The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

Furry. gave her a birthday party this
afternoon. asking some of her neigh
borhood and Bethany kindergarten
friends. The supper table was decor
ated in pink and there was Perfectly
| Grand birthday cake with hve nghteo
| pink candles.
At the Phipps home about all that is
| left from the wreck of the family for
| tunes to remind the visitor OF bygone
splendor is grand piano, very odo'
| tin-panny as to tone, the keyboard vel
| low with age and stubborn as TO &C
| ton, the handsomely carved rosewood
| case scratched and marred from mucn
moving from house to mouse anu
apartment to apartment, always down
1 the scale as the family fortune De
| Perforated. But although impossible
/ as an instrument the piano Is sun
beautiful piece of furniture In spite OF
| long and hard usage and gives Ger
! tain dignity to the Phipps drawing
room. The Phipps children were
brought up on the piano and anecdotes
| of the money and social prestige their
| parents once enjoyed and Wh1cn lhey
| but dimly remember and the Two are
| indissolubly linked in their minds. Ine
| piano is the household god, 1nvarlaDiy
| treated with a respect which amounts
| to reverence by Mrs. PhlppS ana al
| the girls except Sallie Phlpps- oaiie
| is the one practical member or TINS
| big improvident helpless famlly OF
| girls and Sallie is so intensely practical
! that she doesn't care rap about the
family traditions. Last Chrlstn mas
when the question of turkey or GLllcA
en- or plain roast beef for the Cnrlst-
mas dinner came up in the tamlLy
councils, Sallie wanted roast peer pc
cause she said they couldn't afford tur
key. The rest of the fanny wa ,lost
turkey and the other girls were almost
in tears at Sallie's disgusting pracu,
cality. WELL" said Sallie finally, 4
like to have a turkey, too. but l do on
see how were to manage II ,.iI,tr
Illuminated a while and her wandering
eye fell upon the piano. i IL ten you!
she cried delightedly. perhaps we
can trade the piano for one 10 you
suppose we could find anybody foo1Sm
enough to trade turkey Tor plallo'
An interesting event of the next
week and one which may safely pc en-
joyed without injury 70 Lenten pT
ances and sacrifices will be an exhioll
of some of the recent paintings or MT.
George NJ. Stone at his stu0lo IN tue
Crawford building Wednesday ano
Thursday The exhibit will lncluoe
MANY new portraits, as well as a num-
Der of genre pictures never before
shown in public. Mr.. Stones work is
so we'll known and SO generally appre-
ciated in Topeka as to need no word
of recommendation. Local art STU
dents and critics recognize in him a
painter of more than ordinary taleht
and one whom a small provincial
town like Topeka may well pc PROUD
to claim as a citizen. Mr.. stone mas
been hard at work for the past Two OF
three years on many portraits ana
other commissions, some or tnem oohe
out of town during an eastern Visit OF
a number of weeks last summer ana
the fruit of his labors will be SHOWN
on this occasion. 1t will be the nrst
public exhibit which he has maze LOT
about FIVE years, fact Wh1cn gives II
additional interest.
A fond Topeka mother has ten pic
lures of her only son in her room, ana
one or more in every other room IN
the house. She is piously inclined ana
has a shrine in her own room ana the
members of her family declare tnat
she has picture of the son hanging
over it beside the pictures OF Jesus ana
Mary.
Emporia Gazette: Mrs. c. S. Cross
will enter three bulldogs in the first
annual exhibition of the Topeka ken
mel club to be held there, next week.
Mrs Cross will also have an eXhlpl.
ton of fine puppies. in the windoW OF
the Copeland hotel, during the show.
A number of people went to Topeka
TODAY to hear the San Carlo Grand
opera company in La Travlata- some
of those who went were Mrs. Dennis
Madden and daughter, Miss Ella, Mrs.
lanes Thomson, Miss Edna wilcox,
Miss Martha McCabe, Miss Gladd1s
Amor. w. p. Baker and Lloyd Stan
ley.
The bets are even that Miss D. will
land Jack Winter, not because Miss D.
is SO fascinating, but because WINTER
is so good natured.
The scenic production of Alice In
Wonderland, which is to be the next
amateur theatrical performance in
topeka, promises to be an interesting
enterta inment The city federation OF
Clubs is in charge of the advance sale
of tickets on a percentage basis ana II
thew sell one thousand tickets IN ad-
vance a second performance VIII be
given and they will share the receipts
of this also.
Columbia. Helen Morrow; Duchess,
Lillian Parftt; cook, Mildred Smith;
queen Opal Corbett; Indian, Una
Lyle; epilogue, Hester Barber; fairy
queen. Marguerite k1ena; Mother
rider. Harold Parr; Uncle Sam,
Charles Gustafson; king. Uriah Shoaf;
halter. Cyrus Monroe; March Hare,
Charles Youngreen; Alice, Maud
Ward.
In a certain country village the au-
ditoriunn where the cheap travelling
companies played, where lodges met
and dances were given and the social
life of the town largely centered was
known as Empire Hail. 1t was small,
dinry. smoke-begrimed ill-lighted and
iII-ventilated and the dressing rooms
were of the sort described by George
AIDE small ante-rooms where the
lodges regalia, the broom and the
mon dispute the limited space with a
broken backed-chair and tiny,
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