Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-19

r you can wear apple green without
looking like fright, you may be
pretty sure you have a good COM
plexion
Apple green is the test OF beauty, so
far as skin and coloring go.
! | had an apple green dress once. and
1t was perfect tragedy, for while,
at least.
can say truthfully that apple green
| is the most unbecoming color in the
world. unless you are one in a thou
sand. and have a clear, white skin, and
faint rose Colored cheeks, and look like
the apple blossom which ought to hang
on the apple green bough.
This famous dress was presented to
me by a relative, one of the kind who
gives you the things that are popular
at the moment, or that somebody else
tells her would make appropriate gifts
I didn't want a green dress. because
don't care for that color anyhow, and
my heart Was set on a fur collar But
what can you do? You have to take
what you get, though in some future
existence / hope we viii be allowed to
choose our own gifts.
A Fright in Green
The green dress came to stay, and
not long afterward the giver paid us a
visit. Naturally it was expected of me
that l should wear the gown she had
bought me, and ! sacrificed myself and
my vanity on the altar of gratitude and
wore the green dress FOR the first time,
though l had had it for several months
and usually wear anything at once.
Well. in that dress l simply looked a
fright. Billows of green chiffon and
greener taffeta threw their ghostlike
shadows and reflections on my face.
and If I ever had any illusions about
being a pretty girl | lost them on the
minute
You have seen those plants that
spring up in the darkness of the cellar.
potato shoots and pale, pathetic look
ing onion sprouts. | looked like a cross
between those vegetables and the
greenery- yellowry picture of a flturist
painter.
could have cried. only that would
have made my nose red. and I thought
things were bad enough already.
My heart was filled with rage at the
giver of this dreadful frock, which
showed up every one Of the carefully
hidden imperfections of my complexion
and which even seemed to kill the color
OF my hair and eyes.
/ marched down into the sitting room
where the family were waiting for me
like an indignant tragedy queen going
to the scaffoId. Families do not spare
your feelings, and can tell you that by
the end of dinner l was doing every
thing in the world to control my temper
and my tears.
They called he "ghosty" and green
face" and made all kinds of unpleasant
remarks about my salow looking COM
plexion. and | was glad when dinner
was over and | could escape to my
room.
| tore off the wretched green dress
and settled down to have a good cry.
| There was a knock on the door, and
the old cousin who had given me the
frock came in She was all sympathy
and sweetness. and remarked;
We'll my dear l hope that you will
profit by this little lesson"
Lesson? What lesson can there be
in making me look perfectly hideous %
sobbed.
Several, as YOU will ,hnd,' she re-
turned Il have been noticing for some
time that you were thinking too much
about your looks and so | decided to
show you that YOU greatly eXaggerate
them You have nice eyes, and hair.
and good features but like a great
many girls you think that your COM
pleNion is good because you cover over
its defects with little powder. which.
by the way, is perfectly noticeable to
everybody.
The Lesson.