The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-18

Miss Legler will go from here to
Norman, Okla, where she will begin
her second year as teacher of voice in
the Fine Arts Department of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma, an institution
that emphasiz more than nearly
any of the other state universities,
the matter of excellence in its fine
arts department. Miss Legler taught,
previous to entrance to the faculty or
the University, in Sayre college, a
girls school, in Kentucky. She has
spent a good deal of time in Chicago,
where she has a studio in the sum-
mer, and she makes concert trips out
OF Chicago during the vacation PERIOD
She expects to go to Chicago soon to
give a concert in Orchestra hall.
She also has been engaged by a
prominent Chicago impresario to
give concerts on some of the artists
series in the cities of the south. She
will carry on that work in connection
with her teaching during the coming
year. She will sing later on with the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and
with the Russian symphony.
Miss Legler has studied in America
and in Europe. She spent some time
she made a special study of the opera,
and she sings a large repertoire of
opera arias of the kind suited to her
voice which is DRAMATIC soprano.
Mrs. Frank Bradley will be hostess
at a meeting of La Douzaine Bridge
club Monday afternoon, at her home
in western avenue. The members are
asked to be prompt in arriving at the
hour set for the meeting.
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OF the homes that make Topeka and
the country about it attractive as a
residence town none are more deserv-
ing of credit than the suburban place
of Mr.. ]. R. Burrow. bank president
and former state treasurer of Kansas.
Mr.. Burrow calls his place Pinehurst
jS of he nj nj
homes of Highland Park.
The beauty of the place is, #
course, most striking in the spring,
when the first blossoms are out Gar
dens are then loveliest, because they
are fresh and lack the tangled and
somewhat overgrown appearance of
the late summer and autumn, but
Pinehurst. with its ten acres in park,
mas a rotation of flowers that keep
1t beautiful throughout the season of
bloom In the spring crescent shap-
ed lilac hedge at the rear of the
mouse, puts out its purple and white
blossoms, and affords a sight that well
repays trip to the place to see. A
huge bed of sweet peas and ather
early flowers fill out a part of the
scheme of gardening
A landscape gardener from Boston
laid out the place a good many years
ago but the plot has been lost, and
mere are numbers of plants and
snrupS That some experts in Topeka
Across the front of the lawn is a
wall OF boulders, with big iron gates
at the entrance. Edging the wall on
the inside is a hedge of bushes hear
ing the pendulum flowers that orc
now IN full bloom. Among the bushes
are some tamarisk trees native of
AFRICA, that bear. a feathery pink
of cosmos and dahlias skfrting tbe
bushes are just now beginning 70
fade The dahlias are peculiarly hand
some and double as a rose. Still fur
ther inside with group of shrubs and
trees, is big bed of old fashioned
petunias that burst on the view like
a flood of sunshine
Whlle the trees on the grounds arr,
very numerous. there are large omen
spaces that preclude anv sense of
crowdlng- A red bud, or Judas tree
- one OF the uncommon varieties on
IL lenc. Some Scotch pines, gnarled
ana Old give character and distincti
10 the scene. Leading under the ni,,Gs
Is sraVeled pathway that ends at a
summer house, to be arched with =
- rocf, and covered with crimson
iaHolers and white honeysuclxle TIL
"a Jerry bushes, with their red her
i4es Ngood, they say, for iellv) ara Sti1I
I3aued with their fruit The Iar+1e
rro7SpG OF berries against q back
StouIld OF dull green is hea,,+;F,S1I
Pc. uTesQue. The black locust 49,
I i hawthorne and English nriI,s@
So ~. IN old-world charm 10 the n1aca
brer el.S rose mary that lis for rernarn,
alice gives an old-time touch to tbo
rose garden at the back of r. , 70 the
AlcIlWays framed N clematis I-ine
nd ms, me paths over the lawn her.
AT the east Of the veranda is q Co..
PED IN which are growing so,,,a I'm I'm
ines mat blossom in the sprinT eny
over one of the east windows so 1,.a
Ensnsh IVY is climbing. The big ch,n1
at the front of the house is