Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-09

B basis longer dfused chaotic affair of
clques and circles but solid, co-ordinated ef-
the promotion of nations interest in the
At least, this is the case in Germany. Society
functions in Germany today gatherings for the
discussion of problems entertainments for the
raising of funds for innumerable charities and
long list of activities, with rolled for the
work of war; the making of bandages, the knit
ting Of socks neckbands and mttens, the sewing oil
clothing the nursing of the wounded and the cooking
distribution of foods for the tightening of the
plight of the poor.
Society has been transmitted by magic into
social service The young German girl now has her
coming-out party at Red Cross gathering or a ba-
for raising funds for the of war babies
Balls parties elaborate dinners receptions and
all other lightheared entertainments have become OBJ
soete One cannot entertain ones friends at table on
an allowance Of one egg per week. one-quarter of
pound of butter and the rest of the meagre war ra-
tions.
entertainments table given, gen.
orally had in hotel restaurant, and the guests
bring with them their bread and meat cards.
These dinner parties solemn affairs AS there is
little travel in Germany these occasional dinner
and luncheon parties form important source of in
to the suffering hotels. One of the for
the popularity of such gatherings is that does not
have to exhaust the of ones butter,
milk potato cards at the hotels and restau
rants but receives limited portions of these articles
extra.
Public dancing has forbidden throughout
many. The halls where the working men and the
days before the have been closed While dances
allowed in the privacy of the home they sell
dom given. The popular feeling is it indecor-
Gus TO waltz and fox trot, while so many homes are
filled with the of death. This popular feeling
successfully restraints those few spirits
left careless and unsobered by the great tragedy.
There remains but little social recreation to the
wsll-to-do, and almost none for the poor In way
this makes monotony of miseries and priva-
tions more difficult to bear. The poorer people flock
to the moving picture shows and the cafes
IN he MIA all
the ZeIten Alice a row large gardens where
play every evening filling the Thiergarten with
music, did larger business than during the
past summer. These places were filled TO their ca
pacity every night, dense crowds wandered and
down outside listen to the music.
the stead of the amusements of former days,
young society girls putting in long hours in
relief work They work the streets, in the
hotels restaurants and other public places from
early morning till late at night, armed with small
metal boxes, collecting the last pfennig the citys
daily surplus money for the benefit of the war VIC
Tins. These young collectors found
in every German city.
MANY of the younger and older sets have taken
the duties Of nursing the wounded, and they work in
bospitals that formerly the fashionable clubs,
in which they played away their time. Thousands Of
society girls members of the volunteer corps for
caring for babies OF the whose mothers must
work away home throughout the day to exc out
scanty incomes These well-bred young nurse
maids go on duty early morning hours, and
main occupied with their charges until the worker
comes home night.
Nearly every social gathering has serious pur-
pose. AS lighter means for passing away this time
of depression, many lectures, musicales amateur dra
matte performances, and bazaars are arranged and
their proceeds go swell the funds for charity. The
charity has become the most favored recrea-
ton of all Germany. These numerous undertakings
represent a nation imposing a voluntary tax upon its
surplus to the utmost limit that the traffic
will it is sefimposed this tax is borne
cheerfuIly and generously.
just two subjects of conversation in
Germany, and food. The old gentlemen gather
regularly night secluded cafe and night
bloody battles glasses of their inferior
beer The hundreds of thousands of these nightly
war-boards probably, devised greater volume
Of strategy of unique and startling kind, than
the combined general stats of Europe
Wherever more housewives assemble wheth-
er in shopping district in the cafes.
iy calls shortages experiences,
tons and food prospects are all the gossip. One
meets ones discuss with them substi-
tutes the ways and of ones personal expe-
setting acceptable table despite egg
pound of butter a month Many of the
tales of expedients that told in these family
ferences filled with adventurous human inter-
of Robinson Crusoe. The telling Of
tales of clever makeshfts forms of principal
reiefs from the enforced Spartan endurance.
Many of the daughters Of Germany's wealthy
ufacturers put by all their costly playthings
expensive hobbies, and have taken up their
fathers factories that the employees drafted the
army have relinquished. These girls are filling the
places of bookkeepers. the senOgraphers
of departments and factory managers Moreover, they
filling these places well, and many of them will
refuse to return to the routine of balls theater
parties after the
The secret of putting aside anxeties and Of for
getting occupation. Thus it comes that a
great many young German old men have,
of their free will, in in need Of the wages
earned worked the farms in harvest time help
ing the farmers overcome the lack of farm
adventures of eity-bred young the farms
have largely suppanted the mother-in-law jokes in
the comic papers The society miss places the tin
bucket the advises that docile animal
hat is he time N tn Tho
try she feeds teaspoonfuis of city tonic to the
wondering pigs in order that they may fatten the
quicker Whatever tho value of her inexperienced
services, she comes back to the city the fall firm
of flesh tanned with the roses back cheeks and
with much of the sombre depression gone from her
eyes.
Snort, sport, is the important element
in warning Gersnany's social life. Men and women,
young and old when a from their arduous labors