Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-08-17
SP0TLlGHTs

A chess congress is now in session
in London, and teh ancient game is
being played by amateurs as well, to
such all extent that even the tea rooms,
coffee rooms and restaurants all over
the city have become the centres of
interesting games. One firm of cater
ers which operates 200 shops, provides
500 sets of chessmen which gives an
insight into the present popularity of
the game, as it is seen that the lunch
hour is divided between eating and
playing. A Cuban is as yet the worlds
champion player.
Attending the Pan-American con-
fenence of Women at Baltimore, the
Arms Conference, and ithe General
Federation of Woman's Clubs at Cha
tauqua, N. Y, was a special travelling
press representative from New Zea-
land, in the person of Miss Nellie
Scanton, who inspired all who met her
with her unusual ability and what she
has said had some weight.
One of these comments was on the
impression that foreign countries gath
er from the cable news of our country
which leads them to think that this
is a land of millionaires, murders and
movies. She appeals to the women to
establish some sort of controlling in
fluence over the news service that will
give truer picture of Americans.
This recalls a similar comment by
an English newspaper writer, ii may
have been Hadyn Church, who deplor-
ed the fact that the pictures of Amer
lean life as portrayed by the moving
pictures in England and the other
countries, gave such lurid views of
the American people-the corruptions
of the idle rich, the infidelity of the
married, etc.
Miss Scanton commends her own
country of New Zealand for advanced
labor legislation, as she considers it.
Even the reporterial departments of
newspapers are unionized-a condition
that would be thought absurd in Amer
lea.
The Woman's Club house in Athens
which will be headquarters of the
State Federation wnen it meets Oct,
11-13, is a stately building on Princess
avenue, originally the home of Judge
Lumpkin, first chief justice of the Su-
preme Court of Georgia, and later
used as a private school for girls by
two charming Polish ladies. The build
ing is of the early colonial style with a
broad entrance and wide porch out
lined with its handsome Dorie columns
and its perpetuation for modern club
use. continuing its former hospitality
into ministries affecting the communi-
ty and civic betterment of the whole
city are both to be greatly admired and
commended.
A fete will be held in Paris this
Fall in honor of Monsieur Marcel, the
famous hair dresser who invented the
wave, which he so much admired in
the natural beauty of his own mothers
hair, and which he worked out with
no small difficulty as an artificial adorn-
ment for any woman regardless of the
stiffness of her own locks. 1t is IS
years since his success so packed his
shop with customers that immediate
service commanded fabulous prices
so that for important social functions
bids reaching $500 have been offered.
After a time Marcel taught his art
to his assistants and retired, but the
hair dressing business never has done
so. The professional hair dressers are
never successfully rivalled by the
home made attempts at waving and
though styles of coiffures change the
wave as a great beautifier in one style
or another like the waves of the ocean
bids fair to go on forever, and the
permanent wave is very peak and eli
max of the art"