The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-23

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The Nineteenth Century club will
give it's annual May party Friday, May
1. at the home of Mrs. c. G. Colburn.
a luncheon. and will be attended by
the members and their guests. Covers
will be laid for about thirty-five.
The clubs May party is one of the
pleasantest affairs of the club year.
and will be an interesting social event
OF the week.
Miss Polly Mowers entertained few
friends at an informal afternoon at
thimbles this afternoon at her home
cluded: Miss Juliet Brown, Miss Mary
weightman, Miss Alice Hughes. Miss
Winifred Hartley. Miss Gertrude Gray
and Miss Mowers. .
Mrs. w. A. Horton was hostess at
q meeting of the Fillmore Street Whist
club this afternoon. Mrs. L. H. Mum
substitute at the meeting
The Crochet club Is planning trip
to Lakeview in two weeks for days
outing.
Mrs. Horace Adams was hostess at
an informal tea Wednesday afternoon
for about sixty guests at her home.
Maple Hill. She was assisted by her
daughter, Miss Mary Adams, and by
Miss Helen Davis of Kansas City. who
visited Miss Alice Hughes at Topeka
last week, and is now a guest at the
Adams home.
During the afternoon music was fur
nished by Miss Davis, Miss Adams,
Mrs. o. E. Winkler and Mrs. Schmitz
The rooms open to the guests were dec
The Lovely Lady. who gets an in
vitation to most of the important par
ties and keeps her finger on the public
pulse, was asked for news by the 8.
r. today, and her comment on the
dullness of social life in our village
was something like this: Il haven't
a single invitation and have not been
out for so long that 1 am miserably
rusty on current subjects. 1 spent an
hour or so with some friends day or
two ago. ] heard someone say Ish
ka bibble,' and everybody laughed be-
cause I looked blank and asked what
that meant. 1 have to go to the va
riety shows to learn how people are
expressing themselves. and then must
sit where I can watch the crowd and
know when it's time to laugh"
Mrs. A. B. C. butcher and her guest.
Mrs. Cochrane of Chicago, formerly Of
Topeka were entertained at luncheon
1T Mills Tea room today by Mrs.
George Eagle.
Mrs butcher will have guests to
luncheon Friday for Mrs. Cochrane.
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The following account Of a Kan
sas girl. who lived for a time in To-
peka. is from a Wichita paper, and
will be interesting to her friends here:
Miss Louise Llewellyn, daughter of
former Governor Llewellyn of Kansas,
is coming to Wichita, the city where
she went to school and where she
spent her girlhood days. and will ap-
pear with the Wichita Symphony
has achieved a vast amount of sue
cess in the musical world, her spec
ialty being folk songs.
During the last season at Washing
ton she appeared at the White House
and gave a program for President
Wilson. Her successes elsewhere at
tracted the attention of Wichita mu-
sicians, particularly Iris Pend1eton,
manager of the symphony orchestra.
Mr.. PendletOn entered into a contra ct
with Miss Llewe1lyn to present her il
all the big southwestern cities. He
stated last night that should efforts
to finance another symphony Orches-
ira season in Wichita prove successful
Miss Llewellyn would be one of the
artists secured.
Kansas and Wichita people have
been greatly interested in the decided
success Of Louise Llewellyn. daugh-
ter of Ex-Governor L. d. Llewellyn, in
her speciality of folk song programs
Miss Llewellyn lived in Wichita and
attended the Wichita high school. She
went to Chicago soon after Governor
Llewellyn's death, where her musical
and literary talents soon won recogni-
ton. She was correspondent for sew
nvn1 hi
same time kept her interest in mu-
steal affairs, continuing her studies in
composition. Before she went to Eu-
rope one of her songs was sung by
Madame Schumann-Heink at Orches-
ira hall, Chicago.
In Paris. where Miss Llewellyn
made her home for five years, she
was correspondent for Musical Amer
lea and was a prominent member of
Branch Lyceum club. After having
spent some time in voice and compo-
sition in Paris. Miss Llewellyn de-
voted her entire time to studying the
folk songs.
In Europe and the east Miss
Llewellyn has had a remarkable sue
cess singing folk song concerts in cos
tune.
The West Side Reading club had a
meeting Tuesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs George Sparks. Judge
w. F. Schoch made an address on
'The Juvenile Court"
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Mrs. F. w. Watson will entertain
the women of Western SorOsis at their
meeting Saturday of this week. The
paper of the afternoon will be read
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