Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19

OVERHEARD many amusing re-
marks on the fact that a promi-
nent young married couple have
changed their regular Monday night
seats at the Forsyth. The young man
in question, you must know is large
and blonde and good od-looking-so is
his wife, for that matter, but her per-
gonal appearance doesn't count in the
incident
He had a couple of seats for every
Monday night, right down in front of
the stage. Since the wedding-an
event Of several months ago-the cou-
pie have still occupied the front row
seats. That is, they occupied them
until a week or so ago, when a pref
" singing comedienne chose to ad-
dress her most fervent songs to the
good looking husband.
Soon afterward, it was noticed by
the Monday night crowd" that the
couple bad seats in the middle Of the
house. Last Monday night they oc-
cupied the new seats again, so now
everybody supposes the wife has got
ten tired of having her husband pose
-
the vaudeville stars.
Speaking of the theater and the 80
rlety night" at the Forsyth, which
everyone in Atlanta knows is Mon
day night, | heard a girl say the other
dav that she had noticed recently that
all "the boys" were invisible on Tues
dqv nights of late. While they were
prompt and regular escorts for Mon
day night they all seemed to drop out
of sight on the evening after. On in
curing she found that a dozen girls
of her acquaintance had noticed the
same thiug-nO dates were made on
Tuesday night, and II there was a
party on this weekday, the stag ele-
mont was conspicuous by its absence.
Now. girls. I've found out that the
h0vG by which name the young
fellows who make up the dancing con-
tiugent of the younger set are known
have elected to make Tuesday
night the Society night" at the new
hur.esque house. So you may dis
count that carefully prepared excuse
next Tuesday night. Tell EN- you
know all about it!
They knew he stole; he knew they
knuwed.
They didn't cry nor make fuss;
But vinked at 'omer down the road
And he winked 'back-the same as
us
/ REALLY must make public ac-
acknowledgement of a great mistake
printed in these columns recent
ly J am IN receipt of a "pome" two
or three pages long, in which a writer
under the nom de plume of Betty
Prm" Of The Rome Tribune, voices
her Indignation over a printed as
sumption Of mine that she had lnspi
ration for her column through my ex-
ample
She assures me, does Betty Prim,"
that she wrote such gossip" long be-
fore ! started my foolish chatter, and
incidentally accuses me of being con-
reited. Now the mistake was one
rf dense ignorance on my part. New
"r having seen The Rome Tribune
Heraid's society page-I am not a
WelI-read woman, you see, Just a silly
society chatterer-I naturally assum-
ed when shown the article signed
Betty Prim" that 1t was something
new
Moreover, ] didn't mean to infer
that Betty Prim's" chatter even as
an imitation, was inferior to mine,
nor that | had patent on my own
style, should anyone want to ape it,
so ] herewith extend apologies to the
'adN. Just a word more. In this
pome,' 'tis mentioned that many So
4ety chatterers wrote before l was
born notably Dolly Dalrymple, Sere-
ma Lamb, ct al. l grant that state
ment though 1t may not be altogether
accurate-but I do not see the ConneC-
I+on, as these writer's are original and
.h no way an imitation of me or of
my writings
The only similarity is that they use
a nom De plume and write of the So
''aI world. Miss Betty Prim-un-
grateful for the free advertising
gave her and thought was favor
says that ! am a "piler" if I do not
PRINT her "pome;" but I can't help
mat the editors wouldn't allow me
space for poem of that length by the
poet laureate of England-is there
one now, by the way, since dear old
Hl"ard Austin died?
Lastly, she says she can write bet
~, poetry than |, and she will wager
|thlng the big papers" print more
poems Of hers than Of mine. Granted
''S'r as | never wrote line of poetry
' my life. All that l print is not
nine. In fact, the supply Of news
paper poetry so far exceeds the de-
lnand ! regard it mere waste of time
.' compose my own. ! just steal the
.-ut: and so does everybody else,
nearly
HE news Of the engagement of
Cornelia Burton. Of Kentucky,
TO Thomas G. Machen, of Bal
more, which was announced a few
1SS ago. was received with cordial
interest here, where Miss Burton 8
,t9t1er was once the belle of the city
any prominent women will recall
ne days when Georgia Ball was the
.'oSl popular girl in Atlanta. She
as the ward of Mrs. James Ball,
lsler OF Mrs. Emory Park. At the
me Of her residence in Atlanta Miss