The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-24

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in light brown. Its lines are exceed
ingly graceful, pleats below the low
placed belt giving a smart flare at the
introduced at the side. near the front
Mrs c. B. Reed will entertain the
members of the Monday Bridge club
Monday at her home, 1853 Fillmore
street.
A noted woman who is to be in To-
peka next week is Mrs Fletcher-Copp
of Boston, originator of the Fletcher
Music method. She is on her way to
California to attend the National Fed
Grafton of Music Clubs in Los Angeles
in June and to lecture for the Educa-
tional Department at the Panama eX-
position during July and August. By
the request of Miss Roberta McKira-
han, who met her in Boston last sum-
mer, she will stop in Topeka, and will
lecture at the Y. w. c. A. auditorium
Wednesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
No admission charge will be asked,
and all who are interested in Mrs.
Copp's work are invited. What she
has to say will be of special interest
to the music teachers, the members
of music clubs and the child study
clubs. She speaks on such subjects as
Child Expression in Music" Must a
Musical Genius Be Nervous % Amer
lean Inventiveness Set Free in Music
and other similar subjects. A recent
number of Musical America gave an
article about her, and there is full
page story of her work in the New
York Times of a few weeks ago. With
her lecture she will give a demonStra-
ton of her method in it's bearing on
the three-fold development of the
child. mentally, physically and spiri-
tually.
Mrs. Copp is a student of children
and child education. Her plan aims to
make the study of music natural and
pleasurable instead of drudgery to
children. Her idea is to teach music
a game. and even theory and har-
mony, she thinks, can be learned with
enjoyment Parents whose children
are beginners in music study are in
V1ted to hear her speech. She has
four children of her own. all of whom
are trained by her method.
Word has been received in Topeka
of the marriage of Miss Rebecca
Greenspan, formerly of this city, to
Mr.. Richard Mason of Canon City, Col.
Some years ago Miss Greenspan went
to Colorado Springs to live, and after
wards to Canon City, occasionally re-
turning to Topeka to visit her friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mason are living at the
Holenbeck hotel in Canon City.
Mrs Edwin Campbell asked a few
friends for an informal tea Friday,
complimentary to Miss Mildred Nor
ton, who will be married Sunday to
Mr. Henry Haynes of Geneseo. Ill
Ruth Wilson, Miss Mildred Fuller,
Miss Helen Crawford, Miss Helen
Louise Crosby, Miss Beth Thompson.
Miss Ariel Nichols, Miss Mamie Zah-
ner, Miss Josephine Perry, Miss AL
tina Watson and Miss Lucille Mills.
4. j. j.
Mrs. Oscar L. Moore will be hostess
at May breakfast next Saturday
morning at $3.50 O'Clock. for the Por-
tia club. After the breakfast the reg
ular program will be given.
Mrs. d. E. Barton entertained the
Topeka Avenue Bridge club Friday
afternoon. Guests of the club were:
Mrs Clyde Miller, Mrs. H. A. Perry.
Mrs. V. B. Kistler Mrs. A. w. Bron-
son, Mrs. c. NJ. Hill, and Mrs. A. H.
Purdy The affair was a bridge
The Monday Whist club will meet
next Monday afternoon with Mrs.
Rollo Parker.
Mrs. J. H. McGoff will entertain
the La Douzaine Bridge club Monday
j. j. p
One of the older houses in Topeka |
that is being remodeled this spring is
the home of Mrs. Lucia o. Case, in |
West Tenth street The house was
built good many years ago, when it |
was looked upon as one of the grand |
places of the town. There was some |
talk for a time of selling the site to |
the Holy Name parish for their new
but that project was aban- |
and now Mrs. Cases brother, |
Mr.. Otis Benton, wealthy business |
man of Oberlin, has bought it. and is |
making some changes in the old build I
ing Mrs. Case moved into the house |
close to thirty years ago, and it was
then a comparatively new house, of I
the kind that is built to last