The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-20

! The alumni chapter, Phi Delta Iheed
fraternity will give reception uancs
tonight at Steinberg's hall, the opening
event of the social season OF the ira
! ternity. Those who will stand IN Inc
to receive the guests are justice anu
Mrs Henry F. Mason, Mr. and Mrs'
Robert Stone, Mr.. and Mrs A: p. 1eI-
FREY. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hackney
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur ]. Carruth, Jr''
Miss Mabel Joss and Mr.. Wister VIII
Hams
The opening meeting of the Art CLUB
will he held Monday, October 4, at the
home of Mrs. John FOos Norton 1zoo
Tyler street and the meetings TINS
year will be fortnightly. The clup WdS
organized in 1899, and is limited 10 d
small membership. The program WHEN
was arranged by Mrs. john r. norton
and Mrs Guilford Dudley, is STUDY
of American art, and will comprise
/ work from the time of Benjamin west
to the present and include the sred:
! est names in the history OF art IN tlile
country There are a dozen members
of the club. and the officers this year
are: Mrs Chester WOODWARD presi-
ldent: Mrs. A A Marburg, vice presl-
dent; Mrs. Luther Burns, secretary
and treasurer, and Mrs. Norman wear
club reporter.
The washburn Girls Literary society
had reception this afternoon at the
home of Miss Ruth Bauer, 222 Iopehd
avenue.
The Matinee Music club, a society
composed chiefly of young women anu
girls, has at the beginning OF IT'S pr
gram book for this year "oro VI
good hope for the aspiring 9lu .sln;+o,,
Quoting the opinion of an old writer
if saws: ITO judge is difficult anu
neriIous so much the more as there
is diversity in tastes; nor in hearing
similar judgments should musicians ue
spair. even if they are criticized ana
tbeir compositions badly spoken Of
but they should take heart ana De
comforted. since the number OF those
who have no judgment IS almost ~
finite and few are they VINO 90 noe
deem themselves worthy to nuIhoen
among prudent and right judging men.
The club was organized last year. It's
membership has increased, and the pro
gram for the coming season is an IN
teresting one, including the STUDY %
Mendelssohn, Grieg, and TschalRoWshS-
Also the club will study seven operas.
Every second meeting is given TO one
of the operas, the study being ar
! ranged by two or three members Oh
the club. Selections from the pleCS'
rendered by famous singers, Will De
given from Victrola records. AT one
Of the meetings the club will have an
opera lecture by a professional musl-
/ clan outside of the club. A new opera
THE Jewels of Madonna" by Wol1e-
Ferrari, will probably be chosen Tor
that meeting.
I The officers of the club are: Miss
Helen Hogaboom, president; Mrs. war
rick Updegraff, vice president, MISS
+ Mary MacLennan, secretary; Mrs. b.
F. Akers, treasurer; Miss Frances Con-
nell. club reporter. The other mem
bers are: Mrs. Cecil Forter, Mrs. Monte
Kistler, Mrs. John Carver, Mrs. Albert
T. Reid, Mrs. c. B. Merriam, MRS
Ralph Skinner, Miss Dorothy BARBER,
! Miss Ruth Bauer, Miss Mary Dallas
Gage. Miss Gladys CAV, Miss Mary
Gleed, Miss Guenn GODDARD, Miss Hazel
Howe, Miss Grace Koontz, Miss Mar
guerite Koontz, Miss Helen Lindsay
Miss Alice Meade, Miss Grace Page
Miss Euphemia Page, Miss HeIeh
Roehr, Miss Mabel Seeds and Miss Jes-
sica Short.