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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

1t is quite possible for your house
dress to be just as smartly tailored
as your street dress, provided you
choose the right style and make it
carefully. No. 1913 has a number Of
good features and is easy to make.
The skirt is well cut and has four
cores.
The ladys house dress No. 1913 is
cut in sizes So to A inches, bust
measure. Size So requires 6B yards
27-inch material, with q yard So
inch contrasting.
Limited space prevents showing all
the styles. We will send our 32-page
fashion magazine, containing all the
good new styles, dressmaking helps,
serial story, ETC., for S cents, postage
prepaid, or cents If ordered with d
pattern. Send Is cents for magazine
and patternn.
In ordering patterns and magazines
write your name clearly on a sheet
of paper and inclose the price, in
of paper and inclose the price, in
stamps. Do not send your letters to
the Atlanta office, but direct them to
FASHION DEPARTMENT,
ATLANTA JOURNAL,
80 East Eighteenth st.
New York City,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Compound and the Liver Pills ana
used Lydia E. Pinkham's sanative
Wash and now /, am well, can eat
heartily and work: give. you my
thanks for your great medicines. You
may publish my letter and will tell
everyone what your medicines did TOE
Mrs. PEARL HILL, Alb Jacks
boro st., Knoxville, Tennessee.
Hundreds of such letters express
ing gratitude for the good Lydia II.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
accomplished are constantly being re-
ceived, proving the reliability OF this
grand old remedy.
If you are i'll do not drag along
and continue to suffer day in and day
out, but at once take Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, O Woi
mans remedy for woman's Ills
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
LEMON JUICE
FOR FRECKLES
Girlsl Make beauty lotion
for a few cents-Try it!

Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white, shake we'll, and
you have a quarter pint of the best
frecl1le and tan lotion, and complex
ion beautifier, at very, very small
cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard
white for few cents. Massage this
sweetly fragrant lotion into the face,
neck, arms and hands each day and
see how freckles and blemishes dis
appear and how clear, soft and
rosy-wh1te the skin becomes. Yes!
1t is harmless and never irritates.
.(Adyt,)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

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my head bothered
me, all caused by
female trouble. [
was three years
with these trou.
bles and doctors
did me no good.
Your medicine
helped my sister
so she advised me
to take it. / took
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Children: old but
from, they they surely
queter
Wish, that with up to
the wonderful botanical
Aquarium. All that is OLD the people here
great treat to lovingly AUNT JULIA.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Your neighbor would enjoy read
ing The Journal Tri-Weekly articles
by DR.. Frank Crane, Frederic J,
Haskins, DR.. a. NJ. Soule, Mrs. M.
H. FELTON, and many other famous
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
MARY MEREDITH'S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME

Dear Miss Meredith:-The advice
I am asking Is very different from
any 1 have seen in The Journal.
am a young college girl, seventeen
years old and am tall and slender
am not in the least conceited, but
everyone says I am really beautiful
and attractive. But whenever a party
is given here, it seems that every
one is invited except me. In fact,
everyone Sights me. 1t is not be-
cause my family is poor. because we
are not, and I have lots of pretty
clothes. But as 1 said, I know l
am not vain nor conceited, but I am
telling you this in order for you to
go to another place to live but we
just stay on here. Mother and /
have talked about the younger Set
sighting me, but she says just wait
and I'll have a good time "some
time" but 1 want it now, while l.
too, am young.
Could you please advise me what
to do? Please print this as soon as
possible. Thanking you just heaps.
Print in the Tri-Weekly Journal.
LONELY MARIE"
Il think the main trou-
BILE which exists is jeal-
ousy. The young people are jeal-
Gus of you. But perhaps you are
greatly to blame. You must try
and be less self-conscious Girls
are rather inclined to pettiness,
and they see that you are pretty
and attractive to the boys, and
unless you make yourself gra-
cious and charming to them, and
sincere in your regard for them,
you will always be unpopular
Win the girls first, and when
you do that the men will follow
like sheep. Become interested
in your sex, and you will be
successful,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
Youpr New Cousin.
IDA MAE DANDY.

Hello Auntie and Cousins: Here we come
again to join your happy band of boys and
girls. Don't guess you cousins have forgot
ten u.s., have, you? What are you cousins
Well we will describe ourselves, so cousins
don't run. 1, Bernice, have blue eyes, fair
complexion, brown hair, five feet eight
nineteen years old March 81. l, May, have
blue eyes, fair complexion, light hair, about
four fest seven inches tail, weisA 100
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BACK HURT
ALL THE: time
Mrs. Hill Says Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Removed
The Cause.

Knoxville Tenn.-"My back hurt
me all the time, I was all run down,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit Georgia boy into your happy
band of boys and girls? If you will prom
Use not to laugh, 1 will tell you how ugly
1 am. So here goes: have dark hair, fair
complexion, 6 feet high, fourteen years old
and weigh 100 pounds. If there is any of
you good-looking girls who wish to write,
let your letters fly to Ferol Cooper, Blakely,
Ga, Route 2. If this escapes the waste
basket, 1 will come again.
Your nephew,
FERQL COOPER.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Being an actor is some
job" cannot tell you how
to get upon the stage. The only
way, it seems, you will have to
go to a place where they produce
plays, like New York, Chicago,
or California. Go to the OFFICE
of we'll known producer, let him
question you as to your ability
and give you a trial. In the
meantime you might have to get
real job and work in order to
live. One must have real ability
to become a good actor. The
market js overlooking with trash
now. There are no producers of
plays in Atlanta.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Dear Aunt Julia:
VIII you please move and give me seat
by Aunt Julia or some good-looking cousin :?
What do you cousins do for pastime? I
60 to school and go horseback riding. My
age is between twelve and sixteen years.
I wear glasses and I would like to CORE
spond with some of you good-looking girls
/ will close, hoping to see this in print
Your Cousin.
DELE DOHERTY.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Dear Madam: Sometime ago a
letter was sent to you signed by
things in that letter that were ridi-
culous, things I am innocent of.
Some one wrote it and signed my
name to it. If you can find that
letter and send it to me, I will pay
you well. 1t was written by a cou-
sin of mine. I wish you would say
in your next issue that the letter
published in your column with Alma
Matthews name signed to it was
net written by her and meanwhile
will you please try and find that let
ter. 1t will help to re-establish my
good name
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Wrightv1Ue, ga.
P. S. All you cousins write to me.

Dear Aunt Julia: AS have been reading
thought l would write to you. 1 enjoy
reading the letters very much. I guess you
would like to know what l look like. l
fair complexion. am five feet high, weigh
ITO. will close. All cards and let
is my first letter I hope 1 will this
Youpr New Cousin,
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Yours very truly,

I am truly sorry there is a
person so lacking in principle
or decency, who would know
ingly try to destroy another's
character or good name AS
Shakespeare said, "He who steals
my purse steals trash, but he
who filches from me my good
name takes that which enriches
him not, but leaves me poor in
deed" The man, woman, boy or
girl who would stoop to do a thing
like that is too degraded to mix
with other people. l am sorry
am unable to return your let
ter, as all letters are destroyed
by me after they are answered.
1 haven't any way of knowing
when I receive a letter with a
persons name signed to it,
whether they are the real ones
Or not. But 1 hope the readers
Of the Mary Meredith column
will not try to hurt one another
by playing pranks Of this kind.
1t is very dangerous, and it is
blackmail, and of course every
one knows that is a prison Of
Tense
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AU'N 7 >J1U,L.IA'S
LET Err, BOX |
''HeIb for the Helpless Kindness to All
Dumb ThineS''
RULES

No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written both sides of paper printed
All letters not to exceed $50 to 200 Wor6S.
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pounds, and am thirteen years Of age. We
would like to hear from all you cousins, so
let your cards and letters fly to
BERNICE AND MAE BRADLEY
Camden, S. c., Route 2.
ton nj he hU
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Here comes boy for some advice
not concerning love affairs. I want
you to inform me where I can get a
place as stage actor. Your. best ad-
vice will be appreciated.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit Georgia girl into your band
of boys and girls? I go to school at Oak
Grove and am in the sixth grade. have
blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion and
am thirteen years old. I am feet TALL
weigh 10 pounds. One of my schoolmates
takes The Semi-Weekly Journal and 1 saw
some of you cousins letters, and I sure did
enjoy reading them, and decided l would
write, as 1 liked them 50 well. Who has
my birthday July %? If there is any one
who would would like to write to a Georgia
girl, let your cards and letters fly; all will
be answered by -t
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
Bare Knees and Short Sleeves
Stir Teachers to demonstrate

Miss Johnson told the student body officers
OF fashionable private school here which
had placed ban on short sleeves. The
head of this expensive school called her girls
together and told them that she did not
approve of evening fashions for study hours
and that hereafter the short sleeve must
not be worn. And she emphasized her dis
approval of the style by declaring that any
girl I'm her school who appeared in short
sleeves would be dismissed. They needed
her warning and saved themselves expul-
sion.
Even bare knees have been questioned by
public school teachers. One little high
school girl was in the habit of wearing socks
that showed several inches of bare. plump
youthful knees, and the style so shocked one
teacher that she took Il upon herself TO
demonstrate with the bare kneed pupil. But
the pupil had the support Of her parents one
of whom was a physician. so the bare knee
episode never reached the Importance of an
issue. 1t was. after all, an isolated case of
departure from dress standards.
But these Instances go to show that
whether parents are keeping watchful eye
upon their growing daughters costume
idiosyncrasies and efforts to follow the
fashion. teachers are paying the strctest
attention to fads. And for the moral effect
II has upon classes they are thwarting any
tendency toward snobbery and immodesty.
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Sensible Dressing General With School Girls

resolution and against These two pupils
declared that they did not want to be die
tated to about their apparel.
The object of the resolution, it was ex
planned, was to encourage following suit
able style of dress, particularly for the girl
who expects to go into an office after grad
uation rather than to let her run the risk
of being refused employment because of her
blouse couture eccentricities.
Mr.. Zabriskie. after casting his eyes over
the 5000 pupils who daily attend the classes,
has started crusade against unkempt hair.
He is beginning a movement advocating a
more thorough brushing of tangled locks,
and before the term is out it is expected that
formal action will be taken by the girls
themselves on this question.
The silk stocking fad has not reached the
proportions of a real issue. The girls are
just beginning to agitate against the sheer
and expensive stockings, particularly in the
gymnasium. They regard this style both
unsuitable and undemocratic. The silk
stocking girl is apt to feel herself a little
better than her classmates who wear cotton
or Isle. And then there is the question of
economy. Washington Irving girls were the
pioneers in simple and inexpensive dress.
They were the ones who started the so grad
uation costume. This later was adopted by
other high schools. When the cost of ma
terals went UP the 81 dress was out of the
question. They had to raise the price limit
to keep pace with the upward trend Of the
cost of materials, yet they have made it
rule to wear dresses on this occasion that
are as inexpensive as it is possible to make
them.
Economy and simplicity are in every way
encouraged by the faculty. Some of the
teachers make their own dresses as an ex-
ample of thrift Even those who have a
preference for fancy materials and embel-
lishment pay the strictest attention to their
responsibilities In this matter They wear
stout shoes instead of high heeed pumps.
sturdy stockings an ample underwaist. with
a thin blouse and long sleeves.
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q ~ ,ceox~pvooe 5 VnafR~oo0

looseness of morals and the scantiness of
attire were not evident.
At the balls and routs held in that madcap
and wanton day the dandies and the pre-
cieuses of the period often had their hair cut
close at the back, in the manner prescribed
by victims of the guillotine, and in their
bows they counterfeited the flop which is
given involuntarily by the poor wretch just
as the knife is about to descend upon his
neck The children of men and women who
had been slain under the Terror often went
to the dance halls accoutred in Jackets of
red to mark the fact that their kith and kin
had died under the weighted knife Into
such a medley of emotions plunged an ex-
travagant and fiamboyant humanity.
What France was after the revolution So
Wet Russia is to large extent to-day. AL
though the France of the present is settling
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hall which echoed with the lit of gayety
and the high pitched music of the or
chestras.
The eccentricity and the indecency of the
costumes of that period are credited with
reaching the high water mark. The street
costumes worn by women caused the crowds
TO cape and stare, and at the balls and
dances the abandon of the swirling skirts
and the twinkling hose marked a degenerate
age There was no place in which the
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skirts and swept with languorous grace
along the boulevards.
Strange looking creatures in the SEM
blance of men were the tops and handles
of Paris in the months which followed the
adjustments of the French Revolution. Alb
solute license prevailed In manners in
morals and in modes. A craze for dancing
swept over all France and in the capital
scores of public dance halls were opened.
There were vast gardens such as the Vaux-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
The GuiIotine an Inspiration
In the Styles of a Wanton Day

One should bark back to the wild days
following the French Revolution to get the
true Interpretation of the tendency of fem-
nine fashions in these days of RECONSTRUCT
ton. The Directoire brought many abomi-
nations in fashion. 1t called for the cling
ing gowns and exaggerated decollette such
as in the days of the Grecian wars the
wasp wasted vampires of war racked
Greece demanded There were silken stock
ings shown often to the knee by the fair
wearers as they lifted high their sleezy
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
Fashion Plates Show Recurring
Cycles of Dress and Undress

Any who studies the fashion plates
thoroughly, taking his Rasent back to first
principles, or porting over one of those elab-
oratey illustrated tones of costumes show
ing the garbs of all nations and chimes. can
not but be impressed by the constantly re-
curing cycles of dress and undress which
characterize the garb of femininty.
The courts of the Grand Monarch In
France after his wars in Flanders abounded
i'm decollete gowns and billowy expanses of
silk, but they did not approach the criterion
OF indelicacy which came with the haring
gowns of the high wasted Directore. Again
i'm the late hfties we find that ball gowns
were cut low indeed. but i'm the seventies
and the eighties, both here and in Europe,
there were long and sweeping robes.
The peaceful days of the Victorian era
brought gowns with many yards of "trip
peries and ornamentaton, while in the time
of good Queen Bess, when woman took little
part in the affairs of life, the steel thewed
stomacher and the narng skirt and the pom
derous headdresses revealed that there was
then no great cosmic upheaval which was
desolating the Kingdoms of this world.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
New Feminine Garb
Rivals That of Most
Wanton Days From
Ancients Down to
Guillotine Modes of
French Revolution

down to the accustomed grooves the Paris
of fashion is influenced by wild world tur-
moil. The days of the Directoire are more
than recalled by the new ball gowns cut in
the back down to the waist line and by the
wide expanses of glistening facade.
The mannkins of to-day bear strong re-
semblance indeed to the grotesque figures
which strutted the streets of Paris while
Napoleon was gathering his strength for the
conquest of Europe. In Germany the ten
dency toward revealings of the form and
sheerness of attire is none the less marked
A reflex of the prevailing conditions in
London Is seen in a recent number of the
Sketch in which the ways of women's fash
ion are discussed at great length, considering
the shortness of the subject.
THE March of Fashion," says the Sketch,
''if you can call that hobbled, stamping mo-
ton of exposed calves a march, is positively
inviting protest. One must not complain, I
suppose, If every respectable matron north
Of the Thames and south of Baker street
Proctor might be expected to intervene at
any moment
Improperly of appearance has been the
target of all feminine endeavor since about
the year 1900 or so. That is a comparatively
harmless though frequently unattractive
foible which marked a democratic protest
against the Pharisaical distinction of the
Victorian lady. After all ii is no sillier to
dress up though we were all worse than
we than it is to stick on little bonnets
and big bustes in order to look far better
than we are.
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The Lovely Lady of To-day
Far From the GHbertian Type

1But the combination of the height of i'm
propriety with the extreme of inelegance is
the peculiar cachet of 1920 If you see a
woman stamping along with all her works
showing like a French railway engine you
may be sure that she is really up to date
That knock kneed shuttle, every inch of
which is exposed to your uninterested gaze
is supposed by gay artists Of France-Chel-
sea extraction-to exhiarate you and to send
you on your way to work brighter. happier
man. II she is stripped from the foot to the
knee she is correct. If she is wearing the
upper part of a ball dress in the middle of
the morning and somewhere about the
middle of herself she is wearing the right
thing.
Gone are the happy days when one could
open the Gilbertian recipe for lovely lady
with Take a pair of sparkling eyes. The
contemporary formula begins: Take pair
of skinny legs Display them in what is
thought to be the most transparently mus
cular and varicose aspect. Insert them
preferably at the wrong angle-into an III
fitting little bishops apron. Top it off with
a conspirator's cloak that humps on the
shoulders and has to be clutched with a
straining hand I'm front. And then you
have a Really Well Dressed Woman of A. ID.
1920"
IL will be seen that in many ways there
are startling resemblances between this pct-
ure of the woman of 1920 as London sees
her and the French ladies OF the Directoire
period in about the year 1895. when France
was trembling on the lately passed brink of
the Revolution.
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New York Teachers and Pupils
Already Frowning on Silk Stockings

1t appears that New York is not entirely
oblivious to this state of affairs. And it also
appears that pupils well as teachers have
taken cognizance of the tendency toward
costly pedal covering and that in some of the
high schools the pupils themselves have dis
approved the outward evidences of financial
superiority. They take the stand against
expensive dress more on the ground of suit
ability, however, than as an expression of
snobbishness
In one high school the pupils themselves
have discountenanced silk stockings, espe.
cialy in the gymnasium classes, the
ground that this style of apparel is inappro-
PIRATE. Teachers in the schools are advo-
eating cotton and Isle stockings, and they
themselves in most instances have adopted
this less expensive form of footwear to en-
courage its general use.
Representatives Of the public school sys-
tenn declare that snobbishness is an unknown
quantity In their educational problem. The
pupils state firmly that there are no real
snobs i'm their classes, and the teachers are
firm in the belief that the spirit Of the Phil
istine has been successfully curbed in the
classes
The public school teacher says that the
public schools are the most democratic edu
catona centres in the country. And If you
want 70 find snobbishness go to the private
tains that in paid institutions you can be
far more Independent and democratic, be-
cause you can actually dictate TO your pu-
pills what they shall wear. And If they re-
fuse TO wear the prescribed costume or
observe the sartorial restrictions, you can
decline TO accept them as pupils. Whereas
In the public school you have not that par
tiCuar freedom
In some of the most expensive schools
for girls whore the yearly tuition, not in
GLIDING the smallest extra, is more than
$1,000, the pupils have adopted a uniform
consisting OF MILDLY blouse, blue serge
or white duck skirt, and serviceable shoes
ana stockings. silk frocks and silk hosiery,
with their proper accessories, are reserved
for social occasions
In the public schools teachers frown upon
georgette blouses. short sleeves and lacy
hosiery. They may even go so far as to rec
ommend 10 the wearer of such fashions ex-
changing them for less filmy garments, but
they cannot dismiss a pupil IL she does not
follow their suggestion
The result OF visit 10 those AZ the head
Of the public school system, TO high school
teachers and 10 high school classes shows
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urge to say to woman: Thou shalt not
degarb." With rouge and powder and lip
stick and pencil, and with skirts knee high,
she goes on her bedizened way.