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Fritzi Scheff Will
Tell When in Love
MRS. DRAPER HONOR GUEST
AT AETERNOON RECEPTION
AMERICAN SINGER WHO
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Jesse Draper, who has been
tendered a series of parties since her
r ,.- it n from her wedding Journey, was
i . honor guest at an afternoon re-
imen by Mrs LeRoy Childs
f r , afternoon at the Piedmont
Ur ving Club.
iain dining room of the club,
v! . since its enlargement, affords
p .r a large party was used for
ision and was by means of a
v r palms and greenery converted
< . apartments, the hostess and
hor.i guest receiving in one, while
P was served in the other.
Childs, Mrs. Draper, with Mrs.
F rrf Adair and Mrs. Clarence
received before a bank of
eTV • The mantel was banked In
gr ferns and pink roses. An or-
rtu played behind a screen of
greenery.
,\ j r( ttily appointed tea table had
M ss Mary King Entertains.
• fternoon bridge which Miss
\; Xmg gave Friday was a de-
• ompliment to her sister, *Miss
i King, who is at home from
<• i ri Washington, D. C., for the
.;,vs. and to Miss Louise de Ver-
C ' ■ >f Bainbridge, the guest of Mrs
v m A. Wimbish, and Miss Bon-
• hristlne Barnard, of San Fran-
the guest of Mrs. B. M. Boykin.
Holiday decorations were used
: gliout the house, and the prize*
< dainty piece of lingerie fof
p a of the three honor guests, and a
n ilar prize for top score.
Foli 1 lug the game, tea was served
‘ - ining room, where a tall silver
American Beauties formed a
, operation for the tea table.
Mrs. Lillian King LeConte, Mrs.
e E. King, Mrs. Irving Thomas
Mrs William Akers assisted in
entertaining, and the guests were
Misse.- Mary Hines and her guest,
in Morton, of Tennessee; Lawson
}l Grace LeCraw, Virginia Hoff*
i. Jane Walker, Grace Sims, Helen
: '.illough, Wyckliffe Wurm, Mary
Mm-phey, Helen Stewart. Kate Coop
er. Aline Fielder. Bertha Moore, Jane
•per, Alice Parks, Anne Patterson,
Myra Clarke Scott. Lucy Roberts,
I rip Dinkins, Louise Parker. Dolly
\\ -,1kor, Margaret Moore, F^stelle Fort,
)■] :se Han sell, Dolly Blalock, Mrs.
Ware Holliday, Mrs. Carl Florin New
Of Baltimore, Mrs. Howard Lyon of
Baltimore, Mrs. William A. Wimbish
and Mrs. B. M. Boykin.
Miss Dargan Entertains.
Miss Helen Dargan was hostest at
n beautiful bridge party Friday after
noon, complimenting Miss Margaret
Grant and Miss Katherine Ellis, two
debutantes Twenty-four members of
e debutante set were invited, and
■ ie game was played in rooms bright
end fragrant with poinsettia blos
soms. Christmas greenery and Christ
mas bells.
Handsome prizes were awarded for
r< at each table, and after the
game tea was served in the dining
room, where the table was decorated
Ail h poinsettia blossoms, red unshad-
' apers, and all minor details in red
and white.
! *s Dargan was a charming host-
e- s ir. a handsome toilet of royal blue
the draped skirt of black
armeuse, having a tunic of cream-
dored shadow lace.
Mrs Milton Dargan, Jr., assisted in
Sti* wore a handsome
afternoon toilet.
At the Driving Club.
The “dansant” arranged for Friday
} " Piedmont Driving Club will be
delightful event of the late after-
■ ill be attended by hun-
'• ■X of club members and* their
‘"h'nds. The next “dansant** will be
given Monday.
The reservations for the dinner-
: Saturday evening include sev-
* n! large parties and other parties
8r ‘ still being arranged.
M : ss Helen Atkinson to Entertain.
Miss Helen Atkinson will give a
dancing party Tuesday evening. De
cember 30, in honor of Miss LaGrange
tn, of Rome, the guest of Miss
Louise Couper. Fifty members of the
allege set will be Invited.
M'sr, Jane Walker to Entertain.
MiJane Walker will erM^rtaln rX
°n Tuesday afternoon, December
h the hofne of her parents. Dr.
Mrs. Hugh Walker. The young
E - ,!y "’ho will assist her In the after-
• will he joined by an equal num-
’ ' °f young men for an informal
evening party.
f >ss Mallard to Entertain.
Miss Mary Brock Mallard will give
p ' 1 Tuesday afternoon. December
• r guests to include members of
' e schoolgirl set.
M'ss Marion Fielder to Entertain.
! Marion Fielder will give a
•jrirheon Tuesday for Miss Aline
who is at home from Win-
?, on-Salem for the holidays.
M'ss Virginia Farr to Entertain.
Virginia Farr will give a danc_
party New Year Eve for mem
' rs of the college set.
Spelling Bee and Bazaar.
1 members of William Hurd Hill-
Sunday school class of the Sec-
''Baptist Church will give an old-
ned spelling bee and bazaar
r ’ ; y evening at 8 o’clock at the
ir ‘ Some of the city’s best speii-
:s will be present. Dr. John E.
for a centerpiece a large Empire bas
ket filled to overflowing with pink
roses, the handle tied with tulle. The
sllxer 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
Leone Lad son.
Punch was served from a howl im
bedded in fruits and wreathed with
smilax.
Mrs. Childs wore 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 flowers were
violets and valley lilies.
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.
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Wilsons to Teach
Schoolgirls How to
Live on $9 a Week
NEW YORK. Deo. 19.—Fritzi 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 T really fall in love I shall
be delighted to let the public know
it,” ah© aaid, laughingly.
Burns School to Win
Notice of Teacher
LANSING, MICH.. Dec. 19.—Fred
erick Spreck. a wealthy farmer, con
fessed that he set fire to the rural
uchoolhouse at Harrison so that the
pretty 18-year-old school-teacher
would he out wf a Job, then he hoped
ths would hltm to his proposal of
marriage.
New High Values in
N. Y/s Fifth Avenue
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—That Fifth
avenue land is scoring new high val
ues was proved by the sale of the
northeast corner at Forty-first street.
I. H. and F. V’. Burton held the prop
erty at J700.000.
They paid J875.000 for It a few
years ago.
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WASHINGTON, Deo. 19.—Giel
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.
Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co.
ATLANTA
NEW YORK
PARIS
A Personal Mention
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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.
Sponsor* for Basket Ball Game.
Miss Mary Butler will be sponsor
for the Athletic Club and Miss May
Belle Hixon, 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. Those
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 wa* 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 charmeuse 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-
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.
rive Wednesday to spend the holi
days with her mother, Mrs. Richard
C. Congdon.
Mr. and Mrs Louis B. Magid 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
has been studying In Baltimore, have
returned to spend the holidays with
Mr. and Mrs George E King. How
ard Lyon will come Wednesday.
Suit Case on Fender
Reveals Rail Tragedy
NEW ALBANY. TND., Dee. 19 —
The crew of a Pennsylvania train
found a suit case on the fender of the
engine when 1t 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.
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. OawtheW Yorston, Mr. Von-
Sklbinski, 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 Ail 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 -
'tie 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 giverp.
After the ceremony of gift-giving,
games were played and refreshments
served.
PERSONAL
Miss Marl© 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.
Missf 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 ill, is better.
Mrs. William G. Gredig and Mrs.
Aggie Dean Rader, of Athens, are
guest® 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 Charleston, 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 In Modoo County
The ocst of shipment, the merchant
said was cheaper than by freight.
Previously the merchant had shipped
!n large quantities to Humboldt Cou%ty
by the postal department, eliminating
the cost of drayage.
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Sues Mill for $10,000
For Loss of One Arm
COLUMBUS, Dec. 19.—Lawrence
Armstead has sued the Eagle ajid
Phenix Mills for Injuries he says he
received last August. He says one
of his arms was broken and had to be
amputated.
lie asks for $10,000 damages.
Master and Miss Van Dusen-Doll,
of Amsterdam, Holland
Have arrived in Atlanta for the holidays. They are visit
ing in Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company’s Bazaar
prior to taking np their permanent residence with the
lovely Miss Atlanta.
The above snapshot shows them as t hey were look
ing about at the wonderful toys and the crowds of happy
children that fill the Bazaar these days. ^
ChamberIin=Johnson=DuBose Co.
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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.
Just whed 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
TO-MORROW NIGHT
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SYRUP
Nothing adds more to the
enjoyment of waffles and
battercakes than ALAGA. It
makes wonderful
gingercakes, puddings
\\V 1 and candies. It is
Nature’s best sweet.
Sold in sealed tins
by your grocer
ALABAMA-GEORGIA
SVRIIP COMPANY
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
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
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Subscriptions Verified
Cooper Street Baptist Church 56,000
Tabernacle Qhurch “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
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