Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16

Now, when girl has beauty she longs to
adorn t-she Graves, she hungers for delicate
raiment for God has made her so. Nay she suf
fers, and is repealed by cheap and tawdry things:
so cramped and narrowed is she by her sordd
life that for her all the beauty of the world is
contained in luxurious raiment She would stand
unmoved before glorious painting, saturated
with sunlight, full of air, with wide open blowy
places. No thrill of awed delight could come to
her before the stern high loneliness of carven
stone-but her poor little soul would culver with
rapture over the graceful sweep of splendid
feather, and her heart will beat double time with
joy at the mere touch of the soft, almost living
warmth of fine furs.
IT, then, beauty can only reach her through the
medium of clothes, think how precious a thing
to her must be gorgeous wardrobe!
The Price of Success.
Then, when such a girl, pretty, clever. poor,
lands in the front row. third from the left of the
line, it's toss-up whether she remains right
there till her round smooth throat becomes lean
and scraggy, or whether some chance, some jack
in-the-box trick, losses her into the middle OF
the stage and sudden, headturning popularity.
1t seems strange that these people who so
often reach success by luck, never remember
that luck like a good rule, works both ways
and never, never prepare for the inevitable
change.
In her strange new aff1uence, the girl who has
made "a hit develops needs amazingly. The
cab habit is acquired in a week. In less time
she knows the joy of walking on 'the sweet,
sunny side of Broadway wearing hundred
dollar hat She who in the old days asked
nothing better than silver of any old kind
of soap for her bath in the family zinc-lined
tub, no longer use soap at ALL but only
almond meaI-so delicate becomes the favortes
skin, while her hot aromatic baths her stimu-
lating spice, or cooling fragrant rose, baths are
as necessary as they are expensive. 1t is dead
easy" to acquire habits of luxury, but try break
ing them once! They far more likely to
BREAK you.
Nor does the new card deny herself the Joy
of extravagant giving-for every actress Is
bread-wnner for some beside herself.
Did you watch the fight of an arrow,
sent aimlessly into the air? 1t will describe
perfect arch rushing upward and Strengthening
itself out horizontally and at the apex of the arch
it will seem for the part of a second to be sta
tonary. Then the point slips to the downward
rush-the completed arch and obscurity for the
arrow! And that is the life of most actresses
is just during those years of popularity and
high pay, the years that correspond to the sta
tonary arrow, that the public imagnes its
favorite star to be cutting wide swathe in
safety deposit circles, at least putting aside
many large round NEST eggs" But instead of
that she is adding about forty per cent to her
expenses by taking husband.
If he has brains enough, she turns him into
a sort of gentleman courier to purchase tickets,
check luggage and Jolly newspaper men. Some
times he is not up to more than running errands
or training her dog whom he will teach to sit
up and beg almost well as he can do it him
self. And when evil days come her sole effort
at economy consists in eliminating that husband
from her list of expenses. She drops him over
board
If it is folly to live right up to ones income,
it is a sin to live beyond it. Most actresses