The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-12-12
The Double Life of
amanda Hatcher


er was OF in her habits, an eminently
correct young lady, but if you en-
terrain any such idea we wish to dis
abuse your mind right at the begin
ming Of this story. To speak of her
existence as double life is perhaps
an unfortunate way to express it, for
while she seemed really to have a dual
life, one was just duplicate of the
other lived just the week before.
To begin with, Miss Amanda was
only creature of the Imagination of
our society writer, and first made her
debut into the social life of Marietta
through the columns of The Marietta
journal. Other personages of real
flesh and blood, and we'll known to
the people of our little city, each
week came, or went, or entertained,
or were entertained, or were i'll and
recovered, or died and were buried,
were all heralded through the col
umns of The Marietta Journal, and
even before the creation of Miss
Amanda Hatcher, they too had form
ed the habit of duplicating one week
their acts of the week before.
At times some of these real person.
ages may have been inclined to doubt
whether they actually repeated their
deeds and acts of the previous week,
but when they found them recorded
in the one and only organ of public
ity ever claimed and warranted to
be "one hundred percent perfect" all
doubts must have faded as night be-
fore the day. We might illustrate
our point with hundreds of names of
our best residents, but we will not
make so free with their names in this
article while we have our own crea-
ture of imagination, Miss Amanda
Hatcher, who cannot resent any pub
licity we may find necessary to i'm
pose.
So we note for an instance that in
the social news of The Marietta Jour
nal of October "a appears the follow
ing item: "Miss Amanda Hatcher is
on a visit to relatives in Raleigh,
N. c."
And the spirit of Miss Amanda
must have been treasured of her real
ity when The Cobb County Times of
the following week, October 80, car
ried this item: ''Miss Amanda Hatch
er is the guest of relatives in Ra-
leigh, N. c."
Possibly some of the readers of
The Marietta Journal may have tried
to recall where they had met Miss
Hatcher when it announced in its is
sue of November 81: "Miss Amanda
Hatcher has returned from a. pleas
ant visit to Raleigh, N. c."
Certainly the readers of the "hun-
dred percent perfect" Cobb County
Times were sure that they were ac-
quainted with Miss Hatcher when that
wonderful paper announced on the
following week, November 27: "Miss
Amanda Hatcher has returned from
a pleasant visit to Raleigh, N. c."
Knowing that The Marietta Jour
nal is not zone hundred percent per-
feet" and therefore liable to error, its
readers were not yet sure of the iden-
tity of Miss Amanda Hatcher when it
said on December s. "Miss Ethel
Newcome, of Hendersonville, n. c.,
and Miss Polly Milton, of Raleigh,
will arrive this~week to visit Miss
Amanda Hatcher"
Really they must have had some
doubts as to whether Miss Ethel New
come of "The Newcomes" by old Will
liam Makepeace Thackeray, accom-
panied by Miss Polly Milton, the old
fashioned girl of Louisa M. Alcott,
would make visit to Miss Amanda
Hatcher this week. The doubts of
every one however should be forever
dispelled if that perfect weekly, The
Cobb County Times, should appear
this week with the news that these
famous characters had actually ar
rived for visit to Miss Amanda
Hatcher. Who would dare doubt, in
that event, that Marietta society is
being more highly honored by the
presence of these personages than At
lanta has been by the visit of General
Pershing?
/ However, remember this great hon
or for Marietta lies entirely with
that wonderfully perfect paper, THE
TINES, although we feel sure it will
follow our lead and announce this
week the actual arrival of these two
young ladies. 1t is at least worth
your while to get copy of this
weeks TINES and find out if we are
so honored.
Later: We find that we have been
so honored. Get THE TIMES and
see for yourself.