It may easily happen that in the afternoon you may purchase a collar or a pair of shoes from a young man whom you will meet in the evening at the house of the local magnate.

The granddaughter of a former governor or justice of the Supreme Court comes home from her typewriter and her brother from the cotton mill or the lumber yard.

Social life in a small town--and most Southern towns are small--is simple and unpretentious, although here too the influence of prosperity is beginning to be manifest.

Social affairs are more elaborate than they were ten or fifteen years ago, and there is also less casual expression of informal hospitality.

The higher prices of food and the increasing difficulties of the servant problem have doubtless put some restraint upon the spirit of hospitality but perhaps more important is the fact that more of the men must keep regular hours of business and that women are developing interests outside the home.
Social affairs are almost entirely in the hands of women.