The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-04
Southern Society.

Atlanta Correspondence Chtcago Times.
From all parts of Georgia, at this time,
come families to spend few weeks at the
Kimball House, the largest hotel in the South
country. These people all know each other,
and all are descended from illustrious fore
fathers. In short, they are all first families,
as it were. They make up a genial and
pleasant company, any member of which it is
edifying to meet. Twice a week the barracks
band gives a concert at the Kimball, that
brings out the young ladies in promenade
costume, and very pretty and graceful they
look, too. At hop given in honor of the
guests, we had the opportunity of seeing
these maidens, the other evening, in silken
attire. The Georgia girl spares no pains in
making her toilet for ball. She will cut
the neck or sleeves out of her dress without
eXssh6o hoapsIsf1na RI 1hs etpRsle HxdtARe y xdtA s9egp.
ing, a want of sympathy between the dress
and the feet, and between the slippers and
the hose. Thus blue feet peeped from be-
meath blue skirts, and pink hose appeared in
cardinal slippers. Many old lace draperies
were worn, and some very stylish costumes.
The gentlemen were in accord with their
dress-coats, and wore them manfully. Said
the blue e-blooded Georgian to the heiress of
vast estates sG'a'ay, kin dance with you?"
"Yaas." And off they danced. The young
men with their arms as we'll as their legs;
not that they got down on all fours, but they
all shuffled in harmonious action. The girls
move with no animation, gliding with quiet,
easy manner. Among the bellies were Miss
Mary Lou Bacon, of Macon, Miss Daisy
Huff and Miss Stella Botrick, Miss Lou
Casey, of Augusta, and Miss Hilliard. The
typical girl of the South is tall and willowy,
has clear-cut features, and dark eyes and
hair. She loves to dance and is popular In
the ballroom. 1t is a pity she puts so much
wash and whitening on her face, for it gives
her the appearance of being languid and dull,
while am sure she is sprightly. The use
of liquid dressing for the face Is almost
universal among the girls and women of the
leisure class. ~ ~.
The question is asked In the North, " Will
Southern girls work." Most heroically and
successfully have Southern women adapted
themselves to the Strengthened circumstances
in which the ravages Of war left them--wid.
owed, orphaned, moneyless. From severe
schooling many have attained to an almost
Yankee shrewdness In managing business af-
fairs. These qualities are developed most
rapidly IN boarding-house keeping. Women
who were not called upon In their youth to
lace their own CATERS, and never knew what
twas to comb out their own hair, now pre-
| fer, when exertion is necessary, to do copying
or writing in an Office to housekeeping. They
retain the faithful aunty" of former days,
and with the best blood of the South In their
veins, these ladies 60 cut to cain a living for
both. Many are teaching in public and pri-
vate schools, and pupils in music, and some
are clerking in stores. And best of all, they
do it without murmuring, perfectful cheer
full, and seemingly content, and so grateful
for the opportunity. These are of the fami-
lies of those who fell In battle, or of those
who never rallied their energies to make an
other struggle for place and competence.
These broken gentlemen retain the oil man.
sion, but lands and slaves-their wealth
are gone forever. The picturesque element
of the landscape, the negro, Is an absorbing
study. Emerging from . group of shanties
that deck the hillside, he shuffies away to his
daily occupation. He Is easy-going and
shiftless. Where the white men wear suct
shocking bad hats, that worn by the colored
man is necessarily fragmentary. He doel
his work laxily and indifferently. Employ
ers, masters and mistresses, feeling their griI
of possession gone, either from lack of encr
gy or from inability to exercise the privileges
ownership gave them, are incapable Of di
recting them to much advantage. The ques
tion OF servants--how to- obtain and keeF
them-agitatest the domestic circle, and !.
earnestly discussed when ladies meet for 50
cial recreation. .ff
| One word concerning the brcakfast-table d
the south. II ID = wonderful and marvellous
institution. Everybody talks about II.
have counted four kinds or lot bread on The
table Of one Of the leading citizens Of At
lanta 1t one time, and II you ASKED for stall,
bread the servant would be despatched u
the bakers for Il. There Ii inuch conster
nation and solicitnde In the bosoms Of sun
dry philanthroplc statesmen over the filtnr'
Of the south In regard 70 the free use Of tn
derringer; but Isay unto you, the frying-psl
4 the South Il more deadly than the hip
fpoeket. &C.