The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02

Mr.. Millard Troxall, Mr. Hugh Nichols,
Mr.. Morris La Croix, Mr.. r Richard
Whitcomb, Mr.. Don Welty, Mr.. Eurie
Beckmer, Mr. John Shaw, Mr.. Earl
Trobert. Mr.. Clayton Klein, Mr.. John
March, Mr.. George McNeish, Mr.. Ernest
Chamberlain, Mr.. Herman Ewers, Mr..
Ray Wolfe, Mr.. Glen Eibe, Mr.. Lewis
Larrick, Mr.. Harold Porter, Mr. Reid
Girard and Mr.: Irwin Keller.
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The event for today of special inter-
est to musical people is the concert at
the Auditorium to begin at 8:15 tonight
Much of the best talent that the town
affords will furnish the program, which
will include some classic selections
from Handel and Haydn and other
composers, besides the main piece OF
the evening "A Persian Garden. Pre-
ceding the singing of the song cycle,
which is an arrangement of parts of
the "Rubaiyat," Dean James p Deb.
Kaye, will give a sketch of the lie
of the author, Omar Khayyam, an
ancient Persian poet, and he will read
the sections of the poem that are in
cluded in the Persian Garden cycle.
He will also give an account of the
work of Edward Fitzgerald who trans
lated the poem into the English The
Rubaivat has been much read and adj
mired for some years past, and the
musical setting of the verse has met
with equal favor.
The solo work for the evening will
be done by Miss Sara Kouns, Miss
Eleanor Logan, Mr.. Herman Springer
and Mr.. Glenwood Jones. A chorus
composed of the members of Grace
cathedral choir, augmented by other
voices. bringing the number up to 60,
will sing the Hallelujah chorus from
the Messiah and The Heavens are
Telling from the Creation Miss
Sara Kouns and Miss Nell Kouns will
sing duet from La Gioconda," and
some pipe organ solos will be played
by Ernest Josef, of kansas City. Miss
Myrtle Radcliffe and Mrs. J. A. Camp
bell will play the accompaniments.
The sale of tickets is in the hands
of some of the church organizations
of Grace cathedral, and the Boys
club will share in the profits.
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The following item from the Kansas
luncheon of the council of clubs in
Kansas City, at which Mrs George H.
Hodges made an address.
This is my own. my native land
ION this sentiment Kansas women
have worked for greater civilization,
Mrs. George H Hodges, wife of G. H.
Hodges, governor of Kansas said yes
terday afternoon in discussing the
Kansas woman at the annual luncheon
of the council of clubs, Kansas City,
KAN, at St PaufS Episcopal church.
Never was there time when the
women were not as influential in Kan
sas as the men," she continued. ''They
have accomplished their work without
drum Or trumpet. With the new power
of the ballot they will continue to
work quietly The ballot will enable
them to accomplish greater things
The Kansas woman has been truly
practical Her work has been to pro-
mote the social welfare If culture
consists in turning education into pub
lie good. she is highly cultured"
Mrs Willard Q. Church, president of
the Athenaeum club of this city. in
discussing the New Missouri, said:
Though Missouri has not given the
ballot to women and is not up with
Kansas in commission government the
New Missouri is a lusty child. Its well
fare workers are in the field and will.
we hope, surpass its sister state in
these measures
Mrs. Fred Grindrod and Mrs. John