The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-15

Miss Elisabeth Edison.
everyone spoke of how pretty they
were and how happy they looked.
Miss Crane is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Crane, and finished
last spring the academy of Wash burn
college, preparatory to entering the
collegiate department next year. Miss
Edison, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Edison, also graduated from the
academy last spring. The two girls
are well liked in the young crowd, are
asked about a great deal in their set,
and a few weeks ago they attended
their first afternoon tea with their
mothers. when Miss Genevieve Her
rick and Miss Sarella Herrick received
with their mother and aunts.
Miss Helen Lucas, the daughter of
Mrs. A. T. Lucas, was a student last
year in Bethany college. She also is
popular young girl, and one of the
expert aesthetic dancers among the
student dancers in town. Miss Paxton,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. r.
last spring. She is much sought after
in a social way in the young crowd.
Mr.. Navas, the Spanish pianist, gave
program Friday night at the Daniel
Muller School of Music. He spoke
briefly on the Progressive series of
piano lessons, adopted by Mr.. Muller
for his school, and dwelt on the neces-
sity for high standard of teaching
and intelligent playing
The numbers played by this noted
artist were Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata; Ballad in A Flat, OPP. Al, and
Etude and the B Flat Scherzo, by
chopin. Mr.. Navas is a poetic inter
prefer of Chopin. His pianissimo
could scarcely be excelled, and he is a
master of Interpretation.
Some of the local teachers and some
or the students of the school and their
parents were present.
After the recital, Miss Esther Payne
played for Mr.. Navas, a part of the
Grieg concerto which she played at a
recital recently, a Spanish number,
and one or two other short selections
MT; Navas praised her lingering and
| brilliant technique, her perfect natural
rhythm, and declared that she gave
every promise of becoming a pianist
of high rank, and that the distance
| between the point at which she has
not arrived, and finished artistic ex-
cel1ence is shorter than the way she
| has already travelled from the begin
ming of her training
| I. j. J.
The members of the board of man
agement of the Shawnee County Po-
iitical Science club gave a surprise
party Friday afternoon for Mrs
| Charles Lowry. They presented her
with a cut glass bowl.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Cyrus Monroe left Friday night
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs T. c.
City. They are spending today in
Kansas City, and Sunday they will go
to DEVILS Lake, Mich, where the Saw
yers have a summer home. Mr. Mon
roe will join them later in the sum-
mer
Mr.. and Mrs. Barton Phelps expect
to leave about the first of August for
a trip to California. Mr.. Phelps will
make the trip on business.
Mrs. &. E. Coburn who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Coburn,
has returned to Kansas City.
Mr.. A. B. Quinton of Washington.
ID. C., is spending a few days in To-
peka with his daughters, Mrs. Fred
Davis and Miss Eugenia Quinton.
Mrs. Charles Haynes and her son,
Charles. OF Sabetha, are guests of Mrs.
A. H. Thompson.
Miss Florence Leland and Miss
Martha Leland of Troy are visiting
their aunt Mrs. George Hayden
Clary & Clary, wall paper and paint,
18th and Lane. Phone 13S3-Adv-
Miss Nina Nicholas has returned
from Chicago and Moline, Ill, where
she has been visiting friends.
Miss Dorothy Norris of Kansas City
is the guest of Miss Katherine Nc
! Farland.
Mr.. Dick Hall is in Kansas City Wis
iting his sister, Mrs. J. D. M Hamil-
ton, jr., and Mr. Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Tomson and
Neb-, have returned home after visit
to Mrs. Tomson's parents Mr. and
Mrs. F. D. Coburn
Mr.. ]. P. Davis and his daughter,
Mrs r. T. Herrick, and his grand
daughter, Miss Sarella Herrick. viii
leave, Thursday, for a summer outing
at Ludington, Mich. Later in the
month, his daughter, Mrs C. q. Col
burn, and her niece, Miss Genevieve
Herrick, will join the others at Lud-
ington. The Misses Herrick have been
visiting friends in Kansas City, and
Miss Genevieve Herrick stopped in
Lawrence to attend a party on her
return.
The members of the Sigma Alpha
sorority. chaperoned by Mrs Charles
Todd, had a breakfast Friday morn
ing at Gage Park. Those who at
tended were: Mrs. Charles Todd. Miss
Beryl Faulkner, Miss Irene Williams
Miss Irene Gaines, Miss Mildred STAN
ton, Miss Alice Rice, Miss Annabel
Jones of Kansas City, Miss Frances
Smith. Miss Florence Draut, Miss Dor
othy Keller.
w. A. McCarter. D. D. s Orthodon-
fist, 7O9 Mills Bldg, prevention and
correction Of irregular teeth only
Adv.
The fifth division of the Ladies' Aid
society of the First NJ. E. church will
give lawn party for their husbands
and families, Monday evening, July
II. at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Harburg, 93I Harrison street In
case of rain. the party will be held
one week later.
Miss Blanche Simons of Lawrence is
spending the week end with Miss Ruth
Foster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Humphreys
motored to Lawrence Friday night to
spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs