The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
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The members of the Art club had a
line party Saturday to the art exhibit
in the Manual Training building, to
hear the lecture by Professor w. E.
Griffith of the Kansas university, who
made an informal address about the
pictures in the exhibit He pointed
out pictures that represented the var1-
Gus schools of painting, and drew
special attention to a canvas Along
the Hudson painted by a New York
artist, a disciple of the Whistler school.
The lecture was extremely helpful to
those not technically trained in art, TO
Judge of a picture intelligently, either
for the purpose of buying pictures for
their homes, or of benefting by visits
to galleries and exhibits.
Mr.. George NJ. Stone will speak at
the exhibit tonight. Mrs. Marie Price
Wear Tuesday night, and Mrs l.. d.
Whittemore Wednesday night, Miss
Kathleen McNutt Friday night, Mrs.
Lenore Doster Cooke Thursday after
noon, and Mr.. Albert T. Reid Satur-
day afternoon. Others who will speak
before the close of the exhibit are Miss
Marie Witwer and Miss Katherine
Lindsay.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Forbes gave a
sIeighing party saturday night for a
few friends.
The following is from an article in
the Chicago Tribune by Glenn billiard
Gum. regarding the annual Easter fes-
tivaI at Lindsborg, which is attended
every year by a good many Topeka
people, and in which people all over
the state are interested:
Kansas is famed for many things
that touch the moral and material pro-
sress of the nation. Abolition was the
issue that made it state. Its women
vote. Last week the leaders of the
prohibition movement were gathered in
7 70 hal Uatn n
cause, ex-Gov. John P. St. John, cele-
brate his S0th birthday The corn and
the sunflowers of Kansas are supposed
TO excel in the characteristically west
ern attribute of Iargeness. and the
wheat fields in fertility. But it will
be news to many to learn that Kansas
also has achieved fame in the field of
art
The picturesque features of this
achievement are not those which one
wou!ds expect. for they are concerned
with an old world atmosphere of SIM
plicitv even of primitiveness curiously
Joined to the most sacrificing
devotion to art. The hamlet of LindS-
borg is the musical center of Kansas.
It's inhabitants number 1880. men.
women and children. 1t supports
chorus of 500 voices and an orchestra
of forty pieces. and each Easter The
Messiah is performed and has been
for the past thirty-one wears. Music
lovers from all parts of Kansas from
Missouri Oklahoma. Nebraska, and
Colorado make the arduous pilgrimage
10 Lindsborg each year to hear these
farmers and their wives and daughters
sing Handlers masterpiece.
This Easter Nine Schumann-Heink is
TO be the star of the festival. and asso-
ciated with her will be other artists
from Chicago. from New York. together
with several who are proud to call
Lindsborg home. When one considers
the fact that the fee which Nine
Schumann-Heink will receive repre-
sents per ca pita assessment of 80 cents
for every man, woman. and child in
T.indSborg. it makes Chica SO's pride in
the perennial prosperity of the Chica 90
orchestra and the $4,000 profit on the
last season of the opera seem vain and
futile. And after hearing q rehearsal
of the LindsbOrg chorus one is moved
to wonder whether the technical pre-
cision and artistic refinement of Chi
lagos Apollo club ard Toronto's " IL
delssohn choir really are subject for
the unqualified satisfaction and self
congra tuIa ton of their respective COM
munities.
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Mrs. 4. NJ. Keene of Fort Scott and
Mrs. James w. Orr of Atchison gave
nm informal afternoon party Saturday
at their apartments in the New Cor
don. Among the guests who attended |
the affair were: Mrs Orr'S mother |
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