The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-13

corresponding row being placed on the
right side. Similar buttons trim the
sleeves and skirt. There is a wide
shawl collar and revers of the plaid
cashmere and deep cuffs of the same.
The skirt is finished by a deep band
of the plaid at the bottom, cut wider
at the sides and back than on the
front width. The belt is also of the
plaid.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Brown announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Marcia Isabel, to Francis Lawrence
Snow, son of the late DR.. F. H and
Mrs. Snow of Lawrence, Kan. No
date has been set for the marriage,
but it will probably not take place for
sometime.
With the opening of school, social
affairs at the college are claiming the
attention of the students and past stu
dents of Washburn. The faculty re-
ception for the new teachers and stu
dents will be held Saturday night of
this week in the library. This party
is an annual affair, and is usually given
on Friday evening, but the date has
been changed this year on account of
the carnival celebration.
The Y. M. G. A. and the Y. w. G. A.
of the college will hold their annual
parties tonight in their respective halls
in the library building.
A crowd of newspaper people sit
ting in automobiles in the quarter
stretch at the fair grounds yesterday
conversed by proxy with the leading
soprano with Lfberati, now playing for
the fair The singer can neither speak
nor understand English, but D. Pez-
zetti, the tenor, who sang the solo yes
terday afternoon can make himself
understood in English. and he spoke
for the Spanish soprano, Luisa Bres-
Italy and is better known as singer
in Europe than in America, though
she has filled numerous engagements
in South America. She has a COM
mand of French and italian as we'll as
Spanish. She expressed surprise when
she was told that the state of Kansas
is but so years old. "Such progress!
Wonderful Beautiful city Topeka,
come again some time and sing in your
opera house" was her comment on the
She was asked if the man next to her
was her husband. and her reply need
ed no Interpretation. 1t was quite a
decided shrug of the shoulders and
negative shake of the head, but she
no information settling
the responsibility of husbandhood on
any of the company, and the inference |
is that she is still fancy free.
This Is also the first trip to the
United States of Frank Marina, the |
leaQlnR baritone OF the OI2dnlZdLlOn-
He does not speak English, but |
the interpreter said he was |
sorry they could not put on their /
operas more complete. They carry the |
costumes and scenery for five grand !
operas
Some new enga cement gossip is con-
cerned with a pretty and talented To- |
peka girl-a student at X. u. last
year-and a bachelor attorney. ''They |
say that the said bachelor intends to |
desert his club for a handsome suite
of apartments which he is having pre-
pared. The ones most nearly con-
cerned say that there is nothing to it, /
but there are others who say the we'd
ding is to take place this fall
X X y
Just to show how some people must |
find fault, with or without reason: A
woman who watched the parade last /
night on Topeka avenue had no re-
marks to make of the beauty and the |
historic significance of the pageant, but |
because the procession passed in Sec
tions with a brief wait between, her |
comment was: IT don't call it a sue
cessful parade when 1t comes in
punches like that"
And speaking Of the floats, the in 1