Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20

be occupied by them this season, and
| they have also disposed of their sum-
mer home in Canada for August to
Mr.. and Mrs, Edwin p. Ansley, of
Atlanta, who, with the Misses Ansley,
leave the latter part of this month
for the North.
HE Wilson Sayre engagement has
occasioned much comment. The
young woman has not occupied
the White House long enough for us
to know very much about her, so 1t is
interesting to read that she writes for
the magazines. does settlement work,
rides crOss-saddle, plays tennis and
dances the one-step we'll She is GER
tainly a girl of diversified gifts. Oh, |
forgot to say she talks French and
German, like a native" and 1 guess
! she can sew, she can knit, she can
spin, a little bit"-like Snow White,
you know.
Young Mr.. Sayre is to be congratu-
lated most heartily. He will sympa-
thize with his wife in her settlement
work-for he is interested in that sort
of thing. too. and presumably his
family is, for he has a brother who is
a missionary to China. (There is
connection between settlement work
and being a missionary, somewhere
isn't there?) Mr.. Sayre is a Har-
ward man, so at this wedding the
crimson and yellow (horrors!) will
be blended in the decorations, l sup
pose
They say the wedding will be quiet.
though, so l will recall the aforesaid
supposition.
Another engagement of recent date
which attracted International atten-
ton, and on which commented last
week, was that OF Katherine Force
sister OF Mrs. John Jacob Astor.
Katherine only shines in reflected
glory. being an ordinary, pretty girl,
as was her sister before she became
the owner of a famous name. The
two young women are at Bar HarbOr
and l read that Katherine is dressing
entirely in white, as is her widowed
sister, and the two Of them have re-
Gently acquired lap dogs. (Why
should the mother of world-famous
baby need a lap dogO Young Mrs
Astor's dog is a shaggy Skye ter
rier. and Miss Force pets black spe-
cimen, which contrasts well with her
white toilets.
n OINCIDENCES are funny" any
way, and no example of the
queer freaks Of chance is stran-
ger than that of similarity of names
Why person named Jones should
select so often the front appellation
of Sadie is unexplainable, except Dy
the subconscious working of the law
of the association Of ideas.
l say subCOnscious because do not
believe that half the people of the
famous Jones family who name their
little daughters Sadie" ever heard, 20
their certain knowledge of the erst-
while Georgia girl who became ia
nous Newport belle, or would be
guilty of the snobbery Of naming their
babies after her, if they had.
l was sent off on this tangent Of
thought by reading over a number Of
society pages, from publications dated
in many cities of the United States,
and noting the many names similar,
not only in the family name, but in
the combination Of family and given
name," to those of Atlanta people.
Why this combination of names, de-
pending partly on choice of individu-
ais, should be so common an occur
renee is an inexplicable coincidence.
For instance, l saw in one week'sNs-
sue of papers from the Atlantic to
the Pacific a mention of one of Den
ver's smartest young matrons Mrs.
Harry English (siC-we might say OF
her Atlanta namesake). And in Jack
sonville, Fla. Ito take a long jump,
Mrs. Robert Maddox gave one of the
prettiest parties of the week"
Portions of New York society were
much interested last week in the mar
riage of Miss Mabel Drake. daughter
of Mrs. Frederick Drake, of Garrison,
y. Y, to Edward Livingston, of No.
III East Seventy fourth street, New
York CITY"
OF course, we are all familiar with
the famous Anita Stewart, who mar
ried into the Portuguese nobility, and
is the namesake of a popular Allan
tan, Mrs Frank Ellis, long identified
with Washington and New York So
ciety.
c ONE of our short, plump girls
may be interested in knowing
that the new athletic dances are
the greatest things in the world to
add to ones stature The medical the
DRY is that these strenuous dances
loosen the carriages and allow the
perpendicular growth.
This discussion in scientific circles
was brought about by the statement
Of Evelyn Thaw that since she had