Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
MRS. EDWIN JOHNSON. one of
tho host hridrn nla In A.

the best bridge players in At
lanta. has about given up the
national indoor game in favor of golf
While the other young matrons of her
set are worrying over mo trumps" and
growing somewhat stocky on tea and
sandwiches, Katherine is taking regu-
lar instruction in swinging the bras
sic from "Scotty" Mckenzie, the big
professional at Brookhaven. Further
more, Katherine Is the best dressed
woman / have ever seen on the golf
course. When she began her lessons,
'Scotty" was positive she couldn't pick
up the game In so many fine clothes,
but nothing has interfered with her
progress.
| WENT to the Ansleys' the other
II afternoon to pay my party call
There were a dozen or so others
calling and l never in my life heard so
much conversation about two topics:
The Ansley bride and the Billy Halls
new house, which Is on the road to the
Ansleys. OF course, everybody agreed
that Laura was a beautiful bride, but
never was known such disagreement
as the Hall house caused. The house
Is white and square with green shut
tiers and Is fashioned after an old
Long Island mansion. One wife said
it looked like the Ansley Park post
office; another said she thought it was
the new Christian Science Church; a
| third declared she was sure it was a
schoolhouse and intended to send her
children there. Several of us took up
the cudgels for 1t. We said we thought
1t the "classiest" house of its size in
Atlanta, and it is. l would like to
see lot more like it instead of so
many gingerbread and sugar-loaf eff
fects that architects insist on building
for you these days.
Speaking Of the Ansleys. ell Of
the mothers OF two or more
daughters are thinking OF Mrs. Ans
ley as the luckiest woman in town.
Think of being able to give a weddins
and a debut bali with just one big
trouble. And such a beautiful we'd
ding and ball as they were!
OTIS of us who are close friends
Of Fannie May Williams were
- disappointed to hear from her
handsome husband, Jim, that she in
tended to prolong her stay in New
York for another week. Jim was a
very lonesome and disconsolate man
until the other day when she came
home and brought the good news
! about what had been keeping
her. The truth is that Fannie May
decided while she was in the East
that she would take a course In tango.
She kept the lessons all to herself
and is staying an extra week to finish
the course. And right here I want
to say that If Fannie May ever dances
as well as she looks, she will eclipse
everybody in this town. She is just
about my ideal Of a sweet and pretty
woman.
ND you ever consider what an in
teresting study the Psychology
of Debutantes would be? l
have, often. There is nowhere more
enjoyable, interesting, ingenious low
able sort of human being than the
debutante, particularly the kind We
have in Atlanta.
Yes, Polly Peachtree always has
time to think and wonder about the
lovely creatures. I wonder all sorts
of things. For instance, l am won
dering now whether Dorothy Hartman
has begun to turkey trot. The little
lady considered the matter with SUI
preme unconcern when l saw her and
talked to her at dancing functions
last summer. Mrs. Hartman told me
Dorothy had not learned the trot
then, and whether she would learn or
not depended altogether on her own
whm.
Not that she is a whimsical grit
Oh, dear, no. Dorothy l consider one
of the loveliest and most natural girls
in her set,
Another one with a mind of her
own is Jeanette Lowndes She is
simply not going to attend dances,
she tells me. She is a very unusual
young woman, I thought, to have a
determinatio like this, when all the
world is tangoing, hesitating Ca littla)
and trotting Ga lott. But, then, she
has serious purpose concerning her
singing gift. Her exquisite voice is
being trained by Barilli, and maybe
she is more interested in its devel-
opment than i'll the less serious mat
ter Of dancing.
Emily Lowndes. her sister, is a
finished musician, too. She and Jean
nette and Louise Riley and Katherine
Wylie, the dearest chums in the
world, are all girls to impress you
as independent OF outside influence.
& OMEBODY told-and can't
think who it was-that she
heard Mrs. William Huntley re-
mark that never did an Eastern host
ess serve such elaborate menus as
those to which the Southern people
adhere.
| knew it before, so her remark