The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

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Three kansas girls who are in f'ew
York this summer at Columpla UNI
versitv- Miss Yetta Conkling. Miss Lee
more Monroe and Miss Day Monroe,
will not be at home as soon as they
planned, but have gone TO Boston III
a week to get cool before beginning
Miss Daisy Monroe is teaching in
the summer school of Columbia N the
department of experimental COOKERY.
Her work has taken her into ~
Kitchens where as many as forty ovens
were seven times heated, but she anu
her Students unlike the three heroes
at Babylon in the furnaces nave mo-
escaped without feeling the fire New
York city has been unusually warm
even in the coolest places, but tne
cookery workshops have brohsHt
the verge of collapse some OF lhS
women and girls who studied ana
taught in them. c,..1,
ling will be in Boston, the summer
ERIN having now closed, for the COM
I; q week. and afterward they viii re
urn home Miss Lenore Monroe mas
been STUDYING in the Columbia scnool
of Journalism, and Miss Conkling has
been taking special work at the uni
versity. Miss Day Monroe will return
east in the fall to take up her regular
work as teacher in Columbia.
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one of the large parties of the sum
mer season was the lawn musicale
given Wednesday night by Dr.. ana
Mrs. II. W. Putnam at their home
west of Washburn college. The lawn
was lighted for the event ny strahos
of electric bulbs. The guests were
seated about the porch, and the nlusl-
ciens were stationed in the veranda-
The program was furnished by MISS
Marguerite Gohlke. Miss Myrtle RAD
cIiffe and Mrs Putnam. who were To-
gether on a concert tour lasI s0'99A
thru the west and southwest
Miss Gohlke, soprano, is one Oh lHe
Young singers of Topeka. She has ire
ouently been heard by audiences not
only in this city. but also In other pdreS
of the state She has been ehgeseu
as soprano soloist for the FIRST res
byterian congregation, wnlcn Is one %
the best church positions in 1oPeAo'
She won in a state and district con-
test for the selection of singers al the
biennial convention OF music clups
held in Los Angeles, Cal. last winter;
Her numbers at the musicale lncludeo
a group of songs by Gertrude hoII.
They were bits of descriptive music
inspired by the desert. and the songs
of the cycle were Sunset on the Des-
ert," Might on the Desert anu anu
Dawn on the Desert" the music
,,,as first heard at the Los Angeles OIL
songs and Mrs Frank King Clark sang
them. Miss Gohlke also sang plcn
Thuere Halle" from Tannhauser by
Wagner, and a group OF songs, N.oii ne
TO the Garden, Love-, by SaiteL, L
Eed a Dove" by Carl Busch OF Aa1-
sas CITY. yesterday and Today, py
SDross. and Come Back by ban.
The Busch number was written Ior
tho biennial and was sung theIS ny
Cecil Tanning, one of the pesI me-
singers of the day who appedreu III
concert in Topeka a season ago. MISS
C:ob1lxe and Mrs Putnam sang as a
d1.et somewhere a Voice Is Calllhs,
as the closing number of the program
Miss Radcliffe played the accom-
paniments, and gave piano soiO
a Chopin number. Miss Raochne -
a nianist and accompanist of ability
- she Is also prominent in the musi-
cal life of the city as its leading i'm
presario.
Mrs. Putnam's contribution to the
program consisted of a group OF read
ings and of songs. Her songs were
Leaves and the Wind" by Ieonl;
The Day is Ended" by Bartlett ana
her readings were The Lady over
the Way" by Slanner; a Eugene
Field poem, and the impersonation or
a little girl by Heron. Mrs. Putnam
was engaged in concert and chautau-
qua work for three years with the
Central-RedpaIn 1yceuHl bureau.
Previous to that she studied music in
Chicago under Frederick Root and at
the Chicago Musical College, where
she won a scholarship. She was a
student of expression at Coe College
After the program an informal re-
ception was held, when the host and
hostess and the musicians met the
guests. Punch was served from
tables on the lawn. Those who as
sisted were: Mr.. and Mrs. O.. E.
Walker. Mr.. and Mrs A. A. GODDARD.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Larimer. Mr.. and
Mrs. F. E. Forbes, DR.. and Mrs. Rob
ert Stewart, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Gohlke. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rad
cliffe, Prof. and Mrs. Roy Towne, Mr..
and Mrs. S. F. Jackson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ward Page, DR.. and Mrs. George c.
Pritchard, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Oil
plant, Mrs. Adrian Green, Miss Louise
Raster, Miss Guenn GODDARD, Miss
Bertha Hampstead. Miss. Polly Now
ers, Miss Eloise Sargent. Miss Jessie
McCarter. Miss Katherine McCarter,
Miss Margaret Vest and Miss Winifred
Greene.
Mrs. Putnam wore a gown of white
net, embroidered in blue. The sleeves
were of plain white, and the bodice
was of the embroidery, and the
hounces of the skirt were edged with
the blue. Blue ribbon was the eff
fective trimming of the costume. Miss
Gohlka was dressed in white net and
Georgette crepe. The bodice was of
cream lace, which yelled a wide girdle