The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-22

public recital The aggregate time of
! her study is about one year. The
4 program which will last about an
hour, will be made up of some classic
numbers and a group OF modern
American songs. She will give the en-
tire program herself, and the accom-
paniments will be played by Mrs. Rob-
ert Carver.
Miss Stricken expects to go east this
summer. and will take summer
servatory of Music. She is the daugh-
ter of Mrs L. H. Stricken of West
Eighth avenue, and is a popular and
attractive young woman.
The recital is open to the public, and
any one interested in hearing the pro-
gram is cordially invited to be present.
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Some paintings in a picture store in
Topeka are the work of Miss Alice
Clay of London, a copyist in the Tate
gallery.
When the Zeppelin raids began to
be made upon London, many of the
most valuable and most famous pic
lures of the great galleries were taken
down and buried, where they would
be safe from falling bombs. Copies
have been made of the great pictures
of the galleries. and a few of those
copies are now in Topeka. One of
these pictures, THE Black Noun
| tains,'' is painting by Aumonier, and
mensely popular in England. An at
tractive copy of THE Blockade Run
ner," a picture by Briton Riviere.
shows a group of dogs teasing cat
which is escaping along the top OF
wall. work in animal painting is a
| copy of W. H. B. Davis's famous paint
| ing, Mother and Son. August
Blue" is the name of painting by
| luke. charming boat scene and
group of boy swimmers.
Miss Clay sends numbers of her pic
| lures to America, and those that have
! come to Topeka are sent by reason of
the copyist's friendship for a Topeka
| woman, Mrs. Lee Monroe, who met
her while she was abroad a few years
ago. The pictures are sold. entirely
without commission, for the benefit of
| the British hospital fund.
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In a crowd of university girls who
were in Topeka last week, 1 heard
great deal of talk about the adoption
| of French orphans. French orphans
are much in vogue in Lawrence, the
style seeming to have reached them
| from Kansas City. The fad has not
| yet struck Topeka, but one of the fra
ternities down at K. U. has adopted an
| orphan. 1t is understood, of course,
that the orphan stays in its own home
town over in France and lives with its
mother or its auntie, as the case may
/ be. but the American foster parent
| pays the freight for the fatherless
/ child until it is able to take care of it
self. This is accomplished by paying
| ten cents a week, or some such sum,
ard the American who thus takes an
| orphan to raise is kept informed on
the health, education and other con-
ditioDs concerning his child.
| 1t seems that down in Chicago the
| other day a certain Barney Goodspeed
had a birthday anniversary. He has
had a good many of them before. and
| is we'll supplied with gold cigaret cases
and scarf pins, fobs and watches. So
his mother decided to give him some
thing practical and bought him a
French orphan. The chances are that
he will get another orphan in his
stocking at Christmas time. Isn't that
a nice birthday present !. q
The annual spring party of the Y
/ M. C. A. will be held at the association
building Friday evening, April %. All
members of the association are invited.
| The program will be furnished by the
Dramatic club, and special musical
numbers will be given.
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A book entitled, ''Poise, how to At
tain It. is going the rounds in GER
tain social circle in Topeka. Said
4 book was a gift to one of the girls
from her brother and the crowd stand
ing in line in their anxiety to be the
next to become perfected by the
small volume resembles the waiting
list for the latest novel at the city
/ library But after a girl has had the
book she seems less enthusiastic and
| looks at those scrambling to be next,
with sort of a wise pity. One girl ex-
planned the look with the following
remark: THE book is a regular Psy-
chology and deals with such tiresorne
subjects as the development of will
power. Now what has that to do with
poise ?''
A special train will be run by the
Santa Fe for the Kansas delegation
which will go to New York for the
biennial convention of the General
/ Federation of Women's clubs, which
will be held from May "a to June D.
The train will leave Kansas City at
eight o'clock in the evening Nav II
and will arrive in New York in the
afternoon of May %. The delegates
from Kansas are expected to command
| more attention than usual, as it will
probably be larger than ever before.
| Special cars will be made up at Wich-
| tia, Newton, Emporia, Topeka and
Kansas City.
Mrs. Festus Foster. of Topeka, is a
delegate from the First District Fed
Grafton of Kansas.
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The little Schonberger children.
Clinton. Robert and Mary Louise,
children of Mr.. and Mrs E D. Schon-
berger, are quarantined with measles,
but they entertained at a line party
at the Iris theater this afternoon, by
sending money for tickets to be bought
for children of the Provident associa-
| ton or the Orphans home; so the
party progressed with the hosts and
| hostess absent
A fund was contributed by Mrs. Lee
| Monroe, Mrs. A. H. Horton and Mrs.
r. H. Cofran for a line party for chit
! dren who could not spare the nickels
to pay their own way.
The parties were given this after
| noon at the Iris theater, where Mr..
| H. S. Montgomery has arranged matt
nee picture shows for children
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Mrs. Fred Woodbury.. of Olivet, who