The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19

falr sex. The restaurant is entered
by winding, picturesque balcony at
the left of the clubhouse, and is a
thing apart from the main building.
The south veranda and restaurant be-
long to the women. and not one of
them would think of intruding beyond
into the holy of holes of masculine
clubdom.
There is no fox hunting and little
riding in Atlanta's smart set, but a
great deal of driving and coaching.
The Horse Show, given in the
autumn, opens the season brilliantly,
and serves to usher in the months of
lavish entertaining for which Atlanta
is noted. 1t attracts society people
from all the Southern cities, and from
the viewpoint of dress and beauty is
one of the most notable of its kind
in America. During the Show the
quantity picturesque Piedmont Driv-
ing Club is very much the center of
things.
In every respect Atlanta is pro-
gressive. Many of its social leaders
take an active interest in club life,
reforms, and the broader educational
movements with which progressive
women are everywhere identified these
days. Mrs. Joseph Thompson, whose
beauty and charming personality are
SO we'll known in Southern society,
and whose country place, Rrookwood,
is a social hub for Atlanta's smart
set, held the responsible office of pres
ident of the Women's Department of
the Cotton States at the International
Exposition of a few years ago. Mrs.
w. B. Lowe. another brilliant social
leader, held for two terms the office
of president of the Federation of
Womens Clubs of the United States.
Mrs. j. K. Ottley prominent in those
educational movements which have for
their purpose the solution of some of
the Souths most serious problems. is
another woman whose brain and time
are divided between smart society and
the serious side of woman's work.
Mrs. James Warren English, Jr.,
is eminently a social leader in the
younger set, a clever and chic woman,
who makes a career, and a very brill
liant one, in society. In any list of
those who are recognized lead
ers in Atlanta's social life, es-
special prominence would be
given Mrs. Clark Howell wife of
the editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
Others socially prominent are Mrs.
Edward c. Peters, Mrs. William In
man, Mrs. John Grant. Mrs. Robert
Maddox, Mrs. w. H. Kiser Mrs.
Wilmer Moore. Mrs. H. M. Atkinson,
and Mrs. Robert j. Lowry-or rather
Captain and Mrs. Lowry, for the two
are always associated in the minds of
Southern society: their coaching par
ties and their many delightful and law
ish ways of entertaining, and above
all their personalities, have made them
among the most popular people in the
South Mrs. Clark Howell. who as
Miss Conner. was a great belle in
Southern society, is one of the few
native Savannah women who have
assimilated with the social life of
Atlanta. She is a woman of strong
personality and great charm and
beauty, and her social position is a
dignifed and distinguished one"
In writing of Southern society gen.
orally, Miss Andrews says
ITO me people--even well-bred peo-
pie who wear frocks and bonnets
stamped with the same names, who
speak in modulated tones as all we'll
bred people do, who have good manners,
good educations, good bank accounts,
and good blood, all the adjuncts neces-
sary for social purposes-to me these
people all have the stamp somewhere
upon them of their upbringing and
the cline from which they came. 1t
would be extremely stupid if they did
not. Southern society in such circum-
stances would resemble the Southern
plays wherein one type has done duty
for generations, though 1t may be
stated that the composite voice of the
best Southern people would not in the
least resemble the nasal drawl, with it's
illiterate pronunciation, which is ac-
credited along with a SLOUGH hat, a
broad cloth suit, and top-boots, to the
down South" hero of the Southern
drama. There are dozens of different
dialects in the South, and by these
may one discover the native place of
the most cultivated people, with as
much ease as the French ear discerns
the best bred, dame du Midi by her
soft, long drawn-out voice, and DIFF
ferentiates between the nasal notes
of Northern France and the bird-like
twitterings of the native Partisan. Ken
lucky and Tennessee take on tinge
of the West in their RS and o's. The
Virginian and Bostonian of the best
class speak much alike, but by the
Virginian's peculiar pronunciation of
car" is the native state revealed.
There is little difference in the accent
of the people of the different middle
Southern states save in the coast cities.
Charleston and Savannah people have
pronunciation peculiarly their own.
They talk rapidly, and the patois in
the lower classes is almost unintelligi-
BILE.
There are differences, too, in the
appear ante VI OOulHtIH women, que
to climate and locality; due also to
their upbringing. In New Orleans, for
instance, the Creole girl is almost as
restricted as her Partisan sister, and
can scarcely be accounted an American
at all.
1T is true that the new life of the
South is eliminating these differences
to some extent. In the old days South
ern women were refined and cultured,
but they were housekeeping people.
AS rule the daughters of good fami-
lies received their education from gov
ernesses, under the paternal roof Now
adays many Southern girls are edu-
Gated in the North or abroad. though
in the matter of American finishing
schools the South is still in a large
measure faithful TO Baltimore, and the
majority of Southern girls Of smart
society who are educated outside Of
their own state are sent TO one of the
famous schools in Maryland. This ex-
cellent foundation is supplemented
usually by year or more I'm Europe,
where the girl naturally assinilates the
chic appearance and the coquetry of
the French woman Nevert heless, the
discerning can usually find traits which
reveal Southern woman's naive state,
under all her foreign polish"