Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-09

NELL FLETCHER. Of Jackson
III VILE, who Is to be married soon
10 the heir of English
baronet, is an intimate friend Of Lucy
HolSc Smith and was one Of the
Southern girls who danced the min
yet which wac a much heralded fea-
ture OF the Southern Relief Ball in
I Washington last winter. Lucy WAS
also one Of the dancers, and the
two young girls were much together
| last season. / hear that the ro-
nance which has resulted in the en-
gagement of this young Southern
girl to Lionel Smith Gordon, only
son of Sir Lionel Smith Gordon,
baronet, and Lady Smith Gordon nf
AldeTholt Lodge, was fostered
/ through a three months courtshlp
in England when Nell Fletcher ami
her sister, Mrs. Thomas Kemp, were
guests of Lady Duff Gordon, at Al
derholt LOdse, the ancestorial nome
of the Dut.-Gordons. 1t was there
the young couple met and fell in
love, young Smith Gordon being Il
kinsman of Miss Fietcher's hos-s.
Nell Fletcher has been a leading
spirit in the social circles of her set
since she made her debut two years
ago, She is gifted histrionically, and
has often been seen in amateur the
atricals and other affairs for charity.
She is a member of the Winnie Da-
Wis Chapter, Children of the Con-
federacy. and is true-blue Sou:h-
erner. The wedding has been an
uounced for the first day in Decem-
Der, and the couple will sail soon
afterward for Europe, to spend
Christmas at the ancestral home Of
a1f
some day "Milady" will reign su-
preme. For the present, they will
live in Dublin Ireland.
This week is certainly "old home
week" in Atlanta society. Did you
stop to think in the constant Whirl
Of the weeks affairs, that a half
dozen of the girls of other days are
here, coming from homes far and
farther to share in the season OF de-
butantes and brides Some have come
to witness the debut of a young kins-
woman, others to see a friend or
sister or a brother married. There's
Mrs. Leigh Palmer, from Washington,
d. c., who came to attend the mar
riage Of her brother, Jesse Draper,
to Constance Knowles; and Agnes
LadsOn, now Mrs. c. A. Dana, of New
York. is here to attend the marriage
Of several Of her good friends and to
have a share in the gayeties of the
season / saw Mrs. William r. Hunt
ley, of New York, on the porch of the
Capital City Country Club the other
day, looking as pretty as ever she did
when she was jamie Speer, of At
lanta. Mrs. Samuel G. Bonn, who
has come from San Diego to spend
q while at home" is receiving a
great welcome, especially warm be-
cause she brings with her two hand
some Riddles" who never saw moth
ers old home" before. Mrs. Bonn,
once Laura Adair, is with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs A. d. Adair. Among
others I've seen at some one or other
of the numerous affairs of the past
week or so are Mrs. Cay Mccall, of
Jacksonville, formerly Miss Logan,
and Mrs. Wade Langston, of St. Louis,
who is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. II. L. Collier
TILL women know that the present
"A styles in women's hats are d.
rect temptation to the amateur
milliner. All there is to the modish
chapeau is shape" with the right
lines" and an ostrich feather, an al
grette or plain "stickup" in the
OfiC rev lIlSIe ne VINO VIII resist
the temptation of buying a hat I'M
trimmed, an ostrich feather unat-
tached, and deluding themselves into
the idea that they are saving money
by lacking the feather on the hat
themselves. Consequently there are
lots of lost feathers at this time !
told you of the young matron whose
aigrette flew out of a thirteen-story
office building. and now l hear q
young girl who went to the Tuesday
evening dance at Segadlo's last week
is bemoaning the loss of a costly
Paris ostrich plume. And the worst
of it is she thinks one of her best
friends has the ostrich feather and
Will not give 1t up.
Now know the facts in the case,
and il Jleases me to assume the role
Of peace-maker. l have read some
where that the peace maker is
blessed. but experience teaches me
that there is a risk in II. However
the ostrich feather was lost just out
side of Segadlo's, as the owner left
the ballroom. A young man passing
later picked it up. and the girl he
vas with-a friend of the lost feather