Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02

N multi-millionaire was re-
w ported to have handed a
check for 100000 to Miss Frances
Schoemaker Dixon the other day, in
Baltimore, as his wedding gift to the
bride of his son, Childs Prick, he did
a great service or a great unkindness
TO the young bride.
Will this handsome personal for
tune suddenly thrust upon her turn
out to be for her own real good, or
will this charming, unaffected, sim
pie, home-loving, serious-minded
young woman be spoiled" and
turned into a frivolous, worldly So
ciety butterfly?
These are the questions being dis
cussed in Baltimore and New York
society and among young Mrs.
Tricks school friends, who are de-
voted to her and who sincerely hope
that she will use her money as an
increased power for good
Mr.. Frederick Townsend Martin, in
writing recently Of the frenzied tread
mill of fashionable society, and after
cataloguing the endless whirl OF SO.
cial duties and friyolities of the rich
woman of fashion, says with earnest
ness:
AT what time does a woman find
time to read in such a treadmill?
This frenzied social parade is made
up largely of people who talk well
on trihes and look profound over
'sophistry and humbug.
"If men and women have no time
to read, then they are unacquainted
with the great questions of the day;
if they are merely smatterers in
aesthetics, what sort Of a converse.
tion will they provide at dinner
table? Well, the inevitable will hap
pen, of course-they will talk twaddle.
The social treadmill is RESPONSE
BILE for any dizziness we have, 1t ac-
counts for the strange phenomenon
of a leisure class with nothing on
earth to do, getting nervous prostra-
ton doing nothing
1t will be an extremely interesting
matter to watch the development of
the charming young bride of the son
of the steel ilioUaire, and see
whether she will, as her friends
hope, develop along the lines of
serious-mipded purpose, using her
money and her position for good.
If so. then the 100000 wedding
gift which it is reported she received
from her father-in-law will be used
wisely and will increase young Mrs.
tricks opportunities for doing good
Bn if this money turns her head and
she enters the social treadmill. then
her life will become about what Mr..
Frederick Townsend Martin has so
graphically pictured.
Young Mrs. Tricks life up to the
present time has been in the nature
of a favorable augury for the future.
She has never been fond of society,
never entered the social whirl with
any enthusiasm, never making for
NAL debut at the Monday German,
one of the most exclusive functions
OF the Monumental City. Her
mothers older friends have always
admired her for her sensible views"
her freedom frcm false airs and
pride.
Mrs. Frick has always had luXu-
rious comforts, but her dress and
manner have always been those of
a girl of moderate means, and she
never chose her playmates by the
financial standing of their parents.
Her loyalty to her friends was shown
when her wedding invitations were
issued. Old school friends that she
had not seen for some time, older
friends who had petted her as q
child all received cards to the we'd
ding. The same sensible ideas were
shown in the choosing of her trous-
seau. There was not a collection OF
finery to mark her 100000 bride,
but there were plenty Of rich, modish
garments chosen in good taste to
become the bride of the son of a
millionaire. Her trunks contained
the things which would be needed
for the season, but there was no
great show Of gowns, bought Just be-
cause they We're becoming and
'Imight be needed"
She IS more fortunate than most
Baltimore girls, in that she pos
sesses three homes. The wedding
took place from the old Dixon home
on Park avenue where the bride was
born and spent the greater part OF