Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28

: poly man with pigs face and
pair of twinkling, selfish, cold.
greedy pigs eyes, came by. Bunny
looked as if he had never been
quite sober in his life
so and SO, the violinst. yey
seedy the violinist, and very suIler
he looked, and the woman with
him. looked half scared to death
every time he looked at ner.
Old, young, pretty. ugly, seedy
and f1ashy-every one of the 30
hemians. and posing and false and
self-conscious, too, every mothers
daughter and every mothers son of
them.
They talked too loud, they. laugh
ed too loud, they looked at the
walters for approval. they ogled
each other too odiously when thew
began dinner, and before they were
through-dear me! 1 wished SO
hard that was at home.
Bohemian! Drunk and disorder
ly, that's what they were in plain
police court language, and I'd rath-
er see any girl Of mine prim
Puritan to the day of her death
than to have her get accustomed TO
seeing that sort of thing and taking
it as a matter of course.
What right has man to take
girl to place like that and tell her
who this faded notoriety is. and
VINO it is that sits guzzling at the
disreputable table with her disrep-
utable friends?
What right has gniddle-aged
woman to chaperon a decent girl
to any such place?
Bohemia! The real Bohemian.
that's a different thing. You don't
have to drink more than is good for
you to live there. You don't have
to eat messy food and tell risky
stories. You don't have to pre-
tend to admire elderly berouged
persons because they once ran
away with somebody's husband. or
completely ruined somebody's son.
A Bad Half Hour.
You just have to be natural. and
real. and honest and perhaps
little clever. You may dress i'm
Bingham or in silk, or walk in
purple and rustic in lace: no one
VIII care and many viii not even
know 1t is you they viii like. not
some posing, self scheming crea-
ture that pretends, But you-ius.
you as your mother bore you-and
il you are kind and generous aud
simple as well as wise and cIeva.
or even just kind and simple and
nothing more, they will love you
IN the real Bohemia, even if Won
like things to be clean and prara.
ham and eggs to ''rotis" and wilteo
salad.
SO you took her home, did you.
father-home to mother, home ta
little brother?
Bohemia! For her. for the utre
girl whose first tooth you have
somewhere set in some absurd rim
or other?.
And she cried all the way hon..
did she, and tried to be dignife
and indignant? Her soft chez,
was flushed with the cocktail size
drank before you arrived. and sine
kept saying that she would new
step out of the house again as long
as she lived. You had bumiitalea
and shamed her so.
Wen, well, it was bad half hour.
but it is past now. all past. aat
some day the little girl will tell her
daughter how you came and made
her go home with YOU.
1t may be Bohemian TO have the
curtains yellow instead of red, and
the cocktails will doubtless have d
new name, but they have the same
ld-fashioned effect. just the same.
and if you are a wise mother you
will keep daughter away from Bo-
hernia ana keep her far away at
that
Stop any one out Of dozen poor
things who slip by in the DARK
these chill painted, be-
dizened oglng, poor things. poor
things. and if she tells you the
truth you'll hear something aoot.
the first Bohemian dinner that vii.
make you glad daughter has som.
one TO protect her from them a".
all their ilk and kind
Here's to YOU Mr. Kansas City