The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-20

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The Varsity club will give dance
Friday night at steinberg's hall
Mrs. w T. Crosby will entertain the
Monday Whist club at her home, 1107
Topeka avenue, Monday afternoon, No
Venber Is.
Mrs. Don Mulvane gave an informal
party this afternoon for Miss Eft1e
BANTER. The guests were Miss Bainter's
most intimate friends.
Mrs. Fred Davis will entertain about
twenty guests Thursday afternoon at
an informal party for Miss Banter.
A piano concert of a purely classical
order was given Tuesday night at
Washburn College chapel, by Heniot
Levy. This man Levy is a composer
as we'll as a performer of remarkable
virtuoso attachments. His compositions
have been awarded prizes in Paris, and
at the concert last night he played two
selections from his own pen, Minuet
and a Barcarofle. Some of the passages
of the Minuet, especially, were par
ticularly pleasing, showing originality
of design and skill in workmanship.
Schumann's I'm the Evening and
"Whims' We're in contrast to the heav-
Ter Chopin numbers that preceded them.
1t was scarcely comprehensive that the
same hands which played the thunder
ing chords and galloping arpeggios of
the previous numbers could produce
the pianissin1o effects in the gentler
strains of the first Schumann number.
Throughout all his playing, the tech
nique was brilliant, and every tone had
a singing quality that was firm and
sure. Schumann's Toccata and Wag-
ner's Tannhauser overture were given
with spirit and technical mastery. The
wagner al
most as strong and full as though
rendered by the full orchestra. The
musician of the evening is a Pole, and
most of his program was made up of
selections from his famous countryman.
Chopin. His playing evidenced a strong
emotional tendency, tempered with A
scientific understanding of his art The
room was trif1e too small for the
volume of sound in his fortissimo play
ing, but that concert in the Auditorium
musical affairs of the season. The
audience was not large. Piano concerts
seldom draw the crowds Even
Paderewski played to empty seats the !
last time he was in Topeka But the
people one always sees at the good con-
certs. whether or not there is rush on
the box office, were there and gave an /
pfeclatlVe attention to one of the best !
programs of piano music offered a To-
peka audience in long while.
Miss Clio Lane. of Washington. D. G
will be the guest of honor at a bridge !
party which Mrs. Charles Allen Mills |
will give Friday afternoon Miss Lane /
VIII be Mrs. Mills guest until the hoIi- |
days, when she will go to Manhattan |
to take the Domestic Science course in
the Agricultural school.
The Portfa club will meet Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. John H. FrizzeIi, |
I'LL West Tenth avenue
y
A family on Fillmore strret was err
roneously reported to be about to
AS a result tie man of the family
was bounded by friends and strangers /
ana real estate people from the four
quarters OF the country, who wanted
10 puy his chickens, adopt his cat.
and rent or buy his property But
instead of moving out of the neighbor-
mood, he has added to his family a
member that is destined to guard his
household and his live stock For a
long time he has sighed for a bull pup
that should fill the place in his door
yard made vacant by a deceased pet
of that breed, but wife had objected, |
and the kennel had remained tenant
less However, recently he met a man
VINO owned a brood of little mother
less pups and agreed to take one The
dog was put in a box and sent to him
While he was away on business trip
He stopped in Wellington on his way
west, and noticed at the station a box
from which the whines of a hungry
puppy were issuing in unsteady tones
in many keys. His crescendos were
broken and gave little promise of flu
ture serenades to the moon, and the
good mans heart softened toward the
occupant of the little box. He asked |
the station man where the dog was
gong and whom it belonged to. He
heard that il was going to Topeka to
man of his own name, and he won
1ered how the waif would be received
pm arrival in it's new home. When he
the same little orphan was
monopolizing the house
and feeding from a nursing bottle. He
to his wife that if his bull
pup was a trouble to her he might :
give it away who said that was
FOUR pup" the wife questioned GO {
light quick and buy repairs for the
little fellows bottle-the rubber is {
worn out
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The Square and Compass club held {
is regular dance Tuesday evening in |
Hudson's hall. Those who attended {
we're: Mr.. and Mrs. c. K. Elliott, Mr..