Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-17
THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL SUNDAY JANUARY IL 1897

ITY JOURNAL SUNDAY. J
eral selections on the piano, delighting her
| hearers, and finding herself obliged to yield
| to encores again and again. The guests in
| Ridenour, Miss Mabel Weston. Miss Eliza
| beth Brent, Miss Martha Brent, Miss Sayde
| Anderson, Miss Myrtle Hewson. Miss Mary
Pixley. Miss Jessie Elder, Miss Reila Abell
Miss Portia Abel, Miss Lillian Chouteau
Miss Ida Ridge, Miss Florence Hanley,
| Miss Lucia Durfee Miss Nellie White
! Miss Ruby Bugby. Miss Katherine Bristol.
Miss Cora Moss: Miss Margaret Kelly, Miss
Juno Kelly, Miss katherine Kelly. Miss
Lucy Craig. Miss Mary Christie. Miss Lucy
Christie. Miss Frances Hackney. Miss Ag
| Lita. Wood. Miss Clara Dills. Miss Ethel
Kaufman and Miss Marion Ess.
An interesting event of the past week
was the card party given by Mrs. f. L.
Barton, of Garfield avenue Kansas City.
Kas., last Wednesday evening in compii-
ment TO Miss Mary Senft, of Topeka. Car
sweet perfumes on every hand. Music
adGed to the enjoyment-of of the guests. a
dainty lunch was served at late hour.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
c. Osbone Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Shuck, Mr..
and Mrs. L. ohlwine, Mr.. and Mrs. A. &.
Mr.. j. c. Preston, Mrs. f. Stinehilver. Miss
May Senft, Miss Bessie Reid, Miss Nellie
Sharp, Miss Eta Van Dyke. Miss Isabelle
Barton, Mr. Paul Preston, Mr.. Julian SUIT
ter, Mr.. Adair.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Scales entertained n
number of friends at their home on Troost
avenue. Cards. games and music were the
pastimes of the evening. Refreshments
We're served at half past 10. Those present
We're: Miss Bessie Kelly, Miss Rose Bar
dc fI.
sem, Miss Lucille Kelly, Miss Lizzie Bar
den, Miss Byrd Lesem, Miss Jessie Nc
Grew; Mr. Charles Grimm. Mr.. b. May
field, Mr.. J. d: La Brie, Mr.. Charles Car
ter and Mr.. G. B. Broadhurst, of Nor
borne, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Webb entertained last
Friday evening at their home in Independ-
ence in the most charming manner. Prizes
were won by Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Wilson,
Mrs. c. OFT, Miss Rose, OFT and Mr.. viii
and Mrs. c. R. Thomas, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mr.. and Mrs: Matt Roberts. MIR. and Mrs
| Charles Keith, Mr.. and Mrs. C. OFT, Miss
Rose OFT and Mr.. W. Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. William sgd Gordon enter
| tanned last Thursday evening at progress
i've high five, complimentary to their guest,
Mr.: Walter A. Clark, of Mountain View,
Cal.
AT the Warwick card party Tuesday
evening, Mr.. l.. W. McCollum and Mrs.
Charles Charpiot were the prize winners.
Mrs. Joseph G. Peppard and Mrs. Edwin
NJ. Clendening entertained about sixty
| guests at cards last Thursday afternoon.
Kansas City society will have an oppor-
tunity to indulge itself in great music in
| to be given by Madame Nordica, the popu-
| lar American soprano, whose concert in
| this city some three seasons ago was at
tended by such great success. and who,
! since that time, has added new glories to
| her crown. 1t is rather novel that Kansas
City society should be invited to the Gilliss
be the only theater available for the par
| ticular date of the NorGica event. there is
where society will have to go. But what
| of that? Did not Patti sing to society in
| tho old Board of Trade hail. with all its
| disComforts? Besides, there is a sort of fit
ness after all in giving a theater whose
| early history Is punctuated with great artiS-
| tic events revival of such Importance.
| Here society did homage to Bernhardt, the
| elder Salvini, Mary Anderson, Joseph JEFF
fcrson and other renowned stars, and it
| will be interesting to the younger genera
ton as well as the older, to once more visit
| this playhouse under the spell of such
voice as that of Lillian Nordica.
The ballad concert to be given on Thurs
day evening at the First Congregational
church is arousing great interest, and al
ready enough requests for favorite ballads
have been sent in to fill several pro-
grammes- Those who participate in the
entertainment are Miss PIAZZA Roberts,
Miss Bessie Parkinson, Mrs. Lynn Banks,
Mrs: j. Otis Huff, Mrs. Goff, Mrs. George
L. Meyers. Mrs. H. NJ. Beardslcy and Mrs.
Fowler. Mr.. Dudley Eaton. Mr.. w. ]. MUIR
| ray. Mr.. Kingston and Mr.. Edgar Fiske.
Professor Fiske will render the organ solos.
A treat is to be anticipated by all who at
tend. Tickets may be obtained at Jac-
cards, or at the Woman's exchange, on
Walnut street.
The westport Liter;iry-7tslub will discuss
current history at the Westport high school
tomorrow evening Mr.. s. A. Underwood
will speak on international Arbitration;
Mrs. J. T. Ridgeway, United States and
Cuba,'' and Mr.. W. F. Longshore, Europe
of To-day"
A number of representative young society
| people of the South side will occupy a box
at the Auditorium Tuesday evening: to
hear Miss Mary French Field and Mr.. Sher-
wood.
A public recital by pupils of the Kansas
| City School of Oratory will be given at the
Academy of Music in the near future.
! Last Friday nights meeting of the East
| Side Literary was most interesting of ne
cessitv' the subject being American Lit
| erature,' as well as because of the par
| ticipants. Mr.. Wilmot read most enter
| tanning paper, and that by Miss Best,
though short, was complete covering the
intellectual development of America dur
| ing the national era \ talk of fifteen min
uteS by Mrs. ]. H. Austin on the revolu-
| tionary period was of the highest order, as
| testified by the spontaneous applause ac-
corded by the audience. The superior mu-
steal programme is attested by the names
of those appearing on the programme.
| The ladies' quartette was well received.
Herr Antoine Sporl rendered Hungarian
airs with superb technique Miss Eunice
Fulton was the reader of the evening and
was thoroughly appreciated. Mr.. Frank
Dexter's review was full of humor. The
audience was one of the largest ever
sembled Mt any meeting of the Literary.
The programme for next Friday evening
we'll named. "a College Evening" The fol-
lowing programme will be rendered: Song.
Kansas City Medical College Gee Club:
paper, Life at Smith College Miss Clara
Mcdonald; piano solo. Miss McGrew; pa
per, Life at Yale" Mr.. j. Marty; song,
literary review. Mr.. George Miller. Jr.; pa
per, Life at Harvard" Mr.. VIII McDon-
aid: college songs, society: paper, Life at
Wellesley Miss Laura Whipple.
Mrs. Buford Webb, of SO7 East Four
teenth street, entertained the Woman's
Reading Club in a delightful manner on
Tuesday, January r. from . till >. The
regular meeting of the club. the pro-
eramme of which included German history
from 1541 to 1924. was first held; then the
| club enjoyed n pleasant social session. dur
ing which Mrs. Webb served dainty re-
freshments. The club will meet January
Walnut.
Mr. ard Mrs. Charles Brooke. of Tracy
avenue, gave dinner Friday evening at
I O'Clock for their daughter, Marienne.
The beautiful violets. which, with ferns
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