Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
All Around
The Town
Little Facts and Fancies About
,WelI-knoWn Atlantans,

Fred Houser, secretary OI the At
lanta Convention Bureau, is known as
the Perpetual Smiler" bat somebody
erased the smile from his face last
week, for a few moments at least.
Fred thinks he has the 1914 conven-
ton of the American Road Congress
tied up in a sack and delivered, and
he is Correspondingly happy, because
the convention is a big thing. j. f.
PennybaCker and Charles p. Light
came to Atlanta last Friday and Sat
urday, and Houser was busy showing
them the sights and eXpatiating upon
the advantages of Atlanta, how the
convention would not be a success
unless it were held here, etc. He
slipped away from them for a few
moments to do SONG work at his Of
flee, and a friend entered.
IL understand that PennybaCker
and Light have just announced that
the convention goes to New Orleans"
stated the friend, pleasantly
"Huh?" exploded Houser. He
stopped smiling, damned his hat
down over his ears and fairly flew for
the Piedmont. He didn't smile once
during the four blocks An hour later,
it is said, he was looking for his
friend with one of those smiles that
pirates WGdI,
w. II. White, president of the
White Provision Company, is losing
a lot of sleep because he made a
solemn vow to attend the Georgia
Products Day" dinner at the Audito-
rum on the 18th deCked out in GeOr-
gia- made clothing from head to foot.
He got his clothing, and then some
well meaning friend asked him If the
cloth had been woven in Georgia
Investigation developed that it had
not, and the suit went into the dis
card. Another one was purchased,
his friends say, and then Mr.. White
found that the buttons were manu-
featured in New Jersey, and that the
dye that colored the suit was u Lde
somewhere else in the North Mr..
White has sent scouting letters all
over the State, looking foT some
clothing that fills the bill, for he SOL
EMMY declares he will not attend the
dinner unless he can make good his
promise.
They were gathered in a rear room
at the courthouse Saturday morning
lawyers, clerks and hangers on dis
cussing the probabilities of the Tech
Auburn game. A stranger, appa-
rently 20-odd sheets in the wind, was
vainly attempting to get a line on
the conversation. Suddenly he arose
from his chair and revolved to the
center of the group.
81 don't know a blankety- blank
thing about Auburn or Tech, but l
can lick any blankety- blank man
who ever went to the University of
Virginia" he announced with a glare,
He must have attended V. Nj. L."
was the chorus comment
do you know why a honeymoon
is called a honeymoon inquired
"Charlie" Hartman, who has been
best man" at more weddings than
most ANYBODY in Atlanta.
well" ventured an innocent by
stander, "a moon is a month and
the word lunatiC' comes from luna
Latin word meaning the moon
wherefore, i suppose
Nothing of the sort" snapped Har-
man. And, seriously now, It was
custom among the old Teutonic tribes
to drink of diluted honey for 80 days
or a months age, after wedding
and from this custom came the eX-
preston of honeymoon. Attila the
Hun drank, it is said, so freely Of by
dromeI on his marriage day that he
died of suffocation, And that's the
origin of the word honeymoon
And there you arel