The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-18

Miss Ethelyn Harrison, who is in
the city for a few weeks to visit her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. n. Harrison,
will be a guest of honor at the meet
ing of the Ladies Music club Wednes-
day afternoon, Mrs. John c. Harmon,
915 Buchanan street, will lie hostess.
Miss Harrison is a member OF the
club and held a place of Importance in
in Topeka. Since last summer she
has been living in Los Angeles, Cal,
where she has given concerts and
managed concert series.
The program will begin promptly at
three o'clock, and will be followed by
an informal reception for Miss Harri-
SON. The numbers for the afternoon
will be as follows:
Chopin . Variations, OPP Il
Miss Helen Estey.
Leon1 .... .....--- ne lawn
Miss Euphemia Page.
Dcbussy ....... Prelude Suite No. 1
Miss Beatrice Clifton:
Iohr " Rose of My Heart
Mrs. Clement K Roose, Miss Birdine
Chandler.
Grieg 49,. AT Thy Feet, OPP. 6S, No. 3
Miss Mary Harrison
- N' Miss Nell Kouns
-'i'N' Mrs. Clay McKibben.
Hue ............. 1 WePt; Beloved
Chadwick ........... The DANA
Mrs. Robert Shoemaker,
Martini-Kreisler ........ Andantlio
Kocian .. .Intermezzo Picturesque
Miss Helen Phipps.
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A telegram has been received from
Mr. Clarkson Millspaugh, of Writ, OK
lahoma. by his parents, Bishop and
Mrs. Frank r. Millspaugh, stating
that he was uninjured in the fire that
I M GIon I
connected with a lumber company,
with his office in Writ. His wire says
that his office was one of the very
few that were saved from destruction
A meeting was held this afternoon
at the National hotel to organize the
Consumers League. The session was
called at 2:3O o'clock. and was in
charge of a committee, the members
of which are Mrs. H n. Rhodes, Mrs
Bomgardner and Mrs. George Godfrey
Moore.
Mr.. Frank Willard, who is a stu
dent in the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, has been chosen to take
one of the parts in the Michigan
Union opera, which is an event of i'm
portance in the school given by the
Michigan union, a university campus
organization. The opera will be given
at Ann Arbor, and afterward the
members of the company will give the
opera in Chicago, Detroit, Toledo and
other cities. Mr.. Willard is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank G. Willard of
! Topeka.
The pointed jacket has come back
rejuvenated to make it's debut in the
/ fashionable wardrobe of the present
i generation. The pointed bodice nat
urally follows the full skirt. for the
small equator always goes with an
ultra-fuH skirt, and the small girth
looks better with the pointed line in
front than cut straight across. The
slender figure wears almost anything
pretty well, except possibly, an UNI
brella case, but what is especially at
tractive about the pointed jacket or
bodice is the fact that the ampler
I forms wear it well also. But their
waists should be pointed in the back
also, as the chopped off back and side
lines accentuate the appearance OF
spread in the stout figure.
Along with the small waist and the
full skirt, must always go the tall
collar. In fact, the neck dress has
so expanded that it is now less a col
lar than a roof.
One of these new tangled frocks
was worn at a dance last week. The
dress was short length, with wide
fluffy skirt in some sort of gold col
ored silk. The bodice was long and
pointed, with lace trimming, and q