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v THE ATLANTA UEOKlilAN AND NEWS A"* CHRISTMAS IN SOCIETY • FEATURED BY GAY PARTIES I'lie many parties arranged for ristmas Day have given society | * h diversion, and in addition to j : :ft more formal affairs, there have been dozens of smaller and more in formal parties, which are none the ess delightful. The eggnCkff party given by Mr. and William A. Speer was the largest .ifair of the day. Several hundred of their fiends wore entertained. The Speer resi- i, n ce was elaborately decorated, am' e host and hostess received under t n arch of smilax. starred with tiny -ctric lights. Smilax formed a mural decoration throughout the muse, and above the arch was a arge star, formed of bright red ap- P os, outlined with tiny electric lights. Blooming plants, flowers and foliage plants were grouped about the room, nd the mantel was banked with poinsettia blossoms and ferns. In the sun parlor the Japanese idea pre vailed. festoons of Japanese lanterns and Japanese umbrella* being used. Punch was served in the breakfast room from two bowls wreathed in -milax and garlanded with polnset- ia blossoms. The table in the dining room had for a centerpiece a large mirror, bordered in pink roses and valley lilies, representing a lake, 'rom the centei 4 rose a silver epergne rilled with pink roses and valley lilies, starred with tiny electric lights, rep resenting 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. Speer wore black velvet with mic of iridescent embroidery. 1 Mrs. John Silver assisted, in gray satin. The eggnog party at which Mrs. John S. Clarke and Mrs. A. D. Adair, Jr., entertained at Mrs. Clarke’s resi dence was another delightfql affair. Throughout the house the walls were • imped 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 ih the history of our business, and wish for you, one and all, a M erry .Xmas 0 Hawkins and the members of the Or der of Olti-Fashioned Women, of "li» Mrs. Adair is a member; Mrs. Fh' (.(lock, Mfs. Lee Jordan, Mrs. Wil.iam II. 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 poinsetti 1 blossoms, tied with red rib bons and 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 £lub 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 hol.iday 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 to spend the day- on the golf links, and light refresh ments are being served. There are dinner parties galore ar ranged for to-nigdu. and many in formal dances, etc. Mr. and Mrs. John Kiser will have a dinner party at their home, and Colonel and Mrs. John J. Woodside 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 givfes 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 that Wishing Our Friends a Very Merry Xmas The Ozias National Selling Corporation. Empire Life Building. “Vacuum Cleaners.” 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-Ceni Co. DRAMA LEAGUE HEAD TO LIVE IN ATLANTA MISS CAROLYN COBH. Miss 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 Cobl) 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 tained her little friends. Another very happy- event*was the eggnog party .given by Miss Clifford West, when a number of friends were entertained informally at her home on Peachtree road. The house was pret tily' decorated with Christmas colors. A cordial hospitality' was dispensed by the y-oung hostess. Hyperion Club Dance. The Christmas dance given by the Hyperion Club at their clubrooms 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 berry-covered holly. At one end of the hall a miniature Kris Kringle, seated in his toy-laden sleigh, was shown driving his dashing reindeer across a field of snow. In one corner an old-fashioned fireplace, filled with dying embers awaited the arrival of Santa, and tin- hands o! the old clock on the mant-’ stood at midnight. In another corner a Christ mas tree, beautifully' decorated, was •laden with handsome souvenirs fo.* 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 Mrs. W. B. Disbro, .Mrs. W. R. Bean and Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Gathright, Mr. anl Mrs. Ned McIntosh. Those dancing were Misses Mary Frances Bowden, Lucy Hlnman. Win nie Wilson, Mary >isbro, Carrie Par ish, Ed wins Harper. Ethel Hudson, Lois Carroll. Lucile Beam. Nell Pace. Katherine Darby. .Mae Hall, Mildred Sault, Lebie Ewing, Pauline Coulter, Esther Hatchett, Margaret Wing field, Adelaide Calloway, Margaret Jester. Charlsie McClain. Eddie L-e Terrell, Olga Freeman. Mamie M >r- ris. Mabel Rock. ter Hollerman, Irma Thurmond. Marie Roberson. .Marie Oliver, Elizabeth Clayton and Betty- Reeves. Messrs. William E. Close, Paul Turner, Lacy Dalhous , Elbert Lively, Howard Parish, Cuy- ler Trussell. John Baldwin, Mercer Lee. L. L. Stroble. W. E. Franklin, Pope Franklin. Lewis Pierson, Alvin Lovingood, Theo Beam Ed. Pollard, J. L. Almon. R. L. Ezell, Sapers An drews, J. I. Murdock. G. T. Freeman, Charles G. Cowan, Sam Dull, J. 13. Jackson, Tye Sanders. Stacy Adams, John R. Jordan. L. B. Hardy, Jr., R. A. Garner. Aubrey Lindyn, Gord >n Hill, Archibald Freman. A. M. Dim- mock, Jones Ewir^ Horrle Andrews, Lealis Law, Ernest Allen, Cliff Brown. O. I. Freeman, Sam Swilling, N. R. Collins, Mr Resor, Mr. Pasco, M. S. Stephens and Casey Medlook. \ Reception at Fort McPherson. The officers and ladies of the Sev enteenth Fnlted States Infantry have issued invitations to a dance on Thursday evening. January I. at nine o’clock, to meet Colonel and Mrs. John T. Van Orsdale. The dance will he. given at Fort McPherson, and will be one of the most brilliant affairs of the season, and a pretty compliment to Colonel Van Orsdale. the 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 the 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 eacn dsfnsant 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 York, 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 Tn honor of Miss Mary Brown, who is at home from Vassar 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. rn. After a brief summary' of “The Literary in fluences 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 ihe part of the Fairy Berylune, will tell briefly about Kidney and Liver Treatment Stuarts Buchu and Juniper Compound, an Absolute Remedy, With a Most Remarkable Action on the Kidneys, Liver and Bladder. No more dizziness, pain in the back, headache, puffy eyes, carbuncles or any other symptoms of kidney trouble: You are going to get well by taking Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compound. The $1 bottle of Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compound will give you sucli wonderful relief of kidney and urinary trouble as to astonish, you. 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This meeting is open not only to members of the Drama League, but to the public generally without fee, and as “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. Beginning- Monday, January 5. and continuing every afternoon through Saturday, Monsieur Benedict Papot will give to the Drama League a se ries of lecture readings on “Great Contemporary French Dramatists.” The six dramatists treated will be Eugene Brleux, Paul Hervieu. Mau rice Donnay, Henry Batallle, Henry Bernstein, and Henry Klstermaekers, probably in the order named. The lectures will all be given in English, which Monsieur Papot speaks ido- matically ami fluently. They will be given at Cable Hall each afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. A nominal fee of $1 for the entire series must be paid by members. To non-members the fee will be $2; sin gle tickets, 50 cents each. Mr. and Mrs. Wellhouse at Home. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wellhouse will be at home Sunday from 4 to 0 in the afternoon, and from 8:30 until 10:30 in the evening, in honor of their daughter, Miss Corrinne Wellhouse. and her fiance, Ely Meyer, Jr., n r Rochester. N. Y. For Mrs. Blosser's Guests. Miss Eloise Walker will entertain a few friends informally at tea Fri day afternoon- at the Georgian Ter race, in compliment to the guests of Mi s. Clarence Blosser, w ho are Misses Mollle Holland, of New Orleans, and Lillian Best, of Buffalo. Mrfc. Block's Christmas Party. Mrs. Bates Block entertained the Order of Old-Fashioned Women at a Christmas tree party Wednesday aft ernoon at her home on Peachtree road. The gifts to each guest were silver picture frames holding the pic ture of the order, which includes Mrs. A. D. Adair, Jr., Mrs. Shepherd Bryan, Mrs. William Glenn, Mrs. Lee M. Jor dan, Mrs. Marion Jackson, Mrs. H. F. West, Mrs. Junius G. Oglesby, Jr., and Miss Ivouise Black. Now Year’s Party. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Raine will en tertain on New Year s Eve at their home on Juniper street. For Miss Robinson. Miss Marion Stearns will give an informal dinner party Tuesday even ing in compliment to Miss Eloise Rob inson, who is home from school in Baltimore for the holidays. There will be 24 guests, and dancing wf!1 follow' dinner. Mrs. Albert Howell, Jr , will give a bridge-luncheon for Miss Robinson on Tuesday evening. Dancing Party. Miss Jan Robinson will entertain 50 of her friends at an informal dancing party Friday evening at her home in Analey Park CHENEY’S EXPECTORANT Cures Croup, Whooping Cougii Fifty year* on thr market and sold excrywhe e for 25c. Host medicine for croup, colds and sore throat affection*. Don't he led away by new ahrl untried remedies. Stick to Cheney’s Expectorant. It Is sure.—(Adrt.) 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