Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

n engagement announcements. in
fact, the formal newspaper one
Is being discarded altogether That
city was never much on giving their
news to the papers; so it is not proc
able that other cities viii follow them
in adopting this fad, as it now seems
10 be. Never has society woman's
picture appeared in an Augusta pa
per, yet they seem willing enough to
let other publicati tons have them
But going back to the announce
ment idea. several girls tried it last
year and ! felt deadfuIly peeyed over
It, OF course, am kind enough near
ly all the time not to say anything
about engagements unless the lady
herself tells me about II. but II she
gets stingy with her affairs I'll have
TO tell all l know anyway. Isaetta
Phinizy. you remember possibly as
the guest OF Marion Goldsmith last
winter. She was to have been one
of Charles owens bridesmaids had
she not decided to have home we'd
ing instead OF at the church after
the trouble she had with her eyes. AS
] was saying, Miss Phinizy has been
telling her friends for several weeks
past about her approaching marriage
TO Henry Garrett and they in turn
told everybody they saw, so, of course,
il was no great secret, and they de-
cided there was no use trying to keep
it longer. Atlanta friends, both of
the f1ance and hance, have been, dis
GUESSING il or weeks, and another wed
ding which will take place in the
spring has been gossiped about until
II is not new to any one now. ! re-
fer to the engagement OF Mary Por-
ter TO Ferdinand Phinizy. Ferdinand
is the brother of little Miss Isaetta
Phinizy, and it is quite unusual that
two weddings in the same family
should take place so nearly at the
same time.
! know of one in Atlanta that is to
take place in the fall. The girl her
self told me, and said she didn't in
tend ever publishing Il, as she was
having such a good time telling her
friends herself Every cay she meets
some one to whom she can confide her
secret, which she doesn't count any
longer as secret. She even gave me
permission to talk about il all /
please. but I am not going to tell all
you people, for she might want to
tell you individually. You can keep
fun in that. The man is very hand
some, and doesn't live here. But l
am afraid will tell you too much. so
/ had better quit.
n 10 more will milady fiounce down
IN Peachtree street in the seductive
slit skirt. Fashion has decreed
its Punishment. Madame Joire, OF the
House of Paquin, the Partisan fash
ion creators whose gowns have been
on exhibition in New York and Phil
adelphia during the past fortnight. |
brings the edict direct from the ora
Gle of mode on the banks of the Seine.
re slit skirt? Feet is now tres
Vulgaire! No woman will show her
her-feet in re new style. Re slit
skirt? Mont Jamais!"
Thus does the representative OF the
Maison de Paquin lay down the law.
New schemes have been devised so
that milady may step into her linn
CUISINE with greater comfort. There
IS now a flare to the heretofore mar
row skirts below the knees, and the
afternoon frocks are fully six inches
shorter There are knee sashes. thus
combining the skirt TO the figure as
low as possible, and from under these
comes the flare or fiounce
Possibly you don't like my talking
about fashions so much, but you must |
remember that there is scarcely any |
thing else 10 talk about.
Seeing a real live model in one of /
the department stores the other day |
wearing a pale green wig with her |
absinthe gown of figured crepe de
chine caused me to stop and think |
that, of course, for these new colored |
wigs the hair ornaments will have to
be different With the absinthe gown !
and hair there must be pins set. with |
emeralds For the rose -colored gown I
and hair, the rubies; and turquoise |
and sapphires for the blue wigs, with |
an amethyst for the purple and law
endsr tonss.
Now, you would never have thought /
all these changes would come with
the simple dying of hair! Yes, and |
later on we will find that other |
changes will have to be made. That |
is a trick of the trade-that eternally |
changing fashion.
I SAW pretty Evangeline MacKinnon |
last week when | was on a shop !
ping expedition. | stopped to in
quire about the plans for her we'd
ding, which is to be the second we'd ,
hAh6 Va -haANaAs k'iAS NOAh Aht - NOulN
take place at the home of her moth
er, Mrs. w l.. Barnes and DIR. Barnes,
on Piedmont avenue. at o'clock on
the evening OF March 10. Robert
Davis, of Chattanooga. is the man
whom she is to marry, and hear that
he is going TO bring Charles Chip /
man, Of New York. here for his best
man Miss MaCKinnon is the Oldest
daughter of Mrs Barnes and they
have only lived her for a few years,
coming from Detroit where Mrs
Barnes made her girlhood home. Miss
Evangeline. or Van" as everybody
calls her has endeared herself so in
the hearts of everyone who has met
her that It is going to be very hard
10 give her up. She is quite young.
too. and il does seem that she could
have stayed with us Just a few years
longer She is a tiny little girl, stand
ing on her tiptoes she would hardly
reach the FIVE foot mark. and so very
graceful is she She dresses very chic
and wears the most becoming little
ChapeauN She will make an ideal
bride and her younger sister Miss
Marjorie, who is still studying at the
washington Seminary, is going to be
her only attendant. The wedding will
be small, only the fewest number
OF friends being invited to be present,
and an Informal reception will fol-
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