The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

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peka will act ushers at the organ
| recital to be given Friday night of this
| week by Charles Skilton, dean of the
| fine arts department of the State uni
| versity at the First Christian church
| Mrs. Norman G. Atkinson of Topeka
! is on the program for a vocal solo.
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The Ladies' Music. club will enter
| tain limited number of friends at q
/ violin recital Wednesday afternoon al
! Mrs Margaret Fowler Forbes of Kan
/ sas City will give the recital assisted
! by Mrs. Bessie Raymond, soprano, OF
Lawrence. The hour is o'clock.
| The fashiona BILE skirt this spring will
measure forty-one and one-haIf inches
around the bottom to yard and half
| Tailors allow for the ordinary neither
| garment of a man one and a quarter
yards of material fifty-four inches
wide. To be chic, attractive and alto
gether in the mode, his wife needs but
one and an eighth yards of material the
same width for her skirt. 1t will be so
| narrow around the lower hem that she
| can barely Walk-nothing more 1t will
measure forty-one and one-half inches
around-if she is to be extreme in style
and she is slender enough to fit into it.
But the woman with even a suspicion
| of plunpness must be content with
skirts measuring a yard and a quarter
or even yard and half
but no wider, mind you. This
last cry is for draped skirts, and all
the effect of the drapery is lost if the
skirt is not frightened. But in order to
permit the wearer to move at all easily
the skirt must be wider around the
knees than at the feet. Long, straight
lines are imperative, especially at the
waist. To achieve this effect the ma
terial must be as scant as possible.
One skirt is buttoned on both sides
up to the knee-eleven buttons in all.
If the lady who wears it needs just a
little extra room for walking she un-
buttons two or three of the lower but
tons. If she is walking fast two or
three more are loosened. To climb into
a railway train she unbuttons the skirt
up to the knee on both sides and,
presto, her limbs are free to move as
they were in the days of crinoline
A third model has no buttons at all.
Instead, it is slashed at the bottom half
way up to the knee. one side straight
and the other side scalloped. When the
wearer walks, the skirt gives enough to
allow freedom of movement. When she
is standing still milady looks like a
pole These narrow effects are height
ened still more by long lines, by pleat-
ing the skirt over the hips, by shirring
in, by coats cut away in straight lines,
and not in curves, as is the mode of
today, and by pointed draperies. mar
rowing sharply at the feet.-New York
World.
Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Billiard, of Ton
ganoxie, is spending the day in Topeka
with Mrs. w. A. Johnston. Mrs. Bull
lard came to Topeka from st. Joseph.
Missouri, where she was one of the
principal speakers at an industrial con-
gress which was in session there sew
eraI days last week. The congress was
made up of representatives from Kan
sas. Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, and
about six thousand people attended the
meeting which was addressed by Mrs.
Billiard on the subject Her Side of
the Question: dealing with the reasons
for the increase of city population at
the expense of the rural homecoming
population. Mrs. Billiard spoke on
number of programs during the con-
greSS
Invitations were received by Topeka
friends for a party given Monday by
the Leavenworth Art league, at the
home of the president, Mrs. G. c.
Goddard.
Miss Helen Hogeboom. soprano, and
Miss Leona Glenn, pianist, will give a
recital Saturday night of this week in
the college chapel. The program will
be as follows:
Miss Glenn.
Agathe's Aria (from der F'reischutz)
weber
Miss Hogeboom.
SpoZoliz1s --....--.. .l'iszt
Hank, Hark, the Lark ..Schubert-Liszt
........-..- Leschetlzky
Miss Glenn.
Morning Observation-Disclosures Obey speaks
Across the Hills Rummel
What's in the Air Today ....... Eden
Miss Hogeboom.
Balade .................-.- Greg
Miss Glenn.
Devotion ............ Richard Strauss
Serenade ..............R Richard Strauss
Miss Hogeboom.
Miss Alma Marti. accompanist.
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Mrs. George W. Parkhurst enter |
tanned the Monday Bridge club yes
terday. The substitutes We're: Mrs l..
H. Mum, Mrs. John r. shelton, Mrs. |
A. NJ. Keene and Mrs Harold Chase
The Matinee Music club will meet
Thursday with Miss Helen Hogeboom,
and College avenue
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The Monday Tourist club held its
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
c. B. Van Horn. The hostesses We're: |
Mrs. George Beach, Mrs. c. E. Neil,
Mrs r. n. McEntire and Mrs Van
Horn. Liberty roses. the club flow
er were used throughout the rooms. |
The program was as follows:
Piano: Second Mazurka. GODDARD
Serenata .. Moskowski
Miss Anna Myers.
Paper: The New China.
Mrs. Chas. Makepeace
Travel Talk on Egypt, .......
Mrs. Roy NJ. Guild
Besides the members of the club, the
following guests were present: Mrs.
Guild, Mrs. M. J. Sanders, Mrs. Tom
.ilIard, Mrs. George McEntire, Mrs.
Harry Adams, Mrs. L. L. Lashbrook,
Mss Anna Myers, Miss Mary Sharp,
md Miss Thora Spalding.
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