Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-30
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newspaper out in the Dakotas has
a society column in dts page make up.
Like the over-crowded columns in Geor-
gia newspapers which have society col
umns, mistakes occasionally occur. This
Dakota editor went into raptures over
a brilliant society event in his town
where the chieftest leader in the society
was Mrs Orlando Overlook. In relat-
ing at length the happenings at Mrs.
Overlook's party, he said, in type that
the function of the winters occasion was
Mrs. Orlando Overlook's Feet"
He was promptly called down. Womens
feet unless they can accommodate them
selves in a Cinderella slipper, must be
omitted in the function notices. 1t Is
allowable 1 notice to mention shoes in
a bridal costume provided the shoes cost
above a dozen dollars, but it is a seri-
Gus offense to society to write about
society womans feet!
The hapless editor tried to wiggle out
of MS tight place in the following man
ner:
I'VE wish to apologize to Mrs. Orlando
Overlook. In our paper of last week
we had as heading: Mrs. Overlooks
Big Feet The word we ought to have
used is a French word and pronounced
the same way, but spelled .fete. 1t
means a celebration and is a very tony
word"
But will Mrs. Orlando Overlook ever
forget and forgive this repentant edi-
tor? Would 1t have been more tolerable
If this honest man had kicked his print
ers' devil" in the next issue? l know
not. The deed was done and if Mrs.
Overlook's feet are stable and labeled
anything approaching No. 6, the deed as
recorded will stand! The apology was
worse than useless.
And the pangs that Mrs. Overlook
has suffered who can tell? Just one
little letter in one little word has out
ragged her feelings and put her feet
along with the Dakotas ION the map"
Spelling is a lost art in a majority
of public schools. Along with a fash
ionable penmanship that defies the pa
thence of the recipient and does not i'm
mortalize the sender, spelling plays
significant part in all our business af-
fairs, including society functions as de-
scribed in the accommodating news col
umns of the daily journals. 1 occasion
ally glance over the descriptions of the
dress parades that occur in Atlanta So
ciety. The word gown that our fore
mothers would have frowned down in
their heyday of youth and fashion is
the word that is played upon in extenso.
The only gowns that were spoken of
in my childhood were ''night-gowns-
and my grandmother called hers bed
gowns"
Why abandon the word dress" and
daily with "gowns?" If your newspaper
should accidentally report that an At
lanta Mrs. Overlook had appeared lat
night" in her "bed-gown" you can set
it down there would be a racket!-Ac-
cidents will happen.
If a woman goes bathing at Palm
Beach and comes out, in her skin-tight
costume with naked feet, it is allow
able; it seems to say it is all right.
But that costume on the public street
would be all wrong. If her body is
absolutely nude above her arm pits,
at Mrs. Overlook's function, that is all
right, to be recorded in the papers, but
the ID would be to pay" If the nude
shoulders and bosom were accidentally
alluded to in the wrong place. ..