The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-09

welcome her. -Heink is in
more glorious voice than ever before.
Last season her tour through the
| country which included the Pacific
/ coast was series of ovations and the
! most extravaganza praises were accord
| ed her. This is one of the concerts
which Madame -Heink will
sing this season, for she has only re-
turned from the great Wagnerian fes-
| rivals at Bayreuth and Munich, where
| her singing was the chief note of in
| terest according to American CORE
spondents. Beside having musical
voice, the madame has a musical
| laugh and gives the following advice
to the world at large:
| Laugh, laugh says Nine. Schu-
/ mann-Heink, land if you cannot laugh
it is sign that you have sick liver.
Water will cure it, For just how
| many years Schumann-Heink has
! been laughing a few hours every day
| she cannot estimate, but the time
when she did not laugh has long since
| been forgotten. And closely linked
with this gospel of the great diva is
an intimate little story of her taste in
theatricals.
81 love the moving picture show
she says. 81 go and for five cents I
can laugh for more than an hour.
Yes, every now and then Natrine Cher
pianist), and go out and find NOV
ing picture theater, but if the picture
titles sound like melodrama we do not
go in. 1 prefer the funny ones. And
about the funniest I have seen in a
! long time was myself in one at the
auditorium in Denver last winter. l
went down to the concert and there
flashed on the screen as a coming at
, traction was I. I was about so big
(here Schumann-Heink extended her
arms to give an idea of the girth of
the ponderous lady she had seen adj
vertising her concert appearance)
Mercy but it was ugly. but I was so
proud to see myself in the picture"
At a special service at Grace cathe-
dral Sunday morning at IL o'clock
| Bishop Millspaugh will confirm a class
of twenty-seven. about half of which
are adults. The program for the
vesper service at Grace cathedral Sun
Professional, 30 Heavenly Jerusa-
Choral service ...T Tails
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. .semper
Anthem, Thou Fullest All Things
Living With Righteousness.
vesper hymn. "God That Madest
Earth and Heaven. ....... Monk
Ofertory. soprano solo, He That
Miss Selma Foberg.
! Recessional. 1.-The Day Is Past and
over Brown
Mrs. W. A. Johnston gave a dinner
at Mills tea room Thursday night for
the executive board of the State Equal
Suffrage league. Of which she is presi-
dent. The table decorations were yell
low roses. Mrs. G. J. Evans was
made as follows: 1.-THE Kansas Men,
Mrs. w. r. Stubs: 1.-The Kansas
Woman" DR.. Clark; "Our Passin' on
Party" Miss Fife Graham; Babies
Kimball: Scholastic Gown" DR.. AL
berta Corbin; 1.-THE Fourth Estate -
Mrs. Katherine A. Hoffman; Citizen
to Citizen" Governor w. r. Stubs;
1.-The Seventh Star" Mrs. Johnston.
A luncheon was given yesterday to
several of the visiting county and city
superintendent at Doughertys Bust
ness college. Mr.. Geo. E. Dougherty
president of the institution, acted as
POSTMASTER Toasts were responded
to by Mr.. r. V. Lesson, Superinten-
dent John F. Eby, DR.. w. N Mason,
president of Baker university Miss
Ceora Lanham gave a couple of read
ings and music was supplied by the
Sunflower Jubilee singers Misses
Hilma Eastberg, Inez Cornell. Meta.
Estep, Margaret Mercer, Gertrude
Remington and Irene Holzle served.
The following were present: Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. S. Elliott, Mr.. and Mrs.
James "A. Ray (Marion county,. Mr.
and Mrs r. V. Lesson, Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. E. Dougherty, Mr.. and Mrs H.
L. Croft, Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. GETTY.
Miss Emma Skinner, superintendent
Of Johnson county; Miss Hattie E.
Woods, superintendent of Anderson
county; Miss Eta J.. Mccoy, superin-
tendent of Franklin county; Miss An
ma E. Arnold, superintendent of Chase
county; Mr.. John F. Eby, superin-
tendent of Shawnee county; Miss
Olivia H. Milley, superintendent of
Geary county; Miss Mary K. Williams,
superintendent of Usage county; Mr.
]. H Houston, superintendent of Wa
baunsee county; Mrs. Mary T. Todd,
superintendent of Seward county; Mr..
R. L. Rust, superintendent of Riley
county; Mrs. Fanny E. Funston, for
merly superintendent of Allen county;
Superintendent c. a. Deardoff of Bur
lingame. Superintendent F. ]. Mercer
of Cottonwood Falls, Superintendent
Sol D. Dice of Council Grove. Superin-
tendent c. n. Livingood OF Hoyt. Su-
perintendent J. E. Edgerton of Man
haitian, superintendent John P Boyle
of Meriden, Professor c. z. Birch of
the Haskell Institute, superintendent