
known it would be impossible for
them to get from Montreal to Ashe
ville In time for that event.
General Meldriin was at the inter
national bar meeting, giving ex-Pres
ident Taft a close run for the presi
dency of the association at the time
his daughter married “Ted” Coy in
Asheville.
I HEAR that a certain distinguished-
professional man, a bachelor, has
been gathering together some
very nifty articles for personal adorn
ment I shall not mention his
name. Neither shall I tell whether
It was Chicago, New York, London
or Paris where the purchases were
made. But you will know him by his
$12 shirts and his handkerchiefs em
broidered In Bulgarian colors that
cost $5 each or $60 a dozen.
• • •
She used to walk with manly stride
As down the street she went.
A jaunty swagger was her gait,
Her air showed full content.
•With graceful ease, she swung along,
Each step unhampered, free,
And in her youthful health she was
A pleasant sight to see.
But now all that is changed, for she
Is bound in Fashion's thrall.
Bo tight her narrow skirt she now
Can scarcely walk at aU.
The men observe her mincing steps
And chuckle in their glee,
And when she steps upon a car,
Oh, myl what things they see!
\ /OU know, it’s really funny, when
' you reflect upon It—this furore
created by every new fashion
launched for women. The first thing
we know, these staid old United
States will be taking as much inter
est in women’s styles as Paris Itself.
I never before heard of men being
as deeply concerned In fashions as
they have been of late. And the wise
ones should know that Interest and
criticism, either favorable or the op
posite, will encourage women in their
pursuit of fashion and will serve to
increase the natural instinctive inter
est all women have for this fascinat
ing subject.
It’s all very curious—this wide
spread crusade for and against the
styles. Why shouldn't women wear a
diamond anklet as they wear brace
lets? And why should a slit skirt
attract more critcism than a decol
lete gown? There is no reason ex
cept that one is new and the other
is made common by custom.
By the way, I note that the New
York women of fashion aie taking up
the anklet with avidity. I read that
at a fashionable Newport affair of
last week a charming guest wore a
black lace gown with a discreet slit,
through which a magnificent diamond
anklet showed to good effect.
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I - RIENDS of “Ted" Coy and his
bride, who was beautiful Sonhie
Meldrim, of Savannah, have as
sured me that “the Meldrims would
never forgive Sophie.” I do not be
lieve that the parents of this charm
ing Georgia girl will withhold their
forgiveness for her marrying the man
of her choice.
It may be that the haste with
which the ceremony was performed
wag a source of regret to them, and
probably was, but parents are apt to
forgive thoughtlessness on the part
of their children sooner or later. I
understand that young Coy. when he
heard a rumor that General Peter
ileldrim was searching for his daugh-
* wjred their whereabouts and is
nnfidently awaiting a loving mes-
BS6 '. young couple have been spend-
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The
n z their
and are now on
honeymoon
s big car through the
NOVEL experience enlivened
Mrs. J. E. C. Pedder’s Western
tour this summer. Having a
brother who owns an extensive ranch
In New Mexico, near Silver City, Mrs.
Pedder was given opportunity to at
tend a cowboy dance one evening.
Her husband, -who was traveling with
her, gave permission for the “Mrs.” to
be dropped for that one evening, so
this charming Atlanta woman was
Introduced to the “boys” as Miss Ped
der.
Petite and girlish looking, and a
dancer of rare grace, “Miss Pedder”
was the belle of the ball that even
ing, and no cowboy failed to try to
get at least one dance with the “girl
from Georgia,”
Mrs. Pedder has just returned from
her stay in the West. The first part
of the trip made by Mr. and Mrs. Ped
der was broken by a camping party
in Southern California, where they
were guests of Mr. Pedder’s brother
and his wife. They traveled leisurely
in their cars, pitching their tents
wherever fancy dictated and staying
as long as they liked. I have heard
of no summer’s experience that I en
vy more than this trip, which was full
of pleasant and unusual experiences.
In New Mexico, Mrs. Pedder tells
me, the motor car followed the old
Santa Fe trail, where the caravans of
the “Forty-niners” passed on their
way to the gold fields. Every step of
the way was full of interesting asso
ciations.
Last year, I recall, the Pedders had
an unusually interesting foreign tour.
They are not content to make their
travels along the beaten paths, but
each summer contrive some novel
journey, and as they have kinspeople
in many parts of the world, and
friends as well, there is always some
one to give the glad hand of welcome
wherever they happen to go. *
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HAVE heard that the young fellow
who caused pretty Viola John
ston to break her engagement to
young William Felton—an act that
set a-flutter all the good people of
Macon—Is a member of Baltimore’s
exclusive and wealthy set of young
bachelors. He was at Toxaway this
summer, where Miss Johnston was a
belle, and was so deeply smitten and
urged his suit so well that the young
woman decided not to marry just yet
—at least until she had a little while
longer to think it over.
While, of course, I regret the shat
tering of any romarce, I think it is
wise for a girl to have a few years in
which to enjoy her young woman
hood before she marries and settles
down. (Query: Do the young mar
ried couples settle down nowadays?)
Viola and William Felton hava
lived near each other all their lives
on beautiful College street in Macon.
Their mothers and fathers are warn
friends, and the romance between the
two, which began many years ag»,
met with their approval.
Both are wealthy, good-looking and
popular—and it is not to be expected
in this contrary world that such in
ideal match would really come off.
Now young Felton has gone abroad,
alone instead of with his bride, as he
had intended. I hear that a young
couple to be married soon—an At
lanta girl and a wealthy young man
from the East—were to have met the
Macon couple in Nice, and the four
were to have toured Southern France
as a party.
Well, “of all sad . words,’’ etc.
But maybe we will hear of another
engagement, after a while—and may-
l*e of two—for there are lots of pretty
girls where young William Felton is
going, and his youth and good looks
and wealth will surely attract some
of these.
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I PREDICT that events in Washing
ton will take on a much livelier
and more interesting aspect from
now on. Miss Genevieve Clark re
turned yesterday from a tour of sev-
months abroad. I have heard
that Miss Clark was a genuine sen
sation abroad—“a different kind of
American girl,” she was called by
European society, which had hereto
fore only known American girls of
social ambitions and nothing more.
Miss Clark, you know, has sociai
charm plus—as my friend Elberi
Hubbard would say. She likes pretty
clothes and wears them well, but she
also likes polltici economy—and
'knows it well. She originates styles
In hair dressing, you will recall, and
her own charming head Is full of
thought and purpose as well as wom
anly vanity. And best of all, she has
a keen sense of huftior.
In her own country this cleve?
young woman has already attracted
particular attention. She is to be a
debutante this coming season, I be
lieve, although, of course, she Is al
ready well known in Washington and
New York society.
By the way, the Georgia folks are
settling in Washington now. Repre
sentative Howard and Mrs. Howard
have taken a house on Ontario road
for the coming season and will move
in next week. Former Representa
tive W. G. Brantley and his family
like Washington so well they have
decided to live there for the present
and are established at the Highlands.
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A YOUNG married woman told me
of an incident of her trip to and
from a seaside resort this sum
mer, which was slight in itself, but
for some reason opened up a train
of reflection on her part. She said
that on the trip to the place she went
alone, as she was to meet her hus
band there, he having come down
from New York as she went up.
The morning after a night in the
Pullman she was rather “under the
weather” from a touch of train sick
ness, and as she was naif sitting,
half lying, with closed eyes, a man
on the train brought a refreshing
drink and asked if she would have it.
Needing it sorely, she accepted, and
they engaged in conversation. She
found him to be a very interesting
and cultured man, a highly success
ful physician of a neighboring city.
When they arrived at their destina
tion—the same resort—they separated
with friendly good-byes. While at
the resort it happened that they did
not meet again, but as she boarded
the train on her return journey the
same man also came aboard.
Naturally, she nodded, and he
promptly took a seat beside her and
asked if she had enjoyed her stay—
or something equally harmless. In
the course of a few’ minutes’ conver
sation she happened to remark tnat
her husband was making the return
trip with her. She did not announce
this fact, you understand, as a fact—
it simply came around in casual con
versation. The man immediately left
her—and did not look in her direction
again.
The more she thought of it the
more she was puzzled over his view
point of the meeting. She put the
question to me as to whether there
was any harm in the way she acted,
and I didn’t see any, but it appeared
that the man did—or at least, sup
posed that there was a probability
that the husband \0ould.
The story only goes to prove, to
my way of thinking—that it is the
thought or purpose which underlies
any act that makes it harmless or
harmful. Certainly on this woman’s
part there was only a natural friend
liness which made her actions harm
less. I shared her uncertainty in re
gard to his m^ives.
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HAVE come across another story
of hotel signatures which caused
trouble since I told you of the
Tallulah incident last week. This
other event occurred in Asheville. A
young Atlantan and a belle of this
city, going over to Mountain Mead
ows Inn for. afternoon tea, were asked
by the hotel clerk to give their sig
natures, and the man, in thoughtless
mischief, inscribed his own name
with the “and wife” in addition.
The next day the Asheville papers
published the list of guests at Moun
tain Meadows Inn, including, of
course, the name of the young fel
low “and wife” among the guests.
Consternation reigned among the
young people of the particular hotel
at which he had been “posing” as a
single man for two weeks. And he
had a hard time explaining the affair.
The moral of these stories is plain:
Never pretend you have a wife—at
least, when you are in a small town.
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HAVE been wondering if the col
lege boys in this part of the
country are going to take up the
college auto robe fad.
While the Tech colors are almost
too dainty, Georgia and Mercer colors
would make up into beauties, and
their insignias are pretty, too.
Of course, even if this Joes become
a fad, the boys can’t be so generous
with these valuable robes as their
pennants. But the possession of-one
become.s all; the more desirable for
that reason
Blind Postman’s
Girl to Ride With Him
Miss Jessie Wilson Sees That Post-
office Department Rule Is
Lifted for Her.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 —The lit
tle blind daughter of Mail Carrier
Sherry at Mandale, Ohio, may ride
with her father over hia rural free de
livery route, although a postoffice
regulation expressly forbids it, be
cause Miss Jessie Wilson, the Presi
dent’s second daughter, interceded for
the child, and got Postmaster General
Burleson to issue a special permit.
Jessie Columbia, 13 years old, of
Cleveland, spent her vacation this
year with her grandfather, the post
master at Mandale, and saw the blind
girl’s plight. She wrote Miss Wilson
of how little Miss Sherry longed to
ride on her father’s mail cart, and an
appeal to the Postmaster General was
followed to-day by an order waiving
in this case the regulation which for
bids that anyone but a carrier shall
ride on a mall wagon.
Society Revelers
Climb Into Windows
Only Way Ardent ’Trotters’ Could
Get Into Club to Finish
Dance.
Special Cable to The American.
BAR HARBOR. MAINE, Sept. 13.—
The liveliest whirl that thp smart
contingent has indulged in for years
took place following a subscription
ball at the Malvern—when the turkey
trotters still wanted to trot.
When the time came for turning
out the lights in the Malvern ballroom
—and Proprietor Brob insisted the
rule must be obeyed—Edgar Scott In
vited the whole bunch over to his
“trottery.” the Swimming Club.
The revelers had to climb in the
windows, but they got in, the ladies
being judiciously aided by the men in
negotiating the high places.
After dancing, with gay music, un
til dawn, the crowd wound up at one
of the cottages for a badly needed
rest.
Girls' Tomato Club 1
Attracts Eye of U. S.
Western Farm Lassies Compete
With Each Other in feetting
.Up Cheapest Meals.
CLEVELAND, Sep? 13.—The To-
mato Club, founded by Mrs. J. K.
Turner among a group of farm girls
in Geauga County, and the recent at
tack on the high cost of living on the
farm, also led by Mrs. Turner, have
attracted the attention of the United
States Government.
Miss Ilena May Bailey, of the farm
management office of the Department
of Agriculture, Is at the Turner farm,
near Chardon, to investigate the work
being done. Miss Bailey is interested
particularly in the contest among
farm women to prepare the best and
most economical meals in the farm
house for the month of August.
Police Get Burglar
Pausing to “Primp"
Robber Is Donning Stolen Raiment
When Neighbors Notice Him
and Give Alarm
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Stopping
for half an hour to “primp” before a
mirror and adorn himself In raiment
he was preparing to steal caused the
undoing of Thomas Kennedy, arrest
ed on a charge of burglary In a home
in the fashionable South Side resi
dence district after a revolver battle
with three policemen.
Kennedy forgot to pull down the
blinds. Neighbors called the police.
Several hundred dpllars’ worth of
jewelry had been collected in a bun
dle by the intruder.
Boy Twice Struck
By Lightning Bolt
Knocked From Wagon, He Recovers
and Goes Home, To Be Hit
Again on Doorstep.
PORTERVn.LE, Sept. 13—Royal
Danner, aged 15, after being knocked
unconscious from a delivery wagon
by a bolt of lightning yesterday, re
covered sufficiently to reach his home,
but as he started up the front porch
steps he was felled by a second bolt.
He quickly recovered, however, ana
is little the worse to-day for the dou
ble shock.
USES CORSETS AS WEAPONS
IN FIGHT WITH CONDUCTOR
CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Mary Newas-
ki, who was arrested Friday evening
for hitting a street car conductor with
a package of corsets, was lined $50
and costs by Judge Mahoney yester
day. She asked for a jury trial on a
charge of larceny, which is also pre
ferred against her. She is charged
with having stolen the corsets which
were her weapon.
Newport Belle Again Dodges Cupid
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Father Denies Troth Fourth Time
Young Belmont Latest Victim
Miss Margaret Andrews, beautiful daughter of Paul A.
Andrews and most-reported-to-be-engaged girl in America.
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Most-lieported-To-Be-Engaged Girl in
States Still Reigns Supreme.
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NEWPORT, Sept. 13—For the
fourth time Paul A. Andrews, pos
sessor of millions and a surpassingly
attractive daughter, has wearily
penned a note to the public. It is
the same note every time with but
the only difference that each bears
the name of a different young man
coupled with that of beautiful Mar
garet Andrews, the surpassingly at
tractive daughter hitherto mentioned.
This last note was a denial that
Miss Andrews was engaged to Mor
gan Balmont, son of August Belmont.
One before that had its mission in
telling the world that Miss Andrews
was not engaged to Harold Vanderbilt.
Before that it was Herman Oelrichs.
And the first one was Vincent Astor.
And Miss Margaret is but 19. and
her second year out. She is the most-
reported-to-be-engaged girl in the
Newport set. Rumor has coupled her
name so often and so sincerely with
one youth after another of the gilded
set that it would seem Rumor would
lose its reputation for veracity. For
each time the gossip has fallen flat,
under the emphatic little card from
Father Andrews.
Young Belmont Attentive.
This last time all Newport thought
the pursuit of beautiful Margaret An
drews over. Morgan Belmont was
most assiduous in his attentions. The
things he told Miss Andrews and the
manner in w’hich he told them didn’t
seem to make her a bit angry- They
were together much of the time. And
so, in Society's mind, it was all set
tled. Until came the note from Mr.
Andrews.
The affair has nerved merely to in
crease the score of Miss Andrews as
the most-reported-to-be-engaged girl
for her years. She is just 19, and
they say her head is not turned a bit.
And she is well worth while in other
ways, being beautiful, nlender, lively
and a daring motorist, rider, swim
mer, tennis player and all that.
From the moment she first entered
the gayety of the younger set she has
been courted. Several years ago,
when she was very young, indeed,
and before she had made her debut,
Vincent Astor noticed her. He was
then a freshman at Harvard, and
morning, noon and night found him
at the sdde of the dainty girl. But she
was very young then, and Society’s
gossip of their engagement did not
bear much conviction.
Herman Oelrichs Ardent.
Vincent Astor, the suitor, was some
what distant, somewhat superior,
somewhat open in his attitude of be
ing the richest youth. Miss Andrews’
next suitor, however, was as ardent
as could be desired. He was Herman
Oelrichs, not quite as rich as Vincent
Astor, but wealthy enough at that.
Then it v was Harold Vanderbilt, who
courted in a warm, orthodox fashion
himself.
But of them all, Morgan Belmont
was the most attentive, the most
tireless, the most devoted. And So
ciety believes that is the reason Fa
ther Andrews’ note of denial bore so
emphatic an4 conclusive a tone. He
probably was perturbed a bit himself.
• Miss Andrews, the object of all this
go?wip, is with It all the most popular
girl in Newport. She is ne^er bored,
never listless, never indifferent. In so
far as that goes, she is different.
Therefore, she has more than her
share of attention, and no girl who
gets attention can hope to escape the
gossip. Hence the reports, and hence
the weary job of Father Andrews in
penning his notes to the public.
BUMPER CROP FORETELL
PROSPERITY 111 GEORGIA
Fine Yield of Corn, Oats and Hay,
With Top Prices for Staple’s By-
Products, Is Expected to Give the
State Its Banner Year.
FEELING OF OPTIMISM IS
EVIDENT IN ALL BUSINESS
Strict Economy Practiced by Farmers
Makes Margin of Profit Tremen
dous-Bankers Are Jubilant, While
Merchants Predict Great Season.
Ey M. A. ROSE.
Georgia, the whole Southeast, and Atlanta—because It is th«
commercial and financial center of the Southeast—will enter upon
one of the most prosperous eras any section of the nation ever has
enjoyed when the cotton crop is moving in earnest this fall—by
October 1 at the latest.
In 1911, all seasons put their heads together in kindly con
spiracy, and Georgia grew 2 ; 768,627 bales of cottton, the greatest
crop the historic State ever knew. It is the fashion to quote 1911
as the most wonderful year the State could expect. Unmistakable
signs show 1913 will overtop 1911.
Here is the proof:
In 1911 Georgia grew, or let us say gathered—for it grew
thousands of bales which never were ginned or even picked—
2,768,627 bales of cotton. But the whole South grew 15,622,701
bales, excluding linters. Prices were correspondingly low. Georgia
got about $124,500,000 for its 1911 crop.
Almost ready for the gins to-day are 2,250,000 bales. Indica
tions are that this crop will bring Georgia $155,500,000, for 14-
cent middling cotton is a probability, not a possibility.
Of this $155,000,000 a much greater proportion will be profit
than accrued from the banner crop. Pour reasons are apparent:
This is a yield produced at less cost than any previous crop ; drouth
in the West will make the total yield short of the world’s actual
needs, particularly as the left-over supply Is abnormally small;
Georgia will spend less for corn, hay and oats than ever before,
having record-breaking crops of all three food-stuffs; the shortage
of corn, hay and oats will mean good prices for that most impor
tant by-product of cottton, cotton seed.
SHORT CORN CROP INEVITABLE.
Consider the last first, because it has been overlooked gen
erally.
Drouth in Kansas and the other great agricultural States of
the West and Southwest makes a short crop of com inevitable.
Corn is selling at an abnormally high price—around 77 cents at
Chicago and St. Louis for the actual stuff.
Seventy-seven cent corn means high beef and pork. It’s pret
ty expensive to fatten hogs or cattle for market on that sort of
diet. High pork spells high lard. High lard means greater de
mand for cotton seed oil products, so much so that the cotton seed
oil speculator watches the lard market as closely as he does the
oil quotations. Expensive feed, too, means a shortage of cattle for
slaughter and a shortage of blood and hone fertilizer, the packers’
by-product, which is just where cotton seed meal fertilizers may
reap a harvest. Expensive corn, again, insures greater demand
lor cotton seed hulls as cattle feed.
No one wants to go on record as saying that cotton seed will
sell at a record price. But it is evident it will not be a drug on
the market. Already cotton seed is selling for $20 a ton and bet
ter in South Georgia.
Crushers say Georgia will send 900,000 tons of seed to oil mills
this fail. At $20 a ton that is $180,000,000. Add that to $155,000,000
for the lint—it makes one dizzy!
Back to the first reason for Georgia's enormous prospective
profits. Everyone recognizes that economy has been the watch
word for the year. The farmer has bought as little as possible at
the store. He has borrowed as little money as possible. He has
cut down his supply of fertilizer. The old harness, the old wagon,
the same old mule, the same overalls, have served another season.
Small expense and good selling pricir/make excellent profits.
LITTLE COTTON IN WEST.
Texas and Oklahoma, experts say, will produce not more than
4,000,000 bales this year, as against 5,278,500 in 1911. Alabama
and Mississippi show severe deterioration through the combined
malevolence of bad weather and inseets. Louisiana never has been
a factor in the cotton world since the boll weevil invaded the Cre
ole State. The Southeast will make, in proportion, the best crop
of all the belt.
All this would be of little avail if the Georgia farmer had to
spend all the money he got for corn, hay and oats to feed his
mules. In past years he has done this, but this year he will not.
Georgia this year produced the largest corn crop in its history.
The hay and oat crops also were good. It would be ruinous to
spend the proceeds even from 14-cent cotton for 77-cent corn. For
tunately, in 1913 Georgia will not.
There is some difference of opinion just now as to the proba-