The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-25

Miss Juliet Hughes. violinist. law
eliere set with pearls, given by the
Warren M. Crosby company; sixth,
Alvan Battey, singer, a gift from the
State Journal
The judges for last night were Dean.
and Mrs. Horace Whitehouse and Mr..
Daniel Muller.
Tears shower the college campuses
this week and there is no end OF dole
in the soul of youth The time is at
hand when the serious senior must
break the school ties and daily no
more along the sunny lanes of college
life. Sometimes those lanes are moon
| lit, and then they are more than ever
| dear to the coed heart.
The senior has her graduating
clothes to think of, and it has been
a problem of no small Importance If
she is not to look lovely on graduating
day, why what is the purpose of hu-
man life on the earth? She may just
as well be a blessed ghost as to be
trump on the day of days.
The seniors grandmother and her
aunts, who cover their grey locks with
a transformation, insist that her gowns
must be simple, as youth needs no
adornment.' They tell she must not
wear lots of ruffses and lace. just a
few tucl<s. Malinda, and a neat ribbon
sash. But the senior has her own
/
see if she doesn't when you watch her
graduate. She is going to wear the
good old batiSte gown that is back in
style, or a dotted swiss or net, and it
I is going to be trimmed with laces, en-
! broidered in beads and silver and
opalescent stuff; this gown will have
ravishing filet flounces, and a peplum
to flutter out; at the back or on one
side will be a huge satin bow, with
the bit of a frock and lace attached to
it somewhere Over the hips and at
the back is to be a wide pouf. And
more than that the naughty senior will
wear bows on her high heeled slippers,
giving proof that she is not as serious
as she pretends to be, and that brains
are nothing-less than nothing-when
compared with looks
+ + J.
The operalogue this week. brought
to Topeka by the Federation women,
exploded a bomb among the musicians
and readers of our fair village. Mr..
Hubbard waded boldly into the prac-
dce of singing opera and recital
numbers in foreign tongues. He de-
clared the practice to be an affecta-
ticn. and that English is a perfectly
singable language.
The next day the musicians began
to talk. Some of them spoke in
hushed tones s though it might net
be quite the thing to criticise him
ing, and declared that he couldn't i'm
personate opera characters worth a
nickel; that his voice was per
fectly impossible; that he should. have
known better than to have an open-hc
grand piano in the foreground fol
his reading. and that he slurred hi.
vowels for the sake of proving hi:
contention that the strength anc
beauty of the English tongue was il
its consonants. And he had tht
crust" one woman declared, ito crit
cize Geraldine Farrer's pronunciation
of German when he can't enunciat,
his own language SO as to be under
stood dozen feet away"
Thus the harmony of opinion and
taste and judgment that Away
characterizes musicians. goes mer
rily on.
The women of the Friday Bridge
Luncheon club gave a dinner part.
wednesday night for their husband
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. r
Paxton The dining table was deco
rated in pink roses. and garden flow
ers adorned the living room. Cover
We're placed for Mr. and Mrs J. s
Dean, Justice and Mrs. R. A Burch
Mr. and Mrs Frank Beck, Mr.. an,
MRS. Frank Thomas, Mr.. and Mrs. c
DR.. and Mrs. ]. P Kaster, Mr.. an
Mrs. c. F. Foley, Mrs. A t Lucas an
Judge W. F. Schoch
+ +
The promenade deck which reache
from Sixth to Ninth street on Kansa
Il avenue, was aflutter with Summe
frocks yesterday. The colors ar
bright, and the patterns novel. an
q there is no small amount of enter
tainment looking them over.
One of the pretty summer dresse
I down town yesterday was of whit
linen, with white border around tn
hem of the skirt, of blue and whit
striped material, and the jacket wa
of wide striped fabric in blue an
/ white. The collar and cuffs and be
8 were plain white; the shoes and hos
were white, and the hat blue.