The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12

States She sailed on the Alaunia OF
the Cunard line. coming home by the
| oorthern route.
She will leave Sunday for Osborn.
| Kan, where she has accepted posi-
ton as teacher of German in the high
school.
Some of the great artists of the
time have become involved in the
dangers of the European war, others
have stayed away from the scene of
the fray and thanked their stars that
they could. and still others have tried
! to join in the fight. and for various
reasons have been unable to do So. In
the latter class Is the famous French
cOntraltO, Nine. Gerville- Reasche. She,
with her husband. who is a physician,
volunteered for service in the medical
department, where she expected to
serve as Red Cross nurse in the hos
pitfalls on the fields of France. She
was accepted for service by her gov.
eminent, but was unable to procure
passage across. She hoped to serve for
| two months and then return to this
country to fulfill her concert engage
ments.
One of her early appointments for
the fall is for recital in Topeka,
which she will give as the second num-
Der of the Radcliffe concert series,
Friday, November IS, at the Grand
/ opera house. She is still in this coun-
| try and will not leave it, at least until
the season is over.
The Radcliffe concerts, seven in
number, are appointed for Friday aft
ernoons at o'clock, as follows: Oc-
tober %, November 13, November 81,
January Is. February IL, March 5 and
April Is.
The first artist on the series will
be Madame Johanna Gadski, the great
dramatic soprano, who will give her
concert October % Cor
Reasche will sing November 3. Efrem
Zimbalist, the celebrated violinist, mad
Josef Lhevinne, one of the greatest
pianists of the day, have both been
excused from military service, and
will appear in Topeka this year, Zim-
balist on November q and Lhevinne
January Is.
The fifth artist of the course is a
Kansas girl, who has made good in
the world of music, Miss Louise
Llewellyn, whose date for her Topeka
concert is February IL. Miss Level
lyn is the daughter of former Cover
nor Llewellyn, and she has lived in
Topeka. where she still has friends
Her successes have been brilliant and
ner program will consist chiefly of
folk songs in costume
A concert will be given March by
Mr. Cecil Tanning. American baritone,
and the series will close with a recital
i
Miss Radcliffe has the assurance of
the difference managers that the art
lists announced will fulfill their con-
tracts in spite Of the European diff
culties. Gadski landed Sept. 8, and
all the artists of the series are in
America at this time, so that no trou-
bles in the Fatherland need to inter-
fere with the plans Of local music low
ers this season.
Mrs. Harry Tasker will give a pu-
pills recital Saturday afternoon of
next week at three o'clock at Central
Congregational church in the Bowman
room.
The following lines by Margaret
Mason give the key for the dominant
note in fashions for the season:
1.-The autumn maid is military mad,
Her autumn clothes are military
made;
In frogs and buttons she'll be fiercely
clad,
And yards and yards Of shiny gold
en- braid.
She'll lay dire siege to every fellows
heart,
Till he surrenders to her dashing
charms:
And then a captive to her warlike art.
At her command he'll gladly Pre-
sent Arms
Fashionable women, it seems, are
adapting to their own sartoria1 uses
the best points of the uniforms Of the
warning nations, and with strict neu-
trality she will wear a Uhlan's cape
over a Russian tunic, or a Cossack's
coat of Prussian blue. Coat dresses,
fastening with ornamental frogs of
black silk braid, are smart and almost
invariably show the new military col
lar Many of the long-skirted Cos
sack coats or Redingote suits have
two rows of brass buttons down the
front and are girdled in with belts
like those Tommy Atkins wears.
The dashing military capes are
stunning when they are blue with a
scarlet lining, With a CLINT Of brass
buttons such as the U. S. A. soldiers
wear.
The penchant for gold braid, how
ever, can. OF be blamed entirely on
the war along with the high cost of
living, for it takes the form of crav-
ing for all sorts Of metalized trim
! mings and embroideries worn on
street costumes as well on even
ing dresses. Evening gowns, by the
| way, are mere wisps Of net or lace and
chiffon picked out with gold and sill
yer threads, a spangle or two, or a
crushed velvet girdle to lend them
stability.
A Topeka young man. sitting idly
at his home one day, 1anguidly took
up a telephone book and glanced
through its contents. He was look
ing for some one to call up He came
! upon the name of a big firm with a
private branch exchange. He reflect
ed that a house with its own system
of phones would naturally have a wo-
s., man operator He called the number
and engaged the operator in converse
! ton. Every day thereafter he called
her on the line without knowing her
! name. Being a reckless Jayhawker,
he invited her to go to the theater
with him. She consented, and the