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Mrs. James T. Williams,
above, is universally
conceded to be one of the
most beautiful young
matrons of the city.
Below, shown on her
favorite horse, is
Miss May Atkinson,
an enthusiastic member
of the hunt club.
The photograph of Mrs.
Williams is by Wesley
Hirschburg and Lewis D.
Phillips; ^
de theatre. Really I am very mush
grieved that the Players’ Club has
begun the parlor plays. They are so
tantalizing. I am almost inclined to
do what I hear is becoming very com
mon in the drawing receptions in
L/ondon—slip in without an invitation
and avoid the hostess altogether
However, I’m always afraid that
someone is going to find me out, any.
way, and I can’t afford to let any*
body catch up with me like that.
tie child shall see Santa Claus this
year and each one will have the
eloper clothes for the oncoming win
ter season, and nearly all this be
cause of our good mothers and mar
ried sisters. I suspect the husbands
think they played a big part in this
when they paid the bills, but that is
what they expect to*do and accept as
their share in this great movement
toward happiness for all. Of course,
the bachelors will be expected to do
something, too, and that is why there
was a dansant after the theater Mon
day; to give them a chance to come
with their girl friends and have a
good time, as w r ell a^3 aiding a splen
did work. Those who didn’t go be
cause it was so cold and who had
said several times that they believed
in contributing^ to such things mailed j
in their checks for nice little sums
(I mean many of them did, or that is
what someone told me.) I guess a
great many more will between now
and Christmas. »
I NHERE should be a decided lull in
the social world for the next
week or two, because of Christ
mas shopping and also because there
nave already been so many weddings
and debut parties this fall that time
.should have passed for such things.
On the other hand, one of the most
charming of t>he "buds,” Laura Lee
will be presented on Tuesday
will give a party in their honor. The
wedding itself will have to be rather
quiet on account of the ill health of
Mrs. Hoke Smith. I understand that
a number of Atlanta friends will go
up for the occasion, while only a very
few Washington people will be pres
ent.
H OW many of you have thought
how readily Atlanta woman
rally to the cause of charity?
Seldom does there come a call that
there are not sufficient replies. Dur
ing the past few weeks when every
one is busy going to weddings, buffet
luncheons,
buying their own Christ
mas gifts and cheering hubby into
enjoying his breakfast, it has been
remarkable that madame has accom
plished so much for the poor, friend
less and incurables.
Atlanta women have lent their
Cooney
when Mr. and Mrs. Cooney have in
vited the married contingent for q,
reception in the afternoon. The danc
ing set will be entertained at 9 o’clock
the same evening. Marina Bell, of
Nashville, comes to-day to be the
guest of Mrs. Inman Gray for this
Vovely occasion. I understand that
the favors were bought in New York
and are quite unique. And never be
fore has there been such unusual
decoration as the Piedmont Club will
present to the eye of the connoisseur.
I have heard just what the idea to be
carried out is, but I can’t tell. If
you want to know you ^ill have to
wait until later in the week; maybe
Tuesday you can find out by reading
what the society editor has to say.
But I am very confident that you
never will guess without being told.
There are to be. several parties for
.Margaret Grant this week. She has
cad so many already; in fact, I think
once made cheerful music in
the old homesteads. How a girl of
to-day would laugh at the idea of
being expected to spend not merely
hours, days, weeks and months, but
possibly years in getting ready to be
married!
Yet the girls of the past spent most
of their time in weaving. It was
their pastime, their "fancy work.”
For years they accumulate pintB
luncheon which Mrs. Jesse Draper
gives at the Piedmont Club.
Katherine Ellis, Jessie McKee and
Anne Akers are to be honor guests
on Wednesday afternoon when Nellie
Kiser Stewart entertains at a recep
tion. Mrs. Willis Westmoreland gives
Katherine and her guest, Dorothy
beautiful bridge party
Vleshire,
Tuesday afternoon.
Doesn’t this sound just exactly as
if the debutantes would not be able to
give useless gifts Christmas on ac-
ount of lack of time and physical en-
They should all be SPUGS!
uranee
( —* ALLIE HOKE SMITH is having
such a good time here that she
says she is unwilling to go to
Washington until after Christmas, in
spite of the fact that Lucy is to be
married the 30th of the month and the
preparations are well under way. I
should think she would want to be
near all the excitement incident to an
and since the
4ffair of this nature,
ime is so short that she would not be
ontent to be away from Lucy at all.
When Lucy was here Callie told me
that after a dance when they had
tucked in bed, they would talk over
matters for hours. While they were
supposed to be getting beauty sleep
:hey were conversing with one an
ther, so much did they have to tell.
You see Callie is a debutante this
winter, and not one of the blase
nothing-new-to-me” kind of girls
ing this extraordinary part in things
so domestic? Why, of course, It is a
young girl that you never would sus
pect, for she is alwavs very busy with
her social duties. When her mother
left for a little trip several weeks ago,
Our Girl made up her mind that she
would overhaul the kitchen and pan
try. The carpenters came; the plas
ter was knocked down and a new gas
range was installed. The thought
suddenly struck her that probably it
would be a good idea to set a mouse
trap or two for the final test of a
sanitary cuisine. Hardly had she left
one to set another little steel con
traption than the first one snapped.
This happened again and again, until
she became so fascinated that she did
rot realize the time was rapidly pass-
irg. She had spent the entire day on
the warpath and when she came to
count she found out she had brought
down twenty of the enemy. She
spends part of each day now' in this
same way, vowing she will not evac
uate until the last foe is exterminated
and by her own hands.
different methods on a ballroom floor
and that was one of the reasons why
I was so struck with the Veazy Rain
waters at the tanga tea last week—I
couldn’t for the life of me decide who
had taught them, and I said so last
Sunday. All week it wmrried me,
and I decided to work out the little
mystery all alone, but a note to me
Thursday morning signed "Admirer”
—thanks—upset my plans. It explain
ed very briefly that no other than
Gene Haynes had been responsible
for the Rainwaters' efficiency in the
tango. Perish the thought that I
don’t know the Gene Haynes style!
I have seen it a thousand times over,
so I guess the thought will have to
perish. I must be getting so old that
my eyesight is failing. The next
thing I know I won’t be able to pick
out the Gene Kelly tango type.
sometimes two. For instance Eula
Jackson and Edward Alsop have been
in love w'ith each other for over a
year, but father and mother consid
ered her too young and have kept her
at home until the bridegroom grew
impatient, thinking that long enough.
Another couple that I might men
tion as having the same objection
raised is Lucy Hoke Smith and En
sign Alston S. Simpson.
Of course, there are many reasons
that delay the girls these days, but
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"Circumstantial Evidence.” Of course,
there is nothing objectionable in any
thing like that, although it is quite
fascinating to the audience to see how
they will get out of the evidence
I WANT to confess that I am a
dense person. All season I have
been watching the different
style of tango and hesitation, and I
was beginning to pride myself on
being'able to tell who taught every
dancer. It was really beginning to be
an obsession with me to pick out the
until the sordid things of life can
be provided so that love will have no
bitterness and domestic needs may be
without pinching and
\ r OU all know well the stbry of the
' Pied Piper of Hamlin. Did you
realize that we have one in our
midst, and who do you think is tak-
supplied
scrimping until all roma
aw’ay. That girl is wise.
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