The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-24

by Mr.. Walter Zimmerman, at a serv-
scientist The name of the song is
If But Trust" and musicians who
heard it pronounced it an exquisite
sacred solo. 1t was sung from the
manuscript Sunday, but Mrs. Hay ex-
poets to have it published soon.
A ballad, "Eber," written by Mrs
Hay, was published about two years
ago, under her maiden name, Moran
O'Neill, and is far above the ordinary
popular song in melody and delicacy
Under the name of Max O'Nelll, Mrs
Hay has written an aeroplane song,
Drove, Drive On" and a number of
other recent songs Among her un-
published pieces is a march, The Dust
Rag" lullaby, which she calls My
Wealth" and ballad, For You.
There is a distinctiveneSS in her
work that merits recognition.
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The Congressional Union, an or
SANITATION working for equal suffrage
in the United States, is making elab-
crate preparations for a conference to
be held in San Francisco June 1 and
2, in which all suffrage countries and
suffrage states, including Kansas. are
invited to join. Mrs. Lee Monroe,
who has kept in touch with the pur-
poses and achievements of the Union
says of it: THE Congressional Union
is the most progressive and up-to-date
suffrage organization in existence Its
members realize, what other similar
organizations have failed to grasp,
that the Acknowledgement of women
cannot be accomplished outside or
politics. For that reason, they have
gone to headquarters, and are working
in Washington, the political center and
the national capital. AS soon as bill
is presented for action by legislative
body it becomes a matter of politics,
and instead of working with isolated
groups of individuals, this organiza-
ton has gone right into the nations
CO. Io11 l, int r.
RIGA, so to speak. Their suffrage pa
per is one of the best, the most schol-
arly and business-like of any such
publication that l know OF.
Representatives from every enfran-
chised country in the world appear at
the conference and will speak in native
costume. Foreign music will form the
interludes between the speeches. The
Denmark, Iceland, Finland, the Isle
of Man, Australia, New Zealand
China, Alaska, and the twelve suffrage
states of the Union;
The Crochet club will meet Tuesday
with Mrs. Willis Coston, in Buchanan
street, instead of with Mrs. J. T.. Clare,
as formerly announced. Mrs. Clare
was injured in an automobile accident
a few days ago.
The high school will have its annual
May fete Saturday afternoon of this
of the senior class, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Sar-
gent, has been chosen queen by vote
of the seniors. All the girls of the
high school are expected to march In
and after the crowning of
the May queen, there will he drills |
and dances by the girls of the gym |
nasium classes, directed by Miss Grace
Gilmore.
Miss Marguerite Lovewell, of New
York, who is spending the summer |
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. T.
was honor guest at an IN |
formal party Saturday afternoon Civ
EN- by her sister, Miss Carolyn Love- |
we'll The guests were the members
of the Sigma Alpha Iota sorority OF
Washburn college, of which the Misses
other friends, including: Miss Helen |
Cook, Miss Emily Hardy, Miss Mar |
guerite Gilmore, Miss Marie Smith,
Miss Gertrude Huckle. Miss Nell Dick
srson, Miss Grace Rickenbacher, Miss
Miriam Foster, Miss Hazel Bruce, Miss |
Dorothy Sims, Miss Virginia Taliafer-
70, Miss Elizabeth Gaume, Miss BE
atricc Clifton, Miss Lydia Emery, Miss
Eleanor Bartel, Miss Elsie Hobson,
Miss Ruth Washburn, Miss Faybeen
Villa ms, Miss Elsie Chapman Miss |
June MITCHELL Miss Corinne McSpad-
den, Miss Helen Wing, Miss Emma
Phoebe Gaylord, Miss Helen Hoge-
boom, Miss Elizabeth Anderson. Miss
Helen Griffin, Miss Guenn Godard |
Ind Miss Helen 1n :.
Miss Elizabeth Guame will gradu-
ate in piano from the Washburn |
school of fine arts this spring, and she |
will give her graduating recital
Wednesday night of this week. Her
program will be:
Prelude and Fugue, A minor
Beethoven. Sonata, op IA, No.
Allegro
AIlegretto
Rondo
Chopin. ........ (a) Berceuse
(b) ValSe, fiat
Co Scherzo, E major
Schumann. Novelette,, A minor
List .............. Gnomenreigen
Tschaikowsky. Concerto, B fiat minor
Andante non troppo
Andantino semplice
Allegro con fuoco
Mr.. George w. Heron of New York
City left today for the east, after a
visit of a few days to Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. o. Carney, Mrs. Charles Spencer
and other Topeka friends He was
L Kansas pioneer, and for years made
MS home in Topeka, the family resi-
1ence being then at Seventh and Jack
son streets. He was one of the states
defenders in the days of the border
aids. He was mayor of Topeka when
he prohibitory law went into effect.
He was at one time one of the own
ers of the Grand opera house, and
Turing his visit in Topeka he was the
guest of Mr.. L. NJ. Crawford at the
heater, and occupied the box that