Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23


Il American Balzac to recount the
Coincide Humane of our modern
| hotel life. Such amusing and often
such distressingly sad things mark
the strange social existence that thou
sands Of our people are forced to ivs
In few hundred square feet, bounded
on all sides by walls of stone OF brick.
No one less than Balzac Is competent
to attack such a theme, and poor old
Balzac has been dead these seventy
years. BY the way, it Is a pity Balzac
isn't more widely read by our fash
ionable danes and demoiselles. A
few pages Of any one of his Scenes
Of Partisan Life" will put into the
heads of the most frivolous a fear
of God and the utilities of foolish
living
But l have. as usual, gone off at a
tangent. l started to tell Of a little
incident that still has the Majestic
Hotel by the ears. There came up TO
Atlanta and to the Majestic a few
weeks ago a rather ancient widow
from Middle Georgia. In a day or
two she had formed quite a friendship
for a good looking young fellow, VINO
couldn't have been any older than
her dashing daughter-whose dashing
titillates our larger Eastern cities
every now and then. The young squire
of ancient DANES and the widow be-
gan to monopolize the parlor on the
second floor, much to the chagrin of
the hotel dwellers who had been IN
the habit of repairing thereto each
evening for the playing of bridge and
the clearing of such gossip as had
come to ear during the day. The trou-
BILE was the young b 1u and the an
cient belle would close the door, and
none of the ladi, had quite the te-
merity to enter. They held caucus
and determined to. appeal to Manager
Lee Barnes Colonel Barnes notified
his clerk to have a bellboy proceed
But the door was Immediately closed.
Buttons returned, the beau closed the
door again. and so on. The comedy
was kept up for a night or two.
Then in desperation Colonel Barnes
suggested that the ladies sit the
couple out" They tried 1t. 1t worked.
The widow from South Georgia
moved the next day to another hotel.
4 UGH as I have mastered the art
Of concealing my ears, the YER
~ dict has reached me from Paris
that ears are again a la mode, MI
rabile dictu. curls are fashionable, and
my hair is as straight as string.
The stylish couture does not dis
close the ears in the old way of two
years ago, when the ears were to be
seen as the pompadour showed them,
but fashion goes q step further ana
gives us this effect: The couture be-
ing worn in Paris has the hair very
evenly done in large, loose waves,
drawn smoothly back from the fore
head and temples, without the slight
est tendency to a pompadour, and
generally shows the lobe of the ear.
The curls, which form decided
change in this arrangement of the
coiffure, are to be in front of the
ear and hand in a corkscrew effect.
There is positively no suggestion of
curl to give relief across the fore
head. 1t Is the smartest couture
which wears the curl or curls in
front of the ear these days and eX
poses the lobe. which usually holds
some wonderful jewel. This pro-
nounced change was forecast in
August at Deauville. l shall expect
this new couture launched in Atlanta
society Immediately.
TV GENTLEMAN who sometimes
~ goes to the weddings with me
remarks often upon the car
rage of the bridesmaid as she walks
to the altar to stand with the bride
as she plights her vows. l wish to
congratulate Callie Hoke Smith upon
the graceful way she handles herself.
for she has acquired an irresistibly
fascinating bit of swagger in her cor
rect movements, AS she glided down
the aisle at the marriage of Mr.. and
Mrs Marion Smith she was far and
away the most graceful girl in the
party, and we all know what a fair
assemblage of beauty this particu>
lar party could sum up. Callie pos
sesses weight, too, and 1t is very
much more difficult to inspire grace
under weight than slenderness. but
she has found herself mosl splendidly.
in the fashionable insouciance of
pose.
Il w ~ tlublhcil VA my
made wager some time ago
to the effect that whosoever
should marry first should receive
check of some fifty dollars from the
other. One of them became Bene-
dict recently and as | hear the story,
the wager was turned over to the
bride with the request that she do