The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-09

with fur.
engagement to play in 'It Pays to
Advertise and is leaving for Aus
tralia to begin the season in Sidney,
Australia. He and Mrs. Hamilton
cisco.
The Alpha Delt men of Washburn
college will have their annual Thanks
giving dancing party the evening of
Thursday, November Is.
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Miss Myrtle Radcliffe expects to go
to Wichita Saturday to play accom-
paniments Sunday afternoon at a
concert to be given by the Wichita
Symphony orchestra. The orchestra
has procured the services as soloist
of Signor Raoul Sbonanno, an Italian
singer, who is also duke of Misel-
meri. He is in America on account
of the war in Europe. He has sung
with the Paris Opera company and
with the Monte Carlo company. His
solo work is the feature of the con-
cert, and Miss Radcliffe will play his
piano accomplishments.
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The Elwell club met today with
Mrs. Robert Merrick Mrs. T. s..
Stevens and Mrs. H. L. Peppmeyer
played for absent members. Mrs.
-Merrick will entertain her club to-
hight, Will d lew OInoC u6SIS.
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Mrs. Roland Perkins entertained
twenty-five guests at bridge and tea
Monday afternoon, complimentary to
her house guest, Miss NJ. E. Belcher,
who has arrived from New York for a
months visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins
The guests were some friends whom
Miss Belcher had previously known.
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The Matinee Music club will meet
Thursday of this week with Miss Ida
Tinker at her home in Fillmore street
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Word has been received from a
traveller in the Far East, Mrs. G. H.
Griggs, who has been abroad about a
year and half. She is now visiting a
daughter in Egypt. A letter from Mrs.
Gr1ggs which reached my desk this
morning, was mailed from CeyIon,
ter was opened at Colombo, October
Z, and read and passed by the censor,
resealed and posted again.
The letter was written aboard the
Japanese steamship Yasaka Maru. ir
the Indian ocean. Mrs. Griggs says,
in part:
1.-THE year spent in China was a de-
lightful and profitable one Nearly all
mans in Marking, though I had
number of side trips about the coun-
try Mrs Dadisnan IS Mrs. Griggs'
daughter.)
In the month of May 1 went to
North China, visiting the tomb of
Confucius and the temple at Chu
Fou, the sacred mountain Tai Shan
at Tianfu, the great Whiterwright
Institute in Tsinanfu which is a
unique piece of missionary work. We
also saw the fa nous Bubbling Springs,
the new Unicn hospital, and many
other interesting things.
DIR. Florence Fitch, dean of Wom-
en- in Oberlin college, was with me
on this northward trip. The women
of the Presbyterian mission took US
out in housebCat for an afternoon
boat and visited some temples and
pagodas on the way. We found
Tsinanfu one of the cleanest cities
in China.
we stopped in Tien Tsin, visiting
the American board and Methodist
mission; also one of the largest gov
ernment schools in China known as
the Chang Poo Ting school. Mr..
and is known as one of the great
educational men of China
I'm Techow we stopped to visit
Miss Mabel Higgins, of Topeka, a for
mer Washburn college woman, who is
engaged in missionary work there.
This is American beard work, and a
fine lot of new buildings they have
Their new hospital is one of the best
of northern China, and TIE new resi-
dcnces and boys school building IS a
credit to them
Among the interesting places we
visited about Picking, tie great capital
city, were the Temple and Altar of
Heaven, the Summer Palaces, Using
Fua college, with Is our indemnity
school, with four hundred boys from
tho best Chinese families This fall
fifty OF these boys have gone to Amer
lea to continue their education. 1t is
one of the conditions that they shall
go to America. Forty of them had
their way paid, and ten of them paid
their own way.
I'VE went to the Ming tombs of the
north and saw the Great Wall of
China. We saw wedding and funeral
professions going to and from the
in the country we saw many camels
carrying their great burdens. Images
and inscriptions were engraved on
great rocks, high in the mountains
where it seemed impossible for men to
climb. Instead of the wall being one