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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.
HRS. DRAPER HONOR GUEST
AT AFTERNOON RECEPTION
v Jesse Draper, who has been
p . •-■(] a series of parties since her
jv in from her wedding journey, was
1 .nor guest at an afternoon re-
given by Mrs LeRov Childs
afternoon at the Piedmont
ng Club.
naln dining room of the club,
since its enlargement, affords
r a large party, was used for
islon and was by means of a
palms and greenery converted
apartments, the hostess and
r guest receiving in one. while
served in the other.
'hilds. Mrs. Draper, with Mrs.
Adair and Mrs. Clarence
s, received before a bank of
The mantel was banked in
. rns and pink roses. An or-
ra played behind a screen of
greenery.
: rettily appointed tea table had
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for a centerpiece a large Empire bas
ket filled to overflowing with pink
roses, the handle tied with tulle. The
silver candelabra were shaded in pink
and all minor details were in pink
and white.
Mrs. Clarence Haverty, Mrs. Albert
Thornton and Mrs. Frank Adair pre
sided over the tea table, and others
assisting were Miss Mary Helen
Moody, Miss Helen Dargan and Miss
I.eone Ladson.
Punch w’as served from a bowl im
bedded in fruits and wreathed with
cmilax.
Mrs. Childs tvore an afternoon
gown of black velvet, with corsage of
white chiffon and a bouquet of pink
roses and valley lilies. Her close-
fitting hat of black velvet was adorn
ed with plumes.
Mrs. Draper wore blue velvet, with
hat to match, and her flow'ers were
violets and valley lilies.
Mss Mary King Entertains.
.fternoon bridge which Miss
King gave Friday was a de-
<‘ompliment to her sister. Miss
*e King, who is at home from
in Washington, D. C., for the
b..* .1 ys, and to Miss L/OUise de Ver-
. ,.f Bainbrldge, the guest of Mrs
Wiiiiam A. Wimbish, and Miss Bon-
> ,» Christine Barnard, of San Fran-
the guest of Mrs. B. M. Boykin.
Holiday decorations were used
ghout the house, and the prize*
dainty piece .of lingerie fof
i. of the three honor guests, and a
cmilar prize for top score.
Following the game, tea was served
the dining room, where a tall silver
American Beauties formed a
-. tv decoration for the tea table.
Mrs. Lillian King IveConte. Mrs
rge K. King, Mrs: Irving Thomas
i.nd Mrs. William Akers assisted in
entertaining, and the guests were
Misses Mary Hines and her guest,
Hnllie Morton, of Tennessee: Lawson
Hires, Grace LeCraw, Virginia Hoff
man. Jane Walker, Grace Sims, Helen
McCullough, Wyckllffe Wurm, Mary
Murphey, Helen Stewart, Kate Coop-
er. Aline Fielder, Bertha Moore, Jane
Cooper, Alice Parks, Anne Patterson,
Myra Clarke Scott. Lucy Roberts,
Marie Dinkins, Louise Parker, Dolly
Walker, Margaret Moore, Estelle Fort,
Klise Hansell, Dolly Blalock. Mrs,
Ware Holliday, Mrs. Carl Florin New
Baltimore, Mrs. Howard Lyon of
Baltimore, Mrs. William A. Wimbish
and Mrs. B. M. Boykin.
Miss Dargan Entertains.
Miss Helen Dargan was hostess at
a beautiful bridge party Friday after
noon, complimenting Miss Margaret
Grant and Miss Katherine Ellis, two
debutantes. Twenty-four members of
lie debutante set were invited, and
•he game was played In rooms bright
nd fragrant with poinsettia blos
soms, Christmas greenery and Christ
mas bells.
Handsome prizes were awarded for
op score at each table, and after the
game tea was served in the dining
i'M m, where the table was decorated
• .’h p**insetlia blossoms, red unshad
ed tapers, and all minor details in red
and white.
Miss Dargan was a charming host
ess in a handsome toilet of royal blue
brocade, the draped skirt of black
harmeuse. having a tunic of cream-
colored shadow lace.
Mrs Milton Dargan, Jr., assisted in
entertaining. She wore a handsome
afternoon toilet.
At the Driving Club.
The “dansant” arranged for Friday
mont Driving Club will be
' vent of lb** late after-
i «•« n. and will be attended by hun-
'iredy of club members and their
friends. The next “dansant" will he
given Monday.
The reservations for the dinner-
u ce Saturday evening include sev-
er;l l large parties and other parties
are still being arranged.
Miss Helen Atkinson to Entertain.
T N»s Helen Atkinson will give a
dancing party Tuesday evening. De-
•ember 30, in honor of Miss LaGrange
Cochran, of Rome, the guest of Miss
K-’dse Couper. Fifty members of the
college set will be invited.
Miss Jane Walker to Entertain.
Miss Jane Walker will entertain rt
'••I on Tuesday afternoon, December
::f \ at the home of her parents, Dr.
-nd Mrs. Hugh Walker. The young
) iiE who will assist her in the after-
11 “’n •frill be joined by an equal num-
!,f ‘ r °f y>ung men for an informal
evening party.
Miss Mallard to Entertain.
Hiss Mary Brock Mallard will give
>a Tuesday afternoon. r ^cember
r guests to include members of
the schoolgirl set.
Miss Marion Fielder to Entertain.
Marlon Fielder will give a
oo’. heon Tuesday for Miss Aline
fielder, who is at home from Win
ston-Salem for the holidays.
Virginia Farr to Entertain.
Hiss Virginia Farr will give a da no.
tg party New Year Eve for mem
' ers of the college set.
Spelling Bee and Bazaar.
members of William Hurd Hill -
" : ' s Sunday school class of the Sec-
Baptist Church will give an old-
1>: ned spelling bee and bazaar
oy evening at 8 o’clock at the
;r ‘ h. Some of the city's best spell-
Is v.'ill be present. Dr. John E.
Girl Overcome by
Heavy Perfume of
MagnoliaBouquet
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.—
Poisoned by the perfume of a large
bouquet of fragrant magnolias,
Miss Lovell Alice Taylor Narrowly
escaped suffocation in her apart
ments in the Hotel Oakland. Miss
Taylor is under the care of Dr. D.
D. Crowley and is slowly recover
ing.
Missing her at the breakfast ta*
ble yesterday morning, Miss Tay
lor’s sister entered the room to
find her in a stupor from the
heavy fumes of the flowers. Dr.
Crowley worked an hour before
completely restoring her.
White will conduct the match. Ad
mission, 10 cents. Refreshments will
be served by the young women of the
class, and the public is Invited.
Sponsors for Basket Ball Game.
Miss Mary Butler will be sponsor
for the Athletic Club and Miss May
Belle Hlxon, of Gainesville, who is
the guest of Mrs. Russell Bridges, will
be the Augusta Y. M. C. A. sponsor at
the basket ball game Saturday even
ing at the Athletic Club. An infor
mal dance will follow' the game.
Cake Sale.
Circle No. 10 of the Woman's Mis
sionary Society of Druid Hills Meth
odist Church will have a sale of home
made cakes Tuesday at J. P. Allen’s
department store on Whitehall street.
Mrs. A. J. Paxton, Jr., is chairman of
this circle, and has received a num
ber of contributions already, besides
a great many orders for cakes.
Burge- Minor.
Miss Annie Marie Burge and E.
Welborn Minor were married Thurs
day evening at 9 o’clock at the Meth
odist parsonage in East Atlanta, the
Rev. C. V. Weathers officiating. Thos#
present were Miss Lillian Everett
Mrs. C. V. Weathers, George Lyle and
H. Noble Weathers. The couple will
reside at No. 88 Haas avenue.
Children of Confederacy Sell Stamps.
Miss Mary Butt Griffith will be
chairman of the sale of Red Cross
Christmas stamps Saturday, with Miss
Lillian Mathis, Miss Louise Massey
and Mrs. W. C. Warfield as vice chair
men. Other members of the Julia
Jackson Chapter, Children of the
Confederacy, will assist.
Miss Louise Dobbs to Entertain.
Miss Louise Dobbs will issue cards
Saturday to a tea on Tuesday after
noon, December 30, from 5 to 7, her
guests to include members of the col
lege set.
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Entertain.
The dinner-dance at which Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Richardson entertained
Thursday evening was one of a series
of elaborate parties tendered Miss
Margaret Grant since her debut in
October. Twenty-six guests were in
vited to the Richardson residence, and
throughout the house there were
Christmas decorations of brilliant
red poinsettia blossoms, red-shaded
tapers, and handsome palms and
ferns.
Dinner was served at two tables,
each having an artistic arrangement
of poinsettia blossoms, with a border
of ferns and narcissi. An orchestra
played during dinner and for the
dance that followed.
Mrs. Richardson was charming in
black charmeuso satin with corsage
and tunic of gold-threaded lace over
white. Miss Grant wore a dancing
gown of pink silk chiffon with cor
sage of lace and garniture of rose-
colored velvet.
Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ardson will give a family dinner par
ty in honor of the two grandsons of
the Grant family, who are at home
from school for the holidays. The
honor guests are Hugh Inman Rich-
AMERICAN SINGER WHO
WAS ARRESTED AS SPY
Wilsons to Teach
Schoolgirls How to
Live on $9 a Week
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Girl
pupils of the Washington public
schools will be taught how to keep
a family of father, mother and
three children on $9 a week in the
new model house just arranged by
the Neighborhood House Settle-
ment workers.
The Misses Margaret and Elea
nor Wilson, Miss Genevieve Champ
Clark, Mrs. Barney Hemmick, Mrs.
Walter Tuckerman and Mrs. John
Jay White are prominently inter
ested in this work. They attended
a special reception at Neighbor
hood House, when the Model
House was opened to the public
for the first time.
rive Wednesday to spend the holi
days with her mother, Mrs. Richard
C. Congdon.
Mr. and Mrs. lauds B Magld and
family left Wednesday to spend sev
eral weeks on the gulf coast of Flor
ida before returning to their home at
Tallulah Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Florin New and
Mrs. Howard Lyon, of Baltimore, ac
companied by Miss Louise King, who
lias been studying in Baltimore, hHVe
returned to spend the holidays with
Mr and Mrs. George E. King. How
urd I,yon will come Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Deo. 19. Frttai Scheff
flashed a laughing denial of the report
that she was to become the wife of
George Anderson, a former member
of her theatrical company
“When I really fall In love I shall
be delighted to let the public know
it*” she said, laughingly.
Chamberlin =Johnson=DuBose Co.
ATLANTA
A Personal Mention
Miss Dorothy MacVane, daughter of Prof. Silas MacVane,
of Harvard, was put under police surveillance at Taranto, Italy,
where she was singing with an opera company, suspected of espi
onage. It is expected she will be released to-day and an apology
made to her. Ambassador Page took up her case.
ardson and William Grant, and the
guests will include the two grand
mothers, Mrs. Hugh Inman and Mrs
William D. Grant; Governor and Mrs
Slaton, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Grant,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Inman, Hugh
Inman and his grandmother, Mrs.
Emily McDougald.
Miss Rutherford to Speak.
Miss Mildred Rutherford, State his
torian for the U. D. C\, will speak at
the Auditorium to-morrow evening at
the Helen Keller lecture in place of
Mrs. Helen Plane, honorary president
of the Atlanta Chapter, who origi
nated the idea of crowning Miss Kel
ler as “a child of the South.”
Mrs. Cawthew Yorston, Mr. Von-
Skibinski, DeCortez Wolfungen and
Miss Harrison will add to the pro
gram with contributions of music.
Dr. C. O. Jones, chaplain of the
chapter, will make the speech pre
senting Mrs. Macey, the teacher of
Miss Keller.
All Saints’ Kindergarten.
The children of All Saints’ Kin
dergarten will give a Christmas tree
at the chapel Friday afternoon, with
Miss Jennie Dargan as lady of cere
monies. The tree was decorated with
gifts made exclusively for the fathers
and mothers of the children In the
school by the children. Booklets con
taining copies of the famous Christ-
child pictures, accompanied by a lit
tle story beginning with the annun
ciation and concluding with the visit
of the Wise Men. were given the
mothers of the children, and the fath
ers received calendars illuminated
with pictures of the givers.
After the ceremony of gift-giving,
games were played and refreshments
served.
Suit Case on Fender
Reveals Rail Tragedy
NEW ALBANY, IND., Dec. 19.—
The crew of a Pennsylvania train
found a suit case on the fender of the
engine when It pulled into the sta
tion early to-day.
Going back along the track a short
distance, they found the owner of the
suit case, Ernest Hays, of Jasper,
Ind., mangled and dead beside the
track.
PERSONAL
Miss Marie Dinkins returned Fri
day from school to spend the holi
days at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lewman and lit
tle daughter have returned home from
New York.
Miss Mamie Kirkpatrick returns
Friday from Chevy Chase to spend
the holidays.
Miss Josephine Smith arrives Sat
urday from Hollins Institute to spend
the holidays at home.
Lillian LeConte, the little daughter
of Mrs. Lillian King LeConte, who
has been quite 111, is better.
Mrs. William G. Gredig and Mrs.
Aggie Dean Rader, of Athens, are
guests at the Ansley for a few days.
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, of St. Louis,
a musician of note, is visiting her
aunt, Miss Sloan, on Washington
street.
Mr, and Mrs. J. Calhoun Clarke left
Friday to spend the holidays with rel
atives in Charlezton, their former
home.
Miss Mary Thurston, who Is spend
ing the winter in New York, will ar-
Mails Ton of Sugar
Through Parcel Post
MARYVILLE, CAL., Dec. 19.—A mer
chant here shipped by parcel post a ton
of sugar In 20-pound packages con
signed to a customer jn Modoc County
The ocst of shipment, the merchant
said was cheaper than by freight.
Previously the merchant had shipped
In large quantities to Humboldt /County
by the postal department, eliminating
the cost of drayage.
Master and Miss Van Dusen=DolI,
of Amsterdam, Holland
Have arrived in Atlanta for the holidays. They are visit
ing in Chamberlin-Johnson-DnBose Company’s Bazaar
prior to taking up their permanent residence with the
lovely Miss Atlanta.
Just wliat I want!
That’s what the chil
dren say, every time
they see it. It is tooth
some, wholesome,
healthful. The very
sweet that’s best to eat—
It’s the Little Things
that tend to give one that well-groomed appearance.
Your gloves if kept well cleaned will help you in
finitely.
The Trio Laundry
cleans gloves to get out the dirt and grease. They
are returned to you in a spotless condition—the kid
being soft and pliable.
E. H. WILSON. Phone 1099. W. H. HARRIS.
SYRUP
Nothing adds more to the
enjoyment of waffles and
battercakes than ALAGA. It
makes wonderful
gingercakes, puddings
and candies. It is
Nature’s best sweet.
Sold, in sealed tins
by your grocer
ALABAMA-GEORGIA
SYRUP COMPANY
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
Pho
Sues Mill for $10,000
For Loss of One Arm
COLUMBUS, Deo. 19.—Lawrence
Armstead has sued the Eagle and
Phenlx Mills for injuries he says he
received last August. He says one
of his arms was broken and had to be
amputated.
He asks for $10,000 damages.
The above snapshot shows them as they were look
ing about at the wonderful toys and the crowds of happy
children that fill the Bazaar these days. . . ir ^
Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co.
TO-MORROW NIGHT
NINE O’CLOCK
The Great Xmas Tree Contest Closes
Why not all Work to-morrow and get
subscriptions and win the first tree for
your Sunday School?
Each Subscription Counts 2,000 Votes
Subscriptions Verified
Cooper Street Baptist Church 56,000
Tabernacle Church “Cubs” 52,000
Jefferson Street M. E. Church 52,000
Asbury M. E 50,000
College Park Christian Church 48,000
East Atlanta Baptist Church 48,000
St. Luke’s First M. E. Church 44,000
Ponders Avenue Baptist Church 42,000
Up to Noon Thursday
Payne Memorial Church 40,000
English Avenue M. E. Church 38,000
Hapeville Baptist Church 20,000
Mt. Vernon 14,000
East Side M. E 4,000
Moore Memorial Presbyterian 3,000
East Point Baptist Church 1,000
Oakland City Baptist Church 1,000
East Atlanta M. E 1,000
XMAS TREE DEPARTMENT
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