Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-07
PAPER HATSARE UNPOPULAR
BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAP
BY JESSIE HENDERSON
Leased Wire Service to The JournaI.)
Copyright, 1927

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NEW YORK, June Aft for moth
ing else. this week would shine as
that of the paper hat. Paper suits,
introduced a year ago. failed to make
a hit because the youth of the town
couldn't tear around in them without
embarra ssment to beth wearer and
beholder. Whether the paper hat.
designed for women, will be a sue
cess remains to be seen. But at any
rate 1t is here right on the avenue;
gray creation, glazed, resembling
coarse straw. and guaranteed against
melting in a shower.
There is just one flaw. The paper
bonnet has been heralded, like the
paper suit, with the announcement
that 1t was cheap enough to be
thrown away in a week and replaced
by new one. But this inexpensive
ness is a fault which the milliners
will doubtless remedy.
other feminine headgear has had
it's need oG tame. Seven unusual
women were given college mortar
boards at Columbia. Nine. Curie-
who has cancelled her far western
trip and sails soon for France be-
cause she has been half killed by
kindness-received the degree of doc
tor of science. The degree of doctor
of medicine was conferred on women
for the first time in Columbia's his
tory, and right away six women got
1t.
1t isn't only in medicine, however.
that women show a manly interest
In the anti-prohibitionist' Fourth
of July parade" whose volunteers
are counted now by the tens of thou
sands. women begin to figure. Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith is eighty-seven
years old, and she intends to ride
near the head of the anti-Volstead
protest in a rickshaw drawn by six
girls. . ...
The names of the six will~probab-
ly be Mamie Taylor, Creme Yvette,
Orange Blossom, Jack Rose, Merry
is to be Josephine Madden. who has
charge of settlement work in the
Fifth assembly district. With Miss
Madden the mothers clubs of the dis
trict have announced their intention
of marching. Where, oh, where is
the old-fashioned mother, supposed
ly dedicated to the bone dry cause
One, answer to the query is that
| she is down cellar looking after the
dandelion wine.
In the Interim. the Zisegfeld roof
closed for the duration of the
drought" to the strains of Aud Lang
syne and muffled sobs from the
1
plays a CLOSED" sign on its door.
And Main street has zero on Broad
| way for dust and quietude. About
| the only place you can get drink
is in the police station where con-
fscated hooch is stored.
| Meanwhile, to prove that votes
can interest women as much as hats
| or home brew, the Democratic
Eleague of New York had a red hot
session at it's annual meeting. The
women were still aroused over the
fact that their head, Mrs. John
| Republicans in the Harding cam
| paign. Some four hundred and nine
ty-five of the five hundred members
| stayed away from the meeting as a
mark of disapproval, but the five
who attended managed to keep one
another fro mdrowsing through a
| long and heated afternoon. At the
end of the battle, Mrs. Crosby, still
| president. announced herself as an
independent Democrat" with the
| privilege of voting as she pleased.
All of which shows how unfounded
was the old-fashioned he-argument
| that women even if they had the
vote would lack the vigor sometimes
| necessary to defend It.
| case, together with various other I'M
usual domestic infelicites lately
come to light, leads to the inference
that those in the spirit world, had.
as the crude saying goes, the right
dope when they Gated with Arthur
Edward Stilwell. 1t seems that Mr..
| Stillwell. builder of five western
railroads and canal, had been upon
intimate terms with ghosts for sew
eral years. Recently a number of
| them sat on the edge of his bed
and told him so many things about
| everything that he wrote it all down
in a book, Live and Grow Young"
| just published here.
| The chapter on "how to be, I'M
happy though married" is the one
which number of prominent New
York couples have evidently been
| reading. Among rules for thor
| oughly wretched marital career.
! Stilwell gives these to husband: Be-
gin married life in mother-in-laws
| home; come home with a crouch
| remember only the annoyances Of
the day; if you can't help recalling