The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-08

two years of it's active organization,
has devoted itself to the study of lit
erature; rather than to the consider
alton Of general educational subjects.
The program yesterday afternoon had
Poetry for it's subject. and the
speakers were two well known Kan
sas authors, Miss Esther Clark, of
Lawrence. and Mrs. May Belleville
Brown, of Salina. Miss Clark read
two or three of her poems. including
her most famous one THE Call Of
Kansas"
Mrs. Brown, who is a short story
writer, but much interested in all good
literature, spoke from the subject
Poetry and Life She told of her
early education in her home and the
cultivation of her taste for poetry;
how she afterward went to school and
studied versification. parsing and dia-
granting. She pointed some good ma
tured fun at the way prosody is taught
in the schools and the distaste it gave
her for her old favorites when they
limped off in her mind on trochaic
and iambic feet. She told Of the in
fluence of nations ballads on the
national life. 1.-THE ballads of a ma
tion,' she said, ARE the expression
of the sentiment of the people as a
whole. No one man writes a song
for a country. for it is the thought
and feeling Of all the people that
makes the song. The musicians who
played the Marseillaise hymn at
Waterloo were Is much responsible
for the slaughter of the Old Guard
as the general who sent them to bat
tie. The Battle Hymn of the Re-
public was the result of long centuries
Of the building Of ideals of liberty in
America and before that, in England.
A song of wonderful stirring power in
this country generation ago was
When Johnny Comes Marching
Home and a song that gets its
shoulder straps in the present war
is It's a Long Way to Tipperary.'
for it is etched as with acid on the
hearts of women who see their sons
and husbands marching away. and it
will always thrill them, whether those
men return or not"
The afternoons program was closed
by Mrs. George Parkhurst who sang
TennysOn's Crossing the Bar"
The speakers were introduced by
Mrs. w. A. McCarter, chairman Of
the department
| The Varsity club will have its holi-
day dancing party tonight at Kellam
hall. The party is an innual affair, but
is given this year after the vacation
time.
The Kappa Kappa Chi girls Of Wash
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Miss Mary Helen Shirer. at her home
in Fillmore street. Tho affair is in
honor of the pledges.
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The Pleasant Hour club had a meet
ing Thursday with Mrs w. s. Glover.
Guests of the club were: Miss Mary
Miller. of Terre Haute. Ind, Miss Hum
phreys, of West Virginia., and Mrs. d.
w. Brown, of Los Angeles, Cal.
The Harmony Dancing club had a
party Thursday night at Kellam hall.
The company included: Mr.. and Mrs.
James Nelson, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Sheard. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. lines. Mr.. and Mrs.
William NJ. Henderson. Mrs. F. E. Parr.
Mr.. Adrian Parr, Mr.. and Mrs. D. "
Gibson, Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Dyel,
Mr.. and Mrs. b. H. Huntington, Mr.. L.
M. Penwell. Mr.. Neal Wright. Miss
Ruth Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Kill
niger, Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer Abbott,
Miss Umpleby. Mr.. A. B. Axtell. Mrs
Mary Mitchell. Mr.. T. E. Jones, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Ramsey, Mr.. and Mrs. r..
w. RAIDER, Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Good
now. Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Porter. Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Bishop, and Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Shellebarger.
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Miss Vera Benjamin gave a demon
stration recital for some of her younger
pupils today. Those who played were:
Virginia Mccoy, Jack Huston. Arleen
Baker. Frances Baker, Charlotte Bailey
Phyllis Hopkins, Evelyn Yates and
Belle Barton.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. Randall Burrow, who has en-
tered the State university at Lawrence
will spend the weekend in Topeka
with Mr.. ]. r. Burrow. He is takins
; course at Lawrence preparatory t.
entering Harvard university.
,. Mrs. w. L. Dickey of Tulsa, Okla.
is in Topeka at Christ's hospital
! where she underwent an operation
Thursday. She is doing well. Mr.. ant
Mrs Dickey came to Topeka Wednes
> day, and were guests of Mrs. Dickey'
. sister Mrs. ]. F. farrell, until Mrs
Dickey went to the hospital.
Mrs. A. B. Conrad of Newton will
, arrive Monday to visit Mrs. George 3
Hetherington- From here she will g
to Kansas iCty, and Mrs. Hetheringtol
expects to accompany her. to remain
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Byrd and he
daughter. Margaret Ann, Of Kansa
City, formerly OF Topeka, will b
guests OF Mr.. and Mra n p PAXTON