The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-08

Mrs J. Karl Rankins The singers
wore old fashioned costumes of the
style of the LITE fifties They opened
the program with the song when You
and I Were Young, Maggie" and at
the close they sang Aud Lang Syne.
Mrs S. j. Crawford read a paper on
Personal "reminiscences, in which she
told many interesting incidents of the
early days in Topeka. Her father, Mr..
Enoch Chase, was one of the founders
OF Topeka He came to Kansas in
1854 with a party of New Englanders,
and built a cabin at the corner of
FIRST street and Kansas avenue. Mrs
Crawford was not born in Kansas, but
she was married in Topeka and has
lived here many years.
Mrs. 5. r. Remington, an early set
( tier in Topeka, was on the program
for a paper on The Music of the
Early Days" She was unable to be
present, and t paper was read by
Mrs. j. M Meade. She told about the
old Musical union, in which she sang.
| The members furnished the music for
the wedding of Miss Chase and S. j.
Crawford, afterward Governor Craw-
ford. Mrs. Meade showed the booklet
containing the constitution and by
laws of the Musical union, and it was
about the size of half a dozen postage
stamps.
Mrs Meade read a paper on the So
c1al Life of Topeka in the Early Days.
| She belonged to he Ward family, and
her father was here before the town
site. She spoke of the simplicity of
1 entertainment, the lack of bridge and
| dancing parties, where the art of con-
/ versation was not smothered out by
| the multiplicity of other forms of
amusement.
4 Mrs. Ward Burlingame, also pio-
neer. spoke on The Press of the Early
| Day, which was really tn. states early
| literature. She told of the early abo-
| lition papers, and particularly of the
1 Commonwealth, paper of which Mr.
| Ward Burlingame was editor in the
/ late fifties. Three generations of Mrs
| Burlingame's family were represented
in the audience, herself. her daughter
4 Mrs w. w. Kitchell, and her grand
| daughter. Mrs. r. C. March.
| The second hour of the morning
| session was in charge of the depart
/ ment of forestry and horticulture, and
the speaker was Professor Dickens of
| Manhattan. He told of the care of
| lawns, advising that the lawns be lib
orally sprinkled during the hot
1 months. or allowed to rest entirely.
and that light sprinkling did more
| harm than good.
/ The Art department was in charge
of the afternoon meeting. Mr.. Merrill
1 Gage spoke on THE Relation of Kan
sas to Art" He urges that the art of
/ Kansas be significant of her own his
| tory and ideals, and not an imitation
l.
statue of a Mercury over a railway
| station in Kansas is much less worthy
of our art life than would be the fig
ure of the laborer that risks his life
that the train may reach its destino-
1 ton. The story of Coronado, of the
i Indians. of the settlement by the white
i people, of the border troubles, would
be as great subject for the art work
1 of this state as is the street procession
4 in Athens worked in the famous frieZe
lie u l. ALL
l offers plenty of material for a frieZe
4 as immortal and as lovely that of
any of the Greeks. Really nothing
has been done in art in this state; our
! parks are without statues; our public
halls are without paintings stat
4 uary. Our buildings are almost I'M
1 decorated
IL Music for the afternoon was fur
Il nished by Mrs. E. G. Brown, who sang
IA solo, and by a quartet the members
sIof which are: Mrs w. E Bulls, Mrs.
&c. f. Bair. Mrs. D. S. Atteberry and
Mrs. L. c. Walbridge-
i The entertainment for the social
hour consisted in a talking contest.
i Each guest was to ask four questions
land answer four questions, of as many
lother guests as possible in a given
time. Mrs. f. G. Foster got the prize,
a copy of Miss Effie Graham's book,
Aunt Liza's Praisin Gate" Mrs
1 Emma Sells Marshall was second in
LINE contest. Inc noSteSseS Ior the So
cial hour were Mrs. Fred Freeman
Mrs. S. S. Estey and Mrs. George M.
Crawford.
1 The Nautilus club will have a social
afternoon Tuesday with Mrs. J. c.
an original story, 1.-The Hopeful
Christmas Barrel
/ A young high school chap who
| watches the newspapers with an eagle
eye, announced his conclusions today
Topeka he says, always has some
| heroes. The principal ones right now
are Don Thompson, Phil Billiard and
Merrill Cage
Mrs. n. P McComas entertained the
n. w. club Thursday at dinner party
The decorations were violets and car
nations. Those who sat around the
table were: Mrs. H. " Scholes, Mrs
F. NJ. Drake, Mrs. T. c. Mueller, 1Irs
S. H. Boyer, Mrs. r. F DeArmond
Mrs F. C. Boltz Mrs. Charles Ham
Emond. Mrs. c. D. Yetter, Mrs W. c
Mcdaniel, Mrs. Caroline Levitt. Miss
Phillis McKimen and Miss Thelma Nc
Comas assisted in the dining room.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Lyle Dickey has returned to hel
| home in Tulsa. Okla, after a visit tC
her sister, Mrs. ]. F. farrell. Mrs
FARRELL will go to Kansas City Satur-
day to spend the day with her son, Mr.
Sanford FARRELL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bowman
went to Hutchinson this afternoon
called by the illness of Mrs. Bowman's
mother, Mrs. L. c. WATSON. Mrs. Was
son is making her home with another
daughter, Mrs. Elmer Bloom. She has
had a stroke of paralysis
Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Billiard OF
Tonganoxie, is visiting Mrs. DeWitte
c. Nellis.
henry H. Hall. New York Life. To-
peka ADV.
Mrs c. C. Mcpherson of Rossville
has returned home, after visit to hel
sister, Mrs. A. T. Lucas.
Mrs. H. NJ. Hope and her daughter