The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22


Gently, was also one of the exhibitors.
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l. Miss Ethelyn Harrison is spending
the summer in California. Thursday
evening she gave a concert in the
shakespeare club house, Los Angeles,
presenting Mrs. Henley Bussing, So
prano, and Mr.. George Schoenefeld,
who plays the harpsichord.
The concert was a novel one Spe-
| cial interest was lent to the occasion
by the use of the old time instrument.
the harpsichord, which was crowded
out of use more than a century ago by
the piano. The history of the harps1-
chord is probably the most romantic
of all surviving musical instruments
civilization and is Swallowed with
memorable and often tragic events.
The lives of many of the great mu-
sicians of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries centered around
the harpsichord. The instrument
has two keyboards of five oc-
taves each. and six pedals that control
| three systems and four sets of Jacks"
Bussing were all of the fifteenth, six
| teenth or seventeenth century COM
position. Both the singer and Mr..
ISchoenefeld wore costumes of the
same period as the music they gave.
The musical people of California
are deeply interested in the meeting
CT the National Federation of Music
Clubs to be held in June The $40
ratio Parker and Brian Hooker, will
be given at the biennial
Miss Harrison is now living at 1.-The
Rampant, Pasadena.
The people who insist on inserting
mans title into his wifes name.
have been outdone. Some friends of
the various Jones families in Topeka,
in burlesque of the titles Mrs. Judge
Soandso, Mrs. Mayor Whatsername,
or Mrs. DR.. Tweedledum, distinguished
their Jones friends, as Mrs Acme
Paint Jones, Mrs. School Board Jones,
Mrs. Unitarian Jones, Mrs. Preacher
Jones, etc.
Special services will be held tomor-
row morning at IL o'clock at Grace
will be sung. Miss Nell Kouns, Glen
wood Jones and Herman Springer are
the soloists and they will be assisted
by a chorus of twenty-five voices. Fol-
Prelude-Organ, piano and violin
Mrs. ]. A. Campbell, Miss Beulah
Wentworth and Miss Myrtle Radcliff.
SCENE ONE.
1. Chorus-"Lo, Days Golden
2. Air, Eliezer-"O Lord God"
8. Chorus and solo-"Who Shall
Be Fleetest.''
5. Duet, Rebekah and Eliezer-
"Give Me to Drink
6. Solo and chorus-"Fear and
SCENE TWO.
Introduction - Organ - Mrs. ]. A
Campbell.
Z. Tenor Air, Isaac-"With Over
flowing Heart
8. Trio = Rebekah, Isaac and
Eliezer
9. Duet. Isaac and Rebekah-"O
Flower of the Verdant Lea"
10. Chorus - Protect Them AL
mighty
A reception will be given Monday
night for DR.. and Mrs. F. L. Loveland
Of Portland, Ore; in the Sunday
church. The party is to be given by
the people of the congregation. DIR.
and Mrs. Benjamin F. Young will be
in the receiving line with the guests
of honor. DR.. Loveland was formerly
pastor of the First Methodist church
in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard n. Rhodes
entertained few guests informally
Friday night, complimentary to Miss
Agda HasSing, who will be married in
the early part of June, to Mr.. Charles
Menninger. The guests were some of
the people from the treasurers office
nephew of DR.. c. F. Menninger. He
came to Topeka from Ohio, and is now
employed by the Santa Fe, in the
treasury department..
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The Classical club of the high
school gave a Roman banquet in the |
new gymnasium of the high school |
of Latin classes in the high |
school, who have finished one year of !
Latin are eligible to membership and
the large number who have united |
with the club is evidence that the |
study of the classics is not on the |
wane in T. H. S. at least, and that the |
study of the ancient tongue of the |
Caesars is far from a dead one"
The details of the entertainment |
we're worked out by Miss Margaret |
Wh1ttemore. chairman Of the commit |
tee in charge of the affair, and the |
plan for serving was in charge of Mr.. |
Howard Naylor.
In the hall was a copy of the old |
log of the Pompeiian ruins. with the
inscription Gave tCanem,'' Beware |
he dog"
Thirteen of the young men of the
club acted the part of slaves, a neces-
'ary concornmitant of a Roman feast.
The slaves were dressed in the short
1t the tables and opened the door for
he guests, giving the warning to enter
With the right foot first for the sake
If good luck. The slaves for the even
vhitcomb. Sydney Moore, Eugene
Rouse, Terrence Curry, Gerald Tas
Ser. Leroy Anderson, John Sutherin,
George Greenwood, Byron Boone,
Preston Durham, Robert Hale and
Lewis Taylor.
The incoming and outgoing officers
tie from a U-shaped cable, reclining
IN couches instead of sitting at the
able. The retiring officers are: Miss
Helen Whitteker, president; Mr.. Karl
secretary; Mr.. Claire Men
ringer, advertising manager. Mr.. Men
ringer was chosen as the new presi-
a MT Po5r-
lent; Mr.. Eldon Shoup, secretary; Mr.
Cleatis Pollom. advertising manager.