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

The services Of the performers will
be given without charge, as will also
the hail. and the concerts are to be
free to the public. The November
George Parkhurst; the December re-
cital by Miss Gladys Cav. The Janu-
airy program will be a miscellaneous
one not yet arranged In February
a program will be given by Miss
Emma Rempfer, Miss Helen PhippS
and Mr.. w. Boughton all of Wash
burn college. The March concert will
be given by Mr.. Carlton Wood, assist
ed by Mr. Zimmerman and the Wood
trio. TIE April recital will be given
by Mrs. Ernest Hughes, soprano; Miss
Esther Watts, violinist, and Miss
Frances Walsh, pianiste-
The May concert will be held at the
First Baptist church, instead of the
high school auditorium. Mrs. ARA
Clark, organist, and Mrs George H.
Allen, soprano, will give the program.
The department will have semi
monthly meetings, as the literary de-
partment has had in previous years
At these meetings study of musical
subjects will be made. The depart
ment will have three of the meetings
of the federation at which they Will
furnish a program. The first of these
will be IN connection with the social
department at the Opening of the club
year, the second in December, when
they will give a program of Three
Centuries of Song" in costume, and the
when they will have an afternoon of
home compositions 1t is the purpose
of the department to encourage the
home musicians. During the mid
month meetings there will be a STUDY
of Indian music, folk music and
Christmas music. all before the hoh-
days. After the holidays there Will be
Il study of nature music, including
music regarding the flowers, trees,
birds, the elements, the sun, moon and
stars Later in the sea son there Will
be program of children's songs
The federation aims &c make its
music department. an imp ortant music
al club of Topeka. IN the matter OF
instruction, concert giving and the
recognition of local musicians.
Miss Nanon Herren gave a dramatic
presentation of the stirring new play
War Brides Friday night at the
First Christian church. The story,
touching as it does, a question tnat
women all over the world are THINK
ing about, is one of vital interest, and
Miss Herren read the lines with feel
ing and power. The play is written
to set forth the idea of the 'woman's
strike" as means of preventing
wars The scene is laid in Germany,
near the beginning of the present war
in Europe. The story opens with the
scene of the women of a German
village harvesting the crops, gather
ing the grapes and putting in the hay.
A young girl has been asked in mar
rage by a soldier she had met the
day before Her mother urges her to
accept the man as her sacrifice for
the Fatherland. Her brothers are all
in the army The war brides. who are
coming from the church, are being
cheered and lauded. The heroine of
the play is young woman, the wife
of the young girls oldest brother, who
is away to the war. She goes about
among the women of the village urg-
ing them to refuse to bear children
to be sent to slaughter in future wars
Her action is pronounced reasonable;
she is arrested, and her death comes
just as she sends to the Emperor her
message that she will not bring her
child into the world until she has
some assurance that there will be no
more war.
Miss Herren's impersonation of the
various characters was consistent,
thoughtful and outstanding, and her