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SLATON PROGRAM
CARRIED THROUGH
MEASURES FAVORED BY GOVER-
NOR ENACTED INTO
LAW.
STATE'S INCOME INCREASED
Virtually Approved Every General Bill
Passed by the General
Assembly.
—Atlanta.
Governor Slaton's legislative pro
gram, with one or two exceptions, has
been enacted into law. The excep
tions failed of fulfillment only be
cause of lack of time. They can eas
ily wait until next year, when it is
predicted they will be bandied in ac
cordance with the governor's sugges
tion. Not in many years past has
a constructive administration been so
completely in harmony with a con
structive legislature.
Virtually every general bill passed
by the legislature was advocated or
approved by the governor. Most of
them were, strictly spealung, adminis
tration measures. It is the first time
since factional politics on existing
lines began that a governor has been
able to get the legislature to work in
such, complete accord with him.
The following specific administra
tion measures were among the most
important which went through:
A curb on extravagant appropria
tions, tax reform, an inheritance tax,
doubled corporation tax, permanent
registration law and a blue sky law.
Perhaps Governor Slaton’s hardest
fight was on appropriations. Know
ing that the state treasury was nearly
a million dollars in the hole, he re
fused from the start to recommend
a single new or increased expendi
ture. To all appeals, he stated sim
ply that the money would first have
to be provided, before it could be
appropriated.
Governor Slaton is not a man who
is given to threats and bluffs. In
none of his communications did lie
deal in other than courteous language,
eschewing all that suggested the big
stick or the big "I." However, he
did not hesitate to say on proper oc
casions candidly and firmly that his
oath of office would not permit him
to approve an appropriation sheet
carrying more than the prospective
revenues.
The result is in brief that the state's
financial condition lias been re-estab
li^Ped on a healthy basis, and that
the present legislature will go down
in local history as one of the most
constructive in this generation. The
state's whole fiscal system has been
put for the first time on a sound busi
ness basis.
The splendid results of the recent
session have necessarily added much
to Governor Slaton's popularity. Gov
ernor Slaton is standing for a busi
ness administration a business ad
ministration without quotation marks.
Atlanta Has Good Swimmers.
Atlanta mermaids competed in
races and other aquatic sports at the
East Lake Country Club while soci
ety folks locked on from the grassy
banks and the boat house becanda.
Some of the best swimmers are
among this season's and next season’s
debutantes. Among the young ladies
who made fine records in the water
sports were Miss Lyda Nash, Misses
Regina Rambo, Misses Duncan and
Miss Ellen O’Keefe.
Besides swimming the half mile and
50-yard races, the young ladies engag
ed in diving contests. Several of
them dive beautifully from the top
most part of the high platform in the
middle of the lake.
There were canoe and boat races.
East Lake this summer has been the
popular society resort of Atlanta, ad
jacent as it is to the beautiful Druid
Hills section, with a fine boulevard
approaching it.
Farmera Using Electricity.
The farmers of Georgia, always
ready to take the lead in benefiting
by new ideas which are really prac
tical, are gradually becoming among
the best customers for electrical pow
er in the state. They already number
among the largest individual users of
electrical current.
Since the Georgia Railway and
Power company took charge of the
wonderful development at Tallulah
Falls, tower lines have been strung
across the country in all directions,
and the prosperous farmers of the
state are among the first to benefit.
The farmer needs electric lights for
his home and barns quite as badly
as any other manufacturer. The farm
er now frequently uses a small elec
tric motor tor the milk separator and
churn, for the grindstone and wash
ing machine, and even for the heavier
work such as ensilage cutting and
feed grinding. Electricity is said by
prominent Georgia farmers today to
be the cheapest, best and safest pow
er for general work
Banks Are Patriotic.
Os the six national banks in this
city which loaned the state of Geor
gia $475,000 to pay the school teach
ers, five charged three per cent, in
terest, and( it has just been learned,
। one of them charged only two per
cent.
The Atlanta National bank, one of
the foremost financial institutions of
the South, was the one that charged
only two per cent, and loaned $200,-
000 of the $475,000 borrowed. All
the banks made these loans simply for
patriotic reasons. They lose money
on the loans even at three per cent.,
as they have to pay six per cent, and
over for a large part of the money
in New York. While all of them
went into their coffers thus generous
ly, the Atlanta National was particu
larly patriotic.
The money was borrowed in accord
ance with a resolution passed by the
legislature authorizing Governor Sla
ton to borrow the money to pay the
teachers, who were many months be
hind. Governor Slaton issued an ap
peal to all tile national banks in the
state, but outside of Atlanta no rate
of less than four per cent, interest
was offered.
Make Fine Report.
The committee on financial reports
of the Masons’ Annuity has just made
its returns to the board of directors
of the supreme lodge, embodying facts
that will be of interest to Masons all
over the country.
The supreme lodge meets only
once in two years, and hence the re
port covers that period of time. It. is
sho’.vn that the Masons' Annuity as
sets at the end of the present fiscal
year are $647,310.81. The assets two
years ago were $420,601.22. This shows
a gain in assets of $226,709.54 in two
years, by far the most remarkable of
any organization of this kind in his
tory.
The supreme lodge expressed ex
treme gratification at the showing.
The report also showed a gain in new
membership of more than 50 per cent.
Included in the organization's as
sets are registered bonds amounting
to $594,018.85. Registered bonds are
considered the best form of invest
ment, and were chosen for that rea
son.
Hens Lay in Auto.
Fred Barnes, a well known Atlanti
an, bought a big touring car to ride
to and from his farm near this city,
but has not been able to use it since
the machine was left standing in the
stable at the farm the day after it
was bought.
Mr. Barnes is extremely fond of
some fancy bantam hens. None of the
hens bad been laying tor at least a
month before the afternoon when the
new auto was driven home. The hens
took possession of the tonneau.
The next morning Mr. Barnes
wished to use the car, but found that
three of his hens had each laid an
egg in it. Rather than disturb them
or break the spell, Barnes decided not
to use the machine.
Since that time the hens have been
laying daily, in what is undoubtedly
the costliest nest ever provided for a
hen since the world began.
Saw Monkey-Faced Owl.
Yes, there is really such a critter as
the monkey-faced owl. Bill Owens,
one of Atlanta's most truthful travel
ing men, comes back from a trip
across the Tennessee border declaring
that he has seen the freaks with his
own eyes, and that they are about
the most startling things he has ever
seen in Dixie.
“They made me think I was having
a nightmare in the midst of an Afri
can forest,” he declared.
On a farm where Mr. Owens stop
ped there was a big nest high in an
oak tree, in which were nine young
owls with monkey faces. In coloring,
he said, their feathers were a mixture
of brown and gray, while their pale
faces were an almost perfect repre
sentation of the white-faced African
monkey. As a rule, owls have large
eyes, but the monkey-faced owl has
small jet black eyes, set in the head
at a Chinese slant. The grown bird
is very powerful both in beaks and
rabbit over 100 feet in the air. There
is a little outstanding ring of feathers
around the owl’s face. The young
owls are two feet from tip to tip, and
about thirteen inches high when stand
ing erect.
Monocle as Ornament.
Whether Atlanta society girls will
adopt the monocle as an ornament to
their beauty is a much discussed ques
tion at this moment, particularly in
debutante circles. More than a month ’
ago several young buds started the ■
fashion of carrying a cane.
A pretty visitor from New Orleans:
—here on a house party —has startled |
her friends by appearing one evening :
with a monocle exactly like those worn
by ultra-Englishmen on the stage. The
little round window dangles at the end
of a black cord which goes around
the neck. The New Orleans miss
had dreamy black eyes of unusual
beauty, and the monocle served only
to accentuate their attractiveness.
The principal objection to the mon
ocle, from the feminine view point,
is that it is impossible to indulge in
much play of facial expression while j
wearing it.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
WEAR SILKEN LINGERIE
FEMININITY HAS DISCARDED ALL
OTHER MATERIALS.
Sanse of Luxury and Comfort That Is
Imparted Will Never Lightly Be
Given Up If It Can Be
Afforded.
Never .was there an innovation in
feminine dress that caused such a re
versal of an old and established stand
ard as this modern vogue of silken un
der raiment. Woman has taken up
the fad with enthusiasm, and, once ac
customed to the luxury and comfort of
silken garments next the skin, almost
any woman will economize to the last
penny in other wearables rather than
relinquish her silk lingerie.
Crepe de chine is the favored mater
ial and pure white the favored color,
though fatfit pink and palest blue
crepe de chine garments of this type
are worn by women who go In for col
or scheme fads in lingerie. Some of
the underwear is very plain, with no
further garnishment than a picot edge
of lace; other models are elaborately
trimmed with lace insertions and
bandings, even little silk and chiffon
roses finding place in the trimming.
One very fetching robe du nuit in
mind at the moment is of crepe de
chine with a deep yoke and sleeves of
shadow lace laid over flesh tinted
mull, and the yoke is joined to the
crepe de chine gown under a strip of
lace insertion, on which is sewed a
festoon of tiny pink rosebuds.
In contrast to this coquettish sleep
ing robe is a nun-like little nightgown
of white crepe de chine, rounded out
girlishly at the throat and trimmed
with a narrow picot edge of real Irish
lace. The short sleeves are also edged
with the line of Irish picot and the
neck is drawn up on a white ribbon.
But the cut of this simple little night
gown Is especially graceful, for the
garment clings, without any effect of
tightness, to the ankles and feet.
Another variety of silken sleeping
wear Is the feminine night shirt, an in-
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Empire Gown of Fine Linen.
novation of this season, and just now
more the fad than feminine pajamas,
which have become too ordinary and
universally accepted now to have an
attraction for women seeking sensa
tional effects. The feminine night shirt
is patterned exactly after the mascu
line one, slit at the side seams, narrow
collar, long sleeve and all. These gar
ments are made of China silk, with
narrow trimmings of futurist ribbon,
imitating the braid trimming on a
man’s cambric night shirt. Pajamas
are of crepe de chine and brocaded
China silk, the brocaded stuff forming
the little coat and trousers of crepe
de chine having cuffs of the brocaded
fabric.
A dainty little imported petticoat
is made of white crepe de chine. From
the knee to the hem the petticoat is
trimmed with alternate bands of
shirred crepe de chine and same width
bands of shadow lace. The bottom of
the skirt is finished by a narrow plait
ed frill of net.
Women who are traveling about or
making a series of visits, appreciate
this silken underwear, especially be
cause it may be laundered so quickly.
It is even possible to wear the silken
garments, washed and rinsed, but un
ironed, at a pinch.
The glove silk underwear, or Italian
as it is sometimes called, needs no
Ironing at all and clings to the figure
beneath narrow frocks. Chemises of
gMve silk come in white or colors, and
are tae coolest, most luxurious little
affairs ever donned beneath a corset.
These garments look best when rather
simply trimmed with a very little fine
lace, and, perhaps, a beading run
through the ribbon
MARY DEAN.
AFTERNOON GOWN.
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Model of blue velvet trimmed with
rnallne and lace. Effective tunic of
narrow Valencienne lace.
LACES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Color Has Wisely Been Left Largely
to the Taste of the In
dividual.
A compromise can be made with a
narrow ruching placed above a flat
turn over collar and the effect Is good,
but It is the wide double ruching that
frequent ugliness lies. Fortunately,
it is quite as fashionable to wear a
loose lace frill that half rolls away
from the neck and is caught above the
bust with a flicker of ribbon.
There is an admirable way of open
ing the blouse In front, running It to
a deep point, outlining It with two
inches of lace that falls backward over
a ribbon of black taffeta or colored
velvet; and in the open space left
there Is a flat band of lace crossed well
up toward the neck and drawn softly
down under the blouse. This Is a
good scheme for any woman whose
chest Is thin and who does not wish
to go In the street with much of her
neck exposed.
It is a good idea to remember that
a flat collar at the back of the neck
Is often better than a high one unless
it Is tight-fitting. One can adopt many
different kinds of frills and ribbons
and laces at the neck if they will only
remember to keep the back and the
exact shoulder line flattened by a
i turnover collar of thin white fabric.
EASY TO GIVE ‘INDIVIDUALITY’
Child’s Frock of Checkered Gipgham
Will Make Up to Please Both
Mother and Daughter.
Such an original little frock of
checked gingharn as appears today
will appeal forci
bly to the mother
who covets the
“individual” i n
her children’s
frocks. The little
short waist is cut
plain and finished
on the bottom,
edged with
squares piped
with white. Each
alternate one of
these is trimmed
with white but
tons. The short
set-in sleeve is
similarly finished
and trimmed. The
frock buttons to
the left of the
front with small
cropbet buttons. The straight narrow
skirt, joins the waist with only a
slight fullness.
Summer Shelter.
One of the best contrivances for a
shelter is the garden umbrella, for it
may be under circumstances that
would not justify the erection of a
permanent summer house or arbor.
These umbrellas are to be had in a
variety of forms, a very satisfactory
kind having a small iron table hold
ing a socket into which the umbrella
shaft fits. It Is nice to use anywhere
that shade is scanty.
Failure is the result of waiting for
other people to do things first.
Honest labor is the grave digger for
most worries.
Regular Attendant.
“Is your father a regular attendant
at church?”
“Yes, he goes once a year, whether
he thinks he needs it or not."
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion,allays pain, cures wind colic,2sc a bottle4or
So Like the Summer Girl.
“What kind of an engagement ring
would you prefer, darling?”
"Well, they generally give me —I
mean—oh, I am so confused —yours is
such perfect taste, Harry, that I leave
it all to you.”
Way of It.
“Our landlady's menu so often
snubs us."
“What do you mean by that?”
"It Is continually giving us the cold
shoulder.” —Baltimore American.
FOR WEAKNESS AND LOSS OF APPE
TITE.
Ths Old Standard ssnrrui strengthening tonic,
GROVB'STASTHLBSB chill TONIC drives out Ma
l&rla and builds up the system A true tonic and
sure Appetizer Fur adults and children. 60 cenUu
Good Wishes From Home.
When Mr. Brown was away from
borne on an extended business trip,
he got a long letter from his wife. It
ended thus:
“Baby is well and lots brighter than
she used to be. Hoping you are tho
same. I remain,
“Your loving wife.”
No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX
This is a prescription prepared es
pecially for Malaria or Chills and
Fever. Five or six doses will break
any case, and if taken then as a tonlo
the fever will not return. 25c. —Adv.
He Should Worry.
"The man who is habitually calm Is
often very exasperating.”
“Yes, particularly when he refuses
to become excited over our latest
hard luck story." ,
Same Thing.
Yeast —They say a fish never does
stop growing.
Crimsonbeak —Well, It hasn't any
thing on a fish story, at that.—Yonk
ers Gazette.
The Circle.
“Why do you play so much bridge?
“Because it’s great training for the
mind."
"What does it train the mind to do?”
“To play more bridge."—New York
Press.
Plea for Kitchen.
The kitchen should be the refinery,
the laboratory, the factory of the
home, and the pivotal point about
which the activities of the home re
volve. Costs should be considered
thoughtfully; no scrap of food should
be used again in various ways. By
buying staple food supplies in large
quantities from 15 to 30 per cent,
can be saved. Any one wishing to
do so may economize In this way.
Housewives must not look upon their
art as mere drudgery; they must
bring education, Intelligence, and con
centration Into practice. They should
learn, as manufacturers have, that
the best results are to be obtained in
a workshop that is wel' lighted, prop
erly ventilated, and comfortably
large, suitably furnished, and sani
tary In all its equipments.—Leslie’s.
Post
Toasties
for Lunch
Appetizing and whole
some these hot Summer
days.
No cooking —no hot
kitchen.
Ready to eat direct from
the package — fresh, crisp
and dainty.
Serve with cream and
sugar — and sometimes
fresh berries or fruit.
Post Toasties are thin
bits of Indian Com, toasted
to a golden brown.
Acceptable at any meal—
Post Toasties
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
