The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
C0CHry

The marriage of Miss Grace Marie
Eldridse and Mr.. Fred j. Prout VIII
take place tonight at $50 o'clock, al
the horne of the brides parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Charles f. Eldridge, 11Oa
Harrison street. Dr. Robert Gordon
of the First Baptist church, will read
the service.
The bride will be attended by Miss
Mary Helen Shirer as maid OF honor
and Mr.. Pr0ut's best man will be Mr.
Charles Eldridge, the brides brother
The color scheme for the wedding
will be pink and white. The stairway
of the hall will be wound with fern
and smilax- The ceremony will be
read before the bay window of the
living room, which will be banked
with ferns and pink and white rose
buds. Bouquets of pink and white
roses Will decorate the dining room.
Miss Lydia Emery, Il cousin of the
bride, will play the Lohengrin we'd
ding march, and before the ceremony
Mr.. Leland McAfee will sing.
The brides gown is of white crepe
de chine with an overdresS of chiffon
voile the drapery of which is caught
with chiffon roses. The bridal bou-
Quet will be of pink and white roses
and lilies of the valley. Miss Shlrer'
the maid of honor, will wear costume
of japanese tissue of pattern embrold-
cry. The embroidery is deep on the
skirt. and the bodice is trimmed In
maribou. There is a double ruffle at
the throat and finishing the small puff
sleeves The bodice is made with
drop shoulders, with straps of lace
The gown is draped over pink crepe
de chine. and worn with white gloves
and pink slippers.
After the ceremony Mr.. Prout and
his bride will leave for trip to Colo
RADIO where they will remain about ten
DAYS. After their return they will be
at home at 2073 Van Buren, street,
where they have a bungalow prepared
for occupancy.
The F;ldridge family is well known
In rid a i
nent business man, and the family has
a wide circle of friends. The brides
sister, Mrs. E. G. Young of Urbana,
Ill was a bride of last summer, and
is now in Topeka to attend the we'd
ding tonight. Miss Eldrldge was a
WaShburn college girl.
Mr.. Prout was educated in North
western university, where he gradu-
ated, taking special work in engineer
ing He has position with the Santa
Fe Railway company in the test de-
par;ment.
The guests at the wedding tonight
will be limited to near friends of the
bridal couple.
Mrs. Edwin Campbell entertained
informally at luncheon today for Mrs.
J. II. Rrandow and Miss Helen Bran
dow of Albany, n. Y. Covers we've
laid for Mrs. BRANDON. Miss BRANDON,
Mrs A. w. Bronson. Mrs. Silas Por-
ter and Mrs. Campbell
Mr.. and Mrs. V. 3. Kist1er will en-
terrain the visitors at dinner tonight,
and Mrs. c. w. Kouns will be hostess
at an affair for them next week.
+ f. I.
Mrs. w. H. Rutter gave a luncheon
Friday for Miss Ruth WoOdfOrd and
Miss Laura Haynes, who are to be.
were pink roses and candles. Music
for the party was furnished by Miss
Enid Strickler, who sang, and Mrs.
Frank Kaho, who gave some piano
Covers
guests.
y student song recital of unusual
interest was given Friday night at the |
First congregational church by four
young women, Miss Nellie Boon, Miss
Rose Gilberg, Miss Emily Crow and
Miss Olga Genthe, who are pupils of
Mrs. p. II. Adams.
The avera ge length of time in which |
the singers have been studying with
Mrs. Adams is two years, and three
of them have never had any other |
teacher. The clever adaptation of the |
numbers to the best powers of the |
singers, ana the variety in the selec- /
ton of songs and the beauties of the |
orchestral parts il the accOmpani- |
ments. added to the interest that was
sustained by good sized audience |
through the evening in the work the |
pupils were able to do.
Miss Boon appeared four times on |
the program, closing the recital with !
cagni's Ave Maria" from Caval |
leria RuSticana. The number was |
given with organ, violin, flute. cello /
and harp accompaniment, and was a |
selection of special beauty and inter- |
est. An opera number from La Som !
nambula. "Ah. non giunge." was cred |
itably done, and a group of lighter |
songs, and the soprano part in a duet, /
made up Miss Boon's cortrit ution to 7
the entertainment. A nOticea BILE fSa- /
ture of her singing is her power of /
execution. Her runs and triliS are |
clear and even and her Staccata sing +
ing excellent. The fleXibility of her /
voice and daintirsess of many of her |
notes might well be the envy of some /
of the professional singers hat pass
this way.
Miss Gilberg, who astonished the |
musical people OF Topeka in a recital /
she gave last winter. was on last
nights program for three numbers. /
Her voice mas grown in volume and /
power. 1t is rounder and has a I
greater evsnneSs in the development .
of it's registers than when it was last 4
heard in public il Topeka. The per- /
Sonality and temperamental Quality of .
this young girl, yet in her teens, p
promises to be n factor in her success. /
She intends to make music her profess ,
sion. She sang three short songs from Z
Meyerbeer's opera IL Profeta, Schu- t
bert's Serenade and a number from
Faust. She sang a German folk song,
and a short English number, display f
ing in all, her ability to sing in French, I
German, Italian and English [
Miss Grow sang from the Messiah. I