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

| June Now, you had better watch
| out about the other things that Polly
| has limited will take place. Maybe
she knows whereof she speaks.
1 AM just s mad at men as can be
] had the lOveliest story about
four young bloods you all know
that | intended to tell you to-day
and now | can't do it, These beauX r
they really are that-improvised ar
incoor golf game with olives for the
balls at one OF the clubs the other
night. The details of the game and
the miserable consequences are thrill
ing. | had all the facts and was
weaving a charming story around
them when a certain man who has
more to do with blue pencil--only
his Is red-than he should. called me
on the telephone and told me that
these young men were bashful and
sensitive and asked me please not TO
tell on them. Now. know them we'll
and like them. and I'll tell you conf
dentially that there isn't a blush in
the aggregation Why. the only way
you could get under the skin of one
Of them would be with mashie.
However, sometimes I have 10 let my
chatter be guided by this red pencil
man, so | can't tell you the story.
I'm sorry.
1T nearly always happens that in
trying TO csc e one disagreeah,e
duty we find ourselves inflicted
with one even less to our liking But
the girls out at Woodbury. School are
ngratulating themselves that th3y
have at least one clear recollection
where such was anything but the
case.
II was Just two or three weeks ago
when the smallpox scare was preva-
lent. Now, a crowd of schoolgirls may
have exalted ideas of Lady Montague,
and think her very remarkable
woman to have introduced vaccine
ton TO the English, but when II comes
to the test they dislike very much sac
riflcing their own arms and feelings in
the matter
And so this afternoon, when the
rumor of vaccination was hanging
heavily over the school, and a pro-
fessionally appearing gentleman
walked up the path. there was a scam
pering into tire cloakrooms and b..
hind doors of the girls who did not
want to be vaccinated. Only one of
them was brave enough to venture 10
the window to keep watch for the
gentleman's departure.
After about two hours of patient
watching and waiting, when still the
dreaded individual had not passed
through the gate. the girls steaithily
emerged from their hiding places, to
f1nd-it was not the doctor after all,
but lecturer. / ctures are as pain
full to most schoolgirls as is vaccina-
ton, even thoUTh they make believe
they are not. and you may well b.
lieve those girls were secretly elated.
n NE Of my friends has in her pos
session a bunch Of postal cards
which are of especial value to
her, for the postals themselves have
a history quite their own. And we'll
they might, for it isn't every day that
we meet someone who remembers a
simple request, and strives so faith
fully to carry ii out.
Suppose you were to meet someone
from a distant State, and you would
ask them to send you postals from a
particular part of that State, and Of
certain scenes; and about three years
afterward, someone were to call you
up, and ask you If you made such a
request, would you not be surprised?
Well, that is exactly what hap
pened. The visitor was from A town
in Arkansas and my friend being de-
sirous of securing scenes of that part
of the country, asked her to send
them to her Then she forgot all
about the request.
But the visitor from Arkansas had
not forgotten. She secured the post
ais, and then it dawned upon her she
could not remember the name of the
one to whom she was to send them.
1t was only through the efforts of
mutual friend that the cards finally
reached their proper destination.
THE inventive power of man is in
creasing; probably the suffrage
movement has something to do
with it. Women demanding the vote
are also demanding excuses from men
for their shortcomings.
However, the following little incl
dent is enough to convince one that
the men of to-day are quite woll
versed in strategy, even before they
leave college, During a holiday at
one of the larger college towns one
young lassie entertained house par
" VI lllNuuS. rive ppNS were m
vited by the hostess, four OF them he
ing from the uniVei iity and one
newspaper man known to his intimate
friends as "Corky."
Now, the bows did not feel any III.
will or Jealousy toward Corky-that is,
not at first But as the evening wore
on and he still continued to outclass
them and monopolze tn girls atten-
ton with his superior wit. they grew
restless Then they grew treacherous
and commenced plotting. About 9:45
O'Clock one Of the boys stepped into
another room ostensibly to speak TO
the hostess, but in such a crowd his
departure was hardly noticed, and the
conversation went as gayly on as ever
However, it wasn't long before the
dismal cries Of "uXtry." "uXtry," ''uX-
try" and its unintelligible accompani-
ment rang out in the cl ar ART
seemed just block or so away. And
still il continued, "uXtry," "uxtry,"
'uXtry," tantalizingly near yet tan
talizingly far away, Then il was
Corkys turn TO get restless Had he
been IN a dentists chair with a wide
piece of rubber stretched across hts
face he would have probably broken
his letters and made his escape ct
once But there he was held captive
by other than mere dentists bonds.
and-he really didn't know what 10
do.
Perhaps he was supposed to be at
the Office, and no doubt that added
somewhat 10 HIS restlessness. Any
way, after about Ave minutes OF eX-