The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Miss Aldrich was brought up in
New England in the home Of iler
uncle who was a wealthy glove manu-
facturer. She Travelled about a great
deal and was educated for some years
by private tutors in her aunts home.
During the time she was in school she
had as one of her classmates, Eleanor
Hodgman, who IS now Mrs Eleanor
Porter, the author of the PolYanna
stories. Her first doll was named for
this friend, and Miss Hodgman was
afterward the fiancee of Miss Aldrica's
brother, now DR.. w. Aldrich, of Yer
mont Their love affair, however. was
a boy AMI girl attachment which was
later broken off.
Miss AIdrich has been a student of
the arts of music and painting She
was proficient both in piano and pipe
organ music, and expected at ore time
to make music her profession. She
also has done good deal of work in
water color and oils and has been in
terested in ceramics. She was an art
pupil of the celebrated Alfred Vance
Churchill. After coming to Topeka
she entered the teaching profession,
and taught for several years in the
ward schools She was one of the or
ganizerS of the Grade Teachers asso-
citation. She now has classes in his
tory in the high school. She has i'll
her recitation room n lantern and
screen, and she has a big collection of
pictures picked up during many jour
news in America and Europe, which
she is using to give interest and added
life to the study of ancient, medieval
and modern European history Her
method quite Shuffles out the dry
bones of history study and makes it
one of the fascinating courses in high
school work, according to numbers of
the students who are in her classes.
In addition to the other enterprises
of this versatile women. she con-
Quoted a travel bureau for a number
of years She has taken parties of
Kansas people to Europe summer af-
ter summer, until the outbreak of the
war. The miles of art galleries that
she has walked through would be
hard to estimate; the guides, the pHs-
gage men, the pension and hotel keep
ers that she has bargained with are
legion and with it all she has made
many friends in many lands.
With the slump in the foreign
travel business, Miss Aldrich found
summers rest last season in historic
of her revolutionary ancestors and
brought home relics of Colonial days
She took long motor trips with her
brother, DR. Aldrich, who drove
week in connection with some state
institutional work with which he is
engaged; Governor Gates, of Massa-
chusetts, was frequently a member
the way, was in Topeka to attend a
family reunion last week. Ele is
specialist VINO has received his train
ing in New York, Berlin, Vienna and
Paris.
Miss AIdrich is a member of The
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, and was regent of the Topeka
chapter two years. She is also a
of Western Sorosis and of
the High School Teachers Guild
In addition to the rest, she is at
work on a text book for grade school
work. which is to be an historical
reader. 1t is to contain maps. high !
class pictures, and historical stories of
interest to young people.
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The dancing party by the Helian
thus club will be held Wednesday eve |
ming, December 8. instead of Thurs |
day evening as = previously :: y announced
Friends of Mr.. Paul Lawless head
of the voice department of Bethany |
college, will be interested to know |
that he has been engaged as tenor
soloist for the Minneapolis Symphony |
orchestra on their concert tour He |
will sing at Convention hall in Kansas
City December IS.
The mothers of some of the high I
school girls entertained their daugh- /
ters and their friends at dancing
party Friday night in Kellam Hall. I
The ball room was decorated with .
palms and ferns and foliage plants.
Punch was served by Miss Dorothy /
Hetherington and Miss Marguerite
Stewart.
The hostesses were: Mrs A. o.
Rosser, Mrs. Matt Weightman, Mrs.
Albert Neese, Mrs. F. T. DoIan, Mrs.
E. C. Thran, Mrs. S. G. Stewart Mrs
= M Hill, Mrs. K. L. Whitfield. Mrs.
T Lucas, Mrs. w. E. Mcvey, Mrs.
Eugene S. Quinton, Mrs. Frank
Thompson. Mrs. E. ]. Shakeshaft Mrs |
George Pritchard, Mrs. Oscar Neil. /
Mrs d. p. Paxton, Mrs. H. W. Seery,
Mrs j. A Burnett and Mrs. H. c. II
The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. /
Frank Griggs, Mr. and Mrs Fred H
Davis, Miss Ruth Marsh. Miss Rhea
robertson, Miss Georgia Neese. Miss Il
Helen Lucas Miss Harriet Hill, Miss
Nan Weightman, Miss Doris RoSser II
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