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. ATLANTA < i I.OliUiA.N AM) XKWP (NRISTMA8 IN 80CIETT FEATURED BT GAT PARTIES DRAMA LEAGUE HEAD TO LIVE IN ATLANTA MISS CAROLYN COBB. Tli® many nartien arranged for i hrlaimas Day have given society i uch diversion, Rnd in addition to the more formal affairs, there have bren dozens of smaller and more In formal parties, which are none the ess delightful. The eggnog party given by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Speer was the largest affair of the day. Several hundred of their friends were entertained. The Speer resi- j. m e w as elaborately decorated, and ie host and hostess received under .hi arch of smilax, starred with tiny -dectric lights. Smilax formed a miral decoration throughout the louse, and above the arch was a ,<rge star, formed of bright red ap- , outlined with tiny electric lights, [•.looming plants, flowers and foliage .lants were grouped about the room, nd the mantel was banked with ; oinsettia blossoms and ferns. In the in parlor the Japanese idea pre- ailed. festoons of Japanese lanterns • ml Japanese umbrellas being used. Punch was served in the breakfast m from two bowls wreathed in • milax and garlanded with poinset- a blossoms. The table in the dining n om had for a centerpiece a large ,i rror, bordered in pink roses and iUev lilies, representing a lake, rum the center rose a silver epergne Tiled with pink roses and valley lilies, -tarred with tiny electric lights, rep- • renting a miniature island in this ’.ike. All decorative details were in pink and white. An orchestra played ind there was dancing in the upper hall. .Mrs, Sneer wore black velvet with • unic of iridescent embroidery. Mrs. John Silver assisted, in gray satin. The eggnog party at which Mrs. John S. Clarke and Mrs. A. D. Adair. .1 .. entertained at Mrs. Clarke's resi- ience was another delightful affair. Throughout the house the walls were -aped with bamboo, and there were quantities of poinsettia blossoms and narcissi, and ferns, tied with red rib bons. Assisting in entertaining were Mrs. Stuart Stringfellow. Miss Louise ■“Law Bros. For Quality’ We thank our patrons for the most successful year mthchistory of our hunness, and wish for you, one and all, a . Merry Xmas 10 WMlTtMALLST. Hawkins and the members of the Or der of Old-Fashioned Women, of* which Mrs. Adair is a member; Mrs. Bates Block. Mrs. Lqp Jordan, Mrs. W illiam H. Glenn, Mrs. Marion Jack- son, Mrs. J. g. Oglesby, Jr., Mrs. Shepard Bryan. Mrs. H. F. West and Miss Louise Black. Following their annual custom, and one which has given much pleasure to their friends, Dr. and Mrs. McRae were at home informally Christmas morning at an eggnog party. The handsome home was elaborately dec orated in the holiday colors. In the dining room there were festoons of Christmas bells, and suspended above the table was a shower of these bells. A large crystal basket, filled with polns^tti i blossoms, tied with red rib bons afcd surrounded by red unshaded tapers in silver candlesticks, graced the beautifully appointed table. Red unshaded tapers burned on the man tel, and in the sun parlor there were many blooming azaleas and poinset tia blossoms, with the usual hand some house plants. In the living room a gay Christmas tree was hung with sparkling electric lights, and the happiest spirit of hospitality was ex tended by the host and hostess. Mrs. McRae wore gray chiffon, with tunic of cut steel beads. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Raine, Jr., kept open house during the day, and their decorations were also of Christmas bells and the greenery and poinsettia blossoms of the holiday season. The Piedmont Driving Club is keeping open house, and all club members and their wives are expect ed to call from 12 o'clock on. The open house of the club is one of the happiest observances of the day. De licious holiday refreshments are served, and the club Is elaborately decorated with holiday decorations. The appearance of the Yale Glee Club at the Grand to-night will be a happy occasion, when hundreds of the younger set will be present. At the close of the performance the visitors will be tendered a dance at the Pied mont Driving Club. The Capital City Country Club is keeping open house for those who care to motor out or io spend the day on the golf links, and light refresh ments are being served. There are dinner parties galore ar ranged for to-night, and many in formal dances, etc. Mr. and Mrs. John Kiser will have a dinner party at tlielr home, and Colonel and Mrs. John J. Wood side will entertain at dinner in honor of their guests. Mrs. H. F. Thompson, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. A. W. Kurkamp, of Louisville. The party will Include fifteen. Mrs. Alice Muse Thomas gives a dancing party Thursday evening for her son. Julian Thomas. Miss Leslie Weathers gives a dancing party for Miss Virginia Haugh and her guests. Misses Mildred Wicks, of Spokane, Wash., and Mary Howard. Of course, there were children's Christmas trees and children’s parties galore, one of the happiest being thai Wishing Our Friends a Very Merry Xmas The Ozias National Selling Corporation. Empire Life Building. “Vacuum Cleaners.” Mi»s Carolyn Cobb. State organizer for the Drama League of Georgia, one of the most active women’s or ganizations in the State, with a mem bership of more than 400. has deter mined to make her home permanently in Atlanta. This news will be welcomed by a host of Atlanta’s best-known women who have been greatly interested in Miss Cobb’s efforts to promulgate the best teachings of the drama. Miss Cobb comes of a distinguished Georgia family. She is spending the Christmas holidays in Athens at her home but will take up her residence here with the New Year. Miss Cobb gave a charming interpretation re cently of the Pied Piper. at which Miss Sue Bucknell enter- I reindeer across a field of snow, In tained her little friends. j one corner an old-fashioned fireplace, Another very happy event was the filled with dying embers awaited th It’s Over! Thirty of the busiest days one store ever had. We just know by the buying that this will be the biggest Christmas Atlanta has ever known. —And we wish that it will be your merriest Christmas and happiest New Year. McClure Ten-Ccnl Co. eggnog party given by Miss Clifford West, when a number of friends were entertained informally at her home on Peachtree road. The house was prej- tlly decorated with Christmas colors. A cordial hospitality was dispensed by the young hostess. Hyperion Club Dance. The Christmas dance given by tlvs Hyperion Club at their elubrooms in West End ushered in the festivities* of the holiday season. The hall was beautifully and artistically decorated. Crepe paper of various hues was sus pended from the ceiling in graceful festoons, and bunches of mistletoe dangled from the chandeliers. Tinv electric lights studded the walls and cast a. mellow glow upon a back ground of berrv-covered holly. At one end of the hall a miniature Kris Kringle. seated In his toy-laden sleigh, was shown driving his dashing Kidney and Liver Treatment Stuarts Buchu and Juniper Compound, an Absolute Remedy, With a Most Remarkable Action on the Kidneys, Liver and Bladder. arrival of Santa, and the hands o he old clock on the manL' stood at midnight, in another e< rner a Chris;- mas tree, beautifully decorated, was laden with handsome souvenirs for the ladies) A number of electric bulbs, blue, red and green, lined the archway at the entrance to the hall. Delicious punch was served and a capable orchestra rendered the music. The chaperons were Mr. and Mr.;. \Y. B. Dlsbro. Mrs. \V. R. Bean and Mr. ami Mrs. M. S. Guthright, Mr. anl f Mrs. Ned McIntosh. Those dancing were. Misses Mary Frances Bowden. Lucy Hinman, Win nie Wilson, Mary )isbro, Carrie Par ish, Edwins. Harper. Ethel Hudson, Lois Carroll. Luoil* Beam, Nell Pa-^e, Katherine Darby. Mae Hall, Mildred Sault, Lebie F"iitg. Pauline Coulter, Esther Hatchett .Margaret Wing field, Adelaide Calloway, Margaret Jester. Charlsic McClain. Eddie L e Terrell. Olga Freeman. Mamie Mor ris. Mabel Rock. ,ter Hollermap, Irma Thurmond, .Marie Roberson. Marie Oliver, Elizabeth Clayton and Betty Reeves. Messrs. William E. Close, Paul Turner. Lacy Dalhous , Elbert Lively, Howard Parish, Cuy- | lrr Trussed. John Baldwin, Mercer' Lee, L. L. Htroble. W. E. Franklin. | Pope Franklin, Lewis Pierson, Alvin Lovingood, Theo Beam Ed. Pollar.l, | J. L. Almon. R. L. Ezell, Papers An drews, J. I. Murdock, G. T. Freeman. Charles G. Cowan, Sam Dull. J. B. Jackson, Tye Sanders, Stacy Adams, John R. Jordan. L. B. Hardy, Jr., R. A. Garner. Aubrey Lindyn, Gordon Hill. Archibald Freman, A. M. Dim- mock, Jones Ewir llorrie Andrews. Lealis Law, Ernest Allen, Cliff Brown, O. I. Freeman, Sam Swilling, N. R. Collins, Mr. Resor, Mr. Pasco, M. S. Stephens and Casey Medlock. Reception at Fort McPherson. The officers and ladies of the Sev enteenth United States Infantry have issued invitations to a dance on Thursday evening. January 1. at nine o’clock, to meet Colonel and Mrs. John T. Van Orsdale. The dance will be given at Fort McPherson, and will be one of th« most brilliant affairs of the season, and a pretty compliment to Colonel Van Orsdale, tiie p« ular command ing officer of the Fort, and his charm ing wife. A number of friends from the city will go to the Fort for the occasion. The Dansant” at Driving Club. Despite tile fact that all Atlanta seems to be either going to parties or giving parties, the city being as gay as possible, the “the dansants” being giver for members of the Piedmont Driving Club increase in popularity. The two held this week have been most delightful and have been largely attended, and the one to be held Fri day will doubtless be as largely at tended as those previously given. For each dansant a number of par ties are given, this mode of enter taining .being particularly delightful. Misses Nita and Louise Black enter tained at ’the dansant” in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ringland F. Kilpatrick, of New York, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Junius G. Oglesby, the party being completed by Mrs. Junius G. Oglesby, Jr., and Mrs. A. D. Adair. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swift, of New York, were guests in a small party. Miss Aimee Hunnicutt, who has just returned from an extended stay in New Ycrk, was tendered a small party by Mrs. L. L. Ferris. Mrs. Hin ton Baker, of Augusta, was the cen tral figure in a small party. Miss Mary Rice entertained in honor of Miss Marv Brown, who is at home from Vaasa r for the holidays, and Misses Laura Cole. Marie Dinkins and Mamie Kirkpatrick, who are at home from school in Washington, D. C. Drama League Conference. A special conference on Maurice Maeterlinck and The Blue Bird will be held at the Atlanta Theater De cember 30 at 3:30 p. m. After a brief summary of “The Literary In fluence* of Maeterlinck,” Mr. Charles Hampden, stage director of “The Blue Bird.” will tell of his visit to the great poet last summer, and Miss Al ice Butler, who plays the part of the Fairs* Berylune, will tell briefly about “The Blue Bird' as seen by an actor behind ihe scenes. This meeting is open not only to members of the Drama League, but to Ihe public generally without fee, and ns “The Blue Bird” Is the first play of Maeterlinck to be brought to Atlanta, it is hoped that the occa sion will be of especial interest to members. 1 Beginning Monday, Jarttiury 5, and continuing cverj afternoon through Saturday, Monsieur Benedict Pa pot' will give to the Drama League a se rics of lecture readings on "Great Contemporary French Dramatists.” The six dramatists treated "ill be Eugene Hr leu x. Paul Hervieu. Mau rice Dorma.v, Henry Bataille, Henry Bernstein, and Henry Kistermaekers, probably in the order named. The lectures will all be given in English, which Monsieur Papot speaks ido- nmtically and fluently. They will be given at Cable Hall each afternoon at 3:3(1 o'clock. A nominal fee of $1 for the entire series must be paid by members. To non-members the fee will be 32. sin gle tickets, 50 cents each. Mr. and Mr*. Wellhouse at Home. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wellhouse will be at home Sunday from 4 to 6 in the afternoon, and from 8:80 until 10:30 in the evening, in honor of their daughter, Miss Corrinne Wellhouse. and her flame, Ely Meyer, Jr., <ff Rochester, N. Y. For Mrs. Blotter's Guest*. Miss Elolse Walker will entertain a few friends informally at tea Fri day afternoon h the Georgian Ter race, in compliment to the guests of Mrs. Clarence Blosser, who are M isses Mollie Holland, of New Orleans, and Lillian Best, of Buffalo Mrs. Block’s Christmas Party. Mis Bates Block entertained the Order of Old-Fashioned Women at a Christmas tree pony Wednesday aft ernoon at her home on Peachtree road. The gifts to each guest were silver picture frames holding tiie pic ture of the order, which includes Mrs. A. D. Adair, Jr.. Mrs. Shepherd Bryan, Mrs. William Glenn, .Mrs. lire M. .Ior dan. Mrs. Marion Jackson. Mrs. H. F. West, Mrs. Junius (i. Oglesby. Jr. and .Miss Louise Black. New Year’s Party. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Raine w ill en tertain on New Year's Eve at their home on Juniper street, For Mils Robinson. Miss Marion Stearns will give an informal dinner party Tuesday even ing in compliment to Alisa Elolse Rob inson, who is home from school in Baltimore for the holidays. There 1 1 — II. II. will be 24 guests, and dancing will follow dinner. Mis. Albert Howell, Jr., will give a bridge-luncheon for Miss Robinson on Tuesday evening. Dancing Party. MIsm Jan Robinson will entertain of her friends at.an informal dancing party Friday evening at her home In Analey Paris, CHENEY’S EXPECTORANT Cures Croup, Whooping Cough Fifty yearn on the m«rl et ind *o)<1 e?erjwheri» for 25c. Host medicine for croup, cold* and sore throat affections. Don’t l>o fcrd away hy new and untried remedies. SUi k to Cheney's Expectorant. It Is sure.—(Adrt.) 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